| 单词 | battledore boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbattledore boy ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [noun] > introductory > hornbooks and alphabet books alphabetary1579 horn-book1589 battledore1693 Trimetrical Classic1835 alphabet book1939 1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 215 A battledore book, or Horn-book: Abecedarium. 1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 215 A Battledore boy or Horn-book-boy. 1697 G. Keith 2nd Narr. Proc. Turners-Hall 9 G. H. Has Printed..a Battle-dore to teach them to speak true English. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Battledoor, a piece of cardboard on which was printed the A.B.C., the Lord's prayer, and a few short syllables, employed as a substitute for the horn-book. They were in use here, in dames' schools, thirty years ago. ‘He doesn't knaw his A.B.C. fra a battledoor’ perhaps refers to this. 1885 I. Banks In his own Hand II. iii. 49 Behold the lad with battledore or book before him. < as lemmas |
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