单词 | brotheller |
释义 | brothellerbrothelern. Now rare. A man who frequently or habitually visits brothels to engage in sexual activity with prostitutes (now archaic or historical). Also: (in early use) a person who procures or lives on the earnings of prostitutes; (now) a brothel keeper.The exact sense of quot. 1498 is uncertain: it could be interpreted as showing either of the senses defined here, or as a transmission error for the word brothel. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes > frequenting brothels > one who brotheller1498 brothel-monger1566 1498 Interpr. Names Goddis & Goddesses (de Worde) sig. Avi/1 Bolde blasphemers wyth false ypocrytes Brothellers [c1500 Trin. Cambr. R.3.19 Brothelles] brokers abhomynable swerers. 1583 A. Marten tr. P. M. Vermigli Common Places ii. xi. 472/2 They count them therefore in a maner for bond-women, and of them they make gaine: so as in a maner they are brothelers or bawds. 1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one ii. sig. B4 What tho hee bee a Brotheller, a wast-thrift. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 751 What need of these For Gamesters, Jockeys, Brothellers impure. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes Theol., Polit., & Misc. (1853) 214 The Presbyterians, who furthermore brought back the perjured popish Brotheller without conditions. 1955 ‘C. H. Rolph’ Women of Streets v. 68 Someone referred to a woman as a ‘brotheller’. Mary said, ‘Oh, she's not too bad, but I'll tell you who's a brotheller. That Betty. She's a regular brotheller.’ meaning explained as brothel keeper, but esp. a bad one. 1996 P. West Sporting with Amaryllis 24 The bumptious brothelers of Christ's College sneered at him [sc. John Milton] as The Lady. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1498 |
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