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单词 mutton-monger
释义 mutton-monger slang.
[f. mutton (sense 4) + monger.]
1. A whoremonger. Now Obs. or rare.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 366/1 Motenmongers, priapistes, ydolaters, whoremaisters.1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 151 b, One Didymo (who..had in euery bodyes mouth a veraye eiuil name of beeyng a muttonmoungre).1600Look About You H 4, Ah old Muttonmounger I beleeue heer's worke towards.a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Mutton-monger, a Lover of Women; also a Sheep-stealer.1923J. Manchon Le Slang 201 A mutton-monger, un coureur de filles.
2. A great eater of mutton; also, a sheep-stealer. Obs.
1649W. M. Wandering Jew (1857) 42 He is a curse to Pasties; a Tormentor of Poultry,..a terrible Sheep-biter; a horrible Mutton-monger, a Gorbelly-Glutton.1664Cotton Scarron. i. 34 Yet scarce could satisfie their hungers, These Trojans were such Mutton-mongers.a1700[see 1].
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