单词 | bidon |
释义 | bidonn. A container for liquids: spec. (a) a wooden cup; (b) a bottle or canteen for water, wine, etc.; (c) an oil drum or petrol tin. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle pottle bottle1393 quart bottle1454 flagon1470 demijohn1769 bidon1867 noggin bottle1894 Euro bottle1962 the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > wooden rabbit1685 coga1689 sapling-cup1851 quassia cup1856 bidon1867 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel for oil > [noun] > for oil or petrol bidon1933 1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags II. i. 13 ‘Take a draught of my burgundy...’ He..took the bidon. 1922 E. E. Cummings Enormous Room iii. 48 Tilting their bidons on high and absorbing the thin streams which spurted therefrom. 1922 E. E. Cummings Enormous Room iii. 48 He remarked: ‘Bread without wine doesn't taste good,’ and proffered his bidon. 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xv. 115 She had picked up an empty oil bidon. 1964 E. Ambler Kind of Anger vi. 164 Get the car filled up. Adèle left me two bidons for emergencies. Derivatives bidonville n. [French ville town] a shanty-town built of oil drums or petrol tins. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > shanty town shanty town1876 Hooverville1933 bidonville1955 favela1961 pueblo joven1969 kasi1988 1955 Times 21 July 6/6 Huge fires destroyed two Moroccan bidonvilles (shanty towns) in the suburbs of Fedala. 1961 Times 6 May 9/7 Elsewhere the bidonvilles, or petrol can shanty towns, spread like a rash. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1867 |
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