单词 | push-wainling |
释义 | push-wainling nonce-wd.|ˌpʊʃweɪnlɪŋ| Also pushwainling. [f. push- + wain n.1 + -ling suffix1 2.] A perambulator.
1878W. Barnes Outl. Eng. Speech-Craft 72 Perambulator (the child's carriage), push-wainling. 1908A. C. Swinburne Let. 22 Jan. (1962) VI. 211, I met..a fair friend..who beamed..from the depth of her pushwainling (I hope you never use the barbaric word ‘perambulator’?)... The happy term ‘pushwainling’ for a baby's coach of state is what makes him [sc. W. Barnes] immortal in my eyes. 1962Listener 16 Aug. 257/1 He [sc. W. Barnes] was also a philologist, the kind that..advocates such coinages as ‘two-horned rede-ship’ (dilemma) and ‘pushwainling’ (perambulator). |

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