单词 | gold-bricker |
释义 | gold-brickern. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) 1. A swindler, a cheat. Cf. gold brick n. 2. Now rare. ΚΠ 1902 C. L. Cullen More Ex-tank Tales iv. 85 He was the top-notch gold-bricker of his own or any other age. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 113/2 The old West filled up with gangsters, crooks, sharpers, phony dealers, loaded wheel and dice experts, gold brickers from the Eastern underworld. 1934 Proc. 34th National Encampm. Veterans Foreign Wars 1933 80 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (73rd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House Doc. 152) III It is up to us to clean our own house and get rid of the gold-brickers not only in veterans' affairs, but in the Government, gold-brick bankers and..gold-brick politicians. 2. A useless or lazy person; a shirker. Cf. gold brick n. 3.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > one who skulkc1320 loundererc1425 old soldier1722 malingerer1785 skulker1785 shirker1799 shirk1818 slink1824 schemer1843 sconcer1843 scrimshanker1882 scrimshank1886 sooner1892 Weary Willie1896 slacker1898 slackster1901 sugarer1904 work-shy1904 gold brick1905 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 lead-swinger1917 piker1917 gold-bricker1919 slinker1919 poler1938 skiver1941 1919 Everybody's Mag. Nov. 61/3 Just lays there, darned old goldbricker; Lets me wait on him. 1932 Blue Valley Farmer (Oklahoma City) 4 Feb. 8/4 No country worth fighting for was ever built on slacker's devotion or gold-bricker's patriotism. 1944 N. Mailer Let. 30 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (2014) 17 Then there is the goldbricker—the fellow who avoids all work, or when he is caught, tries to get the softest job. 1981 P. Theroux Mosquito Coast (1982) i. i. 7 A policeman had his hands clasped over our parking meter, resting on it, with his chin on his fingers, like a gold bricker leaning on a shovel handle. 2010 D. A. Lanpher Flyin' Chunks & Other Things to Duck iv. 33 Sergeant Domai was convinced that I was a gold bricker, a bug out. He thought I was faking illness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1902 |
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