单词 | buttock and file |
释义 | > as lemmasbuttock and file Criminals' slang. buttock and file: a prostitute who is also a pickpocket; a pimp who robs a prostitute's clients; (also, with the) the action of soliciting with the intention of robbing the client. Cf. sense 5. Now historical. ΚΠ 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 64. 505 Now New-gate is turn'd honest; Not one Prigg goes this bout to Paddington Faire, neither..Buttocks and Foyls, nor any of the sons of Night. 1683 Fifteen Comforts Rash Marriage (ed. 3) vii. 115 He turns Pad, and she Buttock and File, (that is Highway-Man and Pick-Pocket-Whore, in plain, honest English, occording to the Canting of the Roguish Crew). 1734 ‘C. Johnson’ Gen. Hist. Lives Highwaymen 389/2 As she was once going thro' Cheapside, upon the Buttock and File, she pick'd up a Linnen-Draper living in Cornhill. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. v, in Misc. III. 33 The..Capacity which qualifies a Mill-hen [read Mill-ken], a Bridle-cull, or a Buttock and File, to arrive at any Degree of Eminence in his Profession. 1938 H. Foy Newgate's the Fashion in Best One-act Plays 1938 (1939) 199 Page. She can't play you no more dorg's tricks, Jeck. Jack. Still in the jug? Page [nodding]. Nabbling a tattle in Leicester Fields on the buttock-and-file. 2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 20 Apr. (Features section) 75 His path was made doubly slippery by teaming up with one Edgworth Bess, a buttock and file (prostitute and thief), who egged him on to greater villainy. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。