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.

a. A shabby, dirty, disreputable, or unattractive person. Also as a more general term of abuse.Apparently rare before mid 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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).

单词	fleabag
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1805
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