| 单词 | packie-wares |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspackie-wares 1. Scottish and English regional (northern). A pedlar; = packman n. 1. Also in compounds, as packie-wares. Sc. National Dict. at pack n.1 records this sense as still in use in Caithness, Fife, and Kirkcudbright in 1965.In quot. 1891 used as a nickname or familiar title. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar pedder1166 pedlar1307 dustyfoota1400 tranter1500 hawker1510 jagger?1518 jowter1550 pedder-coffec1550 pedderman1552 petty chapman1553 swadder1567 packman1571 merchant1572 swigman1575 chapman?1593 aginator1623 crier1727 duffer1735 Jew pedlar1743 fogger1800 Jew1803 box wallah1826 packie1832 cadger1840 jolter1841 pack-pedlar1859 knocker1934 doorstepper1976 machinga1993 1832 D. Vedder Orcadian Sketches 46 Regularly transmuted into hard cash on the annual return of Charlie Chance, the Elgin packie. 1891 ‘H. Haliburton’ Ochil Idylls 116 Yonder..Comes Packie owre the brig; An' country lads may noo gang braw. 1956 U. Venables Life in Shet. xi The glittering packie-wares unpacked upon her floor. < as lemmas |
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