| 单词 | silver-beggar |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilver-beggar silver-beggar n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1841 Exposure of Impositions practised by Vagrants 4 I shall begin with those vagrants who, generally, obtain the most, and are considered of the first class, and by some termed ‘Silver Beggars’, but by travellers they are called ‘Lurkers’. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 230 Silver-beggar or Lurker, a vagabond who travels through the country with ‘briefs’ containing false statements of losses by fire, shipwrecks, accidents, &c. < as lemmas |
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