| 单词 | kitchen bitch |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskitchen bitch kitchen bitch n. Caribbean (Jamaican) a rudimentary oil lamp with a handle and a cloth wick, typically made from a recycled tin can and fuelled by kerosene; cf. bitch n.1 8. ΚΠ 1967 F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. 262/1 Kitchen-bitch,..a small lamp made of tin with no chimney. 1973 Peenie Wallie Dec. 58 One well-known object in Jamaican folk-life is the ‘kitchen bitch’. 1986 O. Senior Summer Lightning & Other Stories 97 They hung up the storm lantern at the gate but all the coconut booths were lit with kitchen bitches. 2003 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 18 Nov. a2/3 Inhabitants of the small community..still resort to kerosene lamps, ‘kitchen bitches’ and lanterns for light. < as lemmas |
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