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单词 hackney job
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hackney job
b. attributive, with the sense ‘that is produced or performed by a hackney’ (see sense A. 2), as hackney job, hackney writing, etc.
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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.
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