单词 | mobber |
释义 | mobbern. 1. A member of a mob; a person or (occasionally) an animal that engages in mobbing. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > one who creates a disturbance or rioter hurlerc1440 sturblerc1440 perturbera1450 riotora1450 frayera1513 peace-breaker?1533 perturbatora1538 interturber1538 rioter1543 router1584 break-peace1593 roarer1622 uproarer1629 mobber1744 riotist1831 1744 G. Whitefield Brief Acct. Late Tryal 7 His Majesty had no where put the Reins of Government into the Hands of Mobbers. 1745 J. Byrom Jrnl. 9 Dec. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1857) II. ii. 398 He orders no two persons be seen walking together..on pain of being deemed mobbers and rioters. 1854 G. D. Watt in B. Young et al. Jrnl. Discourses I. 83/2 I saw two ruffians, whom I knew to be mobbers and murderers. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 599 That sparrow..disappeared in a panic, and the whole party of mobbers with him. 1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 82/2 Rapidly the news spread of the clash and the number of mobbers grew hourly. 1977 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 8 7 Alarm calls may be effective in alerting a mate against going to the nest, in attracting potential mobbers to the parasite [etc.]. 1998 R. Price Freedomland iii. xxvi. 445 Watching as a few dozen mobbers marched off,..Jesse wondered if they knew where they were going. ΘΚΠ 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 1892 E. L. Wakeman in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 6 Oct. Those who remove the fish to the stallmens' wagons, or the costers' carts, who are called ‘mobbers’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1744 |
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