| 单词 | tell-tale-tit |
| 释义 | > as lemmastell-tale-tit tell-tale-tit n. colloquial (originally Children's slang) = sense A. 1. ΚΠ 1784 Mother Goose's Melody (new ed.) 45 Tell tale tit, Your tongue shall be slit, And all the dogs in our town Shall have a bit. 1810 J. Lancaster Brit. Syst. Educ. 37 It is common..to make an offender stand up..with the label..‘Nice Matches’ for singing tones in reading; and ‘Tell Tale Tit’, for idle complainants. 1877 D. Straight Old Pictures in New Frame 105 He had regarded her much after the same uncomplimentary fashion as boys of that age are wont to regard girls—nuisances, stupids, tell-tale-tits! 1944 M. Irwin Young Bess (1956) i. 1 ‘It's lucky for you I'm no tell-tale tit.’ ‘No, you'll never be that.’ 1999 M. Conlon-McKenna Magdalen (2002) x. 125 ‘I'll tell on you,’ she whispered slyly. ‘There's nothing to tell, madam; anyways just you remember nobody likes a tell-tale-tit!’ < as lemmas |
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