| 单词 | shallow cove |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshallow cove Used in shallow cove, shallow dodge, shallow mort, shallow screever: see quots. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > who goes nearly naked shallow cove1839 shivering-Jemmy1860 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > who goes nearly naked > female shallow mort1839 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > pavement artist shallow screever1839 screever1841 flagstone artist1862 pavement artist1869 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > begging > a begging imposture maund1699 shallow dodge1869 1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 165/1 Shallow Coves, or Shallow Fellows,—fellows who go about the country, half-naked, with a Guernsey jacket, but no hat, shoes, nor stockings. 1842 Edinb. Rev. July 484 ‘Shallow Coves’ are impostors begging through the country as shipwrecked sailors. They generally choose winter, and always go nearly naked. 1842 Edinb. Rev. July 484 ‘Shallow Motts’ are females who, like the Shallow Coves, go nearly naked. 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 90 Shallow screever, a man who sketches and draws on the pavement. 1869 J. Greenwood Seven Curses London 245 The ‘shaller’ or more properly ‘shallow’ dodge, is for a beggar to make capital of his rags and a disgusting condition of semi-nudity. < as lemmas |
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