benny

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An amphetamine tablet. plural-normally,slang
    — That night Marylou took everything in the books; she took tea, goofballs, benny, liquor, and even asked Old Bull for a shot of M, which of course he didn’t give her; he did give her a martini.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“tantrum”). UK,alt-of,slang
    — BTW, you might like to see what happens to CM00-01 when one of your sticks of memory decides to have a benny:
  3. A benefit. informal
    — Life in the bush was generally a bummer, an adverse experience, which was only rarely broken by the bennies, benefits like warm beer and letters from the World, the United States.
  4. An overcoat. dated,slang
    — […] and figuring on where the engraved papers were going to come from that 'ud enable me to yank one of the bennies out of the eaves. Nobody ever saw me without an overcoat, and the right kind of an overcoat, […]
  5. Synonym of eggs Benedict. informal
    — Buffet fans can brunch until your heart's content at Westin Bayshore’s H2 Rotisserie & Bar, where the daily breakfast buffet features free-range eggs cooked to order, bennies, pancakes, waffles, smoked bacon, sausage links, seasonal fruit, freshly made pastries, and much more.
  6. Alternative letter-case form of Benny (“one-hundred-dollar bill”). US,alt-of,slang
  7. A straw hat. US,obsolete,slang
    — If lil ole Souttland is goin’ to keep her dome up in the golf department, an’ I tip my benny to her right now, she must put the kibosh on gin-hoisting an’ lay a stymie to every saloon.
动词 v.
  1. To take amphetamines. slang,usually
    — Bulldog's habit of "bennying up" for the ball games had become a humorous item among the players.

词形变化

bennies plural bennies present,singular,third-person bennying participle,present bennied participle,past bennied past bennies plural bennies plural bennie alternative bennies plural bennies plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English ben(zedrine)
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English benny
From ben(zedrine) + -y.
词源 2
From Benny.
词源 3
Abbreviation of benefit.
词源 4
Unknown or disputed. Attested from the late 19th century. Possibly from benjamin, slang from the early 19th century for a type of greatcoat. Possibly in reference to Uncle Benny or Uncle Ben (“a pawnbroker”), who might accept coats during the warm summer months, though the latter slang term does not appear to be attested before 1920.
词源 5
Clipping of eggs Benedict.
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