“bubble、bow”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

bubble-bow

释义

† ˈbubble-bow, -boy Obs.
[app. f. bubble v. 5 + beau as if ‘beau-befooler’: cf. quot. 1712.]
A lady's tweezer-case.
(So explained in Pope's foot-note to quot. 1727; he remarks that the word is ‘in use in this present year’. Warburton says the passage is quoted from one of Pope's own juvenile poems, in which case its date would be c 1704.)[1712Arbuthnot John Bull (1755) 3 Charles Mather could not bubble a young beau better with a toy.] 1727Pope, etc., Art Sinking 94 Lac'd in her Cosins new appear'd the Bride, A Bubble-bow and Tompion at her side.1807Month. Mag. XXIV. 550 Why was it called a bubble-boy? Probably the word is a misspelling for bauble-buoy, a support for baubles.

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