单词 | bummareeing |
释义 | † bummareeingn. slang. Obsolete. The action or practice of working as a middleman in a market, esp. Billingsgate fish market in London. Cf. bummaree n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in provisions > in fish or game > as middleman bummareeing1859 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 21 The process of bumbareeing is very simple. 1885 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (rev. ed.) 124/1 A class of middlemen or fish-jobbers in Billingsgate market, who got a living by bummareeing, i.e., buying parcels of fish from the salesmen, and then retailing them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1859 |
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