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

f. Not forming part of a regular course of work. Chiefly in odd job n. Also applied to a person or animal employed in doing occasional or irregular work, as odd hand, odd lad, odd-timer, etc. (now chiefly regional).See also odd man n., odd-horse n. at Compounds 2.

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1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. ii. ii. 17 She..owes her Joyner above a hundred Pounds for odd-Jobs.

1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Oct. xxii. 149 The Odd-man's Wages is from fifty Shillings, to four Pounds a Year.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. vii. 90 I was..odd-boy about the forge.

1863 All Year Round 11 July 472/2 Either can rest occasionally by employing an ‘odd man’, of whom there are several..ready to do ‘odd’ work.

1871 Lady M. A. Barker Christmas Cake in Four Quarters iv. i. 247 Shearers and musterers, and all the odd hands which flock to a station at shearing-time.

1894 Northumberland Words Odd-laddy, a boy kept on farms to do odd..jobs, such as carting turnips, manure, etc. The horse he drives is called the odd-horse; his cart the odd-cart, etc.

1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose i. xviii. 113 She's an odd-timer on Miss Marr's typist staff.

1937 E. Garnett Family from One End St. i. 13 She occasionally did odd work to ‘oblige’ Mrs. Theobald, the Vicar's wife.

1947 Scots Mag. Apr. 12 He'll stert off for an odd laddie when he leaves the schule an' never get off a ferm.

1986 K. Juby In Other Words—David Bowie (BNC) He didn't have two beans to rub together. He was doing a bit of odd work here and there on an ad hoc basis.

单词	odd-timer
释义	> as lemmas odd-timer f. Not forming part of a regular course of work. Chiefly in odd job n. Also applied to a person or animal employed in doing occasional or irregular work, as odd hand, odd lad, odd-timer, etc. (now chiefly regional).See also odd man n., odd-horse n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. ii. ii. 17 She..owes her Joyner above a hundred Pounds for odd-Jobs. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Oct. xxii. 149 The Odd-man's Wages is from fifty Shillings, to four Pounds a Year. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. vii. 90 I was..odd-boy about the forge. 1863 All Year Round 11 July 472/2 Either can rest occasionally by employing an ‘odd man’, of whom there are several..ready to do ‘odd’ work. 1871 Lady M. A. Barker Christmas Cake in Four Quarters iv. i. 247 Shearers and musterers, and all the odd hands which flock to a station at shearing-time. 1894 Northumberland Words Odd-laddy, a boy kept on farms to do odd..jobs, such as carting turnips, manure, etc. The horse he drives is called the odd-horse; his cart the odd-cart, etc. 1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose i. xviii. 113 She's an odd-timer on Miss Marr's typist staff. 1937 E. Garnett Family from One End St. i. 13 She occasionally did odd work to ‘oblige’ Mrs. Theobald, the Vicar's wife. 1947 Scots Mag. Apr. 12 He'll stert off for an odd laddie when he leaves the schule an' never get off a ferm. 1986 K. Juby In Other Words—David Bowie (BNC) He didn't have two beans to rub together. He was doing a bit of odd work here and there on an ad hoc basis. extracted from oddadj.n.¹adv. < as lemmas
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