| 单词 | glasgow magistrate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGlasgow magistrate 3. Scottish slang. In full Glasgow magistrate. A herring. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > herring herringa700 white herring1469 meat herring1668 mattie1721 trash1749 Glasgow magistrate1833 crown fulls1854 full1854 fat herring1863 matjes herring1939 1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 2 Nov. 314/2 My neighbour, thinking it absurd to mince such a matter as a Glasgow Magistrate, handed up a whole one to the chairman. 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 38/1 Magistrate (Scotch slang), a herring. 1895 J. Nicholson Kilwuddie (ed. 4) 119 Ham's unco dear, sae, if ye like, we's hae a ‘magistrate’. 1950 Scots Mag. Dec. 171 Herring were cured there by Walter Gibson, a merchant of Glasgow and Provost of that city in 1688, and it is perhaps because of Provost Gibson that salt herring acquired their nickname of ‘Glasgow Magistrates’. < as lemmas |
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