| 释义 |
magsman slang.|ˈmægsmən|
[f. mag n.1]
1. A street swindler, ‘confidence man’.
1838The Town 27 Jan. 276 A magsman must of necessity be a great actor and a most studious observer of human nature. 1866Dickens Reprinted Pieces, Detective Police (1868) 241 Tally-ho Thompson was a famous horse-stealer, couper, and magsman. 1897M. Davitt in Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 2/1 Almost every possible kind of convict, from the sneak-thief..to professional magsmen.
2. Austral. A story-teller, raconteur.
1944W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 3) 56 We were discussing dreams... It was the Doc's subject and he was..‘giving it hell’. I let him go—with his complexes and repressions, but I was itching to have my say, for I too am a good ‘magsman’. 1963― To Ayers Rock & Beyond v. 45 We would sit around the camp-fire to sing songs or recite our favourite poems... I am pretty sure that this bush school of oral teaching was the starting point with many a bush-poet and magsman, such as I, who kept up the yarning into later days. 1967Telegraph (Brisbane) 8 Apr. 4/1 Hardy..became the official yarn-spinning champion of Australia today. He won the magsman's championship in Darwin. |