| 单词 | browster wife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrowster wife browster wife n. now historical a woman who brews or sells beer; a landlady of a public house or tavern. ΚΠ 1715 A. Pennecuik Curious Coll. Scotish Poems in Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale App. 99 How the Brouster Wife had crav'd him. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 123 Browster wives an' whiskie stills. 1924 J. C. Austin in W. Cumming Swatches o' Hamespun 79 There's Mergit Fyfe, the browster wife, Wha deals in booze an' ballants. 2008 M. Pittock Sc. & Irish Romanticism ii. 48 Pitcairne's Latin elegy on the browster wife who ran the Greppa. < as lemmas |
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