1. 1

    A highboy is a tall wooden chest with many drawers, used for clothes. It often stands on legs, and older ones may come in two parts stacked together. This is American English. In British English the same kind of thing is usually a tallboy. Though actually, there is no boy in the room — it is just a furniture name. You meet it in furniture shops, antique shops, and American house descriptions, not in everyday chat. A shorter, wider chest in the same American pair is a lowboy.

    高斗櫃(美式;英式多說 tallboy。台灣家具店較常說高衣櫃、五斗櫃)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

    看看訂閱內容

組成high(高)+ boy, the same boy as in lowboy — a furniture name, not a child.

同家族的字

  • lowboythe lower, wider chest of drawers in the same American pair
  • tallboythe British name for this tall chest of drawers

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

highboynoun

  • 1

    A tall chest of drawers that is raised up on high legs.

    • mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles
    • […] the well-known Pennsylvania "Highboy," which is only the English "Tallboy" double-chest elevated on cabriole legs […]
  • 2

    datedOne who enjoys the high life.

  • 3

    datedA political highflier.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。