单词 | supper things |
释义 | > as lemmassupper things supper things n. [ < supper n.1 + the plural of thing n.1 (compare sense 12d at that entry)] ΚΠ 1750 W. Lucas Five Weeks Tour to Paris 13 If you have any odd Thing for Supper, as a Partridge, Pigeon, Chicken, a bit of Fish or so, the Cook will make you a Bill for those Supper Things. 1768 Adventures Miss Lucy Watson xxiv. 150 While the maid left the supper things, I examined the side board she brought up, and seeing three or four pair of clean knives and forks, I secreted one of the latter, as the best weapon I could find. c1825 M. M. Sherwood Penny Tract 10 She was putting away the supper-things. 1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns xi. 271 The supper things were cleared away. 1997 R. Tremain Way I found Her (1998) iii. 259 We were loading our supper things into Moinel's dishwasher when we came to this agreement. < as lemmas |
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