| 释义 |
squashed, ppl. a.
[f. squash v.1 + -ed1.]
1. In senses of the verb.
1857Dickens Dorrit ix, Such squashed hats and bonnets..never were seen in Rag Fair.
2. Special collocations: squashed fly (biscuit) colloq. = Garibaldi 3; squashed tomato slang, a name given in different localities to various children's games (see quots.).
1900J. S. Farmer Public School Word-bk. 85 Squashed flies,..biscuits with currants. 1909, etc. [see Garibaldi 3]. 1931C. Lithgow Simple Sailor v. 49 In ‘the break’, they grappled for their milk and bun, or ‘squashed-fly’ biscuit. 1977K. M. E. Murray Caught in Web of Words xvii. 321 Gwyneth remembered her anguish as a little girl at finding nothing in her parcel but a Garibaldi (‘squashed fly’) biscuit.
1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xviii. 381 There are more than sixty established names for the pursuit of illegally knocking at doors... Squashed tomato. Wolverhampton. 1963S. Marshall Exper. in Educ. ii. 56 The new look given to the age-old playground game which for some unknown reason has become ‘Squashed Tomato’ in the language of today... A voice was giving orders to the players. ‘John, three scissors south towards Cambridge. Carol, two pigeon steps towards Newmarket [on a map painted on a school playground].’ 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games iv. 157 The game is usually known as ‘Sardines’, but also..‘Squashed Sardines’, and ‘Squashed Tomatoes’. Ibid. vi. 189 Squashed Tomato. Both caller and called run towards each other, with arms crossed in front of them. The one advancing remains at the spot where they squash into each other. The caller returns to his place in front. |