单词 | proddy dog |
释义 | > as lemmasProddy Dog Proddy Dog n. [ < Proddy adj. and n. + dog n.1 (opposed to Cat: Catholic)] = sense B. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > [noun] > person evangelical1532 gospeller1533 Protestant?1551 tropist1561 proculstant1589 tropic1607 evangelic1620 religionary1622 reformed1679 Prot1725 Prod1837 gospellist1845 right-footer1929 left-footer1933 Christian1951 Proddy Dog1954 Proddy-hopper1958 Proddy-woddy1959 Proddy1963 1954Proddy Dog [see sense A.]. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvi. 344 In Staines..R.C. children call the Protestants ‘Old Proddy Dogs’... They still call them ‘Proddy Dogs’ at Ilford. 1968 T. Parker People of Streets 60 We always divided up into the same two sides, The Cats and The Proddy Dogs. 1987 R. Davies Enthusiasms (1991) 116 That meant being an outsider in English lower-class life, doomed to inferior education by priests..and at a grave social disadvantage among the ‘proddy dogs’. < as lemmas |
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