| 单词 | feeding-time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfeeding-time feeding-time n. (a) a time for taking food; meal-time; (b) dialect genial or growing weather (for crops); (c) the time at which animals in captivity are fed (recent examples of sense feeding-box n. (a) usually have jocular allusion to ). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun] mealtideOE mealtimelOE meatsele?a1400 meat-timec1400 meat-while1435 meltitha1538 feeding-time1832 trencher-time1846 the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding-time shack-time1573 feeding-time1832 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 7 Apr. 77/2 He had some reason to believe the Lion of the North..was best worth seeing at feeding time. 1844 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical v. 27 A howl as wild and remorseless as that from a kennel of hounds at feeding time. 1844 Lady Stanley Let. 8 Dec. in N. Mitford Ladies of Alderley (1938) 105 It is the very large family altogether & especially feeding time that is oppressive. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire ‘It's a rare feedin' time for th' turmits.’ 1888 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 11/1 A bell rang. There's feeding-time, we'd best go down. 1961 A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo i. 10 I had become quite deaf to the customary loud orchestra of a whole Zoo... I registered the feeding times only subliminally. < as lemmas |
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