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单词 market beater
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market beater
market beater n. Obsolete a person who loiters around a market, a vagrant (probably with implication of quarrelsomeness); cf. to beat the streets at beat v.1 3a.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > in specific place
market beaterc1405
market dasher1440
market runner?c1475
benchera1533
bench-whistler1542
bench-babbler1549
Paul's man1616
Paul's-walker1658
benchwarmer1662
round-towner1775
wharf-rat1823
boulevardier1879
sidewalk superintendent1879
bar-loafer1889
stoepsitter1934
beach bum1962
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 16 He was a Market beter atte fulle.
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 242 Þouȝ he be a market betere.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 79v A Merkett better, circumforanus.
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