| 单词 | little stranger |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslittle stranger b. Said playfully of a newborn child. Usually little stranger.‘Welcome, little stranger!’ was a quotation common in the early part of the 19th century, and sometimes printed or embroidered on articles for nursery use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] childOE baban?c1225 fauntekin1377 infant1382 babea1393 fauntelet1393 babyc1400 lakinc1440 mop1440 chrisomer1574 tenderling1587 chrisom1596 childling1648 flosculet1648 bratling1652 lullaby-cheat1665 strangera1674 child (also infant, baby) in armsa1675 hoppet1695 tot1725 bambino1761 weanie1786 tiny1797 dot1800 trudgeon1814 toddle1825 toddles1828 yearnling1829 dab1833 toddler1837 baba1841 arrival1846 teeny-tiny1849 toddlekins1852 mite1853 trot1854 babelet1856 nestler1866 spoon-child1868 bubby1885 chavvy1886 bub1889 kiddy1889 toddleskin1890 newborn1893 kidlet1899 kidling1899 bubba1906 bundle of joy1924 liddly1929 mammet1932 snork1941 kiddywink1957 sproglet1987 a1674 T. Traherne Centuries iii, in Poems (1966) 263 I was a little Stranger which at my Enterance into the World was Saluted and Surrounded with innumerable Joys. 1787 J. Woodforde Diary 6 May (1926) II. 320 Mrs. Custance was brought to bed of a Boy about 11 o'clock this Morn'. She with the little stranger as well as can be expected. 1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) I. Introd. p. iv ‘I fear from your looks,’ said the father, ‘that you have bad tidings to tell me of my young stranger.’ 1856 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine 41 A medical bulletin, informing you of that day's state of health of some ‘little stranger’ and its mother within. 1896 R. Kipling Three-decker in Seven Seas 135 We never talked obstetrics when the Little Stranger came. < as lemmas |
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