英语词汇“nubbin stretcher”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

nubbin stretcher n. humorous (U.S. regional) a heavy rain that causes ears of maize to develop fully.

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1915 Dial. Notes 4 186 Nubbin killer. Thunder:—because the rain develops the nubbin into a full grown ear of corn. Facetious.]

1964 R. Phares Bible in Pocket x. 134 The deacon began his supplication by confessing to the Lord that he was not sure what ‘copious showers’ meant, but it didn't sound adequate for his scorched crop. ‘What we need,’ he pleaded, ‘is a pine knot floater and a nubbin stretcher.’

2001 Smoky Mountain News (N. Carolina) (Electronic ed.) 22 Aug. Not the ‘thundery weather’ we'd been getting all week, not a ‘sizzly sod-soaker’, or ‘nubbin' stretcher’, as the elder generation of mountain folks would refer to it.

单词	nubbin stretcher
释义	> as lemmas nubbin stretcher nubbin stretcher n. humorous (U.S. regional) a heavy rain that causes ears of maize to develop fully. ΚΠ 1915 Dial. Notes 4 186 Nubbin killer. Thunder:—because the rain develops the nubbin into a full grown ear of corn. Facetious.] 1964 R. Phares Bible in Pocket x. 134 The deacon began his supplication by confessing to the Lord that he was not sure what ‘copious showers’ meant, but it didn't sound adequate for his scorched crop. ‘What we need,’ he pleaded, ‘is a pine knot floater and a nubbin stretcher.’ 2001 Smoky Mountain News (N. Carolina) (Electronic ed.) 22 Aug. Not the ‘thundery weather’ we'd been getting all week, not a ‘sizzly sod-soaker’, or ‘nubbin' stretcher’, as the elder generation of mountain folks would refer to it. extracted from nubbinn. < as lemmas
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