telling bone

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The telephone. humorous
    — “Oh great magician! Conjure more voices with thy telling bone.”

词形变化

telling bones plural

词源

A Hobson-Jobson based on interpreting telephone as telling + bone; coined by British screenwriter Richard Carpenter for the TV series Catweazle.
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