tavernful

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Enough to fill a tavern.
    — Why not give the proof? But not like Professor Patterson, of Philadelphia, who said: “Hahnemann contradicts Euclid’s axiom, ‘the whole is greater than the part,’ because he insists that parts are more than the whole;” and his class laughed at this like a tavernful of voters at a pettifogger’s jest.

词形变化

tavernfuls plural

词源

From tavern + -ful.
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