“powder、puff”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

powder-puff

释义

ˈpowder-puff
1. a. A soft pad, usually of down, for applying powder to the skin. b. An instrument like a small bellows formerly used for powdering the hair.
a1704T. Brown Pleas. Lett. to Gent. Wks. 1709 III. ii. 16 A Powder-puff.1841J. W. Orderson Creol. xix. 229 This..made him..pass the powder-puff..over his hair.1851in Illustr. Lond. News 5 Aug. (1854) 119/3 Occupations of People..Powder-puff maker.1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. x. 206 Topsy and Mopsy were improved by the powder puff.
2. transf.
a. ? Contemptuously applied to a man with powdered hair, a fop.
b. Applied to a young gull with downy feathers.
1731Fielding Lottery ii, Is this the fellow for whom I am unknown? this powderpuff.1891Daily News 14 Oct. 2/8 Myriads of gulls..sitting about, of all sizes, from tiny powder-puffs to the stately wide-winged, full grown birds.

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