| 单词 | artful dodger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasArtful Dodger Artful Dodger n. (also with lower-case initials) [ < Artful Dodger, the nickname of John Dawkins, a young pickpocket in Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838)] (a) allusive a (young) thief or pickpocket; a delinquent; cf. Fagin n.; (b) [rhyming slang] = lodger n. 1c (rare). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in another's house > lodger boarder1530 inmake1536 inmate1589 quarterer1595 commoner1598 tabler1598 by-settel1612 lodgera1616 inquilinea1641 pensioner1673 pensionnairea1794 Artful Dodger1839 paying guest1853 roomer1859 star boarder1875 pension-boarder1898 latchkey1905 PG1925 1839 Times 22 Feb. 7/2 The ‘Fagins and Artful Dodgers’ of Field-lane. 1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 1 Artful dodger, lodger. 1931 Evening Standard 19 Aug. 10/1 He came home and he found the artful dodger elephant trunk in the bread and butter (He found the lodger drunk in the gutter). 1965 Listener 26 Aug. 292/2 The young unemployed.., the bastards.., the artful dodgers..thus have 500 Fagins to instruct them in everything from petty thievery to drug addiction. 2006 New Yorker 27 Mar. 91/3 Steve is the real thing—an Artful Dodger, bent on adult crime, who takes his first gulp of mortal peril and cries like a child. < as lemmas |
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