“cat-nip”的英文意思

单词

cat-nip

释义

cat-nip
[f. cat + nep.]
a. The common name in U.S. of catmint.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 189 (Medicinal plants in New England) Catmint or catnip.1807W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 144 The healing qualities of hoarhound, catnip and penny-royal.1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. I. iv. 66 A decoction of catnip.1861Mrs. Stowe Pearl Orr's Isl. 20 A..tea-pot, which fumed strongly of catnip-tea.
b. fig.
1934A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 183 It was so much catnip to ‘that ill-looking, squinting man’.1962Observer 25 Mar. 24/3 She is catnip to failures.

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