| 单词 | coster-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoster-boy General attributive, as coster-boy, coster-ditty, coster-girl, coster-song, etc. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 35/2 (heading) The Education of the ‘Coster-Lads’. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 43/1 The story of one coster girl's life. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. vi. 164 Laying down the law to a group of coster-boys. 1887 Times 3 Dec. 12/3 He and his brethren of the coster fraternity had been driven from pillar to post. 1892 Graphic 21 May Long before the days of Mr. Chevalier and his excellent songs, there was a coster-ditty, which [etc.] 1920 Harper's Mag. Mar. 471/2 How about that little coster song out of ‘Pippa Passes’? 1970 Winnipeg Free Press 28 Mar. (New Leisure section) 6/3 To protect themselves from interlopers, the costers elected a ‘king’—the Coster King he was called—to lay down the law with his coster followers. 2005 C. Clark Great Stink xvi. 181 A dark-faced coster-boy staggered down the stairs, a bloodied bulldog in his arms. < as lemmas |
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