| 单词 | to ride or sit bodkin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride or sit bodkin 6. transferred (colloquial). A person wedged in between two others where there is proper room for two only; esp. in to ride or sit bodkin. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent > person wedged between others bodkin1798 1638 J. Ford Fancies iv. 54 Where but two lie in a bed you must be Bodkin bitch-baby must ye.] 1798 Loves of Triangles 182 While the pressed bodkin, punched and squeezed to death, Sweats in the midmost place. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xl. 366 He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me. 1861 J. Pycroft Agony Point I. xix. 294 Her maid by special agreement riding bodkin all the way. 1872 F. Montgomery Thrown Together ii. 62 The three called a hansom outside, and Cecily..sat bodkin. 1915 St. Nicholas Mar. 435/1 I t'ought you'd ride bodkin. 2001 I. Vladislavić Restless Supermarket iii. 170 I refused to ride bodkin. I'd be squashed to a pulp. < as lemmas |
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