英语词汇“aglet baby”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

† aglet baby n. Obsolete (a) (in Shakespeare) a childish or doll-like person decorated with aglets; (b) (in later use) used as a vague and sometimes contemptuous term for a small or young person.Explained by some as an aglet shaped like a human figure. Johnson defines aglet as ‘A tag of a point curved into some representation of an animal, generally of a man’, but no quotations have been found substantiating this statement, which was perhaps merely suggested as an explanation of aglet baby.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > other dolls

aglet babya1616

Flanders baby1782

wax doll1786

Flanders doll1801

paper doll1843

golliwog1895

Jumeau1897

voodoo doll1906

kewpie1909

Barbie1959

Barbie doll1961

Gonk1964

Ookpik1964

Action Man1966

kachina doll1968

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 78 Giue him Gold enough, and marrie him to a Puppet or an Aglet babie, or an old trot with ne're a tooth in her head.

1826 H. Smith Tor Hill II. iii. 101 Howbeit, such an aglet-baby as thou art, can have no need of it [sc. a coin], whether it bring weal or woe.

1841 P. Egan Wat Tyler ii. iv. 400 Follow, we shall soon leave the aglet babies behind.

1896 W. Canton W. V. her Bk. 7 Nothing would please her better, could she but dwarf herself into an ‘aglet-baby’, than to climb into those filmy meshes and have a chat in the sunshine with the wily ogre.

单词	aglet baby
释义	> as lemmas aglet baby † aglet baby n. Obsolete (a) (in Shakespeare) a childish or doll-like person decorated with aglets; (b) (in later use) used as a vague and sometimes contemptuous term for a small or young person.Explained by some as an aglet shaped like a human figure. Johnson defines aglet as ‘A tag of a point curved into some representation of an animal, generally of a man’, but no quotations have been found substantiating this statement, which was perhaps merely suggested as an explanation of aglet baby. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > other dolls aglet babya1616 Flanders baby1782 wax doll1786 Flanders doll1801 paper doll1843 golliwog1895 Jumeau1897 voodoo doll1906 kewpie1909 Barbie1959 Barbie doll1961 Gonk1964 Ookpik1964 Action Man1966 kachina doll1968 a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 78 Giue him Gold enough, and marrie him to a Puppet or an Aglet babie, or an old trot with ne're a tooth in her head. View more context for this quotation 1826 H. Smith Tor Hill II. iii. 101 Howbeit, such an aglet-baby as thou art, can have no need of it [sc. a coin], whether it bring weal or woe. 1841 P. Egan Wat Tyler ii. iv. 400 Follow, we shall soon leave the aglet babies behind. 1896 W. Canton W. V. her Bk. 7 Nothing would please her better, could she but dwarf herself into an ‘aglet-baby’, than to climb into those filmy meshes and have a chat in the sunshine with the wily ogre. extracted from agletn. < as lemmas
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