Mutt and Jeff

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

more Mutt and Jeff 比较级 most Mutt and Jeff 最高级 only 复数

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Deaf.

    俚语
name
  1. 1.

    Names given to a pair of companions, usually male, of whom one is tall and the other short.

    美国 仅复数 俚语

    1962, "Facial Farceur" (film review of A Matter of WHO), Time, 10 Aug., The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up, Mutt-and-Jeff fashion.

词源

From characters in a comic strip by U.S. cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, first published in 1908.

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