单词 | dungeoner |
释义 | † dungeonern. Obsolete (chiefly literary and poetic). A person who imprisons another in a dungeon. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > jailer jailerc1290 prisonera1325 officer?1387 claviculer1447 javeler?c1450 key turner1606 baston1607 twistkey1617 prison keeper1623 detainer1647 prison officer1649 turnkey1655 imprisoner1656 phylacist1656 cipier1671 wardsman1683 goodman1698 prison guard1722 screw1812 dungeoner1817 dubsman1839 cell-keeper1841 prison warder1854 warder1855 dubs1882 twirl1891 hack1914 correction officer1940 1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 20 Dec. 1180 What a dilemma the gaggers and dungeoners would find themselves in then! a1821 J. Keats To Fanny in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 34 That most hateful land, Dungeoner of my friends. 1889 C. L. Hildreth Masque of Death 158 Who dare say to the world's conflicting creeds:..Old dying dungeoners of truth! ye hide The face of God. 1918 Pittsburgh Gaz. Times 10 July 6/6 The walls fell back, and like a spinning dust, My dungeoner went down, as on a Summer gust!—And here I found me—free. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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