| 单词 | milk brother |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk brother milk brother n. [with quot. 1897 compare Russian moločnyj brat son of one's wet nurse] chiefly U.S. regional a foster-brother; spec. a person to whom one is unrelated but who was nursed by the same woman; the son of one's wet nurse; also figurative. ΚΠ 1883 Catholic World May 262 Irish history has preserved the memory of the intrepid self-devotion of foster-brothers who received the enemy's fire—made a target of their own bodies—shed their blood, and lost their lives in the vicissitudes of war, to save their ‘milk-brothers’ from destruction. 1897 Strand Mag. Christmas No. 617/1 Ivan was what is termed in Russian the ‘milkbrother’ of Alexia Bobrofsha. a1965 W. S. Maugham Far Eastern Tales (1993) 199 Science is milk-brother to art. 1996 Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. III. 594 Milk brother,..From a man born in rural North Carolina about 1915. He hoped to visit his milk brother this summer. Seems he was quite premature and his mother had no milk, so a neighbor nursed him and her own offspring. < as lemmas |
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