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单词 warming-pan
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warming-pann.

Brit. /ˈwɔːmɪŋpan/, U.S. /ˈwɔrmɪŋˌpæn/
1. A long-handled covered pan of metal (usually of brass) to contain live coals, etc., formerly in common use for warming beds.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for warming bed
bedpan1572
warming-pan1574
froe1594
hot-water bottle1636
damsel1728
nun1728
water bottle1771
hot bottle1836
bottle1857
pig1869
bed-bottle1907
bed-warmer1931
hotty1947
1574 J. Baret Aluearie W 64 A warmyng pan, thermoclinium.
c1590 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta 1745 A fellow..with..a Dagger with a hilt like a warming-pan.
1669 S. Pepys Diary 1 Jan. (1976) IX. 405 Presented from Captain Beckford with a noble silver warming-pan, which I am doubtful whether to take or no.
1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus May 11 The tinkling after them with a Warming-Pan, Frying Pan, or Kettle, is of good use to let the Neighbours know you have a swarm [of Bees] in the Air.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xiv. 165 A nosegay resembling in shape and dimensions a full-sized warming-pan with the handle cut short off.
figurative.1626 N. Breton Fantasticks sig. C3v I thus conclude, I hold it [August] the worlds welfare, and the earths Warming-pan.1762 Gentleman's Mag. 32 137/2 For wedlock is the warming-pan, That best can warm the bed.
2. Historical. With allusion to the story that James II's son, afterwards called the Old Pretender, was a supposititious child introduced into the Queen's bed in a warming-pan. Also attributive.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > fraudulent substitution > of child > symbol of
warming-pan1689
1689 Full Answ. Depos. Birth Pr. Wales 13 Do you think it [the child] was conveyed there in a Warming-pan, or otherwise?
1689 Muses Farew. Popery 141 A Warming pan Plot, worse than Celliers Meal-Tub.
1716 Coll. State Songs, Poems, &c. since Rebellion 64 Let those Rebels, if they can, Make us forget the Warming Pan, Which first convey'd that pretty Man Into the Chamber Royal.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. ix. 210 Our immortal deliverer from papists and pretenders, and wooden shoes and warming pans.
3. slang.
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a. A large old-fashioned watch. Cf. turnip n. 3b.
b. A female bed-fellow. Scotch warming-pan: a chambermaid who lay in the bed a while to warm it for the intending occupant.
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the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > female who shares one's bed
warming-pan1668
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant having care of bedchambers > woman or girl > who lay in bed to warm it
Scotch warming-pan1668
1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master ii. 25 None but a cold Bed-fellow would have two Warming-Pans.
1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 83 A Scotch warming-pan, i.e. a wench. The story is well known of the Gentleman travelling in Scotland, who desiring to have his bed warmed, the servant-maid doffs her clothes and lays her self down in it for a while.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Warming-pan, an old fashion'd large Watch. A Scotch Warming-pan, a She-bed-fellow.
c. A person who temporarily holds a place or employment until the intended occupant is ready to take it.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > casual or temporary worker > who holds a position until another takes it
warming-pan1846
the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > a substitute > poor or temporary
Jack at a pinch1622
stopgap1691
apology1754
makeshift1822
warming-pan1846
ersatz1875
substitute1878
1846 Eclectic Rev. June 662 A locum tenens (ecclesiasticè, a warming-pan) was wanted for a Yorkshire living.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. i. 92 Hungerford is not a warming-pan;..he never was originally; and if he had been, he has been member for the county too long to be so considered now.
1883 D. C. Murray Hearts (1885) xiv. 117 I only serve the place of what in Parliament is called a warming-pan.
attributive.1875 Daily News 2 June 2/2 The Act..was simply employed for conserving livings for the use of the children of the patron, and was popularly known as the ‘warming-pan’ Act.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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