| 单词 | croppy-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmascroppy-boy a. One who has his hair cropped short; applied esp. to the Irish rebels of 1798, who wore their hair cut very short as a sign of sympathy with the French Revolution. Also croppy-boy. ΚΠ 1798 Ballad in R. R. Madden Lit. Remains United Irishmen (1887) 122 Down Croppy, down Orange, down great, and down small. c1801 Remin. fugitive Loyalist in Eng. Hist. Rev. July (1886) 539 Several of them..swore they would die with me or make the ‘Croppies lie down’, alluding to a loyal song in which the rebel party was so styled. c1830 (title) The Croppy Boy. 1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) II. xvi. 536 The wretched ‘croppies’ were scourged, pitch-capped, picketed..and shot. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 14 Jan. 2/2 What form of higher education you deem at once most suitable for Croppy Boys and least objectionable..to their Protestant overseers. 1949 D. M. Davin Roads from Home 59 A line of papists and croppy-boys and Galway rebels. < as lemmas |
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