| 单词 | nutty slack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnutty slack nutty slack n. coal slack in small lumps or nuts; also figurative (see quot. 1959). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust slackc1440 smith coal1466 smithy coal1482 coal dusta1529 panwood1531 smith's coal1578 kirving1599 culm1603 coom1611 small coal1643 smit1670 smut1686 slag1695 duff1724 duff coal1724 small1780 gum1790 stinking coal1803 cobbles1811 nubbling1825 stinkers1841 rubble1844 pea1855 nuts1857 nut coal1861 slap1865 burgee1867 smudge1883 waste1883 treble1901 coal smut1910 gumming1938 nutty slack1953 1953 New Yorker 31 Jan. 58/2 The low-grade small coal appetizingly known as ‘nutty slack’,..gives off far less appetizing fumes and dirt. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 163 Stew, a not infrequent component of school dinners, is..in Croydon, ‘nutty slack’. After an inapt term coined by the Ministry of Fuel (1952) for a poor quality coal, obtainable off the ration. The nuts were few and far between. 1989 R. Hitchcock Fighting Cancer (BNC) My poor mother, who hated coal dust, had to sleep with me on deck while thousands of ‘natives’ ran up and down the gangway with baskets of nutty slack on their heads. < as lemmas |
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