| 单词 | silver squinsy |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilver squinsy ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > feigning sickness for a bribe silverya1387 silver sickness1548 silver squinsy1611 silver quinsy1706 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Argentangine, the siluer Squinzie, a disease wherwith many besides Demosthenes..haue beene troubled. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1278 The silver-squincy, when a pleader being bribed by the other side, feigns himself sick, and not able to speak. silver squinsy silver squinsy (fig.): see silver n. and adj. Compounds 2.extracted from squinsyn.< as lemmas |
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