| 单词 | bait layer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbait layer bait layer n. (a) a person who lays bait (now rare); (b) Australian slang (humorous and depreciative) a cook, esp. a camp or station cook (now chiefly historical). ΚΠ 1913 Times of India 8 Nov. The prepared bait, when ready for use, was..handed out in suitable quantities to a small army of bait-layers. 1943 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 2) 7 Baitlayer, a station cook. 1975 B. Foley Shearers' Poems 11 The ‘Babbling Brook’ [sc. cook] was dead. He'd not been much of a ‘bait layer’. But not a bad sort of a bloke. 1993 Austral. Post 23 Jan. 37/4 Bush cooks have a terrible reputation... The worst of the cooks were also called ‘baitlayers’. 2004 M. E. Snodgrass Encycl. Kitchen Hist. (2005) 138 Among European settlers of Australia, bush cooks were sometimes jokingly referred to as ‘bait layers’, named after the poisoners of the rabbits that overran the wild. < as lemmas |
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