| 单词 | bridewell bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbridewell bird ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > one who has been long or often in jail Newgate bird1580 bridewell bird1590 jail-bird1603 prison-birda1640 old hand1826 repeater1873 old lag1910 loser1912 in-and-out boy1937 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B3v Skufling in the kennel together by the eares like bride well birds. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. i. 78 He..concluded by ordering the three bridewell birds to be hauled out of the black hole..and soundly flogged. 1886 J. P. Altgeld Our Penal Machinery & Its Victims (rev. ed.) 140 The police call them jail birds, or Bridewell birds, and seem to take a delight in ‘running them in’ again at the earliest possible opportunity. < as lemmas |
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