单词 | butter badger |
释义 | > as lemmasbutter badger butter badger n. [ < butter n.1 + badger n.1] originally English regional and Irish English (northern) an itinerant trader who buys butter from farmers to sell wholesale.Now only in historical contexts.In quot. 1739 as the name of a racehorse. ΚΠ 1739 in J. Cheny Hist. List Horse-matches Run 17 Butter-Badger.] 1839 Penny Mag. 15 June 228/1 A butter-badger is still an essential personage in every little isolated community. He is a person who collects butter from house to house weekly. 1857 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 355/2 His father was at one time a butter-badger. 1999 V. León Uppity Women of Renaissance 100 Being a wholesaler was no holiday. Edith was only street-legal for a year—after which, she had to apply and pay again to be a bloomin' butter Badger. < as lemmas |
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