| 单词 | blackguard boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblackguard boy 1. Of or relating to vagrants as a class. Frequently in blackguard boy.In quot. 1699 applied to a link-boy (link-boy n.). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > belonging to the streets > children blackguard1691 gamin1837 gamine1903 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World I. v. 101 He lolls upon his arms and t'other, till some unlucky Black-guard Rogue or Apprentice strikes it away. 1699 T. Brown Coll. Misc. Poems, Lett. 99 Her Cupid is a Black-guard Boy, That runs his Link full in your face. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Molesworth p. iv What is written we send to your House by a Black-guard Boy. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 40 Let a Blackguard Boy be always about the House to send on your Errands. 1822 H. Mackenzie Life J. Home 42 Idle and blackguard boys bawl through the streets. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 23 Dec. I saw a little..blackguard boy turning ‘cartwheels’ in front of the Clifton House. 1920 C. O'Riordan Adam of Dublin xxvii. 282 But for the Frenchman, he might, after all, have fallen back into the ranks of little blackguard boys. 2001 J. M. Beattie Policing & Punishm. in London ii. vii. 327 Magistrates needed additional powers, so that after examining men who lived on pilfering and begging they could send them to the army, and send women and ‘black guard’ boys to the plantations. < as lemmas |
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