释义 |
broom-man|ˈbruːmmæn| [f. broom + man.] One who uses a broom; a street-sweeper.
1592Greene Upst. Courtier (1871) 27 Then Conscience was not a broom man in Kent Street but a Courtier. 1646G. Daniel Poems 1878 I. 59 Who's free? Not Broome⁓men, nor the baser sort, Who dress the Citie, and defile the Court. a1716South Serm. (1717) VI. 9 Scarce one, in Five Thousand..knows so much as what Popery means. Only that it is..A Word that sounds bigg and high in the Mouths of Broommen, Scavingers and Watermen, on a 5th or 17th of November. |