| 释义 |
hunterman|ˈhʌntəmən|
[f. hunter + man n.1]
Used widely outside the British Isles as a local term for ‘hunter, huntsman’.
1891‘Mark Twain’ tr. Hoffmann's Slovenly Peter (1935), Behold the dreadful hunterman In all his fateful glory stand. 1907W. Jekyll Jamaican Song & Story 137 Dory Dunn is a hunterman. 1913Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Feb. 184/1 Nearly every village has its professional ‘hunterman’, whose duty it is to kill the larger game which do damage to the crops. 1922H. B. Hermon-Hodge Up against it in Nigeria iv. 55 Huntermen are for the most part undependable. 1930‘Greenhorn’ Tinker, Tailor xi. 272 His hunterman came back to look for him and shot the python. 1933Amer. Speech VIII. i. 50/1 Hunterman, hunter. One often sees this in country newspapers [of Ozarks]. 1954G. Durrell Bafut Beagles vi. 116, I tink dis hunter man be best for all. |