单词 | whip-jack |
释义 | † whip-jackn. Obsolete. a. A vagabond or beggar who pretends to be a distressed sailor. Also gen. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > who pretends to be a sailor whip-jacka1556 turnpike sailor1839 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > pretending to be a sailor whip-jacka1556 a1556 Ponet in Maitland's Ess. Ref. (1849) 74 One Boner (a bare whippe Iacke) for lucre of money toke vpon him to be thy father. 1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. A2 A Whypiacke is one, that by coulor of a counterfaite Lisence..doth vse to beg lyke a Maryner. 1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. D2v Another sort of..knaues..are called Whipiacks: who talke of nothing but fights at Sea, piracies, drownings and shipwracks. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxv. 142 Sir Charles Grandison is none of your gew-gaw whip-jacks. 1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 320 ‘And a rum'un he be,’..returned the Whip Jack, or sham sailor.] b. Humorously applied to a book in blue binding.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1624 R. Montagu in J. Cosin Corr. 12 Dec. (1869) I. xxi. 33 He also sent me a little whipjack in a blew jackett, caled A Gagg for the newe Gospell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1556 |
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