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back-to-nature (adj.)[back-to-nature 词源字典]: first attested 1915.[back-to-nature etymology, back-to-nature origin, 英语词源]
box-top (n.): 1937, American English, from box (n.1) + top (n.1).
down-to-earth (adj.): also down to earth, as an adjectival phrase, attested from 1932.
eye-tooth (n.): also eyetooth, 1570s, so called for its position immediately under or next to the eye. Compare German Augenzahn. Related: Eye-teeth.
fine-toothed (adj.): c. 1600, "epicurean, having delicate tastes," from fine (adj.) + toothed "having teeth" (of a certain kind); see tooth (n.). By 1703 as "having fine teeth" (of a saw, file, comb, etc.); fine-tooth in this sense attested from 1804.
flat-top (n.): 1943, "aircraft carrier," U.S. Navy, from flat (adj.) + top (n.). As a style of haircut, from 1956.
flip-top (adj.): 1955, of product packaging, from flip (v.) + top (n.1).
gap-toothed (adj.): "having teeth set wide apart," 1570s, from gap (n.) + toothed "having teeth" (of a certain kind); see tooth (n.). Chaucer's gat-toothed, sometimes altered to this, is from Middle English gat (n.) "opening, passage," from Old Norse gat, cognate with gate (n.).
get-together (n.): 1911, from get (v.) + together (adv.). The verbal phrase is attested by c. 1400 as "collect, gather;" meaning "to meet, to assemble" is from 1690s. As "to organize" (oneself), by 1962.
go-to-meeting (adj.): "suitable for use in a church or on Sundays," 1790, especially of clothes but the earliest recorded reference is to music.
heart-to-heart (adj.): 1867; see heart (n.) in figurative sense of "inmost feelings."
high-toned (adj.): 1779 of musical pitch, 1807 of morality, from high (adj.) + tone.
hoity-toity: also hoity toity, 1660s, "riotous behavior," from earlier highty tighty "frolicsome, flighty," perhaps an alteration and reduplication of dialectal hoyting "acting the hoyden, romping" (1590s), see hoyden. Sense of "haughty" first recorded late 1800s, probably on similarity of sound.
honky-tonk (n.): "cheap night club," by 1898, Southern U.S., of unknown origin. As a type of music played in that sort of low saloon, it is attested from 1921.
lean-to (n.): "building whose rafters pitch against another building or wall," mid-15c., from lean (v.) + to.
non-toxic (adj.): also nontoxic, 1892, from non- + toxic.
pigeon-toed (adj.): 1788, originally of horses; see pigeon.
roof-top (n.): also rooftop, 1610s, from roof (n.) + top (n.1).
set-to (n.): "bout, fight," 1743, originally pugilistic slang, from verbal phrase; see set (v.) + to.
small-town (adj.): "unsophisticated, provincial," 1824, from noun phrase, from small (adj.) + town.
snaggle-toothed (adj.): "having crooked, projecting teeth," 1580s) from snag (n.), perhaps a frequentative formation, + toothed "having teeth" (of a certain kind); see tooth (n.). Alternative snaggle-tooth (adj.) is from 1650s; snaggle-tooth (n.) is from 1820.
-tomy: word-forming element meaning "a cutting" (especially a surgical incision or removal), from Greek -tomia "a cutting of," from tome "a cutting, section" (see tome).
talking-to (n.): "a reprimand," 1871, from euphemistic use of verbal phrase talk to (see talk (v.)).
tick-tack-toe (n.): children's three-in-a-row game with Xs and Os, so called by 1892, earlier tit-tat-toe (by 1852, in reminiscences of earlier years), also called noughts and crosses (1852). Probably from the sound of the pencil on the slate with which it originally was played by schoolboys. Also the name of a children's counting rhyme played on slate (also originally tit-tat-toe, by 1842), and compare tick-tack (1580s), a form of backgammon, possibly from Middle French trictrac, perhaps imitative of the sound of tiles on the board.
tip-top (n.): "extreme top," 1702, from tip (n.1) + top (n.1). Hence, "most excellent."
tom-tom (n.): 1690s, "drum" (originally used in India), from Hindi tam-tam, probably of imitative origin (compare Sinhalese tamat tama and Malay tong-tong). Related: Tom-toms.
tree-top (n.): 1520s, from tree (n.) + top (n.).
up-to-date (adv.): 1840, "right to the present time," from phrase up to date, probably originally from bookkeeping. As an adjective from 1865. Meaning "having the latest facts" is recorded from 1889; that of "having current styles and tastes" is from 1891.
tick-tock: "The sound of a large clock ticking", Mid 19th century: imitative; compare with tick¹.
me-tooism: "The practice of adopting or imitating a policy successfully or popularly proposed by a (usually rival) person or party; (more widely) the practice of following a popular trend", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Life. From me too + -ism.
agro-town: "= agrogorod (now historical ); (also) a similar grouping of agricultural communities outside the Soviet Union", 1950s; earliest use found in USSR Information Bulletin.