| 单词 | stout party |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstout party c. stout party, a fat person (humorously). Esp. in catchphrase collapse of stout party (see quot. 1975). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having porknellc1540 porkling1541 porridge belly1580 tallow catch1598 woolsack1598 candle-mine1600 trillibub1600 bauson1607 panguts1617 firkin1630 porker1665 poke pudding1706 pudsy1710 jolluxa1797 fatty1797 fattener1817 rotundity1824 tun-butt1829 stout party1855 pig1858 fatlinga1861 slob1861 bladder of lard1864 butterball1877 lard-bladder1891 jelly-belly1896 tub1897 barrel1909 flop1909 pussy-gut1909 gutbucket1919 Billy Bunter1939 endomorph1940 Fatso1944 slug1959 1855 Punch 25 Aug. 80/1 (caption) Stout Party: Well, I'm sure! What can possess those skinny creatures to wear round hats, I can't think,—making themselves so conspicuous! 1949 M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker vii. 102 ‘Do you will the stout party to give you the sixpences?’ he ventured. 1957 R. G. G. Price Hist. Punch iii. 96 The florescence of the ‘collapse of stout party’ type of caption comes later [than the 1860s]. 1959 Manch. Guardian 4 Aug. 4/7 Hampstead Bank Holidays..felt the loss of..the beery men, the pearlies, and the ‘Stout Parties’. 1975 R. Pearsall Collapse of Stout Party 4 To many people Victorian wit and humour is summed up by Punch, when every joke is supposed to end with ‘Collapse of Stout Party’, though this phrase tends to be as elusive as ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’ in the Sherlock Holmes sagas. < as lemmas |
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