单词 | dog's-meat shop |
释义 | > as lemmasdog's-meat shop C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as dog's-meat barrow, dog's-meat seller, dog's-meat shop, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1820 Kirby's Wonderful & Eccentric Museum 5 302 If a hare, he would carry it to a dogs' meat-seller, and haggle for half a sheep's head or a pig's face. 1837 C. Dickens Mudfog & Other Sketches in Sketches by Boz (1957) 641 The dog's-meat barrows of London. 1853 G. A. Sala Househ. Words 12 Mar. 28/2 One nearly falls over a dog's-meat cart, so absorbed is he in his correspondence. 1876 J. Greenwood Low-life Deeps 15 The brisk trade driven at the various dog's-meat shops. 1932 C. Oman Major Grant xii. 214 Lively trades carried on by body-snatchers and dogs' meat vendors. < as lemmas |
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