| 释义 |
buer north. dial. and Tramps' slang.|bjʊə(r)|
Also 9 bure, buor, bewer.
[Orig. unknown.]
A woman, spec. one of loose character.
1807J. Stagg Misc. Poems (1808) 144 A bure her neame was Meg, A winsome weel far'd body. 1886W. Newton Secrets of Tramp Life Revealed 8 Buor, a woman. 1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 110/2 Bewer, (tinkers' slang), a woman... Young bew'r, a girl. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock i. i. 8 ‘Christ,’ the boy said, ‘won't anybody stop that buer's mouth?’ Ibid. vi. i. 228 That was what always happened if you took up with anything but a buer; they gave you the air. |