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单词 dirt-pie
释义 dirt-pie
Mud or wet earth formed by children into a shape like a pie; a mud-pie.
a1641Suckling (J.), That which has newly left off making of dirt-pies, and is but preparing itself for a green-sickness.1695Congreve Love for L. iv. xiii, And for the young Woman..I thought it more fitting for her to learn her Sampler, and make Dirt-Pies, than to look after a Husband.a1734North Exam. iii. vi. §64 (1740) 470 Their Towns..gave Way like Dirt Pyes before his Army.1793Burke Policy of Allies Wks. VII. 159 Busy in the confection of the dirt-pyes of their imaginary constitutions.1854Thackeray J. Leech's Pict. (1869) 333 Poor little ragged Polly making dirt-pies in the gutter.
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