| 单词 | street yarn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstreet yarn street yarn n. regional (now chiefly U.S.) talk or tales ‘spun’ in the street, street gossip (cf. street web n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip jowl?c1225 trattle1513 tittle-tattle1570 tattle1583 clatter1596 street web1614 town talk1642 street-threada1661 clash1685 fetch-fire1784 street yarn1800 gossip1811 village gossip1847 Russian scandal1861 chopsing1879 cooze1880 reportage1881 skeet1900 scuttlebutt gossip1901 pussy-talk1937 mauvais languec1945 comess1970 he-say-she-say1972 gyaff1975 skinder1979 goss1985 gist1990 1800 J. Gilpin Toddy-Mill 3 A lazy, idle dog was he;..He'd spin street-yarn from morn to night, And reel it up and down. 1816 Rhode-Island Republican 28 Feb. 4/1 I guess the man is a horse jockey, and the woman a spinner of street yarn. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 403 It's a shame to see that great wench spinnin' street yarn awile the poor owd mother's lef' to do all the work. 1912 H. E. Rives Valiants Virginia (2004) 206 That woman's housemaid-silly. She can spin more street yarn than any ten in the county. ?1994 V. Walden Under Constr. 166 How to make a scandal. Take a grain of falsehood... Cork it up tight in a bottle of malevolence and hang it out on a skein of street yarn. < as lemmas |
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