| 单词 | rotten borough |
| 释义 | borough /burˈə/noun
ORIGIN: OE burg, burh a city, from beorgan, cognate with Ger bergen to protect borough court noun Formerly, an inferior court dealing with minor offences, etc, presided over by local magistrates borˈough-English noun A former custom in some S English boroughs (until 1925), by which estates descended to the youngest son borˈough-monger noun A buyer or seller of the parliamentary seats of boroughs borˈough-reeve noun The chief municipal official in some unincorporated English towns prior to 1835 close or pocket borough A borough, esp before 1832, whose parliamentary representation was in the nomination of some person county borough Until 1974, a borough (by Acts of 1888, 1926, 1958, respectively above 50000, 75000 and 100000 inhabitants) with some of the attributes of a county pocket borough see close borough above. rotten borough One of the boroughs, all abolished in 1832, which still returned members to parliament although the constituency had disappeared rotten1 /rotˈn/adjective
Very much ORIGIN: ON rotinn; cf rot rottˈenly adverb rottˈenness noun rotten apple noun A corrupt person rotten borough noun A borough that still (till 1832) sent members to parliament though it had few or no inhabitants rottˈenstone noun A decomposed silicious limestone that has lost most of its calcareous matter, used for polishing metals transitive verb To polish with rottenstone |
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