单词 | shoofly |
释义 | shoofly in British Englishnoun shoofly pie shoofly in American English (ˈʃuˌflaɪ) US noun 1. Obsolete a kind of shuffling dance 2. a child's rocker with a seat mounted between supports typically designed in the form of horses, swans, etc. 3. an open pie with a filling of molasses and brown sugar : in full shoofly pie Word origin (sense 1) < phr. shoo, fly, don't bother me, in a Civil War nonsense song; (sense 3) said to be so named from attracting flieswhich must be shooed away |
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