单词 | lamb-pie |
释义 | lamb-pie 1. lit. A pie made of lamb; † fig. applied to a young woman.
a1625Beaum. & Fl. Custom Country i. i, A Surgeon, I must confesse an excellent desector; One that has cut up more young tender Lamb-pies—. 2. punningly. (Cf. lam v., lambskin.)
1607Markham Caval. viii. (1617) 6 This beating of horses thus amongst Horse-coursers is called giuing them Lambe⁓pye, from a knauish iest of a horse-coursers Boy. 1609Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light x. Wks. (Grosart) III. 280 How a Horse-courser makes a Iade that has no stomach to eate Lamb-pye. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Lamb-pye, Beating or Drubbing. 1791Pegge Derbicisms Ser. ii. 109 Lam, to beat; hence Lamb-pye, a drubbing. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia. |

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