| 单词 | ball-money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasball-money ball-money n. (also (Scottish) ba'-money) Scottish and English regional (northern) money traditionally donated by a newly married couple to their fellow parishioners, apparently often used to buy a football. ΚΠ 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Ball-money, given by a new bride to her old Play-fellows. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Whenever a marriage is about to be celebrated a crowd of young people very quickly gathers and the cry for Ba'-money is raised almost with enthusiasm. 1920 J. Firth Reminisc. Orkney Parish (1922) 58 The boys of that parish were entitled to receive from..[the bridegroom] as much money as would enable them to purchase a football... So while the company partook of the refreshments, the barn door was besieged by a crowd of boys shouting for ‘ba'-money’. 1984 Rev. Eng. Stud. Nov. 543 The venerable Yorkshire marriage custom of requiring bride and groom to toss ‘ball-money’ through the locked church gates to self-appointed gatekeepers. < as lemmas |
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