单词 | lobby-gow |
释义 | lobby-gown. U.S. slang. An errand-boy, messenger; a hanger-on, underling, esp. in an opium den or in the Chinese quarter of a town. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > menial servant or drudge drivelc1225 meniala1387 druggarc1500 drudgea1513 kitchen wencha1556 coal carrier1567 droy1570 packhorse?1577 droil1579 blue coat1583 sumpter1587 mill-horse1602 subsizar1602 jackal1649 mediastine1658 slut1664 hack1699 scrub1709 Gibeonite1798 the lion's provider1808 slush1825 Slave of the Lampc1840 runabout1893 lobby-gow1906 squidge1907 dogsbody1922 legman1939 shit-kicker1950 1906 I. Swift Sketches of Gotham 41 The lobbygows—the errand men of the Chinese—the whites, who execute commissions for them,..saw and noted this Queen also. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. x. 248 She was in the clutch of one of the lobbygows—men who live by lying in wait in the darkness to seize and rob the lonely, friendless fast woman. 1911 C. B. Chrysler White Slavery xi. 80 A ‘lobbygow’—a Chinaman who acts as stool pigeon and informer for the police. 1911 G. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society ix. 295 I 'ain't gunna have her think Stevey's tied up with a bunch of lobby-gows. 1930 D. H. Clarke Louis Beretti ii. 22 He ran errands for the girls, which made him a lobby-gow in the original meaning of the word. 1956 ‘T. Betts’ Across Board xii. 177 He flung away fortunes in grubstakes to bums, heels, and lobby-gows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1906 |
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