speakeasyn.

/ˈspiːkiːzi/

Forms: Also speak-easy.

Etymology: < speak v. + easy adv.

slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).

A shop or bar where alcoholic liquor is sold illegally. Also attributive.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house

shebeenc1787

joint1821

kiddleywink1830

blind tiger1857

shanty1862

dive1871

blind-pig1887

speakeasy1889

shebeen1900

booze can1905

speak1930

speako1931

nip joint1936

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling liquor > unlicensed > specific illicit or illegal

poteen shop1834

blind-pig1887

hole in the wall1887

speakeasy1889

1889 Voice (N.Y.) 14 Nov. Hundreds of unlicensed dealers in both cities continued to run under the names of ‘clubs’ and ‘speak-easies’.

1895 L. Pendleton Corona of Nantahalas iv. 45 A sort of rural ‘speak easy’, where the colourless liquid was poured into the purchasers' bottles from a new and innocent-looking kerosene can.

1903 A. H. Lewis Boss xiii. 162 That..no side-doors or speak~easy racket [should be] stood for.

1908 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. Nov. 23 Twenty-four dry counties..in which the law was poorly enforced, with the ‘speak-easy’ and the ‘C.O.D.’ business everywhere.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 405 In the speakeasy. Tight. I shee you, shir.

1930 Punch 12 Feb. 172 Before we had been introduced to any ‘speak-easy’, that is, before we had been a couple of hours in New York.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues i. 3 Earned my Ph.D. in more creep joints and speakeasies and dancehalls than the law allows.

1958 S. Traill in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz vi. 75 Every cheap speakeasy had its resident piano player.

1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio vii. 138 Inevitably some of these underground caves became ‘speak-easy’ dens where the local black-marketeers sold vino to the troops.

1968 N.Y. City (Michelin Tire Corp.) 32 The area later became famous as the ‘speakeasy belt’ during the Prohibition era.

1982 Age (Melbourne) 3 Feb. 6/6 Unable to find a respectable job, she first became a bootlegger during the Prohibition era and ran a speakeasy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	speakeasy
释义	speakeasyn. /ˈspiːkiːzi/ Forms: Also speak-easy. Etymology: < speak v. + easy adv. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A shop or bar where alcoholic liquor is sold illegally. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house shebeenc1787 joint1821 kiddleywink1830 blind tiger1857 shanty1862 dive1871 blind-pig1887 speakeasy1889 shebeen1900 booze can1905 speak1930 speako1931 nip joint1936 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling liquor > unlicensed > specific illicit or illegal poteen shop1834 blind-pig1887 hole in the wall1887 speakeasy1889 1889 Voice (N.Y.) 14 Nov. Hundreds of unlicensed dealers in both cities continued to run under the names of ‘clubs’ and ‘speak-easies’. 1895 L. Pendleton Corona of Nantahalas iv. 45 A sort of rural ‘speak easy’, where the colourless liquid was poured into the purchasers' bottles from a new and innocent-looking kerosene can. 1903 A. H. Lewis Boss xiii. 162 That..no side-doors or speak~easy racket [should be] stood for. 1908 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. Nov. 23 Twenty-four dry counties..in which the law was poorly enforced, with the ‘speak-easy’ and the ‘C.O.D.’ business everywhere. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 405 In the speakeasy. Tight. I shee you, shir. 1930 Punch 12 Feb. 172 Before we had been introduced to any ‘speak-easy’, that is, before we had been a couple of hours in New York. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues i. 3 Earned my Ph.D. in more creep joints and speakeasies and dancehalls than the law allows. 1958 S. Traill in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz vi. 75 Every cheap speakeasy had its resident piano player. 1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio vii. 138 Inevitably some of these underground caves became ‘speak-easy’ dens where the local black-marketeers sold vino to the troops. 1968 N.Y. City (Michelin Tire Corp.) 32 The area later became famous as the ‘speakeasy belt’ during the Prohibition era. 1982 Age (Melbourne) 3 Feb. 6/6 Unable to find a respectable job, she first became a bootlegger during the Prohibition era and ran a speakeasy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1889
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