| 单词 | pig's whistle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspig's whistle pig's whistle n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a) (now rare), a very short space of time, an instant (cf. pig's whisper n. 1); (b) a thing of little value or significance. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant hand-whileOE prinkOE start-while?c1225 twinkling1303 rese?c1335 prick1340 momenta1382 pointa1382 minutea1393 instant1398 braida1400 siquarea1400 twink14.. whip?c1450 movement1490 punct1513 pissing whilea1556 trice1579 turning of a hand1579 wink1585 twinklec1592 semiquaver1602 punto1616 punctilio of time1620 punctum1620 breathing1625 instance1631 tantillation1651 rapc1700 crack1725 turning of a straw1755 pig's whisper1780 jiffy1785 less than no time1788 jiff1797 blinka1813 gliffy1820 handclap1822 glimpsea1824 eyewink1836 thought1836 eye-blink1838 semibreve1845 pop1847 two shakes of a lamb's taila1855 pig's whistle1859 time point1867 New York minute1870 tick1879 mo?1896 second1897 styme1897 split-second1912 split minute1931 no-time1942 sec.1956 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘I'll do so in less than a pig's whistle’. 1935 E. Pound in Esquire May 31/2 Prof. Pigou..has taken to Alpinism, and says he dun't care a pig's whistle. 1994 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Sept. a20 Neither zone is worth a pig's whistle if it's not enforced with airpower. < as lemmas |
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