单词 | street web |
释义 | > as lemmasstreet web street web n. regional (now historical) a ‘web’ of street gossip. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip jowl?c1225 trattle1513 tittle-tattle1570 tattle1583 clatter1596 street web1614 town talk1642 street-threada1661 clash1685 fetch-fire1784 street yarn1800 gossip1811 village gossip1847 Russian scandal1861 chopsing1879 cooze1880 reportage1881 skeet1900 scuttlebutt gossip1901 pussy-talk1937 mauvais languec1945 comess1970 he-say-she-say1972 gyaff1975 skinder1979 goss1985 gist1990 1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iv. 135 Nor trip from feast to feast, nor Street-webs span, To see, and to be seen of every, man. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 275 Spinning street-webs, walking about idly, gossiping from house to house. ‘She has nothing better to do than spinning street-webs.’ 2000 A. Fox Oral & Literate Culture in Eng.,1500–1700 340 Spinners of street webs abound in the records of the period as officials frowned on the disquiet and dissent which they tended to leave in their wake. < as lemmas |
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