单词 | highway rogue |
释义 | > as lemmashighway rogue highway rogue n. now historical and rare a highwayman or highway robber. ΚΠ 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 87 Unexpected onsets of the Coolies and high-way roagues. 1727 T. Fuller Introductio ad Prudentiam II. 234 Their own Heart will tell them they have been not a Whit better than highway Rogues. 1836 Satirist 27 Mar. 98/2 Better turn highway rogues than pine here longer. 1903 F. S. Isham Under Rose xix. 275 Their steeds..might still excite the cupidity of highway rogues. 2006 C. Stojanova in L. Badley et al. Trad. World Cinema vii. 110 Juraj Janosik, an eighteenth-century highway rogue, claimed as a national hero in Poland and Slovakia. < as lemmas |
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