| 单词 | hackney author |
| 释义 | > as lemmashackney author a. attributive and appositive, with the sense ‘that is hired, is available for hire, or that sells his or her services for material gain’ (see sense A. 2), as hackney author, hackney clerk, hackney scribbler, hackney writer, etc.In extended use in quots. 1590, 1681. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [adjective] > hired > that may be hired hackney1590 conductitious1607 hackneyed1651 hireable1862 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B2v Is it conscience or lucre, that spurgals thy hackney pen? 1591 R. W. Martine Mar-Sixtus sig. A4 Our hackney authors..care not how sweetely, but how loudely they cry. 1660 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 361 There were some hackney preachers in the University at this time. 1681 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Naked Truth 7 A glib Hackney-Tongue he had in his head. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 25 Some starv'd Hackny Sonneteer. 1714 J. Addison Lover (1723) No. 39. 224 Booksellers, who set their hackney writers at work for so much a sheet. a1797 E. Burke Tracts Popery Laws in Wks. (1842) II. 434/1 As hackney clerks, at the miserable salary of 7s. a week. 1811 Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1809 2 563/2 A low description of hackney scribblers, whose very names tended to throw disrespect upon the employment of reviewers. 1899 Med. Press & Circular 5 July 1/1 Misleading information supplied by speculative biographers and hackney journalists. 1907 Virginia Law Reg. 13 592 One of the clerks of an attorney taught him [to write], and in time he became a good hackney-writer. 1990 W. N. Osborough in D. Hogan & W. N. Osborough Brehons, Serjeants & Attorneys 120 A preponderance of recent entrants were ‘hackney clerks’ and educational attainments..were..depressingly low. 2000 P. Fisher Artful Itineraries ii. 79 Was a critic private or commercial, amateur or professional, an homme de lettres or a hackney journalist? < as lemmas |
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