单词 | penny paper |
释义 | > as lemmaspenny paper penny paper n. ΚΠ 1623 N. Rich Proposition conc. Tobacco Mar. in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1935) IV. 27 Wch Retayler shall sell it [sc. tobacco] to the Alehousekeep in penny papers thirteen to the dozen. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 124. ¶2 Many a bulky Author would make his Appearance in a Penny Paper. 1839 C. F. Briggs Adventures Harry Franco II. i. 2 Three or four cartmen, in dirty frocks, were seated on their cart tails, each of them studying a penny paper, apparently with the most intense curiosity. 1943 Amer. Speech 18 206 (note) The ‘penny-papers,’ the Daily News and Daily mirror use Yugos as a noun abundantly. 2000 N.Y. Press 29 Mar. i. 7/3 The Murdoch press, genuflecting to the accuracy the 19th-century New York penny papers reserved for Irish immigrants, has portrayed the..gypsies as..‘aggressive beggars’. < as lemmas |
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