| 单词 | coffin dodger |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoffin dodger coffin dodger n. colloquial (humorous and usually derogatory) a person considered to have narrowly and consistently avoided death; (in later use) esp. (chiefly British) an elderly person, considered dismissively as close to death or enduring against the odds.In quot. 1891 appears in a regular newspaper column entitled ‘Short Notes by “O.K.”’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > smoker tobacchian1597 tobacco-taker1599 tobacconist1600 puffer1615 tobacco-fellow1616 tobacconer1616 smoker1617 whiffler1617 fume-gallant1621 whiffera1627 funker1691 tobacco-smoker1848 tobacconalian1854 nicotian1872 tobaccophil1882 coffin dodger1891 tobaccoite1898 tobacco-whiffer- the world > people > person > old person > [noun] oldeOE morea1382 olderc1450 ancient1502 mouldy chopsa1640 antediluvian1648 prediluvian1690 emerit1710 pelt1757 old fogey1793 antique1801 relic1832 old head1838 oldster1846 elderling1863 the Ancient of Days1935 senior citizen1938 OAP1942 golden ager1948 coffin dodger1954 wrinkly1972 crumbly1976 geriatric1977 1891 Logan Witness (Beenleigh, Queensland) 1 Aug. If parents don't look after their kids some long box makers are likely to be busy soon... If after the discharge of buckshot these urchin's [sic] escape the ‘O.K.’ man will have to have another look out for the coffin-dodgers. 1900 E. H. Babbitt College Words & Phrases in Dial. Notes 2 28 Coffin-dodger, a person much addicted to cigarette smoking. 1954 Country Life 9 Sept. 833/2 Then there are the old people [of Ireland]. Almost without exception, these writers look upon them as unholy horrors, ‘coffin dodgers’ one of them calls them. 2017 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 5 Mar. 3 The troubling news about marmalade. It's dying out. Didn't you hear? Apparently it's only the coffin dodgers buying it now. < as lemmas |
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