| 单词 | got up like a pox doctor's clerk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgot up like a pox doctor's clerk A doctor specializing in the treatment of venereal disease. got up like a pox doctor's clerk and variants: dressed smartly but in bad taste; overdressed. Also figurative. rare before 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > overdressed got up like a pox doctor's clerk1680 bedizened1707 overdressed1769 dressed (or done, etc.) up like a sore finger (or toe)1919 tarted1938 the world > health and disease > healing > healer > specialist > [noun] > in disease > venereal disease pox doctor1680 venerialist1763 syphilographer1839 syphilologist1851 venereologist1934 1680 W. Petyt Britannia Languens viii. 134 We have also far more Physitians, men of Medicine and Quacks, especially Pox-Doctors than ever. 1720 G. Cheyne Observ. Gout 39 The famous Pox-Doctor succeeds in some Cases, when mismanag'd Mercurial Treatments have fail'd. 1937 D. M. Jones In Parenthesis v. 118 The Pox-Doctor's Clerk, for one, the chitties, and types of scullion bummers up. 1965 E. Lambert Long White Night xv. 136 They was all dressed like they was at Buckingham Palace and Foran was done up like a pox doctor's clerk. 1984 J. Naughton in Listener 31 May 28/2 ‘That lot of nancy boys, pox doctors and old Etonians’..is Bradley's acute, if somewhat ripe, description of the Mother of Parliaments. 1999 T. Gilling Sooterkin (2000) 174 It's a torment worse than cramps and colic, worse than the pox and the pox doctor, worse than boils and blisters and buboes. < as lemmas |
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