英语词汇“tanglefoot”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

tanglefoot

释义

tanglefoot, a. and n.|ˈtæŋg(ə)lfʊt|
[f. tangle v.¹ + foot n.]
a. adj. That tangles or entangles the foot.
b. n. That which tangles or entraps the foot; spec. U.S. slang, an intoxicating beverage, esp. whisky. Also attrib. So ˈtangle-footed a., having tangled feet, stumbling.
1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Tangle-foot, one of the Western figurative terms for whiskey.1871Hartford Courant 17 Mar. (Farmer Slang), He proceeded..toward a neighboring saloon in quest of tangle-foot.1881‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. at Home ii, He could..hold more tangle⁓foot whisky without spilling it than any man in seventeen counties.1888Voice (N.Y.) 27 Dec., [Stories] of this tanglefooted variety, which trip up and throw themselves by their absurdity and self-contradiction.1893Chicago Advance 28 Sept., The tangle-foot complications in which it was sure to involve its defenders.1900Daily News 11 Apr. 3/2 The poisonous ‘Cape Smoke’, or ‘tanglefoot’, which they [soldiers] get in too great abundance out here.1908W. R. Hearst in Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 5/1 The deeper he sinks into the tangle-foot of corruption and contradiction.

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