| 单词 | sleeping partner |
| 释义 | > as lemmassleeping partner C5. In miscellaneous use, as sleeping-halt, sleeping hour, sleeping partner, sleeping posture, sleeping stage, sleeping-tide, sleeping time (also figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] sleeping partner?1456 screw1725 sexual partner1847 shack-job1946 shack-up1969 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > period of time spent sleeping sleeping time?1456 the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > bedtime bedtimea1250 night lying?1456 sleeping time?1456 sleepy-time1862 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > condition of being bedfellows > bedfellow i-beddeOE beddec1250 bed-ferea1350 sleeping partner?1456 bedfellow1478 bed-mate1582 ?1456 H. Windsor in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 145 Writon in my slepyng tyme at after none on Wytsonday. c1560 Bp. J. Pilkington Godlie Expos. Nehemiah xvi. 21 At noone he must haue his sleeping time. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 8 While she was in her dull, and sleeping hower. View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Dormant A Lyon..lying in a sleeping posture. 1707 E. Settle Siege of Troy iii. 18 'Tis high sleeping Time, and so let's all home to Bed. 1833 E. B. Barrett Sea-side Meditation in Prometheus & Misc. Poems 96 The close and subtle clasping of a chain..Whose links are furnished from the common mine..From work-times, diet-times, and sleeping-times. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxix. 289 At one of our sleeping-halts upon the rocks. 1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 55 When memory maketh loathly my meat and my sleeping-tide. 1899 G. Massee Text-bk. Plant Dis. 328 Shortly after the sleeping stage has been reached. 1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. i. 247/1 Sleeping-partner... 2. (common).—A bed-fellow. 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 14/1 Sleeping time, one year in Jail. 1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman 5 The rhythm that governs the repose of our sleepingtime. 1967 P. D. James Unnatural Causes i. vi. 42 Your sleeping partner would provide you with an alibi. 1979 G. Mitchell Mudflats of Dead xiv. 144 Camilla wasn't the only predator... People are always changing their sleeping partners. sleeping partner sleeping partner n. a partner in a business who takes no share in the actual working of it.extracted from sleepingadj.< as lemmas |
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