英语词汇“keyhole whistler”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

keyhole whistler n. slang †(a) British a person who sleeps in a barn or outhouse; a tramp, a vagrant (obsolete); (b) U.S. a criminal in hiding (rare).

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?1830 Wedding Paddy O'Carroll in M. G. Lewis Crazy Jane 7 Fifty set of sparrible weavers, gunsmiths, blacksmiths and nailors, Bogtrotters and street pavers, bobbin-tossers, Millers' doctors, key-hole whistlers and tithe proctors.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 311/1 ‘Keyhole whistlers’, the skipper-birds are sometimes called... They start early to good houses for victuals, when gentlefolk are not up.

1890 F. W. Carew No. 747 413 A rough lot they were..reg'lar keyhole whistlers the lot of 'em, skipperin' it for choice when they'd got the price of a doss about 'em.

1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 66/2 Keyhole whistler, a criminal in hiding.

单词	keyhole whistler
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