| 单词 | the scrubs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Scrubs c. the Scrubs: elliptical for Wormwood Scrubs Prison in Greater London. Also (nonstandard) Scrubbs.The element Scrubs in the place-name is apparently identical with scrub n.1 (see Conc. Oxf. Dict. Eng. Place-names (1936) 510/1). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > specific prisons King's Bench1427 marshalsea1436 tunc1503 chateleta1513 clinkc1530 the Fleet1530 Bocardo1535 bastille1561 Poultry Compter1644 Whit1673 the Moor1869 the Ville1903 the Scrubs1923 H-block1976 Mandela University1986 1923 in J. Manchon Le Slang 1930 G. Baker Soul of Skunk ii. ii. 161 At the end of my first temporal month, I gibed at the Scrubbs... The broadest of my prison grins must have been that which I bestowed upon the Scrubbs' librarian. 1941 G. Greene When Greek meets Greek in 19 Stories (1947) 171 Before his first stay at the Scrubs he had held a number of positions. 1966 A. Prior Operators vi. 64 He had..taken his medicine, which had turned out to be three years in the Scrubs. 1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof iv. 58 ‘Catherine put him in the Scrubbs for twelve months,’ Gibson continued. ‘It was in all the papers, you must have read about it.’ < as lemmas |
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