单词 | peg-legger |
释义 | peg-leggern. colloquial. A person who has an artificial leg, esp. a wooden one. Also (slang): a beggar. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar beggara1250 bidder1362 mendinantc1395 mendivaunt1395 craver1406 thigger1424 gangrela1450 mendicant1474 mendiant1483 eremite1495 Lazarus?a1513 truandals1523 bellyterc1540 clapperdudgeon1567 beggar-man1608 maunder1609 maunderer1611 Abraham cove1612 eleemosynary1643 mumpera1652 jockey1685 progger1685 asker1708 thigster1710 prog1828 shooler1830 cadger1851 panhandler1893 Weary Willie1896 schlepper1901 plinger1904 peg-legger1915 tapper1930 clochard1940 the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > leg > person having timber-toe1785 peg leg1872 peg-legger1915 1915 Washington Post 22 Aug. 1/5 Mr. Cork..was of the old regime, a peg-legger..who would hold that to make a wooden leg look like a real one is false art. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 615/2 Peg-legger, a beggar... Either rhyming s[lang] or ex the preceding [sc. peg-leg]. 1982 J. West Friendly Persuasion (2003) 76 ‘Well, God kiss me,’ said the peg-legger. He took his pipe from his mouth and elevated his weather-beaten chops as if awaiting the salutation. 2002 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 23 July d1 Thousands of young girls..screamed in delight..as he [sc. Eminem] bounced along like a hopped-up peg-legger. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1915 |
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