| 单词 | dung farmer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdung farmer dung farmer n. now historical and rare a person employed to collect and remove dung and other refuse; spec. a street cleaner or scavenger (scavenger n. 2a); (also) a person who empties or cleans out privies (cf. gong farmer n. at gong n.1 Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > emptying or cleaning of privies > [noun] > one who gong farmerc1302 dung farmer1546 nightman1579 jakes farmer1591 jakes barreller1596 lantern-man1599 gold-finder1611 poleman1615 night-farmer1620 jakesman1630 1546 tr. A. P. Gasser Prognostication sig. d.v The black swart persons subiecte to Saturne as..Beryers of dead coarses, Dunge fermers and clensers of Masers, and al workers of suche grosse workes. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. 22 Stincking smells (unless one by little and little be accustomed to them, as our dungfarmers, and kennel rakers are in London..) are..hurtful to the lungs, heart, and stomack. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. A Dung-Farmer, (or Tom-Turd), Vn Cureur de Privez, le Maitre des basses oeuvres. 1714 Atlas Geographus IV. vii. 310/2 They are of a slavish Temper, and serve the Barbarians as Dung-farmers. 1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Dungfarmer, a jakes-cleanser. North. 1997 B. T. Boehrer Fury of Men's Gullets iv. 155 The London dung farmer tended to traffic more or less indiscriminately in both human and animal excrements. < as lemmas |
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