单词 | botching tailor |
释义 | > as lemmasbotching tailor 2. Designating a tradesperson who carries out repairs. Chiefly in botching tailor; cf. botcher n.1 2a(b). Sometimes depreciative. Now historical. ΚΠ 1584 R. Cosin Answer to Two Fyrst & Principall Treat. x. 287 He taketh occasion by similitude of a botching tailor..to make himselfe merie, rather than to patch vp anie good reason. 1617 J. Taylor Dolphins Danger & Deliuerance sig. A3 Then let a botching patcher botch and mend. 1791 J. Wolcot Remonstrance in Wks. (1812) II. 452 I'm a poor botching tailor for a court Low bred on liver and what Clowns call mugget. 1870 22nd Ann. Rep. Poor Law Board 1869–70 App. 21 in Parl. Papers (C. 123) XXXV. 1 A botching shoemaker ekes out his parish relief by wages which, with hard work, range from 4d. to 8d. per day. 1891 Temple Bar Oct. 259 The concierge..often supplements his emoluments by employing his leisure hours as cobbler or botching tailor. 1920 I. Goldberg tr. L. Kobrin Lithuanian Village xvii. 142 Lame Gedaliah was a botching tailor. 2007 E. Cockayne Hubbub iii. 78 Clothes could be taken to a botcher, or botching tailor, for patching and repair. < as lemmas |
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