burnfire

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bonfire. nonstandard
    — It may ha' been wicked, but there 'twas, an' the thought kep' arter me, till all I could think of was the chist; an' byme-by I says to Mary Ellen, one mornin', ' Le's open it to-day an' make a burnfire !'

词形变化

burnfires plural

词源

An alteration (due to its association with burn) of Early Modern English boonfire, bondfire, bounfire (“bonfire”). More at bonfire.
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