| 单词 | hedge-player | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashedge-player  a.   Born, brought up, habitually sleeping, sheltering, or plying their trade under hedges, or by the road-side (and hence used generally as an attribute expressing contempt), as  hedge-bantling,  hedge-brat,  hedge-chaplain,  hedge-curate,  hedge-doctor,  hedge-lawyer,  hedge-parson,  hedge-player,  hedge-poet,  hedge-wench,  hedge-whore, etc. Also hedge-priest n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > 			[adjective]		 > dwelling under hedges or by roadside hedgec1530 c1530    Jyl of Breyntford's Test. 331  				A hedge Curat, with as moche wit as a calf. 1551    J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxvijv  				They..contynued vndre the slendre name of secular prestes or hedge chaplaines. 1582    R. Stanyhurst tr.  Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis  iv. 75  				A runnagat hedgebrat. 1590    R. Wilson Three Lordes & Three Ladies London sig. D3v  				This blindfold buzzardly hedge-wench. 1652    R. Brome Joviall Crew  v. sig. M4  				Hedge-birds said you? Hedge Lady-birds, Hedge Cavaliers, Hedge Souldier, Hedge Lawyer, Hedge Fidlers, Hedge Poet, Hedge Players, and a Hedge Priest among 'em. 1656    tr.  J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lxxxvi. §804  				Hee doth not rashly venture upon the cure, (as Quacksalvers, and Hedg-doctors, are wont). 1711    J. Swift Remarks upon Let. to 7 Lds. 20  				These Hedge-Writers (a Phrase I unwillingly lend him, because it cost me some Pains to invent) seldom speak a Word against any of the late Mi——y. 1738    R. Thyer Let. 11 Mar. in  Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains 		(1856)	 II.  i. 198  				I find your curiosity tempted into a hedge bookseller's in some bye-lane. 1751    T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xcv. 23  				This hedge-inamorata. 1815    W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 162  				She ran out into such a horrid description of a hedge-ruffian. 1822    W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. vi. 134  				A hedge-parson, or buckle-beggar, as that order of priesthood has been irreverently termed. 1855    E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xv. 183  				Not hedge-lawyers, as Captain Lennox used to call those men in his company who questioned and would know the reason for every order. < as lemmas  | 
	
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