punnet
/puhn-it/US // ˈpʌn ɪt //UK // (ˈpʌnɪt) //
双关语,双关,双关口,双胞胎
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
British, Australian.
- : a small container or basket for strawberries or other fruit.
Examples
Forty or fifty years ago a punnet or two of the attractive vivid scarlet fruit might be seen in season at Covent Garden Market.
Prime fruit ought to be scarce and dear, picked careful, and kept in the punnet.
He had, it appeared, talked to Lady Punnet about private theatricals!
Your gardener said to me this morning: 'I'll pick a "punnet" of strawberries to-day.'
Incidentally he alluded quite familiarly to men with military titles, and once even to someone with a title, a Lady Punnet.
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