| 单词 | fiddler's fare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfiddler's fare a. One who plays on the fiddle; esp. one who does so for hire. fiddler's fare, fiddler's money, fiddler's pay, fiddler's wages: see quots. 1597, 1608, 1608, 1608. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > fiddler fiddlera1100 gigoura1300 minikin tickler1607 scraper1611 gut-vexer1640 rosin-the-bow1767 fiddle1773 scrape-gut1837 bosh-man1846 bosh-faker1859 bosh-killer1935 a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 311 Fidicen, fiðelere. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 6568 Ther were trumpes and fithelers. 1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 230 Govyn to a fedelere, the sayd day at nyte, iiij. d. 1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 735/1 He..fareth as he wer from a frere waxen a fideler. 1597 1st Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. i. 380 He..gave me fidler's wages, and dismiste mee. 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iii. sig. F4v Let the world know you haue had more then fidlers fare, for you haue meat, money and cloth. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 16 The gammuth of every municipal fidler. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Fidlers-pay, Thanks and Wine. 1721 Visct. Bolingbroke in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 20 As fiddlers flourish carelessly, before they play a fine air. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Fidler's money, all six~pences. 1807 Salmagundi 31 Dec. 387 The fiddler puts the whole assembly in motion. 1886 H. Caine Son of Hagar ii. xvi The fiddler's function was at an end for the present. < as lemmas |
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