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单词 black-leggery
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black-ˈleggery
black-ˈleggery n. (also black-legery) blacklegs regarded collectively; (also) the characteristics or behaviour of a blackleg (sense 2).
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gammoning1700
blacklegism1827
black-leggery1832
bunco1872
in and in1935
1832 W. Maginn in Blackwood's Mag. 32 427 From following any profession save the Army, the Navy, Black-apronry, and Black-leggery.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Dec. 20 The two baronets resemble each other only in cowardice, spite, and blackleggery.
1907 J. J. Pence in S. P. Kaler & R. H. Maring Hist. Whiteley County Indiana 298/1 The hanging of Gregory McDougal..broke the backbone of the black-legery.
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