| 单词 | tucking in |
| 释义 | > as lemmastucking in 4. The action of putting anything away so that it is snugly covered or concealed, or of thrusting in something, as a bed-covering, so as to confine it at the end or edge; hence (slang) tucking in, hearty or greedy feeding; also concrete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] hiding?c1225 heelinga1250 hidea1300 hillinga1300 coverturec1374 tapinage1390 concealing1421 hodymokec1450 occultation1453 concelising1492 blindnessa1616 concealmenta1616 shrouding1615 back-hood1621 absconsion1649 screening1651 obvelation1664 muffling1788 tucking1810 smokescreening1922 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating heartily or greedily mouching1607 engorgement1611 engorging1611 demolition1722 tucking in1810 brosier1907 1810 Splendid Follies I. 186 Tom Sponge now began cramming unmercifully, exclaiming every three mouthfuls, ‘Rare tucking in, Sir William’. 1833 T. B. Macaulay Horace Walpole in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 234 Whose vast volume of wig, and infinite length of riband, had figured at the dressing or at the tucking up of Louis XIV. 1874 J. Brown Lett. in Recoll. (1893) 65 This tucking [of the leg of a fowl under its wing]..was due to the force automatic. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. xiii. 197 They gave themselves unreservedly..to ‘tucking in’. 1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story vi High winds and frosty nights prompted to careful covering and tucking away. < as lemmas |
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