单词 | pully-bone |
释义 | pully-bone U.S. dial.|ˈpʊlɪbəʊn| Also pulley-bone. [f. pull v. + -y + bone n.] = wish-bone s.v. wish n.1 4. Cf. pull-bone s.v. pull- 2 and pulling-bone s.v. pulling vbl. n. 5.
1939B. K. Harris Purslane 148 The girls scrambled over the pulley-bone of the turkey. 1947M. Henry Misty of Chincotiague xvi. 152 Somethin' told me to save the pully bone from that marsh hen. 1966Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 XLII. 22 Pully-bone, the wish-bone or furcula, of a chicken, often pulled after a meal, to determine who is to get married first. 1976Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 180 If we understand that there is a connection between the Southern mountains and coastal plains, the occurrence of you-all, grea/z/y, and pulley bone ‘wishbone’ in an area as far away as the Midwest becomes readily explainable. |

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