单词 | peatship |
释义 | > as lemmaspeatship ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > inferior, rascally, or shrewd > personality or office of peatryc1680 peatshipc1680 c1680 in J. Maidment Bk. Sc. Pasquils (1868) 225 Old Nevoy by all is judged such a sott, That his peatship could never be thought worth a groat. c1690 in J. Maidment Bk. Sc. Pasquils (1868) 185 His mother's tongue learn'd him his father's law; Lyke prentice taught the trade by ear, but book, In seaven years petship e'er he wrote or spoke. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xiii. 302 As like being akin to a peatship and a sheriffdom, as a sieve is sib to a riddle. < as lemmas |
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