单词 | push-wainling |
释义 | push-wainlingn. W. Barnes's term for: a pram. ΚΠ 1878 W. Barnes Outl. Eng. Speechcraft 72 Perambulator (the child's carriage), push-wainling. 1908 A. C. Swinburne Let. 22 Jan. (1962) VI. 211 I met..a fair friend..who beamed..from the depth of her pushwainling (I hope you never use the barbaric word ‘perambulator’?)... The happy term ‘pushwainling’ for a baby's coach of state is what makes him [sc. W. Barnes] immortal in my eyes. 1919 Manitoba Free Press 23 June 13/7 One of his [sc. Barnes'] books dealing with language, ‘Outline of English Speech-craft’ (1878) was an attempt to purge the language of Latin forms. ‘Pushwainling’ would probably be an Anglo-Saxon word.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1878 |
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