单词 | tittlebat |
释义 | tittlebat|ˈtɪt(ə)lbæt| Also -back. A variant of stickleback, of childish origin. Hence tittleˈbatian a. nonce-wd., pertaining to tittlebats.
1820Keats & Hunt K.'s Wks. (1889) III. 34 They..follow the fish into cool corners, and say millions of ‘My eyes!’ at ‘tittle-bats’. 1837Dickens Pickw. i, There sat the man who had..agitated the scientific world with his Theory of Tittlebats. Ibid., He had felt some pride when he presented his Tittlebatian Theory to the world. 1844Thackeray Greenwich Whitebait Misc. Ess. (1885) 430 A fresh dish of tittlebacks or gudgeons. 1869H. S. Leigh Carols of Cockayne 120 In this brook that flows lazily by I believe that one tittlebat dwells. |

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