单词 | corn-shuck |
释义 | corn-shuckn. U.S. = corn-husk n. ΚΠ 1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 2nd Ser. 119 The wizard had rubbed down the back and shoulders of his patient with corn-shucks. 1854 T. B. Thorpe Hive of Bee Hunter 81 A wildcat-skin pulled off hull, stuffed with corn-shucks, for a pillow. 1884 J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis iv. 39 Cedar sprigs encircled ankles and waists, and corn-shucks tied up their hair. Derivatives ˈcorn-shucking n. = corn-husking n. at corn-husk n. Derivatives. ΚΠ 1855 Putnam's Monthly 5 76 The annual corn-shucking season has its own peculiar class of songs, never heard but upon that festival. a1860 Major Jones (Bartl.) The young people were all..laughin', as if they'd been to a corn-shuckin', more'n to a meetin' house. 1884 Sat. Rev. 7 June 740/2 I have seen the negro at work, and I have..attended his corn-shuckings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1845 |
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