单词 | hog merchant |
释义 | > as lemmashog merchant hog merchant n. ΚΠ 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccclx. 331 Ay, but says the Hog-Merchant, with Damned Oaths and Imprecations, My Hog is Stoll'n in Good Earnest. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. vi. 212 One wou'd have thought, that..I had been the greatest Hog-Merchant in England. View more context for this quotation 1868 Putnam's Mag. Feb. 138/1 A hog-merchant, when he sells enough pork, can put his foot on the neck of a gentleman. 1995 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 Oct. x5 A Spanish importer of cured ham and salted codfish, who boasts of his descent from Francisco Pizarro, the humble hog merchant who conquered the Incas. < as lemmas |
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