单词 | dog boy |
释义 | dog boyn. A boy in charge of dogs; a huntsman's assistant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > attendant on hounds fewtererc1400 bernera1425 hound's-swainc1475 brackener1490 piqueur1580 dog boy1612 vauterer1679 whipper-in1739 whipper1826 whip1848 velterer1911 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 177 His Dogges and Dog-boyes. 1704 W. Darrell Gentleman Instr. Conduct Virtuous & Happy Life ii. 26 Methought they had served an Apprenticeship under Grooms or Dog-boys; they eternally grated my Ears with Hounds and Horses. 1761 C. Johnstone Chrysal (ed. 2) II. ii. xiv. 236 She..lavished her caresses upon him with the greatest tenderness, vowing never more to have any correspondence, with the pantry-boy, or scullion, who it seems were the dog-boy's formidable rivals. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ix. 146 Three hounds, accompanied by a dog-boy. 1888 R. Kipling Tods' Amendment in Plain Tales from Hills 168 Tods..was adored by every one, from the dhoby to the dog-boy. 1950 H. Patterson & E. Conrad Scottsboro Boy iii. vii. 233 After the dogs ceased barking the dog boy started hollering. You could hear him for a mile. 2007 School Libr. Jrnl. (Nexis) June 159 When the Black Death comes to Dowe Manor,..a self-serving monk named Brother Rohan blames the French house girl, Aurélie, and the simple-minded dog boy, Brind, as ‘agents of the Devil’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1612 |
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