| 单词 | hog's norton, where the pigs play on the organs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHog's Norton, where the pigs play on the organs A fictional town renowned for its uncultured and boorish inhabitants; often in (depreciative) phrases suggesting that someone is a native or inhabitant of this town. Also elaborated as Hog's Norton, where the pigs play on the organs and variants. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place fairyc1330 rumbelow?1515 Hogs Norton?1565 fairyland1600 wonderland1790 other world1804 dreamland1832 Fourth World1833 cloudland1846 Loamshire1859 looking-glass land1871 looking-glass world1871 under-land1874 cloud-world1884 Speewah1890 Ruritania1894 cloud-cuckoo-land1899 cuckoo-land1916 fantasy world1920 Squaresville1956 la-la land1979 ?1565 Enterlude of Youth sig. C.ii I shall laie the on the eare Were thou borne in trumpyngton And brought vp at Hogges norton. 1593 T. Nashe Wks. ii. 273 I was brought up at Hoggenorton, where the pigges play on the organs. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Oxf. 327 Whose inhabitants..were so rustical in their behaviour, that boarish and clownish people are said born at Hogs-Norton. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 317 You saucy Fellow, where was you drag'd up, At Hogs Norton? 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iii. 67 Thou would'st..trip like the noodles of Hogs-Norton, when the pigs play on the organ. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 471 Bloom... Where are you from? London? Zoe (Glibly) Hog's Norton where the pigs play the organs. 1939 Times 26 Oct. 5 His [sc. the comedian Gillie Potter] more celebrated haunt, the mythical Hogsnorton. < as lemmas |
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