| 单词 | pennyboy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspennyboy pennyboy n. colloquial (originally) †a boy employed to do a job for a wage of one penny (obsolete); (later more generally) (depreciative) a person treated as a menial or without respect. ΚΠ 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Dram. Pers. 2 in Wks. II Peni-boy, the Sonne, the heire and Suiter.] 1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang V. 168/1 Penny-boy (old), a boy who haunted the cattle markets on the chance of driving beasts to the slaughter~house. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 273 He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts. 1994 Guardian 11 June (Weekend Suppl.) 24/2 She was neither pennyboy nor clown to the poet. < as lemmas |
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