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单词 shake-bag
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shake-bagn.

Etymology: < shake v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshake-bag.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. Cock-fighting. (See quots. 16881, 1709). Cf. shack-bag n. 2.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > fighting cock > kinds of
turn-poke1615
shake-bag1663
heeler1688
game bantam1831
tassel-cock1898
1663 State-Scuffle 3 And when two shake-bags are thrown out, To try the Battel yet in doubt, When weary still they wheele about More eager.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 252/1 A Shake-bag, is a Cock turned out of the Bag to fight another Cock, unsight, unseen, or unmatched; a Battle at a venture.
1688 London Gaz. No. 2328/4 40 Cocks on each side will be shewn... And every Battel 5 l. each side, and 50 l. the odd Battel, and four Shake Bags for 10 l. each Cock.
1709 R. H. Royal Pastime Cock-fighting iv. 19 Yet are these Birds commonly reduced into two sorts only,..the great Game Cock, or Shake-bag, and the little Match, or Battle-Cock.
1777 T. Swift Gamblers i. 829 The Pit shall roar, fierce Shake-bag flap the wing.
1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Shakebag, a game-cock of the largest size.
in extended use.1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 65 Wit. Will you go to a Cock-match? Sir Wil. With a Wench, Tony? Is she a shake-bag Sirrah?1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 107 I would pit her..against the best shake-bag of the whole main.
2. A rogue, scoundrel. Also (see quots. 1796, 1823 at sense 3). Cf. shack-bag n. 1. [Compare the following:
1592 Arden of Feversham (title page) His..wife, who..hyred two desperate ruffins Blackwill and Shakbag, to kill him.
(See also quot. a1616 at shake v. 7b).]
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun]
harlot?c1225
truantc1290
shreward1297
boyc1300
lidderon13..
cokinc1330
pautenerc1330
bribera1387
bricouna1400
losarda1400
rascal?a1400
custronc1400
knapea1450
sloven?a1475
limmerc1485
knavatec1506
smaik?1507
smy?1507
koken?a1513
swinger1513
Cock Lorel?1518
pedlar's French1530
varletc1540
losthope?c1550
makeshift1554
wild rogue1567
miligant1568
rogue1568
crack-halter1573
rascallion1582
schelm1584
scoundrel1589
scaba1592
bezonian1592
slave1592
rampallion1593
Scanderbeg1601
roly-poly1602
canter1608
cantler1611
gue1612
fraudsman1613
Cathayana1616
crack-hempa1616
foiterer1616
tilt1620
picaro1622
picaroon1629
sheepmanc1640
rapscallion1648
scaramouch1677
fripon1691
trickster1711
shake-bag1794
sinner1809
cad1838
badmash1843
scattermouch1892
jazzbo1914
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal
harlot?c1225
knavec1275
truantc1290
shreward1297
boinarda1300
boyc1300
lidderon13..
cokinc1330
pautenerc1330
bribera1387
bricouna1400
losarda1400
rascal?a1400
knapea1450
lotterela1450
limmerc1485
Tutivillus1498
knavatec1506
smy?1507
koken?a1513
swinger1513
Cock Lorel?1518
pedlar's French1530
cust1535
rabiator1535
varletc1540
Jack1548
kern1556
wild rogue1567
miligant1568
rogue1568
tutiviller1568
rascallion1582
schelm1584
scoundrel1589
rampallion1593
Scanderbeg1601
scroyle1602
canter1608
cantler1611
skelm1611
gue1612
Cathayana1616
foiterer1616
tilt1620
picaro1622
picaroon1629
sheepmanc1640
rapscallion1648
marrow1656
Algerine1671
scaramouch1677
fripon1691
shake-bag1794
badling1825
tiger1827
two-for-his-heels1837
ral1846
skeezicks1850
nut1882
gun1890
scattermouch1892
tug1896
natkhat1901
jazzbo1914
scutter1940
bar steward1945
hoor1965
1794 Sporting Mag. 3 104 Being estimated..by the blacklegs, rooks and shakebags as a complete knowing one.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Shag-bag, or Shake-bag, a poor sneaking fellow, a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit.
3. attributive.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 252 Shake-back [sic] Battle, is a fight between two Cocks unmatched, unsight, unseen.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Shake-bag match—in cocking; the fighting adventitiously, or guessing at weights and pairing, while the fowls are still in their respective bags. ‘A Shake-bag fellow’, if he be no pick-pocket, is at least a seedy cove.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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