| 单词 | box wallah |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbox wallah box wallah n. originally Anglo-Indian (now chiefly historical) (a) an itinerant pedlar or door-to-door salesperson; (b) (occasionally somewhat depreciative) a shopkeeper or retailer, or a person who works in trade or commerce. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar pedder1166 pedlar1307 dustyfoota1400 tranter1500 hawker1510 jagger?1518 jowter1550 pedder-coffec1550 pedderman1552 petty chapman1553 swadder1567 packman1571 merchant1572 swigman1575 chapman?1593 aginator1623 crier1727 duffer1735 Jew pedlar1743 fogger1800 Jew1803 box wallah1826 packie1832 cadger1840 jolter1841 pack-pedlar1859 knocker1934 doorstepper1976 machinga1993 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > shopkeeper merchantc1400 shopholder1443 shopkeeper1530 shopman1572 storekeeper1741 box wallah1826 winkler1853 storeman1858 1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xxi. 260 The box-wallas or sundook-wallas, are native pedlars. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Aug. 11/1 As to the poor boxwallah, the memsahib is a good deal to blame. 1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) I. i. 7 This Young Man must have been a delight to the Delhi boxwallahs. 1956 W. Slim Defeat into Victory 133 It was the ‘Box Wallahs’, the commercial community, who in those hot, anxious months..turned Eastern India into a base and workshop..for Burma. 2013 A. McQueen Under Jewelled Sky vii. 78 Lucien's father had been a box wallah in Calcutta for some years between the wars, importing and exporting anything that would bring him a good profit. < as lemmas |
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