| 单词 |
yabba |
| 释义 |
yabba Jamaica.|ˈjæbə| Also yabah. [Jamaican.] A large wooden or earthenware vessel used for cookery or storage.
1889Victoria Q. (Kingston, Jamaica) May 50 The familiar ‘Yabba’ or earthen vessel. 1929M. W. Beckwith Black Roadways 27 Earthen bowls, hand turned and covered with a rude glaze, are always to be had in the Kingston market, but they are more rare in the hills where the old-time ‘yabba’ is being supplanted by tinware. 1953Caribbean Anthol. Short Stories 103 She took a handful of cornmeal out of the wooden yabba. 1953R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together i. i. 11 Ras..spat in an earthenware yabba set beside him for the purpose. 1959A. Salkey Quality of Violence iv. 56 He picked up an empty yabah which was resting on a Bible... He..let it slip from his hands. It..splintered in jagged pieces. |
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