boiled shirt

短语

硬胸衬衫;拘泥刻板的人

词形变化

boiled shirts 复数 boiled shirts

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A freshly laundered white shirt.

    过时 俚语

词源

John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) states: "In the mining camps, and rough parts generally, a white shirt is called a biled^([sic]) shirt to distinguish it from the usual woollen garment, which cannot be boiled."

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