单词 | what lack you |
释义 | > as lemmaswhat lack you (b) what do you lack (also what lack you): used as a salesman's cry; hence (a name for) an itinerant vendor or pedlar (cf. lack v.1 3). Now historical. ΚΠ 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **2v A secular wit that hath liued all daies of his life by what doo you lacke. 1597 N. Breton Wits Trenchmour sig. E2v The sonne of What lacke you, was become the onely right worshipfull. 1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque B 1 What lacke you sir? faire stuffes or veluets? 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding i. i, in Comedies & Trag. 75 His Father was a..Pedler, a what do you lack, Sir. 1698 W. Salmon Rebuke to Authors of State of Physick in London 24 All the Shows in Bartholomew-Fair, cannot present you with a more Pageant like Introitum. What do you lack, what would you Buy? here are all sorts of Cordial and Distilled Waters. 1938 Daily Mail 18 June 5/3 On Monday five important London stores will be sending up their inviting cry: ‘What do ye lack, ladies?’ 2017 @DerekJohnBryant in twitter.com 17 June. (accessed 21 June 2021) Amazon's anti-comparison shopping patent: the latest version of the traders old cry ‘What lack ye’? < as lemmas |
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