单词 | broom-man |
释义 | broom-mann. One who uses a broom; a street-sweeper. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > one who mucker1229 raker1327 canel raker?1518 masser-scourer?1518 scavenger1530 sweep-street1553 channel raker1575 broom-man1592 broom-boy1593 gutter-master1607 rake-kennel1707 fulyie man1826 road sweeper1832 crossing-sweeper1841 street orderly1848 orderly1851 scavager1851 scaffy1853 broomer1857 sweep1858 roader1883 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D Then conscience was not a broome man in Kent street but a Courtier. a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 59 Who's free? Not Broome~men, nor the baser sort, Who dress the Citie, and defile the Court. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 9 Scarce one, in Five Thousand..knows so much as what Popery means. Only that it is..A Word that sounds bigg and high in the Mouths of..Broom men, Scavingers and Watermen, on a 5th or 17th of November. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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