| 单词 | bull's wool |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbull's wool bull's wool n. (also bullswool) (a) Army slang coarse woollen cloth or yarn; (b) Australian and New Zealand colloquial = bull n.4 3; see also quot. 1898. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > insincere or pretentious talk > [noun] flash1605 sniffling1653 canting1659 cant1710 galbanum1764 gas1793 blarney1796 gammon1805 slum1812 claptrap1819 flam1825 glittering generality1849 bull's wool1850 eyewash1857 bunkum1862 hot air1873 kid1874 fustian1880 flubdub1888 bull1914 oil1917 blah1918 drip1919 piss and wind1922 banana-oil1927 flannel1927 crud1943 old talk1956 ole talk1964 okey-doke1969 yada yada1991 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough russeta1300 cogware1389 molton1545 forest-white1551 penistone1551 pinwhite1604 duroy1619 duffel1649 long ell1706 duffel cloth1787 flushing1812 bull's wool1850 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > eucalyptus > part of bull's wool1850 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees > string bark > bark of stringy-bark1848 bull's wool1850 1850 ‘Two Mounted Sentries’ Horse Guards 70 The ‘sealed pattern’ [of cloth] provided for the British soldier, and familiarly known among the men by the euphonious cognomen of ‘bull's wool’. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 268 If iver you feel that you've got a felt sole in your boot instid av a Government bull's-wool, come to me. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 64/1 Bulls-wool, colloquial name for the inner portion of the covering of the Stringybark-tree. 1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby ix. 247 To build one's fire, kindling it surely and quickly with what is called ‘bull's-wool’, the thick, dry fibre, like fine cocoa-nut matting, which forms the hair shirt of the gum-tree between the white skin and the cream and green and madder-tinted bark. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Dec. 40/1 ‘And I'm dropping fifteen!’ ‘Bullswool!’ declared Tommy. ‘What you'd drop it'd take a bloke with a microscope to find.’ 1950 G. Meek in A. E. Woodhouse N.Z. Farm & Station Verse 153 Don't think that it's all bullswool. 1957 I. Cross God Boy (1958) ix. 67 That last bit was bulls-wool of course, but I had to be careful. < as lemmas |
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