| 单词 | dunghill raker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdunghill raker dunghill raker n. now historical and rare a person who rakes through or rakes up refuse, esp. in search of things which may be reused, sold, or recycled (often used as a type of the lowest social or economic class); in early use also as a term of abuse or contempt. ΚΠ 1591 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Breefe Aunswere Expos. I. Aubertus f. 56v Some donghill raker, that is altogether vnskilfull in phisicke. 1640 J. D. Knave in Graine iii. sig. H Why Drawer, Dog, Dunghill-raker. 1659 G. Swinnock Ὀυρανος και Ταρταρος 160 A King will sooner admit dunghill-rakers and privy-cleaners..into his bed, then God will take thee..into heaven. 1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd v. i. 52 Why how now ye Dunghill-raker, ye old rusty Pruning-knife, ye Maggot in a Pescod, ye Catterpiller. 1853 J. Mills Brit. Jews iii. ii. 266 The man..can speak no fewer than five languages... By profession he, nevertheless, is but a bone-gatherer, and dunghill raker. 1995 D. B. J. Randall Winter Fruit iv. 62 The Gossips Braule..(1655)..is a tongue combat between Jone, Doll, Meg, and Bess (a dunghill raker, a fishwife, a washerwoman, and a hostess). < as lemmas |
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