| 单词 | nursery language |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnursery language nursery language n. a stylized form of language used by or to a young child. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > baby or infants' language little language1711 baby language1741 nursery language1826 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. i. 157 He advises the Catholics, in the old nursery language, to behave like good boys—to open their mouths, and shut their eyes, and see what God will send them. 1925 O. Jespersen Mankind, Nation & Individual vii. 145 Another dialect used with regard to the person addressed is that more or less affected nursery-language which many mothers and nurses..use with small children—where ‘stomach’ is ‘tum-tum’, ‘horse’ is ‘gee-gee’, ‘thank-you’ is ‘ta’ etc. 1968 Trans. Philol. Soc. 107 The special structures and lexical items employed by adults when talking to young children, which we can conveniently group together under the label of Nursery Language. < as lemmas |
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