| 单词 |
Peckham |
| 释义 |
Peckham|ˈpɛkəm|
[Name of a suburb of London.]
a. Used in various joc. phrases, esp. with play on peck = food, to eat (peck n.3 3, peck v.1 4). (See quots.)
Neither this sense nor the next seems to have much currency outside dicts.
1788Grose Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 2) s.v. All Holiday. It is all holiday at Peckham, or it is all holiday with him; a saying signifying that it is all over with the business or person spoken of or alluded to. 1823‘J. Bee’ Slang 134 Peckham (going to), dinner. ‘All holiday at Peckham’—no appetite. ‘No Peckham for Ben, he's been to Clapham,’ i.e. is indisposed, in a certain way. Peckish—hungry. 1864Hotten Slang Dict. 198 Peckham, a facetious meaning of the name of this district, implying a dinner; ‘all holiday at Peckham’, i.e. nothing to eat. 1902Farmer & Henley Slang V. 157/1 Peckham. To have (or spend) a holiday at Peckham, verb phr. (old)—To have nothing to eat. Going to Peckham = going to dinner. 1922A. M. Hyamson Dict. Eng. Phr. 267/2 Peckham, To go to, to go to dinner. 1970Brewer's Dict. Phr. & Fable (rev. ed.) 814/2 All holiday at Peckham,..no appetite, not peckish.
b. Peckham rye [name of an open space in Peckham], tie. Rhyming slang.
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 221 Peckham rye, tie. (Rhyming slang). 1960J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 106/2 Peckham Rye, tie (necktie). 19 C., and by far the most usual term. 1973B. Aylwin Load of Cockney Cobblers 84 Tie. Peckham Rye. |
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