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单词 fleabag
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fleabagn.

Brit. /ˈfliːbaɡ/, U.S. /ˈfliˌbæɡ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding, modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: flea n., bag n.
Etymology: < flea n. + bag n., originally after German Flohbeutel flea-ridden person or animal, slovenly or dirty person (16th cent.; now regional).With sense 2 compare the following apparently isolated instance of flea-park used in the same sense, from a song purportedly dating from the late 18th cent. (although no earlier published version is known):1843 De May-bush (song) in Dublin Univ. Mag. Dec. 671/2 Bill Durham..Was now in his flea-park, taking a snore, When he heard de mob pass by his door.
colloquial.
1.
a. A shabby, dirty, disreputable, or unattractive person. Also as a more general term of abuse.Apparently rare before mid 20th cent.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun]
mesela1400
scabbardc1440
slotterbugc1440
drivel1498
sow1508
wallydraigle?a1513
sloven1530
filthy1553
ketterela1572
slabberer1611
slubberdegullion1612
Grobian1621
slabberdegullion1653
slobber-chops1670
slate1718
haverel1720
slobberer1732
slummock1760
fleabag1805
slush1825
slob1876
trashbag1887
crumb1918
garbage can1925
hog1932
crud1940
sordid1959
grot1970
1805 C. G. Küttner & W. Nicholson New & Compl. Dict. German Lang. for Englishmen I. 669/2 Der Flohbeutel,..flea-bag, name given to a low person that is full of fleas.
1939 P. Sturges Great McGinty in Five Screenplays (1986) 84 The Hophead. D-don't s-slug him, p-pal! McGinty. Out of the way, flea bag!
1988 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 16 July Mr Sarich called several of his critics ‘fleabags’.
2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 23 Dec. 11 I'd rather be called a predator than an old flea-bag.
b. A flea-ridden or otherwise substandard animal, esp. a dog.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > inferior
cur?c1225
cur-dog?c1225
trundle-tail1486
sholt1587
cute1622
penny doga1682
mutt1900
tripe-hound1923
fleabag1932
1932 Abilene (Texas) Morning Reporter-News 4 Sept. (Cartoon section) (caption) Now, there's no use coaxin' Sally! You can't keep this flea-bag in this house an' that settles it!
1973 L. Haney Lady is a Jock 144 Today Beverly has twelve horses, most of which are cheap, rundown fleabags.
2017 A. Poston Geekerella ii. 175 Her eyes drift to the counter and the empty pumpkin-orange dog bed. ‘Where's the fleabag?’
2. A bed; a sleeping bag or bedroll. Also: a place for sleeping.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] > equipment for specific occasion
fleabag1811
heavy (marching) order1836
drill order1837
marching order1848
field-day order1874
review order1874
blanket-roll1891
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > place for sleeping
sleeping-place1565
somnifery1600
fleabag1811
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > [noun]
restOE
bedc995
laira1000
couch1340
littera1400
libbege1567
pad1703
spond1763
fleabag1811
dab1812
snooze1819
downy1846
kip1879
the hay1903
Uncle Ned1925
rack1939
fart sack1943
sack1943
pit1948
uncle1982
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > sleeping bag
fleabag1811
body bag1885
bedroll1910
fart sack1943
bivouac sack1961
bivvy bag1982
1811 London Chron. 12 Sept. 262/3 ‘As you are here I suppose I must take so much live lumber on board—you had better look out for your old flea-bags,’ (meaning their cabins).
1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer xxxix. 266 Troth and I think the gentleman would be better if he went off to his flea-bag himself.
1914 Manch. Courier 22 Oct. 2/3 We sleep in our flea bags (Wolsey valises) in an empty room upstairs.
1998 Church Times 25 Sept. 14/3 After putting my flea-bag and night clothes on the back rock to air, I put all my washing requirements..into my small backpack.
3. Originally U.S. A lodging house, hotel, etc., which is (or is believed to be) infested with fleas or other vermin. Later also more generally: any shabby or dirty establishment or place. Cf. fleapit n. at flea n. Compounds 2a.Earliest found as a name for a particular lodging house in New York.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > shabby or ramshackle building
rat trap1790
ramshackle1820
fleabag1907
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > cheap, dirty, or run-down lodging house or hotel
rope1836
twopenny rope1836
bughouse1840
bug trap1851
hash house1865
fleabag1907
no-tell motel1961
roach motel1982
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > common lodging house
common lodging house1748
kip1879
doss-house1888
Rowton house1897
fleabag1907
flop1910
flop-house1923
hotbed1939
1907 Washington Post 28 Nov. 11/3 The Cleveland lodging house,..a cheap place upstairs over the saloon run by Jack Soracco, and known far and wide as the ‘Flea Bag’.
1931 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 8 Sept. 4/3 He lives in a nice hotel. But he east [read eats] in a flea-bag that serves dynamite in pints and quarts.
1958 E. Dundy Dud Avocado iii. iv. 249 God, how I hated Paris! Paris was one big flea-bag.
2009 R. Levitz Red Light Murder xi. 118 Ernst puts his people in a broken-down fleabag of a hotel.

Compounds

As a modifier, with the sense ‘that is a fleabag (sense 3)’, as in fleabag hotel, etc.
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1940 Hearst's Internat. Mar. 48/3 In his sick heart he knew he was nothing more than a night watchman in a flea-bag hotel.
1966 O. Keepnews in View from Within (1988) v. 148 Many are forced to become experts on obscure bad movies, the kind that seem to survive..in all-night fleabag theaters.
2006 A. Davies Goodbye Lemon i. 37 She stayed with her mother at a fleabag motel and bussed to the school mornings and nights.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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