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backstairs 音标拼音: [b'ækst ,ɛrz] n. 后面楼梯,厨房门
a. 诡密的,秘密的 後面楼梯,厨房门诡密的,秘密的 backstairs adj 1: secret and sly or sordid; " backstairs gossip"; " his low backstairs cunning"- A. L. Guerard; " backstairs intimacies"; " furtive behavior" [ synonym: { backstair}, { backstairs}, { furtive}] n 1: a second staircase at the rear of a buildingBackstairs \ Back" stairs`\, Back stairs \ Back" stairs`\ ( b[ a^] k" st[^ a] rz`) n. Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the { front stairs}; a second staircase at the rear of a building; hence, a private or indirect way. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1. 5] Backstairs
Backstairs \ Back" stairs`\, Backstair \ Back" stair`\, a. Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs; as, backstairs gossip. Syn: clandestine, cloak- and- dagger, hugger- mugger, hush- hush, on the quiet( predicate), secret, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover, underground. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1. 5] A backstairs influence. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] Female caprice and backstair influence. -- Trevelyan. [ 1913 Webster] 26 Moby Thesaurus words for " backstairs": back- door, clandestine, covert, feline, furtive, hidlings, hole- and- corner, hugger- mugger, privy, quiet, shifty, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, under- the- counter, under- the- table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive |
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