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单词 kreeker
释义

kreekern.

Forms: Also kreekar, kreker.
Etymology: Origin obscure: perhaps, as stated in quots., for craker , < crake n., crack v., to boast.
Obsolete.
(See quots.)
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > type of soldier generally > [noun] > boastful
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miles gloriosusa1576
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxixv Sir Ihon Walop..had..a M. proper men and hardy..whiche liued alonely on their auenture, wherfore of some they were called aduenturers, of some they were called kreekars.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxvij The Frenchmen knewe well their hardines, but yet thei called theim Crakers, whiche by missoundyng, was commonly called Krekers.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxlv All the men of warre..wer called home, and the shippes brought into the hauens, and many a Kreker wist not how to lyue.
1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Crakers were a certain choice number of daring English Souldiers, we had in France in the time of H. 8. by some called Kreekers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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