| 单词 | honeyweek |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoneyweek honeyweek n. now rare a holiday taken by a newly-married couple lasting a week; also in extended use (cf. honeymoon n. 1b). ΚΠ 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 34 Let us now suppose this Honey-Week of Jollity and Drunkenness over; you are admitted into the College. 1765 Hist. Miss Indiana Danby I. i. 6 The first poor souls that submitted to the yoke; which, by the bye, must have sat very uneasy on them, for, by all accounts theirs was but a honey-week—some say, day. 1833 T. Hook Widow x, in Love & Pride I. 301 The happy couple left town..to pass the honey week—for they had not time to make a moon of it. 1871 J. L. Needham tr. W. Rüstow War for Rhine Frontier I. xii. 287 However pleasant things were made by the Chamber for the Ministry during its honeyweek—of a honeymoon we have no right to speak—still even in those days disagreeable scenes occurred. 1994 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 14 May b11 Robert and Lotta were married in a little Swedish church... ‘We're calling this our honeyweek,’ said Lotta Bjoor. < as lemmas |
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