单词 | dog-end |
释义 | > as lemmasdog-end dog-end n. (a) British slang the end of a cigarette that has been smoked (cf. fag end n. 1b); (b) the very end of something, the last or worst part. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of doup1710 butt end1827 old soldier1834 butt1847 stub1855 cigar-end1870 stub-end1875 cigarette-end1889 cigar-butt1891 snipe1891 fag end1892 fag1897 bumper1899 scag1915 cigarette-butt1923 dout1928 dog-end1934 roach1939 stompie1947 1934 Times 27 Aug. 11/4 A man who hunts for cigarette-ends in the street is a ‘dog-end walloper’. 1941 G. Kersh They die with their Boots Clean 186 There is a kind of closet containing a bar scarcely more than three feet long. This dog-end of space belongs to the group. 1999 T. Lott White City Blue (2000) 61 He narrows his eyes behind his specs against the smoke still coiling from his smouldering, soggy dog-end. 2003 A. Maxted Behaving Like Adults xiii. 104 Dreadfully hard to be pro-smooch when you're at the dog end of a failed relationship. < as lemmas |
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