| 单词 | little language |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslittle language little language a form of baby talk, originally one used in intimate communications (used by Jonathan Swift for the language of his conversation and correspondence with ‘Stella’); (hence) any private language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > baby or infants' language little language1711 baby language1741 nursery language1826 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 4 May (1948) I. 261 Do you know that every syllable I write I hold my lips just for all the world as if I were talking in our own little language to MD. 1825 ‘M. O'Tara’ Thomas Fitz-Gerald I. xi. 207 He interpreted her young thoughts, spoke her little language. 1863 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 152/1 She carried on hip a prize baby, a most ‘doody’ thing, to quote the ‘little language’. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. xxiv. 244 Some innocent sentences of love..little sentences in ‘little language’ that went home to the squire's heart. 1922 O. Jespersen Lang. viii. 144 It would not do, however, for the child's ‘little language’ and its dreadful mistakes to become fixed. 1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 142 The first thing two lovers set about doing is..to devise a little language of their own. 2011 D. Mayer Park Youth in Vienna i. iii. 45 Gangs are different universes of discourse, using ‘little languages’ of their own. < as lemmas |
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