英语词汇“broomstick”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

broomstick

释义

broomstick|ˈbruːmstɪk|
Same as broomstaff. to marry over the broomstick: to go through a quasi-marriage ceremony, in which the parties jump over a broomstick; also called ‘to jump the besom’.
1683tr. Erasmus' Moriæ Enc. 58 Shall take a Broom-stick for a streight-bodied woman.1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 148 A story of a witch upon a broomstick, & a flight in the air.1732Pope Use of Riches ii. 97 The thriving plants, ignoble broomsticks made.1824Macaulay Misc. Writ. (1860) I. 95 They were married over a broom-stick.1841Miall Nonconf. I. 265 Not more hopeless..the attempt to make a broomstick bud.1881J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. iv, ‘There's some as think she was married over the broom-stick, if she was married at all’.
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1774Westm. Mag. II. 16 He had no inclination for a Broomstick-marriage.1807W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 362 The broomstick-whirl'd hags that appear in Macbeth.1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 353, I never had a wife, but I have had two or three broomstick matches, though they never turned out happy.

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