单词 | drugstore |
释义 | drugstoren. Originally U.S. and chiefly North American. A retail pharmacy or chemist's shop.Drugstores often deal extensively or mainly in other articles such as toilet requisites, stationery, magazines and newspapers, light refreshments, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > pharmacist's premises > drug-store apothec1626 pharmacopoly1657 apothecariry1748 drugstore1771 druggery1827 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods jeweller's shop1632 ironmongery1648 ironmonger1673 jeweller1675 news shop1688 print shop1689 Indian house1692 coal shed1718 pamphlet shop1721 lormery1725 drugstore1771 hardware store1777 junk store1777 chandler-shop1782 junk shop1790 music store1794 pot shop1794 finding store1822 marine store1837 picture house1838 paint shop1847 news agency1852 chemist1856 Army and Navy1878 cyclery1886 jumble-shop1893 pig shop1896 Manchester department1905 lot1909 craft shop1911 garden centre1912 pet shop1927 sex shop1949 video store1949 quincaillerie1951 home centre1955 Army-Navy1965 cookshop1967 sound shop1972 bucket-shop1973 1771 Pennsylvania Chron. 7 Jan. 4/3 Stole, the evening of the 3d instant, out of the subscribers drug-store in Second-Street,..a block of Speltre or Zinc. 1810 Washington Chron. 17 Nov. 2/2 (advt.) Cash Drug Store. 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs v. 52 The windows of the great drug store cast forth their blaze of varied lights. 1871 Cincinnati Commercial 30 Aug. 3/2 A gentleman..stopped at a corner drug store and asked for a glass of soda water. 1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 76 Hypo is cheap, and can be bought at nearly every drug store. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 24 Sept. 8 It hardly pays to keep the [soda] fountains going in the drugstores. 1936 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Harvest xix. 219 Almost every day they telephoned to the drug store for a pint of delicious ice-cream. 1969 Daily Tel. 24 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 13/4 There is provision for a small drugstore selling coffee, books and records. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 Aug. ii. 4/4 She spends her free time in fertility clinics.., buying pregnancy kits in the drugstore and hoping to see ‘the thin blue line’. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1878 G. H. Woodruff & H. H. Hill Hist. Will County, Illinois 803/2 Afterward, [he] became a drug store clerk, and also dabbled some in writing newspaper locals and verse. 1883 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang xv. 230 I felt a sort of drug-store taste in my mouth. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 154 There is an immense circulation of worthless reading matter, ranging from dream-books and drugstore almanacs to pulpy fiction. 1957 Hearings Subcomm. Antitrust & Monopoly (Comm. on Judiciary, U.S. Senate, Doc. No. 91068) ii. 1369 Right here in New Jersey we are witnessing a battle between the grocers and the drugstore association, two of the proponents of this amendment. 1987 R. A. Thompson & L. S. Thompson Egoshell ii. C-ix. 228 Recently, Tylenol laced with cyanide was picked off drugstore shelves by the unsuspecting. 2002 A. C. Funderburg Sundae Best ii. 39 An enticing [soda] fountain reminded the drugstore customer who came to buy castor oil that he also wanted a cold, fizzy drink. C2. drugstore beetle n. chiefly North American a small beetle, Stegobium paniceum (family Anobiidae), which is a cosmopolitan pest having larvae that feed on dried foodstuffs and stored products such as biscuits, pasta, and seeds; also called (esp. British) biscuit beetle. ΚΠ 1896 L. O. Howard & C. J. Marlatt Princ. Househ. Insects U.S. viii. 124 In Europe it is still known as the bread beetle, but its chief injuries are to druggists' supplies; hence the name drug-store beetle. 1954 F. C. Lane All about Insect World 36 Perhaps the strangest is the so-called drugstore beetle. He has been known to eat forty-five different substances including such poisons as aconite and belladonna. 2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 198 Well-known cosmopolitan pest species include the Drugstore Beetle (Stegobium paniceum ).., Lasioderma serricorne , the cosmopolitan Cigarette Beetle.., and Anobium punctatum , the Furniture or Cabinet Beetle. drugstore cowboy n. a man who loiters on street corners or in or near drugstores; (also) a novice cowboy; a man who is not a cowboy but who dresses like one. ΚΠ 1922 San Antonio (Texas) Evening News 2 Nov. 23/4 The ‘drug-store cowboy’ is the latest classification given local ‘faddish’ young men. 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 7/2 Drug store cowboy, fellow who spends nothing but time. 1935 C. W. T. Craig Paraguayan Interlude xxi. 247 I have seen men carry guns this way; they were generally new-comers and quickly became objects of derision. ‘Drug-store cowboys’, they are called. 1957 P. Frank Seven Days to Never iii. 102 She married..a marijuana-smoking drugstore cowboy. 1995 High Country News 18 Sept. 16/3 We can spot a drugstore cowboy or a pretend Indian maiden a mile away. 2007 Rec.-Argus (Greenville, Pa.) 28 Mar. (Television/Comics section) 15 Westerns were particularly popular.., attracting cowboys seeking work in the [Hollywood] movie industry... I have been told there was a drugstore on or near the corner where real and wannabe cowboys would hang out, providing the name ‘drugstore cowboys’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1771 |
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