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单词 clapperdudgeon
释义

clapperdudgeonn.

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s -dogen, -dogeon.
Etymology: apparently < clapper n.1 + dudgeon n.1 and adj.1 hilt of a dagger: the origin of the appellation is unknown. Collier suggests ‘from his knocking the clapdish he carried with a dudgeon’.
archaic.
A cant name for a beggar born; also used as a term of reproach or insult (cf. beggar n. 6a).
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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).
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