| 单词 | on the whizz |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the whizz b. The practice of picking pockets (chiefly in on the whizz); a pickpocket. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > [noun] pocket-picking1662 palmistry1711 pickpocketing1742 filing-lay1743 pickpocketry1756 buzzing1819 fogle drawing1823 fogle hunting1823 pickpocketism1830 cly-faking1862 dipping1882 prat-digging1908 whizz1925 whizzing1925 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket fig-boyc1555 foister1585 foist1591 pickpocket1591 bung1600 diver1608 pocket-picker1622 pocketeerc1626 bung-nipper1659 file1673 filer1674 shark1707 hoister1708 knuckle1781 knuckler1801 buzzgloak1819 cly-faker1819 fingersmith1819 knuck1819 fogle hunter1821 buzzman1832 nobbler1839 wire1851 gonoph1853 wirer1857 dip1859 moll-tooler1859 buzzer1862 hook1863 snotter1864 tool1865 pocket-cutter1885 dipper1889 pogue-hunter1896 pick1902 finger1925 whizz1925 whizzer1925 prat diggera1931 whizz-boy1931 whizz-man1932 reefer1935 1925 E. Jervis Twenty-five Years in Six Prisons i. 17 Some of the boys are ‘on the whiz’ (pickpockets). 1931 Amer. Speech 7 117 Whiz, n. A pick-pocket. 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid 245 They might pinch him for being on the whizz. 1963 T. Tullett Inside Interpol xii. 162 The pickpocket, known in the underworld as the ‘whiz’..is always a specialist. < as lemmas |
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