| 单词 | scald miserable |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscald miserable b. ⁋ scald miserable: a burlesque designation apparently first used in 1742 in connection with a procession of ragamuffins intended to ridicule the Freemasons. A print of 1771 representing this brought the expression into temporary currency with the sense ‘despicable wretch’. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > base person > [adjective] vilea1300 unnoblea1382 noughty1443 villain1509 vild1567 scalded1568 brokerly1592 broking1592 poor-spirited1611 scald1742 basilar1884 1742 (title) An Epistle from Dick Poney, Esq. Grand-Master of the Right Black-Guard Society of Scald-Miserable Masons. 1771 (title of plate by Benoist) A Geometrical View of the Grand Procession of the Scald Miserable Masons, Design'd as they were Drawn up over against Somerset House, in the Strand on the twenty Seventy of April, Ano. 1742. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. iii. vi. 563 Our poor scald miserable of a Friar Gerund. 1773 J. Berridge Let. 18 Aug. in Wks. (1864) 371 I am now, as the world accounts, a scold miserable. 1828 H. Angelo Reminisc. I. 407 The print of the Scald Miserables..is by him [sc. Benoist]. 1828 H. Angelo Reminisc. I. 408 The contrivers of the mock procession of scald masons, which actually took place in the year 1742.] < as lemmas |
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