英语词汇“fawney-dropping”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fawney-dropper, fawney-dropping; fawney-bouncing n. selling rings for a pretended wager. fawney-bouncer n. fawney-rig n. (see quot.).

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1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 166 The Fawney rig.

1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Fawney rig, a common fraud thus practised:—a fellow drops a brass ring, double gilt, which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated, and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed, and ten times more than its real, value.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 351/2 I do a little in the Fawney dropping line.

1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 39 Fawney droppers gammon the flats and take the yokels in.

单词	fawney-dropping
释义	> as lemmas fawney-dropping fawney-dropper, fawney-dropping; fawney-bouncing n. selling rings for a pretended wager. fawney-bouncer n. fawney-rig n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 166 The Fawney rig. 1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Fawney rig, a common fraud thus practised:—a fellow drops a brass ring, double gilt, which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated, and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed, and ten times more than its real, value. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 351/2 I do a little in the Fawney dropping line. 1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 39 Fawney droppers gammon the flats and take the yokels in. extracted from fawneyn. < as lemmas
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