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

pigeon egg n. (a) the egg of a pigeon; (b) (figurative) something very small or insignificant; (c) (now chiefly historical) a bead of Venetian glass about the size and shape of a pigeon's egg.

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1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 70 Thou halfepennie purse of wit, thou Pidgin-egge of discretion.

1742 tr. Acta Germanica I. 310 The testicles..were small, scarce as big as pigeon-eggs.

1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 197 The favourite ornaments are beads, of which the red coral, the pink, and the ‘pigeon-egg’ are preferred.

1962 Man 62 105/1 The rest of the European beads shown in the German list are termed ‘Oriental’, ‘ringlet’, ‘pigeon-egg’ and ‘hollow’.

1999 C. B. Divakruni Sister of my Heart i. iii. 45 In the telling the ruby grew to be big as a pigeon egg.

单词	pigeon egg
释义	> as lemmas pigeon egg pigeon egg n. (a) the egg of a pigeon; (b) (figurative) something very small or insignificant; (c) (now chiefly historical) a bead of Venetian glass about the size and shape of a pigeon's egg. ΚΠ 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 70 Thou halfepennie purse of wit, thou Pidgin-egge of discretion. View more context for this quotation 1742 tr. Acta Germanica I. 310 The testicles..were small, scarce as big as pigeon-eggs. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 197 The favourite ornaments are beads, of which the red coral, the pink, and the ‘pigeon-egg’ are preferred. 1962 Man 62 105/1 The rest of the European beads shown in the German list are termed ‘Oriental’, ‘ringlet’, ‘pigeon-egg’ and ‘hollow’. 1999 C. B. Divakruni Sister of my Heart i. iii. 45 In the telling the ruby grew to be big as a pigeon egg. extracted from pigeonn. < as lemmas
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