| 单词 | shank of the evening |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshank of the evening 9. dialect and U.S. The latter end or part of anything: the remainder or last part of a thing. Esp. in shank of the evening. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part eveningOE enda1200 eventide?c1225 finea1350 tail1377 latter (last) enda1382 issue1484 latter day?1498 waning1561 last days1572 heel1584 sunsetting1593 fall1596 lag-end1598 posterior1598 sunset1599 dotage1606 exit1615 stern1623 waning timea1639 last1683 heel piecea1764 shank1828 tail-end1845 tailpiece1869 tag1882 teatime1913 end-point1921 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remaining fragment stobc1420 end1481 stump1516 fragment1531 stuba1533 remainder?1570 remain1572 fag1582 snub1590 remnant1597 butt1612 heeltap1776 hagsnar1796 tag-end1807 shank1828 nuba1834 nubbin1857 snar1892 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘The shank of the evening’, twilight. 1829 Virginia Lit. Museum 16 Dec. 418/2 ‘Won't you spend the balance of the evening with me?’ In some places, shank is quaintly used with the same signification. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 220 The shank of the day. 1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 722 Shank of the evening, the twilight or dusk of the evening, and in some cases the latter part of it. 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xviii. 280 Miller made him knock off along in the shank of the evening. 1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin vii. 97 ‘It's very late.’ ‘Shank of the evening.’ 1973 Publishers Weekly 19 Nov. 56/2 The stuff that makes the antennae of music pros and music-lovers twitch during cultural quarrels in the shank of a Lincoln Center evening. < as lemmas |
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