| 单词 | barleystraw |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarley-straw barley-straw n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > hay or straw hayc825 strawc1000 pease-strawa1325 bean-strawc1386 hard meat1481 quitch?1523 meadow1557 pease-bolt1573 salt hay1648 stover1669 barley-straw1678 marsh hay1728 pea straw1735 chaff1772 long forage1794 bog-hay1799 bhusa1829 peavine hay1846 tibbin1900 slough hay1934 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 51 Barly-straw's good fodder when the cow gives water. 1794 Trans. Soc. Promotion Agric. (U.S.) 1 145 Barley-straw is hearty fodder for horned cattle in the winter. 1838 W. L. Rham Outl. Flemish Husbandry xiii. 59 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III This is their food during the whole winter with a little wheat or barley-straw. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 256 We'll put a barleystraw in that Judas Iscariot's ear this time. barley-straw barley-straw n. (figurative) a trifle. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) (R.) She..could plead the law, And quarrel for a barley-straw. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 303 Barley-straw melts into a glass of a topaz yellow colour. < as lemmas |
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