单词 | glimmerer |
释义 | † glimmerern. slang. Obsolete. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > female > defrauding others glimmerer1567 glimmering mort1567 1567 [implied in: T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Eii This glimmering Morte..Thys glymmeringe glauncer. (at glimmering mort at glimmering adj. 2)]. 1607 T. Dekker & G. Wilkins Iests to make you Merie sig. F1 Another sort of these shee morts, or monsters..are called Glimerers. Your Glimerer, shees vp in the morning [enters a house on the pretext of procuring a light for her fire, and steals what she can lay hands on]. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 84 The Glymmerers are such as travel up and down with Licenses to beg, under the pretence that they have lost all by fire. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. §68 Glymmerers, Firers of Houses, thereby to steal in Confusions. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Glimmerers, persons begging with sham licences, pretending losses by fire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1567 |
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