| 单词 | scotch peg |
| 释义 | > as lemmasScotch peg Scotch peg n. now rare a leg. [Rhyming slang, probably with allusion to the name of Scotch Peg (1799 or earlier) < Scotch adj. + Peg , a personification of Scotland, the sister of John Bull in J. Arbuthnot's satires (1712; compare John Bull n.). Compare peg n.1 6c.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun] shanka900 legc1300 grainsa1400 limbc1400 foot?a1425 stumpa1500 pin?1515 pestlea1529 boughc1550 stamp1567 understander1583 pile1584 supporters1601 walker?1611 trestle1612 fetlock1645 pedestal1695 drumstick1770 gam1785 timber1807 tram1808–18 fork1812 prop1817 nethers1822 forkals1828 understanding1828 stick1830 nether person1835 locomotive1836 nether man1846 underpinning1848 bender1849 Scotch peg1857 Scotch1859 under-pinner1859 stem1860 Coryate's compasses1864 peg1891 wheel1927 shaft1935 1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 17 Scotch peg, leg. 1897 ‘Doss Chiderdoss′ ‘Pomes’ from Pink 'Un 23 Some buds of youthful purity, with undisplayed ‘Scotch pegs’. 1917 W. Muir Observ. Orderly xiv. 225 If he [sc. an Australian] had occasion to allude to his leg he would probably have called it ‘Scotch peg’. < as lemmas |
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