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单词 winter cricket
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winter cricket
winter cricket n. slang Obsolete (an insulting nickname for) a tailor.Probably with allusion to quot. a1616, which contains insulting words directed at a tailor, but where winter cricket may well have no established application to a tailor.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 109 Thou Flea, thou Nit, thou winter cricket thou. View more context for this quotation]
1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Winter Cricket, a taylor.
1827 T. S. Surr Richmond III. vii. 101 Blount..turned out to be the tailor... ‘He called me a “winter-cricket”.’
1904 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. iii. 358/1 Winter-cricket, (common).—A tailor.
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