单词 | mozo |
释义 | mozon. 1. Chiefly in Latin America: a male servant or attendant; a groom; a labourer. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > man or boy knightc950 knapec1000 shalkOE knaveOE sergeantc1200 swainc1275 groom1297 garcion13.. ladc1300 harlota1350 serving-mana1400 manservant1409 varlet1483 handman1496 custrelinga1556 Sim Shakebuckler?1560 lackey-boy1575 vadelect1586 muchacho1591 round robin1591 varlettoa1616 vadelet1661 gossoon1684 skip1699 mozo1811 Jack1836 tea-boy1847 John1848 1811 W. Scott Don Roderick xxxiii. 35 When for the light Bolero ready stand The Mozo blithe, with gay Muchacha met. 1834 Let. 15 May in Friend (Philadelphia) (1835) 10 Jan. 106/1 Fires were lighted, and, whilst our mosos were preparing our beds..we endeavoured to get a little higher up. 1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. vii. 48 I at length hired a mozo to proceed with me as far as Durango. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. viii. 107 But Captain Mitchell's right-hand man..after looking down critically at the ragged mozo, shook his head. 1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xli. 495 The mozos had loaded their baggage on to the pack-mules. 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions iii. iii. 819 It turned out that the Señorito had asked the same question, and fled directly he got this same answer, leaving this mozo behind, to chat with her. 1991 Atlantic Apr. 83/1 Carlos was the mozo who came with the house. 2. Bullfighting. A bullfighter's attendant. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun] > bullfighter > assistant or attendant chulo1797 puntillero1851 monosabio1897 capeador1909 mono1924 mozo1926 1926 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 290/2 Bull-fighting requires great courage in the bull-fighters from the espada to the mozo. 1934 H. Baerlein Belmonte the Matador iii. 38 Antonio Conde..undertook the part of mozo which he kept throughout the years. 1963 Parade (Austral.) Dec. 47/1 Meijas had to start at the bottom of the ladder as a ‘mozo’, the attendant who waits on a matador. 1967 J. McCormick & M. S. Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado iv. 146 Mozo(s), the badly paid and often brave ring-attendants who clean up the mess, accompany the picador on foot, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1811 |
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