单词 | hackney job |
释义 | > as lemmashackney job ΚΠ 1711 B. Mandeville Treat. Hypochondriack & Hysterick Passions 151 By Copying, Hackney-Writing, or some other miserable shift. 1762 St James's Mag. Oct. 107 I must serve some hackney job. 1798 Monthly Mag. 5 366/2 He made himself so expert a writer, that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing. 1851 Homœopathic Times 12 July 704/1 He doubled his poor hackney-work in literature for money to take him to Vienna. 1859 Atlantic Monthly June 702/2 His genius was too often degraded to the hackney-tasks of booksellers. 2012 M. N. Powell Performing Authorship Eighteenth-cent. Eng. Periodicals iii. 120 Priscilla's overtly sexual speech represents the prostituted aspects of hackney writing. < as lemmas |
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