| 单词 | idiot asylum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasidiot asylum idiot asylum n. now offensive (archaic or historical) a hospital for the mentally ill or mentally and intellectually disabled. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill bedlam-house1525 dull-house1622 madhouse1649 bedlam1663 lunatic hospital1762 asylum1776 retreat1796 lunatic house1813 lunatic asylum1828 maison de santé1843 idiot asylum1848 rat house1854 bughouse1887 Colney Hatch1891 booby hatch1896 mental hospital1898 booby house1900 nut factory1900 nut collegec1906 nuthouse1906 monkey house1910 booby-hutch1914 nuttery1915 loony bin1919 nut hatch1928 silly house1930 bin1938 snake-pit1947 funny farm1950 1848 Times 31 Mar. 5/6 The circle of charitable institutions in this country was completed by the establishment of the Idiot Asylum. 1866 J. Macgregor Thousand Miles in Rob Roy Canoe (ed. 2) vi. 104 Close to the inn was the idiot asylum, an old castle with poor demented women in it. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxv. 257 They meant an asylum—an idiot asylum. 1991 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 16 Aug. The lot's bounded by a stone wall that dates to the 19th century ‘idiot asylum’ up there on the hill. < as lemmas |
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