| 单词 | to live tally |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto live (on) tally b. to live (on) tally, to live in concubinage, to cohabit without marriage. slang. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (intransitive)] > cohabit to live together1483 adhere1525 cohabitc1530 to live in sin1838 to live (on) tally1864 shack1935 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 253 Tally, ‘to live tally,’ to live in a state of unmarried impropriety. 1867 B. Brierley Traddlepin Fold 174 Aw'd advise thi t'live tally..if theaw con mak' it reet wi' some owd damsel. 1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iii. 246 I never took to a moll except on tally. 1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude vi. 377 A man she was then living ‘tally’ with. 1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 10 297/2 To ‘live tally’ is quite a common expression amongst the working classes in Lancashire, as is also tally-woman. 1901 M. Peacock in Folk-Lore June 174 He had for years been ‘living tally’ with a woman—that is in cohabitation without marriage. < as lemmas |
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