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单词 babbling brook
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babbling brook
babbling brook n. [in sense (b) rhyming slang for cook n.1] (a) a small, fast-running stream (cf. sense 2b); (b) Australian and New Zealand slang a cook, esp. an army cook, or one who caters for a party or camp of musterers, shearers, etc.; cf. babbler n. 5 (now chiefly historical).
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slusher1890
slushy1900
babbler1904
babbling brook1913
1728 J. Thomson Spring 32 Most delight In unfrequented Glooms, or shaggy Banks, Steep, and divided by a babbling brook.
1835 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 23 Feb. 277/2 At a little distance before her door ran a sweet clear babbling brook.
1913 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Sept. 24/1 I'll touch the babblin' brook here for..scran today..and work the other sheds down to Yanco.
1921 E. I. Lord Ballads of Bung (1976) 14 Ryan, T.P., ex-soldier, a ‘babbling brook’ at the war.
1963 Weekly News (Auckland) 5 June 37/1 That got us started on the ‘babbling brooks’. I've got a few memories of station cooks.
1990 Sports Illustr. 2 Apr. 68/1 It's just a friendly little 155-yard par-3 with a babbling brook.
2008 Geelong (Victoria) News (Nexis) 16 Apr. 2 Baitlayers and Babbling Brooks An Exhibition About Australia's Shearers' Cooks explores the history, stories, characters and recipes of the tireless workers.
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