| 单词 | to do paddy doyle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do Paddy Doyle Paddy Doyle n. Services' slang (confinement in) a cell or detention barracks; esp. in to do Paddy Doyle. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] prisonOE wardc1290 prisoning1344 keepingc1384 imprisonment1389 prisonment1422 jail1447 fasteningc1460 warding1497 firmancea1522 incarcerationc1540 imprisoningc1542 limbo1590 limbus?a1600 endurance1610 jailing1622 restraint1829 carceration1870 holiday1901 Paddy Doyle1919 bird1924 1919 War Slang in Athenæum 8 Aug. 787/2 When doing C.B... he [sc. the soldier] was doing ‘jankers’ or ‘Paddy Doyle’. 1932 E. Weekley Words & Names xii. 174 Doing ‘Paddy Doyle’ as a euphemism for doing ‘time’ in the cells. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 136 Paddy Doyle, a lower-deck term for ‘detention cell’—singular or collective. < as lemmas |
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