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单词 badgeman
释义

badgemann.

Brit. /ˈbadʒmən/, U.S. /ˈbædʒmən/
Forms: see badge n. and man n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: badge n., man n.1
Etymology: < badge n. + man n.1
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.
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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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