| 单词 | sleeping dictionary |
| 释义 | > as lemmassleeping dictionary sleeping dictionary n. slang a foreign woman with whom a man has a sexual relationship and from whom he learns her language. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > foreign woman engaged in love affair sleeping dictionary1928 the mind > language > a language > [noun] > a foreign language > teacher of language master1672 munshi1782 language teacher1783 sleeping dictionary1928 1928 J. B. Wharton Squad 21 We picked up two beauties... Oo-la-la—I've learned French—out uv a sleepin' dictionary—dat's what dey're called. 1965 Listener 25 Mar. 461/3 He paints the old China of bound feet,..the endless dinners, the mistress (sleeping dictionary) as fragile as a butterfly. 1979 M. Lindsay in C. Allen Tales from Dark Continent i. 14 In East Africa..‘East African officers as a whole maintained a..stricter code in the matter of sleeping with African women’—sometimes referred to as ‘sleeping dictionaries’, from their obvious advantages as language instructors—than did their fellow-officers in West Africa. < as lemmas |
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