| 单词 | tisty-tosty ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmastisty-tosty ball a. n. A bunch of flowers, a nosegay (obsolete); in modern dialect, a cowslip-ball: also tisty-tosty ball. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > bouquet bobc1400 posya1500 poesy1565 bough-pot1585 ramilletec1620 bouquet1717 tisty-tosty1825 booky1842 bokay1847 shower bouquet1891 porte-bouquet1900 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 74 Teesty-tosty, the blossoms of cowslips collected together, tied in a globular form, and used to toss to and fro for an amusement called teesty-tosty... Sometimes called simply a tosty. 1865 Cornhill Mag. July 41 ‘Blossom-ball’..is evidently formed after the West-country ‘cowslip-ball’, the ‘tisty-tosty ball’ of Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, which children yearly make. < as lemmas |
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