单词 | garreteer |
释义 | garreteern. One who lives in a garret; esp. an impecunious author or literary hack. ΘΚΠ 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? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1653 |
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