单词 | pudding pit |
释义 | > as lemmaspudding pit pudding pit n. now historical a pit into which offal was formerly thrown; also figurative. ΚΠ 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 63 The person, that vnder his hand-writing hath stiled him..the bag-pudding of fooles, & the very pudding-pittes of the wise, or honest. a1884 M. Cash in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. iii. 113 A [poor] district to which..the euphonious name of the Pudding-Pits had been given. 2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Dec. al3 The ‘pudding cart’ hauled them [sc. entrails] away from slaughter to the ‘pudding pit’ where they were dumped. < as lemmas |
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