| 单词 | grocery man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrocery man grocery man n. (a) U.S. a person who owns or works in a liquor store or bar (now historical); (b) (originally U.S.) a person who owns or works in a grocery store. ΚΠ 1832 Auburn (N.Y.) Free Press 4 Jan. Our grocery-men say that water won't freeze, provided you make pretty good grog of it. 1841 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. Apr. 326 He would..borrow money in his mother's name, of the neighbours and grocery men, where he had been accustomed to trade. 1844 Augusta (Georgia) Washingtonian 28 Sept. It would seem that the grocery man, who owned this establishment, was actuated not so much by the love of gain in selling his liquor, as by the consideration of the jolly crowd it would bring around him. 1892 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 17 Feb. In Atchison there is a fight among the grocerymen in selling eggs, and they can be had at retail at fifteen cents a dozen. 1974 D. W. Maurer Kentucky Moonshine (2003) vii. 82 The market could be supplied at a very reasonable price and at a profit for the farmer, the stiller, and the grocery-man who sold it by the bottle or jug. 2009 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 3 Apr. 13 The grocery man accepted the ration cards and payment and put our portions of margarine, cheese and other stuff in a parcel. < as lemmas |
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