单词 | newgate bird |
释义 | > as lemmasNewgate bird ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > one who has been long or often in jail Newgate bird1580 bridewell bird1590 jail-bird1603 prison-birda1640 old hand1826 repeater1873 old lag1910 loser1912 in-and-out boy1937 1580 A. Munday Paine of Pleasure f. 21v The Cownter is a cruell Cage, but ware a Newgate Birde. 1607 T. Dekker & G. Wilkins Iests to make you Merie sig. H1v Our Newgate-Bird..spreading his Dragon-like wings..beheld a thousand Synnes. 1757 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IX. 233 What are they who steer by this rule better than a company of Newgate-birds? 1800 J. Wolcot Horrors Bribery 6 ‘A Newgate bird liv'th there,’ the voakes will cry..‘A jailbird!’ 1899 W. Besant Orange Girl ii. xxvi. 432 A Newgate bird and a bird of the King's Bench. < as lemmas |
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