| 单词 | boot-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboot-boy boot-boy n. (a) a boy employed to clean boots and shoes; (b) a violent or rowdy youth of a type characterized by assembling in gangs in search of trouble, wearing short-cropped hair and heavy boots; = bovver boy n. at bovver n. Compounds ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun] > one who black-shoe boy1725 Japanner1725 shoe-cleaner1725 shoe-blacker1735 shoe-boy1735 shoeblack1772 boot-black1817 boot-boy1860 shoe-shiner1910 shiner1912 society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans > member of gang of hooligans whitecap1607 shrove-prentice1638 Mohock?1711 sweater1712 highbinder1806 hoodlum1871 hooligan1898 hood1930 skolly1934 tear-away1938 gunsel1942 Teddy boy1954 hell's angel1956 angel1965 bikie1967 skinhead1969 bovver boy1970 boot-boy1977 casual1980 1860 A. Trollope Tales of all Countries 58 ‘He, he, he,’ laughed the boot boy as he turned them up for me to look at. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son ix. 84 I don't share out,—with the boot-boy. 1977 Chainsaw Sept. 7/2 And now we're getting fights down the King's Road at weekends between punks, teds and boot boys. 1984 Daily Tel. 25 Feb. 36/4 Mr John Cartwright, the SDP whip whose party has taken the brunt of the abuse said: ‘We are not going to be silenced by this sort of boot-boy tactics more suited to football hooligans than MPs.’ < as lemmas |
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