| 单词 | penny gaff |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny gaff penny gaff n. [ < penny n. + gaff n.4] a place of public entertainment, esp. a cheap music hall or theatre. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 40/1 There are shops which have been turned into a kind of temporary theatre (admission one penny)... These places are called by the costers ‘Penny Gaffs’. 1866 Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 2/4 She wished to go into the penny gaff a second time, and said she had no money. 1997 P. Carey Jack Maggs (1998) iii. 9 He had been well known around the tap rooms and penny gaffs of Limehouse, as a seller of fried fish. < as lemmas |
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