mahogany flat

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bedbug. UK,obsolete,slang
    — When ready for sea we went up to Greenhithe, that their lordships might inspect us, and then to Portsmouth, to take troops to Cork, a pleasant trip; but the troops left us a legacy of "mahogany flats," with which their beds were so swarming that we never got them under.

词形变化

词源

From their colour and shape.
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