| 单词 | rickshaw-wallah |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrickshaw-wallah a. As the second element in compounds: a person who is connected or associated with the object, activity, business, etc., indicated by the first element (chiefly with reference to occupations or employment); esp. a person who sells or supplies a specified commodity or provides a specified service, as in rickshaw-wallah, tiffin-wallah, etc.box wallah, punkah-wallah, taxi wallah, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies x. 251 Each hackrey too has its driver..who takes care of the oxen, and is called the hackrey-wallah. 1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 20/2 There was a shoe-wallah and a hat-wallah. 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) xvi. 195 ‘The Inseparables’..came in to superintend his toilet, accompanied by a ready-made clothes wallah and a barber. 1909 A. L. Mumm Five Months in Himalaya xv. 209 One other faithful companion of most of our travels, Seban Sing, usually known, from one of his many functions, as the tiffin-wallah, but best remembered by me as the bringer of the early morning cup of tea. 1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine iii. 144 The rickshaw-wallah ran away with us, his sandals padding. 1955 Times 15 June 3/5 Thousands of the lorries were being worked for 12, 14, 16, and 18 hours a night, with tragic results. The term used on the roads to describe these drivers was ‘night-and-day wallahs’. 2015 V. Khan Unexpected Inheritance Inspector Chopra 131 A handcart-wallah selling lime water rattled by. < as lemmas |
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