单词 | leopard-man |
释义 | > as lemmasleopard-man leopard-man n. one who has charge of a leopard; a member of a leopard society (see below). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or breeding other animals > [noun] > keeper or tamer of wild beasts bearward1179 leopard-man1390 masterc1425 bear-leader1503 bearherd1590 bear warden1740 lion-tamer1798 lion-keepera1843 society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [noun] > other secret societies > member of Ribbonman1813 Ribandman1817 ribandist1824 apostle1829 Molly Maguire1844 Molly Maguireite1853 Camorrist1863 mafioso1875 Black Hander1905 Molly1917 leopard-man1929 Mafiaist1948 mafiosa1965 1390–1 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 257 Item pro lecto, vino, candelis et pro aliis expensis, per le libardman ibidem, j scut. 1929 F. W. Butt-Thompson W. Afr. Secret Soc. xiv. 283 Tongo-players, the Sierra Leonean society..said to have been started about the Eighties..as an organisation of leopard-men hunters. 1936 G. Griffin tr. Schebesta My Pygmy & Negro Hosts iv. 67 I think that I have been the first to obtain any detailed information about these ‘Anyoto’—the dreadful ‘leopard-men’. 1973 G. Gale in Johnson & Gale Highland Jaunt ii. iv. 143 He now was happy..telling the bar about the Leopard Men in West Africa. < as lemmas |
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