gingerbread office

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An office in the gingerbread Victorian style.
    — Morley: A year and a half ago I stumbled into your gingerbread office, a lost, frightened soul in terrified flight across the great yawning terror of doubt—a human being, in short!—and you chanted some hagridden formulas and danged some fylfots...
  2. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. euphemistic,obsolete,slang
    — There's no great need of Souldiers; Their Camp's No larger than a Ginger-bread Office.

词形变化

gingerbread offices plural

词源

From gingerbread (“in its figurative use as ersatz or unpleasant”) + office (“place to fulfill one's obligations; place of business”)
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