| 单词 | kitchen-haunter |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskitchen-haunter C1. General use as a modifier, as in kitchen fare, kitchen fire, kitchen cleaning, etc., or with agent nouns, forming compounds in which kitchen expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in kitchen fitter, †kitchen-haunter, †kitchen plunderer.The earliest compound use is kitchen theining n. ΚΠ 1628 tr. P. Matthieu Powerfull Favorite 131 They [sc. statues] were converted into small implements for kitching vses. 1648 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 140 Those greedie dogs and kitchin-haunters, who noint their chops every night with greese. 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. G3v He is a meer Kitchin-plunderer, and attacks but the Baggage. a1715 W. Wycherley Posthumous Wks. (1728) I. 175 But with him on his Kitchen-Fare to fall. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 149 Tallow, vegetable oils, or kitchen grease. 1864 Sheffield Daily Tel. 2 June 2/1 Wanted, several kitchen fitters. Apply to Wm. Corbett and Co., Stove Grate Manufacturers, Masbro' Works. 1970 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Mar. 215/1 Kitchen cleaning is inevitable, but there are ways to lighten the load. 2001 F. Popcorn & A. Hanft Dict. Future 286 A man marries a clever, successful, achieving woman and in so doing rips the glass slipper from her foot, condemning her thereafter to a life of kitchen drudgery and child-rearing. < as lemmas |
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