| 单词 | black betty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack betty black betty n. U.S. (now historical and rare) a liquor bottle or jug made of dark glass; cf. Betty n. 3.With quot. 1737 see to kiss the cup at kiss v. 6b. ΚΠ 1737 B. Franklin Drinker's Dict. 13 Jan. in Papers (1960) II. 174 A Man is drunk... He's kiss'd black Betty. 1835 N. Ames Old Sailor's Yarns 277 If you've got any white-eye in that black betty,..I don't much care if I take a drop. 1880 in C. T. Greeve Cent. Hist. Cincinnati (1904) I. 463 They didn't forget to pass the old ‘black betty’, filled with good old peach brandy. 1992 J. M. Faragher Daniel Boone i. ii. 43 The rowdies who gathered on the wedding morning, passing the jug (‘Black Betty’). < as lemmas |
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