| 单词 | peep o' day boys |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPeep o' Day Boys 1. Of, relating to, or designating a Protestant organization active in the north of Ireland c1784–95, whose members clashed with Roman Catholic Defenders (see defender n. 5). Esp. in Peep o' Day Boys. Now historical.The name supposedly arose from their practice of breaking into the houses of their Roman Catholic opponents at daybreak in search of arms. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > other specific associations or organizations Tityre-tu1623 Peep o' Day Boys1780 law society1821 kongsi1839 B'nai B'rith1862 Molly Maguire1867 Kennel Club1874 Ethical Society1877 Kyrle Society1877 Molly1877 Sierra Club1891 subak1897 Workers' Educational Association1905 senior1906 W.E.A.1910 Lions Club1922 godless1927 F.P.A.a1940 Diners' Club1950 amnesty1961 Sealed Knot1971 Greenpeace1972 lions1972 Gaysoc1976 Group of Eight1977 Group of Seven1977 meeja1983 G71986 G81988 society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations levellers1762 Hearts of Steel1771 Peep o' Day Boys1780 Rightboys1786 Brunswick Club1828 Orange Order1828 Young Ireland1843 Land league1881 U.I.L.1901 Noraid1974 U.U.U.C.1974 INLA1979 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland ii. vi. 30 In England we have heard much of whiteboys, steelboys, oakboys, peep-of-day-boys, &c... All but the whiteboys were among the manufacturing protestants in the north. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon Concl. 468 The insurgent banditti of Tories, Hearts of Steel, Peep-o'day Boys, White Boys, &c. 1845 S. Smith Fragm. Irish Rom. Catholic Church in Wks. (1859) II. 340/2 A peep-of-day clergyman will no longer preach to a peep-of-day congregation. 1890 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. VII. xxvi. 20 A corps of volunteers which had been originally raised on Peep of Day principles. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 43 Raw facebones under his peep of day boy's hat. 1996 Sunday Tel. 4 Feb. 31/7 Their ancestors served in informal anti-Catholic militias like the Peep o' Day boys. < as lemmas |
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