单词 | bindle |
释义 | bindlen.1 Scottish. Categories » ‘The cord or rope that binds anything, whether made of hemp or of straw.’ Jamieson. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). bindlen.2 U.S. and Canadian slang. a. A bundle containing clothes and possessions, esp. a bedding-roll carried by a tramp. Hence bindle-man n., bindle-stiff a tramp who carries such a bundle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings swagman1851 swagger1855 swagsman1869 swaggie1892 bagman1896 drummer1898 battler1900 bindle-man1900 bindle-stiff1900 bluey-humper1903 bag lady1972 bag woman1977 society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > used by pilgrims, beggars, etc. scripc1300 shripc1300 walletc1405 sherpe1426 wantel1536 bundle handkerchief1884 turkey1893 bindle1925 1900 ‘J. Flynt’ Notes Itinerant Policeman 167 Among the ‘Bindle Men’, ‘Mush Fakers’, and ‘Turnpikers’ of the middle West, the East, and Canada, there exists a crude system of marking ‘good’ houses. 1901 J. London Let. 6 Dec. (1966) 126 Wyckoff only knows the workingman, the stake-man, and the bindle-stiff. 1925 Forum Aug. 232 Carrying his ‘bindle roll’ or roll of blankets on his back, he is prepared to make his home wherever night finds him. 1925 Forum Aug. 235 Bindle stiff, a western hobo, who carries his blankets in a roll or bindle. 1927 Glasgow Herald 24 July 8 In his stride he took almost all the experiences that can befall bums, bindle stiffs.. and all other variously designated knights of the moonlight. 1937 J. Steinbeck Of Mice & Men 4 George unslung his bindle and dropped it gently on the bank. 1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden vii. 46 Before he knew it he was a bindlestiff himself. b. Any package or bundle, spec. one containing narcotics (see quot. 1923). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a quantity of > in packet bindle1916 bag1957 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > pack or parcel pack1228 fardel1388 trussellc1440 pauchlea1450 butt1470 fardellage1489 trusser1519 parcel1692 package1757 packet1803 wrappage1883 compactum1907 bindle1916 1916 Literary Digest 19 Aug. 425/1 A package is a ‘bindle’. 1922 E. F. Murphy Black Candle (1926) xi. 214 The pedlars would buy it [sc. morphine] in big amounts; would..dish it out in small packages. We would call these ‘decks’, but some people call them ‘bindles’. 1923 Dial. Notes 5 246 Bindle, a package containing either morphine or cocaine. ‘Give me a bindle of snow.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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