单词 | badgeman |
释义 | badgemann. Now chiefly historical. A man who wears a badge by way of accreditation; spec. (a) a licensed beggar, an almsman; (b) (formerly, at Trinity College, Dublin) a servant who ran errands for undergraduates; (c) an authorized or licensed porter. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > licensed beggar gaberlunzie1508 proctor1529 blue coat1583 blue gown1590 badgeman1668 beadsman1793 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of wine-porter1580 street porter1606 tackle-house porter1606 tackle-porter1607 sealed porter1631 ticket-porter1646 tub-woman1660 keep-door1682 Suisse1763 bamboo-coolie1800 hop-porter1812 plyer1826 night porter1841 fellowship1864 hall-porter1883 mobber1892 redcap1903 badgeman1904 bummaree1954 1668 D. Lloyd Memoires 445 His Alms-giving. While he was suffered to enjoy his Estate, he had his Badg-men and Livery at a constant Table, besides what he gave at his Gate, and upon other occasions. 1751 Scribbler iii. 35 Ralph! Did the Badgman bring the Mob and Pinner, I sent him to borrow of Cicily Streightlace? 1791 Advice Univ. Dublin 55 After nightfall, whenever you hear any one call boy from his windows, if no Badgman answers, baul out here. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales iv. 73 With thickset coat of Badge-man's blue. 1824 J. Banim Revelations of Dead-alive xxx. 350 No one..can have been without noticing the horrid conformations acquired by the boots of a huge waggoner or Smithfield badge-man. 1833 Waverley Anecd. I. 180 That very prepossessing and poetical badgeman [sc. Edie Ochiltree]. 1843 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 49 Tip, the little old dwarf badgeman at the gate. 1904 Daily Chron. 30 July 7/7 They deprive the licensed porters, or ‘badge’ men..of work. 1946 C. Maxwell Hist. Trinity College Dublin 137 Having drinking parties in rooms, breaking the furniture, beating the badgemen (menials who ran errands and did various services for the undergraduates). 1947 J. G. Jennings Vedāntic Buddhism of Buddha xxii. 425 These seem to have been badge-men, uniformed guards and messengers enforcing the authority and orders of the Council. 2000 M. Rickards & M. Twyman Encycl. Ephemera 35/1 The wearing of badges was made compulsory for beggars in Elizabethan England, the wearers becoming known as ‘badge men’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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