| 单词 | fingersmith |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfingersmith fingersmith n. slang (now chiefly archaic or historical) (a) a midwife; (b) a thief; spec. a pickpocket. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > one skilled in obstetrics or midwifery > [noun] midwifec1300 childwifea1387 midwomana1400 Lucinac1405 matron?a1425 grace-wifec1600 Mother Midnight1602 headswoman1615 handwoman1637 sage woman1672 howdie1725 accoucheur1727 granny1738 obstetrix1773 accoucheuse1795 dukun1817 fingersmith1819 wise woman1821 obstetrician1826 obstetrist1873 tocologist1902 birth attendant1910 S.C.M.1935 monitrice1969 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket fig-boyc1555 foister1585 foist1591 pickpocket1591 bung1600 diver1608 pocket-picker1622 pocketeerc1626 bung-nipper1659 file1673 filer1674 shark1707 hoister1708 knuckle1781 knuckler1801 buzzgloak1819 cly-faker1819 fingersmith1819 knuck1819 fogle hunter1821 buzzman1832 nobbler1839 wire1851 gonoph1853 wirer1857 dip1859 moll-tooler1859 buzzer1862 hook1863 snotter1864 tool1865 pocket-cutter1885 dipper1889 pogue-hunter1896 pick1902 finger1925 whizz1925 whizzer1925 prat diggera1931 whizz-boy1931 whizz-man1932 reefer1935 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 173 Finger-smith, a midwife. 1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Finger-smiths, Thieves. Midwives. 1829 Lancet 28 Feb. 585/2 If such a person should, by chance, be a handy finger-smith, and be competent to the duties of the vocation. 1877 Standard 20 Dec. 5/5 A gong [which sounds when the shop door is opened] is no protection whatever against a ‘finger smith’ who knows the plan. 1924 Indian Rev. Nov. 668/1 The life of a pickpocket, or 'finger smith' as his confreres call him, is in some respects more exciting than that of a burglar. 1967 F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. 178/1 Finger-smith,..a thief. 1988 H. Lawrence in J. McKenna Obstetr. & Gynaecol. iii. 43 A woman in labour was visited by a midwife known lewdly as a ‘fingersmith’. 2002 S. Waters Fingersmith i. 7 By then, Flora was quite the fingersmith: the Surrey was nothing to her, she was working the West End theatres and halls. < as lemmas |
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