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

b. In allusive expressions, referring to the action or appearance of a pepperbox. Also attributive in pepperbox spelling. Now rare.

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1821 Sporting Mag. 7 273/2 Both now began to slash away, and the pepper box was handed from one to another.

1898 Argosy July 648 One of those rapid fire guns will make a pepper box of him in no time.

1901 Daily News 25 Feb. 6/2 The swarm of nonentities upon whom..the pepper-box of titles is shaken.

1948 J. R. Firth in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 178 The Romans and the English managed to dispense with those written signs called ‘accents’ and avoided pepperbox spelling.

1948 N. Nicholson Coll. Poems (1994) 132 The poppy shakes its pepper-box of seed.

单词	pepperbox spelling
释义	> as lemmas pepperbox spelling b. In allusive expressions, referring to the action or appearance of a pepperbox. Also attributive in pepperbox spelling. Now rare. ΚΠ 1821 Sporting Mag. 7 273/2 Both now began to slash away, and the pepper box was handed from one to another. 1898 Argosy July 648 One of those rapid fire guns will make a pepper box of him in no time. 1901 Daily News 25 Feb. 6/2 The swarm of nonentities upon whom..the pepper-box of titles is shaken. 1948 J. R. Firth in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 178 The Romans and the English managed to dispense with those written signs called ‘accents’ and avoided pepperbox spelling. 1948 N. Nicholson Coll. Poems (1994) 132 The poppy shakes its pepper-box of seed. extracted from pepperboxn.adj. < as lemmas
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