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单词 garreteer
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garreteern.

/ˌɡarɪˈtɪə/
Forms: Also (1600s ? garretteir, ? garitier), 1700s–1800s garretteer.
Etymology: < garret n.1 + -eer suffix1.
One who lives in a garret; esp. an impecunious author or literary hack.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > inhabitant of part of house
garreteer1720
boudoira1830
first floor1837
upstairs1872
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > hack
hack writer1711
garreteer1720
hack authora1734
hack1798
truckster1843
hodman1849
ghost1881
devil1888
deviller1893
ghostwriter1908
1611 J. Donne in T. Coryate Crudities sig. d3 Mount now to Gallo-belgicus; Appeare As deepe a States-man, as a Gazettier [1650 Poems p. 262 Garretteir].]
1653 G. Webbe Pract. Quietnes xxvi. 249 Such Makebates, idle Garitiers [? read Gazitiers], and tatling News-carriers, are very rife every where in the world.
1720 R. Bentley Let. in Wks. (1838) III. 538 Let other scribblers and garreteers take some caution from his example.
1739 P. Whitehead Manners 15 Down, down, ye hungry Garretteers, descend.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 325 If they be not garretteers, living out of the world, and never seeing a newspaper.
1887 M. B. Betham-Edwards Next of Kin Wanted II. xviii. 248 The editorial ‘I am very sorry’—how many garreteers has it driven to suicide?
attributive.1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 149 Sir Southey, now chang'd from his garretteer state, To write silly odes, and palaver the great.
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