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单词 tame cheater
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tame cheater
4. tame cheater: ? a decoy duck or other tame animal used as a decoy. Shakespeare plays on other senses, and Scott uses it with allusion to Shakespeare's application of it to Pistol.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 94 Hees no swaggrer hostesse, a tame cheter yfaith, you may stroke him as gently as a puppy grey-hound. View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggggg/1 You..will be drawne into the net by this decoy ducke, this tame cheater.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. iii. 43 Sinking, from ruffling bullies into tame cheaters.
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