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单词 newgate bird
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Newgate bird
Newgate bird n. slang Obsolete a jailbird.
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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.
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