单词 | scowbanker |
释义 | scowbankern. slang (? and dialect). A loafer (see quots.). Also, †a person who engages in unfair business practices, a dishonest or unscrupulous trader. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > unfair or dishonest shop thief1613 dudder1746 scowbanker1750 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer lurdanc1330 player1340 moochera1425 loon?c1450 lounger?a1513 idler1534 rest man1542 holiday-woman1548 baty bummill1568 bummill baty1568 friar-fly?1577 idol1579 lingerer1579 loll1582 idleby1589 shit-rags1598 blaitie bum1602 idle1635 Lollard1635 loiterer1684 saunterer1688 scobberlotchera1697 bumble1786 quisby1789 waffler1805 shoat1808 loafer1830 bummer1855 dead beat1863 bum1864 scowbanker1864 schnorrer1875 scowbank1881 ikey1906 layabout1932 lie-about1937 spine-basher1946 limer1964 1750 G. G. Beekman Let. 4 Dec. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 136 You may thank a Sett of People Called Scowbanckers..that Seed has Run so high this two years past. Our town is full of them and there is Scarce a Vessell Comes along the wharffe but there is Imediately a half a Dozen of Them aboard bidding against Each other. 1764 G. G. Beekman Let. 30 Nov. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 478 Our Vandue houses are Crowded with Linens for Sale belonging to the Scoubankers who are Offering of it from house to house for Less then Prime Cost which hurts the merchant much. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 233 Skow-Banker, a fellow who loiters about the premises of any one willing to support him without the necessity of working for his living; a rogue, a rascal. Common at Melbourne, Australia. 1866 A. Michie Retrospects & Prospects 9 A skull-banker is a species of the genus loafer... He is a haunter of stations, and lives on the squatters,..affecting to seek work and determining not to find it. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Skull~banker, or Scowbanker, a slang name in Australia for a loafer, a tramp. Derivatives ˈscowbank v. (intransitive) to loaf. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf luskc1330 lubber1530 to play the truant, -s1560 lazea1592 lazy1612 meecha1625 lounge1671 saunter1672 sloungea1682 slive1707 soss1711 lolpoop1722 muzz1758 shack1787 hulkc1793 creolize1802 maroon1808 shackle1809 sidle1828 slinge1834 sossle1837 loaf1838 mike1838 to sit around1844 hawm1847 wanton1847 sozzle1848 mooch1851 slosh1854 bum1857 flane1876 slummock1877 dead-beat1881 to lop about1881 scow1901 scowbank1901 stall1916 doss1937 plotz1941 lig1960 loon1969 1901 F. E. Taylor Folk-speech S. Lancs. in Eng. Dial. Dict. He does nowt bu' skeaw-bank abeawt o day. ˈscowbank n. = scowbanker n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer lurdanc1330 player1340 moochera1425 loon?c1450 lounger?a1513 idler1534 rest man1542 holiday-woman1548 baty bummill1568 bummill baty1568 friar-fly?1577 idol1579 lingerer1579 loll1582 idleby1589 shit-rags1598 blaitie bum1602 idle1635 Lollard1635 loiterer1684 saunterer1688 scobberlotchera1697 bumble1786 quisby1789 waffler1805 shoat1808 loafer1830 bummer1855 dead beat1863 bum1864 scowbanker1864 schnorrer1875 scowbank1881 ikey1906 layabout1932 lie-about1937 spine-basher1946 limer1964 1881 W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweetheart I. ii. 44 A sprinkling of black-browed scowbanks from Mediterranean ports. ˈscowbanking adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective] > idling or loafing loiteringa1533 truanting1635 sauntering1672 dawdling1773 shackling1788 lounging1789 louting1836 lubbering1837 loafing1857 mitching1857 scowbanking1868 shacking1881 1868 B. Brierley Fratchingtons iii. 40 If skeawbankin' fro aleheause to aleheause isno' drinkin', what is? 1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield 49 He's a scow-banking sort of fellow! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1750 |
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