| 单词 | bum-brusher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbum-brusher bum-brusher n. slang (now rare, chiefly historical) a schoolteacher, esp. one who favours corporal punishment. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > flogging schoolmaster trouncerc1630 bum-brusher1682 1682 W. Richards Wallography 22 We had scarce prim'd our Pipes, but in comes a Law-jobber, accompanied with the Bum-brusher, or School-master of the place. 1702 T. Brown et al. Lett. from Dead to Living 181 I was forc'd to turn Bum-brusher. 1809 Faction ii. 56 (note) What work made they not about..Roman Catholic seminaries, and schoolmasters?..Should not bumbrushers be represented as well as brewers? 1952 Pennsylvania Hist. 19 433 No bum-brusher who knew the younger Wheelers at school could miss the..permanent influence. 2014 S. Vernon Messiah iii Handel, he's worse than a bum brusher, he can be so fierce. < as lemmas |
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