| 单词 | sugar-bag |
| 释义 | > as lemmassugar-bag sugar-bag n. (a) a bag or sack for containing sugar, esp. a bag made of coarse thick paper specially coloured or (Australian and New Zealand) of fine sacking; also used as a measure of quantity; (b) (in Australian Aboriginal usage) a wild bees' honeycomb. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > honeycomb comba700 honeycombOE werke1598 virgin comb1639 sugar-bag1764 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > sack > for other specific contents sand-poke1415 hopsack1481 coal sack1574 hop-bag1604 sugar-bag1764 nutsack1842 bale-sack1883 sugar sack1891 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > honeycomb honeycombOE sugar-bag1764 the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > bag or sack as unit pokec1300 sack1314 pocket1350 quarter-sackc1422 mailc1503 bag1679 sugar-bag1963 1764 New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1889) IX. 156 [I sent] also lb 14¼ Sugar bag with it. 1830 R. Dawson Present State Austral. 136 The strange native pointed with his tomahawk to the tree and..repeated the words, ‘Choogar-bag, choogar-bag, choogar-bag!’ (sugar-bag) their English expression for honey, or anything sweet. 1864 R. Henning Let. 27 Nov. (1966) 185 The other [aboriginal] has been..climbing gum-trees after ‘sugar-bags’, or wild honeycombs. 1882 Cassell's Family Mag. Nov. 756/2 The crowns..have two square corners like the bottom of a sugar-bag. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers vii. 164 There's something very blue; is it a bit of sugar-bag? 1927 M. Terry Through Land of Promise 104 We found the others clustered round a bauhinia tree... ‘We've got a sugar bag.’ 1928 V. Palmer Passage i. v. 44 It was Uncle Tony standing with a sugar-bag over his shoulders. 1948 F. A. Iremonger William Temple v. 81 A nine-year-old boy in a Bethnal Green school, who handed to his teacher one morning an untidy piece of blue paper torn from a sugar-bag. 1963 N.Z. Listener 6 Sept. 9/2 Reference to the price of a ‘sugar’ bag full of oysters. It drew my attention to the frequency with which we in New Zealand refer to a ‘sugar bag’ as a basic unit of quality. 1967 A. Reid & D. Reid Paddle Wheels on Wanganui 71 On another trip the same cabin boy acquired a sugar-bag of apples. < as lemmas |
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