单词 | mock-beggar hall |
释义 | > as lemmasMock-Beggar Hall 1. British colloquial. Something which serves to disappoint the hopes of beggars. Chiefly attributive and in the genitive: designating a house that has an appearance of wealth but is either deserted or has poor or miserly inhabitants; esp. in Mock-Beggar Hall.Also occurring in English place names (see etymological note above): in quot. 1835 at mock adj. 1c apparently a place in Sussex. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > instance of showa1500 making-upa1525 shine?1529 face1542 varnish1565 copy of one's countenance1579 false1598 mock-beggar1603 mockerya1616 umbrage1634 simulacrum1833 phoney war1939 1603 N. Breton Merrie Dialogue 5 This is a banquetting house, where the gazers are onely fed with conceipts, for there is not a chimney that smokes, nor a doore open, it is called Mock-begger, ha, ha, ha. 1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 52 A Gentleman without meanes, is like a faire house without furniture, or any inhabitant,..whose rearing was chargeable to the owner, and painfull to the builder, and all ill-bestowed, to make a mock-begger, that hath no good morrowe for his next neighbour. 1622 J. Taylor Water-cormorant C 2 b The poore receiue their answer from the Dawes, Who in their caaing language call it plaine Mockbegger Manour, for they came in vaine. a1648 Roxburghe Ballads (1847) 49 (title) Mock-Begger's Hall. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Mock-Beggar-Hall, a house with an inviting external aspect, but within poor and bare, dirty, and disorderly, and disappointing those who beg alms at the door. 1835 T. W. Horsfield Hist. County Sussex I. 136 Some old buildings in a place called the Mock-beggars. 1840 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 338 Both places..bear the name of Mock-Beggar's Hall. The one is an insulated rock near Bakewell..presenting from the road the semblance of a house... The other is a Tudor..mansion in the parish of Claydon..which..remained so long unoccupied as to be the cause of numerous disappointments to those travellers who had never been taken in before. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Mock-Beggar-Hall: a house which has an inviting external aspect, but within is poor and bare, dirty and disappointing. 1991 What's Brewing (BNC) Oct. 8 He gets his Fuggles from a leading grower named Tony Redsell at the splendidly-named Mockbeggar Farm near Faversham. < as lemmas |
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