| 单词 | toffee apple |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoffee apple toffee apple n. (a) an apple coated with toffee and mounted on a stick; (b) slang a bomb of similar shape that is fired from a trench mortar. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee apple candy apple1871 toffee apple1917 taffy apple1967 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > trench mortar shell plum pudding1900 sausage1915 oil cana1917 rum jar1916 toffee apple1917 1917 B.E.F. Times 25 Dec. f. 3/2 The planting of Toffee-apples on the border of your neighbour's allotment will seriously interfere with the ripening of his gooseberries. 1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 171 Toffee Apples.—Trench mortar bombs, so called from the haft, like the skewer in a toffee-apple. 1937 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Showman vi. 127 A little girl was leaning against the wall, eating a toffee-apple on a stick. 1957 Times 5 Sept. 11/4 We must kill the idea that Weymouth is just a candy-floss, toffee-apple resort. 1975 P. Fussell Great War & Mod. Mem. (1977) ix. 313 Everything from shovels,..and rolls of barbed wire, to..the perverse toffee-apple. 1976 Milton Keynes Express 16 July 8/2 Toffee apples and ice-cream, sweets and raffles, pony rides and competitions—these were all part of the scene. < as lemmas |
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