释义 |
dudeen|duːˈdiːn| Also dhudheen, dodeen, doodheen, doudeen, dudheen. Irish name for a short clay tobacco-pipe; in the late 19th c. generally known in Great Britain, and esp. in the British Colonies and U.S.
1841Lever C. O'Malley cvii, A short dudeen graced his lip. 1842Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Conf. Wks. 1869 XXII. 215, I found the Irish doodheen and tobacco the pleasantest smoking possible. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green viii. 67 A great consumption of tobacco was going on, not only through the medium of cigars, but also of meerschaums, short ‘dhudheens’ of envied colour, and the genuine yard of clay. 1867P. Kennedy Banks Boro xxiv, Their hands went into their pockets more than once in search of the treacherously-consoling dhudheen. 1880Senior Trav. & Trout in Antipodes 100 [He] knocks the ashes out of his dudheen. 1905Daily Chron. 7 July 5/7 Removing his clay dhudheen from his lips. |