| 单词 | butter boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter boy butter boy n. slang (depreciative) a person who has recently taken up work as a taxi driver.Explained in the source quoted in quot. 1939 as originally alluding (like butter-basher n.) to new drivers during a strike in 1913 who were thought to be underqualified and perceived as until recently employed as assistants in groceries and food shops; however, later explained (cf. quots. 1960, 2012) as alluding to new drivers taking the ‘bread and butter’, or means of subsistence, from established drivers. Perhaps cf. also earlier butterfly n. 2d. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > driver of hired cab > driver of taxi-cab > new butter-basher1939 butter boy1939 1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? x. 134 During my ‘butter-boy’ period. 1960 C. Ray Merry Eng. 26 [The] owner-driver..is called a ‘butter-boy’ when he first appears on the rank, taking the butter from the older hands' bread, they say. 2012 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Dec. (G2 section) 11/2 We're known as ‘butter boys’ in the trade, because we take the bread and butter from the mouths of established drivers' families. < as lemmas |
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