| 单词 | half-dozen | 
| 释义 | half-dozenhalf-a-dozenn.  The half of a dozen; six (or about six). Const.: see dozen n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > 			[noun]		 > six persons, things, etc. half-dozenc1401 six1796 a. b.c1401    Jack Upland in  Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 69  				The cloith of oo man Myȝte hele half a doseyne.1420    in  F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills 		(1882)	 46  				Halfe a dosen sponys.a1555    J. Bradford in  J. Strype Eccles. Mem. 		(1721)	 III. App.  xlv. 133  				Halfe a Dossen of grene Salletts.1648    T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 12  				He offered unto me halfe a dozen of Spanish pistols.1648    T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 80  				Halfe a dozen Hollanders leapt into the boat after him.1711    J. Addison Spectator No. 1. ¶5  				Half a dozen of my select Friends.1843    G. Borrow Bible in Spain 145  				We came suddenly upon half-a-dozen fellows, armed with muskets.1829    T. L. Peacock Misfortunes of Elphin vi,  				Some half-dozen..forgers. 1853    Thackeray Newcomes 		(1854)	 I. i. 7  				Pointing out a half dozen of people in the room. 1865    Derby Mercury 15 Feb.  				I..might have laid hold of some half-dozen at least. 1898    N.E.D. at Half-dozen,  				Mod. Would you like another half-dozen? Derivatives  half-dozenth adj. colloq. sixth. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > 			[adjective]		 > sixth sixthc893 sixc1385 half-dozenth1840 1840    New Monthly Mag. 60 264  				Every half-dozenth window might be a loophole. 1892    Eng. Illustr. Mag. 9 665  				The first or second or half-dozenth attempt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2015). <  | 
	
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