| 单词 | bread and butter miss |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbread and butter miss 1. Of a person: girlish, schoolgirlish; (sometimes more generally) childish; used depreciatively, with implication of naive or unsophisticated character. In later use esp. in bread and butter miss. Also: designating the period of girlhood or boyhood. Now rare.With allusion to bread and butter being a food frequently eaten by children.In quot. 1979 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > relating to childhood childhood1600 bread and buttera1625 early1630 prepubertal1858 preschool1879 pre-intellectual1891 preadolescent1904 pre-kindergarten1912 prepuberal1913 pre-teen1929 prepubic1932 a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. iii. vii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrr4/1 Ye bread and butter rogues, do ye run from me? 1807 Salmagundi 2 June 211 These little beardless bread and butter politicians. 1861 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xli A lady at any rate past the wishy-washy bread-and-butter period of life. 1914 Theatre May 241/1 Whether our girls at the bread-and-butter age are particularly rude, I am not prepared to say. 1932 J. L. Mitchell tr. H. Mann Blue Angel ix. 150 ‘Quite a bread-and-butter miss, isn't she?’ remarked Kiepert, taking it with great good-humour. 1979 ‘G. Cullingford’ If Wishes were Hearses (e-book ed.) Don't be a prig, Caro. You really are a bread and butter miss. < as lemmas |
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