| 单词 | gaberlunzie beggar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgaberlunzie beggar 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! < as lemmas |
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