单词 | put-you-up |
释义 | put-you-upn. A sofa or settee which can be converted into a bed. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > sofa-bed or chair-bed settee-bed1769 chair-bed1805 sofa-bed1805 sofa-bedstead1833 put-you-up1924 bed-settee1933 Knole sofa1942 Winnipeg couch1954 sleeper1973 1924 Trade Marks Jrnl. 20 Aug. 1898 Put-u-up... Settees convertible into bedsteads. Greaves & Thomas,..London,..manufacturers. 1948 G. V. Galwey Lift & Drop viii. 206 He did have a ‘Put-u-up’ in the office for firewatching. 1966 A. E. Lindop I start Counting i. 14 The sofa was one of those big double-bed Put-U-Ups. 1973 Country Life 22 Mar. 753/1 A sofa bedstead (an early form of put-you-up). 1990 L. Barber in Independent on Sunday 22 July (Review Suppl.) 12/1 ‘Do you want to see the gear?’ he asks, burrowing under the put-u-up to find his briefcase. 2001 J. Diamond C: Because Cowards get Cancer Too (new ed.) vii. 141 The room had two beds: a narrow but fully adjustable hospital bed for me, and an even narrower put-u-up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1924 |
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