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单词 free-booty
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free-bootyn.

Brit. /ˈfriːˌbuːti/, U.S. /ˈfriˌbudi/
Forms: see free adj., n., and adv. and booty n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: free adj., booty n.1
Etymology: < free adj. + booty n.1, after freebooter n. Compare earlier free-boot n. and the Germanic forms cited at that entry.
Now rare.
1. Plunder or spoil (to be) taken by or with the threat of force. Also in extended use.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder > taken in war or raid
here-fengc1275
preya1325
wainc1330
spoila1340
ravinc1350
spoila1382
pillagea1393
forayc1425
booty1474
trophya1522
prize1522
sackage1609
boot-haling1622
free-booty1623
plunder1647
capture1706
loot1839
sack1859
1623 Bp. J. Hall Best Bargaine 7 If any vsurping spirit of error shall haue made a free-bootie of Truth.
1684 T. Otway Atheist v. 55 Wit, Courage, Martial Discipline, Interest at Court, Pretence to Preferment, Free Quarters in my Lodgings, and Free Booty in every Cuckold's Shop.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. i. 193 Whose Property is considered as Free-Booty by all his poor Neighbours. View more context for this quotation
1792 Let. Farmers & Manufacturers Great Brit. & Ireland 12 It is not freedom, but free quarter and free booty that they seek.
1830 Times 4 June 2/5 This would be making church property free booty indeed.
1922 Yale Law Jrnl. 31 306 The statutory provisions referred to were never meant to make the goods ‘free booty’ for the rest of the world.
1995 D. A. Hackett tr. Buchenwald Rep. ii. iii. 150 In the parcel post office, packages for prisoners were considered free booty for the SS robbers.
2. The taking of booty, plundering. Also: the practice of freebooters; piracy.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > brigandage or freebooting > [noun]
trailbaston1304
brigantaille1393
latrocinyc1430
brigancy1513
free-boot1598
freebootinga1599
brigandize1609
latronage1619
free-booty1649
moss-trooping1649
buccaneering1758
dacoiting1802
gang robbery1812
dacoity1813
free-bootery1813
brigandage1823
bush-ranging1832
mosstroopery1845
filibustering1856
klephtism1858
robberhood1863
brigandism1865
Vikingism1880
bushwhackerism1883
Vikingship1883
banditism1885
dacoitage1887
brigandry1909
banditry1922
1649 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 26 To goe to sea as a man of war upon free bootie.
1683 E. Chamberlayne Present State Eng. xix. 87 The Piratical Trade is thus, 2 or more set out a Vessel of Prizage, or Free booty to Prey upon Merchants Ships.
1790 Times 17 Dec. 3/6 The following instance of disinterested free booty happened at Yarmouth last week.
1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Death Wallenstein ii. viii. 97 Tertsky here has given The mother's holiday wine up to free booty.
1896 Harper's Mag. Aug. 454/2 The exhilaration which this act of tether and freebooty caused the General was only tempered by his disappointment in that they [sc. the captives] were not at least a little roasted or bled.
1962 Geogr. Rev. 52 56 It attracted a large number of ‘war boys’, free-lance soldiers who found the free-booty life of the period much to their liking.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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