| 单词 | back alley |
| 释义 | > as lemmasback alley c. often with that of ‘inferior, mean, obscure,’ as in back alley, back lane, back road, back slum, back street.In this sense formerly compared backer adj., backermost adj., backmost adj. Only the last is now in ordinary use. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective] salec1299 bastarda1348 sorry1372 slight1393 shrewd1426 singlec1449 backc1450 soberc1450 lesser1464 silly?a1500 starven1546 mockado1577 subaltern1578 bastardly1583 wooden1592 starved1604 perishing1605 starveling1611 minor1612 starvy1647 potsherd1655 low1727 la-la1800 waif1824 lathen1843 one-eyed1843 snide1859 bobbery1873 jerkwater1877 low-grade1878 shoddy1882 tinhorn1886 jerk1893 cheapie1898 shaganappi1900 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1907 pissy1922 crappy1928 cruddy1935 el cheapo1967 pound shop1989 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > back street back streetc1450 back-double1932 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > inferior, unsightly, or disreputable part backc1450 blighted1938 skid row1948 sink1967 c1450 in Middle Eng. Dict. Backe strete. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 27 Socrates mette full butte with Xenophon, in a narrowe backe lane, where he could not stert from hym. 1612 L. Bayly Practise of Pietie (ed. 2) 292 Send some part of thy dinner to the poore, who lies sicke in the backe-lane without any foode. 1638 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1878) III. 6 One acre and haulfe..butting south west upon the back streete. 1708 Boston News-let. 22 Mar. 2/2 There is a..dwelling house to be lett in the back-street. 1764 J. Kirby Suffolk Traveller (ed. 2) 280 The Back-Road from Woodbridge to Blithborough by Snape Bridge. 1842 Times 12 Sept. 6/2 The city police..desert the back lanes. 1847 F. A. Kemble Let. 16 Dec. in Rec. Later Life (1882) III. 317 Walking up a small back street..I saw a little child..standing at a poor mean kind of pastry-cook's window. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 26 May 157/1 A back street in the neighbourhood of Walworth. 1865 Athenæum 28 Jan. 124/1 Imprisoned in the back slums of Westminster. 1865 H. B. Stowe House & Home Papers ii. 22 A little dingy den, with a window looking out on a back-alley. 1887 Cent. Mag. July 331 The road is what is called a ‘back road’, and leads through woods most of the way. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson xvii. 223 He said they were back-alley barbers disguised as nobilities. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 9/3 It was indeed remarkable what a knowledge these back-street children had of flowers. 1920 W. Stevens Let. 2 Dec. (1967) 220 The bouquet in this month's Poetry will drive me to back alleys. 1934 E. Blunden Mind's Eye iii. 167 A back-alley cinema. 1957 J. L. Hodson in ‘C. H. Rolph’ Human Sum x. 192 The woman..who goes to the back~street abortionist. < as lemmas |
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