| 单词 | deuce-ace |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeuce-ace deuce-ace n. two and one (i.e. a throw that turns up deuce with one die and ace with the other); hence, a poor throw, bad luck, mean estate, the lower class (cf. German daus es, at Daus in Grimm). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] lowness?c1225 unnobleyc1384 noughtc1400 ignoblenessc1450 innoblessea1470 deuce-ace1481 ignobility1483 dunghill1537 vilityc1550 baseness1552 humility1623 non-class1973 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 45 He was a pylgrym of deux aas [Du. een pellegrym van doys aes]. 1596 Gosson in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 254 Deuse-ace fals still to be their chance. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. ii. 46 You know how much the grosse summe of deus-ace amountes to..Which the base vulgar do call three. 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. F4v Twere better by thrice deuce-ace in a weeke [etc.]. 1658 J. Jones tr. Ovid Invective against Ibis 75 Deuce Ace cannot pay scot and lot, and Sice Sink will not pay: Be it known to all, what payments fall must light on Cater Tray [i.e. the middle classes]. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. ii. 13 I threw deuce ace five times running. 1894 F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox 336 That which is likened to deuce ace Hath in esteem the lowest place. < as lemmas |
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