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bantam

/ban-tuhm/US // ˈbæn təm //UK // (ˈbæntəm) //

幼儿,幼儿班,幼儿教育,幼儿教师

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a chicken of any of several varieties or breeds characterized by very small size.
    • : a small and feisty or quarrelsome person.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : diminutive; tiny: bantam editions of the classics.

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Examples

  • Lonard thinks ha-ha-ha and tells Bantam that the rights have reverted to him, which they have.

  • Bantam calls and says, “We must publish Juvenal [original title].”

  • This seems like a bit too much bantam strutting, when the jury is literally still out in much of the country.

  • Heinz wrote the book in his makeshift den, a bantam-size office that he had constructed off the TV room in a corner of his garage.

  • In another study, “one man reported that he felt compelled to incubate and help hatch out a clutch of bantam chickens.”

  • The little bantam can crow quicker, oftener and with more ginger than any other rooster on the place.

  • The mud was too deep for the Shanghai to run and the bantam killed him.

  • The full-bred Bantam-cock should not weigh more than a pound.

  • Then he put the seven eggs in the nest carefully, and got the little bantam hen and put her in, too.

  • Mother Bantam would cluck and run back and forth in the coop and call to them, she was so afraid something would happen.