| 单词 | pumpkin shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspumpkin shell pumpkin shell n. ΚΠ 1743 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 190/1 A Method of catching Ducks, by Men walking up to the Neck in the Water, with their Heads in a Pompkin Shell. 1828 Emerald & Baltimore Lit. Gaz. 7 June 59/3 A Diogenes (for so I must call all who do not laugh) should carry his head in a pumpkin shell,–for he sours the milk of every house he enters. 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) I. v. 81 Crop it [sc. hair] forthwith, and that in the true pumpkin-shell fashion. 1844 J. G. Whittier Pumpkin 32 Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam, In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team! 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) ix. 142 He had patches upon his cranium as bald as a pumpkin shell. 2005 J. Staub 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden lii.166 The law that required men's haircuts to conform to a cap placed over the head, the ubiquitous pumpkin shell often, apparently, being substituted for the far scarcer caps. < as lemmas |
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