| 单词 | bum-shaver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbum-shaver bum-shaver n. slang (now rare) a short jacket, coat, etc.; cf. bum-freezer n., bum-perisher n., bum-starver n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > short roundabout1812 spencer1831 Eton jacket1850 Eton1885 bum-perisher1889 bum-shaver1889 perisher1889 bolero1892 bum-freezer1929 bum-starver1930 bum-freezer jacket1943 blouson1958 monkey jacket1968 Harrington1982 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. (at cited word) Bum perisher, or shaver, a short-tailed coat. 1936 E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia 121 A gloomy, uniform row in white bum-shavers. 1965 A. Wall Long & Happy iv. 48 It would not be proper for me to take the boys to church in a ‘bum-shaver’, now more politely called a ‘sports jacket’. < as lemmas |
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