| 单词 | down-and-outer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˌdown-and-ˈouter ˌdown-and-ˈouter n. a person who has been reduced to destitution or vagrancy. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > very poor person armeOE goodlessa1350 pauper1516 bankrupt?1563 gnaw-bone1607 gnaw-crust1611 have-nothing1755 bone-grubber1817 bone-picker1825 lack-all1850 destitute1863 stiff1899 down and out1901 down-and-outer1906 1906 Up-to-the-Times Nov. 30/1 You have no difficulty in recognizing a Down-and-Outer wherever he may be. He has a hangdog, dejected, beaten and buffeted appearance. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 2 Apr. 27/2 Two down and outers, looking for some rich people to marry, find each other. 1989 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 25 Nov. Richards' characters are usually what are often called—delicately, in quotation marks—ordinary, working-class people or, worse, down-and-outers. 2016 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 14 Apr. 22 The Coast's down-and-outers were no longer old but jobless, disillusioned teenagers. < as lemmas |
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