英语词汇“buggy whip”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

buggy whip n. a light whip with a relatively short lash, for driving or controlling a horse or horses pulling a buggy (see sense 1).Now often used in similative expressions, as the type of something obsolescent (originally and chiefly North American).

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1785 India Gaz. 23 May (advt.) For Sale..Phaeton, Jocky, and Buggy Whips.

1898 O. Read Yankee from West iii. 27 She snatched a buggy whip and sallied forth into the grove.

1941 E. Welty Curtain of Green 276 Under her small black-freckled hand her cane, limber as a buggy whip, would switch at the brush.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Feb. c1 Many fraternal organizations are losing members and seem as archaic as the buggy whip.

2013 J. Lanier Who owns Future? viii. 97 Music is not fading away like buggy whips, any more than the need for education will.

单词	buggy whip
释义	> as lemmas buggy whip buggy whip n. a light whip with a relatively short lash, for driving or controlling a horse or horses pulling a buggy (see sense 1).Now often used in similative expressions, as the type of something obsolescent (originally and chiefly North American). ΚΠ 1785 India Gaz. 23 May (advt.) For Sale..Phaeton, Jocky, and Buggy Whips. 1898 O. Read Yankee from West iii. 27 She snatched a buggy whip and sallied forth into the grove. 1941 E. Welty Curtain of Green 276 Under her small black-freckled hand her cane, limber as a buggy whip, would switch at the brush. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Feb. c1 Many fraternal organizations are losing members and seem as archaic as the buggy whip. 2013 J. Lanier Who owns Future? viii. 97 Music is not fading away like buggy whips, any more than the need for education will. extracted from buggyn.¹ < as lemmas
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