单词 | hunterman |
释义 | huntermann. Used widely outside the British Isles as a local term for ‘hunter, huntsman’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] huntc1000 huntera1325 cacherec1340 pricasourc1387 waithmanc1425 chaser1470 huntsman1567 pricker1575 Nimrod1623 venator1656 fieldmana1683 sportsman1699 coureur de bois1700 sporting parson1757 chasseur1796 jäger1823 shikari1827 venerer1845 hunting-man1859 gamer1887 hunterman1891 veldman1895 1891 ‘M. Twain’ tr. Hoffman Slovenly Peter (1935) Behold the dreadful hunterman In all his fateful glory stand. 1907 W. Jekyll Jamaican Song & Story 137 Dory Dunn is a hunterman. 1913 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Feb. 184/1 Nearly every village has its professional ‘hunterman’, whose duty it is to kill the larger game which do damage to the crops. 1922 H. B. Hermon-Hodge Up against it in Nigeria iv. 55 Huntermen are for the most part undependable. 1930 ‘Greenhorn’ Tinker, Tailor xi. 272 His hunterman came back to look for him and shot the python. 1933 Amer. Speech 8 i. 50/1 Hunterman, hunter. One often sees this in country newspapers [of Ozarks]. 1954 G. Durrell Bafut Beagles vi. 116 I tink dis hunter man be best for all. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1891 |
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