“mint、drop”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

mint-drop

释义

ˈmint-drop
[f. mint n.² + drop n.]
1. ‘A sugar-plum flavoured with peppermint’ (Cent. Dict. 1890).
2. U.S. slang. With pun on mint n.¹: A coin.
1835Hawthorne Passages from Note-Bks. in Atlantic Monthly (1866) Jan. 3/2 The bar-keeper had one of Benton's mint drops for a bosom-brooch!1837Congress. Globe 29 Sept. App. 339/3 [The money flowed to Mobile] by the aid of ‘the far-famed Specie circular’, in ‘mint drops’ and ‘hard currency’.1840J. P. Kennedy Quodlibet 106 [There's] Specie Circlor and Mint Drops, and the Lord knows what.1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 291 When the Hon. T. H. Benton..put his whole strength forward..to introduce a gold currency, he accidentally called the latter mint-drops, with a slight attempt at a pun... For many years gold coins were largely known as Benton's mint-drops.

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