单词 | slut's wool |
释义 | > as lemmasslut's wool slut's wool n. accumulated fluff or dust found on the floor, beneath furniture, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dust or fluff dustc825 mow?a1500 pelf1584 slut's wool1841 beggar's velvet1847 dowl1879 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 429 ‘A coat is covered with fluff when it has lain on the top of a bed’, and with ‘slut's wool’ when it has fallen underneath. 1893 Westm. Rev. Jan. 17 She would also..see that floors were scrubbed, and corners clear of ‘slut's-wool’, and spiders well kept down. 2002 Bayside Leader (Nexis) 4 Nov. 11 He looks about the room, the piles of dirty clothes forming small pyramids on the floor, clumps of slut's wool drifting underneath the furniture. < as lemmas |
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