| 单词 | jerry-shop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjerry-shop 3. Short for jerry-shop (a contraction, it is said, of Tom and Jerry n., from the cant name of a mixture of liquors): A low beer-house. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house sot's-hof1532 bousing ken1567 fuddling-school1680 sot-bay1707 night-cellar1729 sot-hole1755 lush-ken1790 lush-crib1819 Tom and Jerry shop1824 Tom and Jerry1836 deadfall1837 jerry1851 shoful1851 cribc1865 bucket-shop1875 barrel-house1883 lushing-ken1883 shebang1901 barrel shop1904 blood house1913 smoke joint1931 shypoo1936 smoke-shop1937 dive bar1974 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 227/1 An advance of 5s. made to him by the keeper of a beer-shop, or, as he called it, a ‘jerry’. 1858 T. Carlyle Let. 14 Sept. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London (1884) II. xxiv. 223 A worse than jerry-shop close over the way raged like Bedlam or Erebus. 1873 Slang Dict. Jerry shop, a beer-house. Contraction of ‘Tom and Jerry’. < as lemmas |
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