单词 | slut's corner |
释义 | > as lemmasslut's corner slut's corner n. Now archaic a dirty or untidy corner in a room, esp. one left uncleaned by a sluttish person; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] fenc888 longayne1340 sloven's inn?1518 slut's corner1570 sink1590 Augean stable1596 spittle1624 spital1771 expectoratory1836 mill-tail1854 stable1903 pisshole1928 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 29 Sluttes [1573 sluts] corners auoided, shal farther thy health. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxxiii. 814 Our house shalbe swept, & we will good heed yt no sluts corner be left. 1710 J. Swift Medit. Broom-stick 7 He sets up to be..a Remover of Grievances, rakes into every Slut's Corner of Nature [etc.]. 1830 ‘M. Doyle’ Hints Small Farmers County Wexford (ed. 5) iv. 12 I must have a great deal more—..a well scrubbed dresser, level floor, dry and sanded, clean windows, well-aired bed-rooms, sweet and clean—no sluts' corners, no dirty bed-clothes. 1995 L. S. Robson Mary's Land xli. 311 Margaret pointed her willow withe at the offal behind the corn barrel. ‘We shall have no slut's corners, Anicah.’ < as lemmas |
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