chemmie

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chemical, especially a recreational drug. rare,slang
    — Within the next week he gave up all the rest of his chemmies: the wakers and dozers, the vim-pills, the breeze capsules. Bottle after bottle vanished down the recycling chute.
  2. Alternative form of chemmy (“the card game called chemin de fer”). alt-of,alternative,uncountable
    — And then the opera would be over, the tourists go home from their mild game of chemmie, and as the hour approached one the heavy gamblers would gather, like communicants of some esoteric faith about to celebrate their ritual.

词形变化

chemmies plural

词源

词源 1
From chem(ical) + -ie, compare chem (“chemical”).
词源 2
From chem(in de fer) + -ie.
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