| 单词 | square-pushing |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquare-pushing square-pushing n. the act or practice of walking out with a girl (popularly associated with accompanying nursemaids, etc., about town squares); love-making; also as present participle. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > action of walking out with as a lover walking outc1405 trottingc1460 square-pushing1918 1918 W. J. Locke Rough Road x. 116 ‘Go “square-pushing”?’ said Doggie contemptuously, using the soldiers' slang for walking about with a young woman. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 155 Squarepushing up against a backdoor. Maul her a bit. 1928 F. E. Baily Golden Vanity xii. 178 Left me cold in a strange place to go square-pushing with some forward young woman. 1930 J. B. Priestley Good Companions i. iv. 134 'E wouldn't bother, though, too busy square~pushing, taking the girls out, see. < as lemmas |
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