单词 | pipe-smoking |
释义 | pipe-smokingn. The action or habit of smoking a tobacco pipe. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > smoking a pipe piping1639 pipe-smoking1838 1838 W. M. Thackeray Let. 29 Dec. (1945) I. 376 If you will favor us with a visit I will ask Spedding and we will have a great pipe-smoking. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxvii. 201 The pipe-smoking, song-singing and yarn-spinning around the evening camp-fire. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. a7/1 A single match and an even draw gave the world's international pipe-smoking cup to a..physics teacher yesterday. 1985 P. Ferris in D. Thomas Coll. Lett. 276 Desmond Hawkins thinks that this obscure joke may have had something to do with Geoffrey Grigson's alleged dislike of pipe-smoking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pipe-smokingadj. That smokes, or is in the habit of smoking, a tobacco pipe. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [adjective] smoky1596 smoking1617 funking1699 whiffing1811 fumous1830 pipe-smoking1835 fumatory1847 nicotiant1877 secondary1975 1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. ii. 24 Out I went towards the lines..till I came to one of your pipe-smoking, gin-drinking Hessians. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. iii. vi. 84 The parlour, where that ‘pipe-smoking pig’ the bailiff had sat. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point iii. 46 This huge bent old man, pipe-smoking and tweed-jacketed. 1958 ‘J. Byrom’ Or be he Dead vii. 106 The pipe-smoking young man in the open-necked shirt. 1991 H. Gold Best Nightmare on Earth xi. 202 She was marveling at..the grace of pipe-smoking market women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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