单词 | pickwick |
释义 | † pickwickn.1 Obsolete (historical in later use). An inexpensive kind of cigar. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cheroot > cigar > type of Bermuda?a1641 Havana1802 regalia1819 long nine1821 short-six1831 loco-foco1835 Cuba1837 cabana1840 panatela1841 Habanero1845 pickwick1847 colorado maduro1851 colorado1854 colorado claro1854 maduro1854 Henry Clay1855 Trichinopoli chain1863 trichi1877 perfecto1884 claro1891 toby1894 twofera1911 Jamaican1919 1847 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 12 June 238/1 ‘Mon Dieu, que ces cigarres sont mauvais!’ he added, as he too cast away his Cuba. ‘Try one of my Pickwicks,’ said Franklin Fox, with a sneer. 1847 Proc. Old Bailey 14 June 240 He asked for a penny Pickwick, which is a small cheroot—I sold him one—he paid me with a good shilling. 1865 Sat. Rev. 15 July 79/1 Smoking his pipe or his pickwick where he will. 1888 R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Feb. 251/1 Shops with golf-balls and bottled lollipops; another shop with penny pickwicks (that remarkable cigar) and the London Journal. 1896 Tobacco 1 Mar. 97/1 I only get 5d. a hundred for making ‘Pickwicks’, and sometimes I can't make more than 200 a day. 1919 Mr. Punch's Hist. Great War 224 We are to pay more for our letters, our cheques, and our tobacco. The Penny Postage has gone, and the Penny Pickwick with it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2019). pickwickn.2 Now historical. A pointed instrument for pulling up a wick, as on an oil lamp. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pickwick. 1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen iv. 68 Patent lard-oil lamp and a pickwick with its modern stand. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 345/2 Whether this is a pricker in a stopper, or merely a ‘pickwick’ in a pocket case, there is no way of telling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11847n.21864 |
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