Norfolk Howard

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bedbug. UK,obsolete,slang
    — All the insects he had sorted, / Placed in paper bags the insects, / In one bag the Norfolk Howards, / In one bag the fleas, the Jumpers […]

词形变化

Norfolk Howards plural

词源

Said to be an allusion to a person named Ephraim Bug, who advertised that in the future he would call himself by the more aristocratic name of Norfolk Howard.
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