单词 | tooting-horn |
释义 | > as lemmastooting-horn attributive and in other combinations, as tooting-horn, tooting-trumpet. ΚΠ 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. xx. 75 It is ill making a silk purse of a sow's lug, or a touting-horn of a tod's tail. 1805 J. Nicol Poems I. 2 (note) (Jam.) A touting horn (the horn of an ox perforated at the small end) by blowing on which they made a loud..sound. 1889 W. G. Dickson Gleanings from Japan xiii. 251 The boy behind is provided with a small tooting-trumpet to warn other travellers on the road. < as lemmas |
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