| 单词 | hackneying |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈhackneying ˈhackneying (a) n. the action of hackney v. (in various senses); †(b) adj. (of authorship) that is paid for by an editor or publisher (obsolete rare). [The form hackning in quot. 1609 apparently shows assimilatory loss of the medial syllable.] ΚΠ 1609 S. Rowlands Whole Crew Kind Gossips sig. Cv Whores, That..liue by hackning put themselues to hire. 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia II. l. 179 Much Hackneying creates Cunning in Whores and Horses. 1801 R. Southey Let. 27 Nov. in Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 181 He begins to discover that hackneying authorship is not the way to be great. 1999 A. W. Lee Painting on Left vii. 210 The hackneying of indigenous culture for mass consumption. < as lemmas |
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