| 单词 | spinster aunt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspinster aunt attributive and in other combinations, as (sense 1a, 1b) spinster-caterpillar, spinster-slave; (sense 2b) spinster aunt, spinster-baiting, spinster-like adj., spinster sex. ΚΠ 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iii. xxvii. 133 A Spinster-Slave,..Some rude barbarian's Concubine. 1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iv. 169 The spinster caterpillar ties aloft, Fine as the gossamer, his slender cord. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xii. 112 A solitary candle, whose long, spinster-like wick was flirting away with an east wind. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vi. 54 Tupman and the spinster aunt, established a joint-stock company of fish and flattery. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 195 The little dog had qualities to entrance the spinster sex. 1938 L. MacNeice Mod. Poetry 191 Merely a piece of rather cruel spinster-baiting. < as lemmas |
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