单词 | gaberlunzie |
释义 | gaberlunzien. Scottish. 1. An itinerant beggar, a vagrant; (sometimes) spec. a licensed beggar, a beadsman; cf. beadsman n. 2b(b). historical or archaic in later use.figurative in quot. 1856, with memory as a personification. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > licensed beggar gaberlunzie1508 proctor1529 blue coat1583 blue gown1590 badgeman1668 beadsman1793 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 1508 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. i. 61 Andrew Crossar, Convicted..of art and part of the Slaughter of Adam Turnbull of Chalmerlane-Newtoune, and Adam Turnbule, called Gabirlenzeis. 1790 Edinb. Herald 8 Sept. 1/4 The Gaberlunzie tirils my sneck, And shiv'ring tells his waefu' tale. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 266 It just does its office in barking at a Gaberlunzie like me. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. xiii. ii. 320 That gaberlunzie, Memory (whose wallet has so many holes), would step in oftener. 1875 Good Words 16 280/1 Gaberlunzies, with blue coat and tin badge, still wandered from door to door begging. 1907 Gazette (Glenboro, Manitoba) 22 Nov. He..again took to the road, but this time as a mendicant and gaberlunzie. 1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) xiii. 160 Father said dubiously: ‘I thought captains of ships dressed a lot better than that fellow; he looks more like a gaberlunzie to me.’ 1999 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 15 Dec. Coarse wheaten bread adds a touch of texture and makes a dish fit for the highest laird or lowest ‘gaberlunzie’. ΚΠ ?a1700 in A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1724) 160 To follow me frae Town to Town, And carry the Gaberlunzie on. Compounds C1. Appositive, as gaberlunzie beggar, gaberlunzie fiddler, etc.Recorded earliest in gaberlunzie man n. at Compounds 2.figurative in quot. 1830, with winter as a personification. ΚΠ 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. xii. 301 There was never sic a braw propine as this sent..through the hands of a gaberlunzie beggar. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 222 An auld gaberlunzie fiddler. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. ii. 8 The gaberloony winter arose from the chumly-lug and hirpled o'er the hill. 1840 New Monthly Mag. Sept. 50 A begging marchioness!—a gaberlunzie woman having all the glories of the Herald's College emblazoned on the panels of her carriage! 1914 G. W. Edwards Forest of Arden 183 This old gaberlunzie beggar woman was other than she seemed. 1959 F. Yerby Jarrett's Jade iv. 46 To sit us up upon those high stools before all the Kirk, clad in those horrible blue gowns like gaberlunzie beggars, while the Minister preaches to the congregation about our sins! C2. gaberlunzie man n. historical or archaic in later use an itinerant beggar; = sense 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 1649 in M. V. Hay Blairs Papers (1929) 56 Our Procurator..hes quytte forgotten his resolution to become a gaberlungyman. ?a1700 in A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1724) 160 Sic a poor Man she'd never trow, After the Gaberlunzie-man. 1845 J. G. Whittier Stranger in Lowell vii. 68 We used to see one or more of these ‘gaberlunzie men’, pack on shoulder and staff in hand. 1937 W. Hutcheson Chota Chants 4 A gey auld gaberlunzie man, Sair pauchled wi' muckle toil. 2014 F. Ritchie et al. Wayfaring Strangers 22/1 In disguise among the peasantry, he..passed himself off as a ‘gaberlunzie man’, or wandering minstrel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1508 |
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