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单词 scavengery
释义

scavengeryn.

/ˈskavəndʒəri/
Etymology: < scavenger n. + -y suffix3.
The municipal or state arrangements for cleaning and removing dirt, refuse, etc.; the action of collecting and removing dirt from the streets.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun]
scavage1547
scavengery1656
scavengering1841
scavagery1851
scavenging1851
scavenage1878
scavenge1912
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun]
scavengery1656
refuse collection1870
refuse disposal1871
garbage collection1877
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Polit. Touch-stone in tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 449 Since Tuscany did breed a numerous rascallity of turbulent mad-caps..he had yet farther very great need of those Gallies, which were as the scavengery of his State, by which he kept it cleanly.
1663 Rollock in Marq. Worcester's Exact Def. Water Engine 6 Whole Cities may be kept clean,..needing no other Scavengery than by means thereof [i.e. of the Water Engine] to void their Dirt, and avoid Noisomness.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 56 The Brutal Scavengry of Cacarello's Modus.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 207/2 By one or other of these modes of scavengery all the public ways of the metropolis are cleansed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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