| 单词 | souvenir hunter |
| 释义 | > as lemmassouvenir hunter souvenir hunter n. (a) a person who searches for souvenirs to buy; (b) a person who takes or steals something, esp. an item of historical or cultural interest, to keep as a souvenir; cf. souvenir v. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > petty thief or pilferer > [noun] mitcher?c1225 nimmera1325 pilferer1350 truffer1485 lurcher1528 picker1549 filcher1557 purloiner1557 prig1567 prigger1567 prigman1567 fingerer1575 piker1590 prag1592 nibbler1598 lurch-man1603 petty larcener1640 budge1673 catch-cloaka1679 prigster1682 sutler1699 marauder1764 snib1823 chicken thief1840 lurker1841 souvenir hunter1862 robberling1865 jackdaw1887 miker1890 frisker1892 bower-bird1926 jagoff1931 magpie1944 slockster- 1862 Spectator 15 Nov. 1271/1 No sooner had the Exhibition been turned into a bazaar than this army of souvenir-hunters came flocking into the building. 1865 Boston Daily Advertiser 1 Apr. 1/8 The tree under which Grant and Pemberton held the interview which resulted in the capitulation of Vicksburg has disappeared, root, branch, trunk and all, carried off by souvenir hunters. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 131 Being a hardened souvenir-hunter, he is reported to have removed the official German name-board of the establishment. 1976 B. Jackson Flameout (1977) iii. 40 Souvenir hunters were a menace..stealing bits of metal that could, if left in position, help determine the cause of the crash. 1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 12 Nov. 1 a Souvenir hunters snatched up pieces of the Berlin Wall, for 28 years a grim monument to national division. 2001 Times 24 Jan. i. 2/2 The themed zones, lifts, and hundreds of seats will go on sale to souvenir hunters on February 27. < as lemmas |
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