| 单词 |
hen-house |
| 释义 |
ˈhen-house
a. A small house or shed in which poultry are shut up for the night.
1512–13Durham MS. Cell. Roll, Eidem pro..bordyng lez henhowse. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 162 b, Let the front of your Henne house stande alwaies towardes the East. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 17 Your Henne-house, and roomes for other Fowles, fashioned foure-square like a tower. 1740Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 120 You'll find me as errant a country Joan as ever frequented a hen-house or dairy. 1887A. Sergeant Jacobi's Wife III. vi. 85 A little deserted building which had once been used as a hen-house.
b. fig. A house or establishment inhabited chiefly by women.
1785Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Hen house, a house where the woman rules. 1931W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxi. 193 She's got two daughters... I'm heading for the hen-house. 1963P. Moyes Murder à la Mode ii. 29 ‘You know what this place is, don't you, sir?’ The sergeant was plunged in gloom. ‘Fashion magazine. Ruddy hen-house.’ |
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