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单词 blue boy
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blue boyn.

Brit. /ˈbluː bɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈblu ˌbɔɪ/
Forms: see blue adj. and n. and boy n.1 and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., boy n.1
Etymology: < blue adj. + boy n.1
1. Any of various boys or men who wear blue clothing, or a blue uniform, livery, etc. (cf. blue adj. 5); esp. a boy who attends a blue coat school or similar charitable institution (now chiefly historical). Cf. blue coat n. Compounds 2.In quot. 1798 (and subsequently) as the title given to a well-known portrait of a boy in a blue suit, by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88); cf. Gainsborough n. 1.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > charity school pupil
childOE
blue coat boy1609
blue coat1619
poor child1626
blue boy1649
blue coat girl1695
blue1803
1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour ii. 11 Each new Church And Hospitall, I meane to build apace, And have my blew boyes March through the streets.
1688 J. Harrington Some Refl. Pietas Romana & Parisiensis 18/2 (note) Children of the Hospitals of les Enfants as well as the Blew-boys gain part of their livelyhood by carrying torches.
1769 Descr. Eng. & Wales V. 184 Here also..is erected a large school for the hospital, or blue boys, where they are taught to read and write.
1798 Edinb. Mag. Feb. 123/2 His [sc. Gainsborough's] best portrait is that known among the painters by the name of the Blue boy.
1818 Rep. Commissioners Educ. Poor in Parl. Papers (1819) X. 335 The Blue boys are admitted between nine and ten years of age; the free boys are received at eight years old.
1905 W. W. Skeat Past at our Doors 71 (caption) Blue Boys' School, Chester.
2004 P. Weidner Mem. Dwarf at Sun King's Court xi. 136 Among the staff were the blue boys; these formed a corps of pages, sons of the nobility, aged twelve to eighteen.
2. slang. A policeman. Also as a nickname. Usually in plural. Cf. boys in blue n. (c) at blue adj. and n. Phrases 7b.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
truncheon officer1708
runner1735
horny1753
nibbing-cull1775
nabbing-cull1780
police officer1784
police constable1787
policeman1788
scout1789
nabman1792
nabber1795
pig1811
Bow-street officer1812
nab1813
peeler1816
split1819
grunter1823
robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
Bow-street runner-
society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > mode of address to
officer1899
blue boy1966
1844 Peter Parley's Ann. 66 ‘I declare there never is a policeman in the way when he is wanting.’ Presently comes forth..one of the aforesaid ‘walking blue boys’..; a lot of real boys behind, crying.
1883 J. Greenwood Odd People 68 The instrumental ‘blue boys’ belonging to several metropolitan divisions.
1912 A. S. M. Hutchinson Happy Warrior v. vii. §2 The Blue Boys from the police-station..scoured the country.
1966 M. Rumaker Gringos & Other Stories 119 Watch it, blueboy. You coppers think you can get everything for nothing.
1999 P. Straub Mr. X xv. 77 The arrival on my doorstep of two blueboys instructed me that someone had ‘dropped..the dime’ on my participation in a number of illegal activities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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