单词 | clapperdudgeon |
释义 | clapperdudgeonn. archaic. A cant name for a beggar born; also used as a term of reproach or insult (cf. beggar n. 6a). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in reproach gluttonc1300 jau dewin1340 Pilatec1390 rascal?a1400 swartc1425 hoberdc1450 dogshead1539 ladronea1557 clapperdudgeon1567 soused gurnet1598 jail-bird1603 cocoloch1610 swappes1626 incubee1631 stitchel1659 potwalloper1820 Little Willie1901 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar beggara1250 bidder1362 mendinantc1395 mendivaunt1395 craver1406 thigger1424 gangrela1450 mendicant1474 mendiant1483 eremite1495 Lazarus?a1513 truandals1523 bellyterc1540 clapperdudgeon1567 beggar-man1608 maunder1609 maunderer1611 Abraham cove1612 eleemosynary1643 mumpera1652 jockey1685 progger1685 asker1708 thigster1710 prog1828 shooler1830 cadger1851 panhandler1893 Weary Willie1896 schlepper1901 plinger1904 peg-legger1915 tapper1930 clochard1940 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Ciiii These Palliards be called also Clapperdogens. 1599 George a Greene sig. E4 It is but the part of a clapperdudgeon, To strike a man in the streete. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? Pref. They and their trulls may meet at their stawling kenns with such clapperdogeons as your selfe. 1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 31 Clapper Dudgeon, a Beggar born. 1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 340 No swigman, swaddler, clapperdudgeon. 1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous II. vii. 225 Rogues, Thieves..and Clapper-dudgeons..infested the outskirts of the Old Palace. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1567 |
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