| 释义 |
shack-bag
Also shack-back.
[variant of shake-bag.]
1. dial. = shack n.2 1.
1855Whitby Gloss., A Shackbag, a loose trustless fellow. 1886Fenn This Man's Wife i. xiv, I was a fool to come down as I did before, such a shackbag as I was.
2. The name of a large breed of fowls.
1816‘B. Moubray’ Treat. Poultry, etc. (ed. 2) 25 Shack⁓bags. Formerly the largest variety, but in probability it has been entirely worn out for some years. It was called the duke of Leeds' breed, [etc.]. 1849D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yd. (1855) 75 The famous ‘shack-backs’, ‘shack-bags’, or ‘Duke of Leeds' fowl’,..were supposed to have been a cross between the jago and Dorking fowls. |