| 单词 | stony-broke |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstony-broke stony-broke adj. slang = stone-broke adj. at stone n. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money to the boneOE silverlessc1325 pennilessc1330 moneylessc1400 impecunious1596 crossless1600 penceless1605 unmoneyed1606 coinless1614 emptya1643 out of pocket1679 money-bound1710 broke1716 embarrassed1744 stiver cramped1785 plackless1786 taper1789 poundlessa1794 shillingless1797 unpennied1804 fundless1809 impecuniary1814 hard up1821 soldier-thighed1825 cashless1833 stiverless1839 fly-blown1853 strapped1857 stick1859 tight1859 stone-broke1886 stony1886 oofless1888 stony-broke1890 motherless1906 penny-pinched1918 skinned1924 skint1925 on the beach1935 potless1936 boracic1959 uptight1967 brassic1982 1890 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 120/2 He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence. 1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life II. 84 Though stony broke, it still reposes on my sideboard. 1895 ‘M. Corelli’ Sorrows Satan x I'm cleaned out—‘stony~broke’, as the slang goes. < as lemmas |
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