| 单词 | pebble-beached |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspebble-beached pebble-beached adj. slang (now rare perh. Obsolete) (a) penniless, destitute; (b) dazed, absent-minded. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > abstraction, absent-mindedness > [adjective] in one's musesa1500 abstract1509 abstracteda1586 absent1631 thoughtful1656 vacant1680 lost in thought1681 withdrawn1713 dreamy1794 dun1797 preoccupied1801 absent-minded1824 pebble-beached1890 the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > very poor or destitute (as) poor as JobOE nakedOE voidc1374 naisa1400 vacant1430 (as) drunk, (also mad, poor, rank, weak, etc.) as a rat?1548 Hungarian1608 pauper1690 destitute1735 farthingless1834 pebble-beached1890 piss-poor1945 1890 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 120/2 He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence. 1897 Sporting Times 3 July 1/4 She was absolutely stony, pebble-beached to all the world. 1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves xvii. 216 Gussie..switched on that pebble-beached smile again and tacked down to the edge of the platform. < as lemmas |
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