| 单词 | dublin jackeen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDublin jackeen Originally in Dublin: an ill-mannered lower-class person. Hence later: a Dubliner, esp. as contrasted with a person from a rural area (cf. culchie n.). Frequently in Dublin jackeen. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt > male houndOE churlc1300 pagec1385 jockeya1529 sincanterc1540 cullion1575 cur1600 swabber1612 codworm1615 bob-taila1625 pompilliona1625 duck's meata1627 swab1687 person1704 hallion1789 jackeen1810 peat1818 1810 Hibernia Mag. Mar. 143 The shameless conduct of a gang of the ‘private players’..in the galleries, joined by a few jackeens of the pit. 1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 320 A buckeen, a jackeen, a squireen, or any of the intermediate classes. 1892 Q. Rev. July 138 ‘Jackeens’ loitering about the Dublin Theatres. 1970 E. Cross Tailor & Ansty (new ed.) Epil. ii. 168 Did none of them..never sit at an Irish fireside at night and listen to and join in the talk..or are they all but a pack of Dublin jackeens, aping the English. 1980 B. MacLaverty Lamb (1981) v. 43 If you're going to stay in a hotel you can't go in looking like a Dublin jackeen. 2015 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 28 Sept. 31 The outsider, the Dublin-born jackeen who knows little about the land or animal husbandry. < as lemmas |
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