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单词 artful dodger
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Artful Dodger
Artful Dodger n. (also with lower-case initials) [ < Artful Dodger, the nickname of John Dawkins, a young pickpocket in Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838)] (a) allusive a (young) thief or pickpocket; a delinquent; cf. Fagin n.; (b) [rhyming slang] = lodger n. 1c (rare).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in another's house > lodger
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1839 Times 22 Feb. 7/2 The ‘Fagins and Artful Dodgers’ of Field-lane.
1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 1 Artful dodger, lodger.
1931 Evening Standard 19 Aug. 10/1 He came home and he found the artful dodger elephant trunk in the bread and butter (He found the lodger drunk in the gutter).
1965 Listener 26 Aug. 292/2 The young unemployed.., the bastards.., the artful dodgers..thus have 500 Fagins to instruct them in everything from petty thievery to drug addiction.
2006 New Yorker 27 Mar. 91/3 Steve is the real thing—an Artful Dodger, bent on adult crime, who takes his first gulp of mortal peril and cries like a child.
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