| 单词 | arrant thief |
| 释义 | > as lemmasarrant thief 2. In thief errant, arrant thief [= robber] originally an outlawed robber roving about the country, a freebooter, bandit, highwayman; hence, a public, notorious, professed robber, a ‘common thief,’ an undisguised, manifest, out-and-out thief. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > brigand > [noun] brigand1421 snaphance1539 thief errant1553 freebooter1570 filibuster1591 bandit1594 Robin Hood1597 mosser1651 moss-trooper1651 free-rider1821 cateran1870 c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 120 An outlawe or a thef erraunt. [See the whole passage.] 1553 J. Bale Vocacyon in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 362 The most errande thefe and mercilesse murtherer. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 407 There is not so ranke a traytor, nor so arrant a thefe. 1637 J. Pocklington Sunday no Sabbath 13 The arrantest Pharisee theefe in Jerusalem. 1724 J. Swift Blunders of Quilca in Wks. (1755) VI. ii. 174 Every servant an arrant [1745: errant] thief as to victuals and drink. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvii. 247 Who, like errant thieves, could not hold up their heads in an honest house. < as lemmas |
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