英语词汇“yellow-dog note”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†a. U.S. attributive with the sense ‘designating a worthless or fraudulent banknote, esp. one issued by a bank with little or no capital; of or relating to such notes’, as yellow dog money, yellow-dog note, etc. Cf. red dog n. 1. Obsolete.

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1875 Chicago Tribune 26 Aug. 4/1 The grand mass-meeting in Detroit in favor of cheap imitation money of the ‘blue-pup’ and ‘yellow dog’ variety proved to be a wretched failure.

1876 Van Wert (Ohio) Weekly Bull. 21 Apr. The small silver change that had continued in use through the previous eras of ‘stump-tail’, ‘wild-cat’, and ‘yellow-dog’ paper-money disappeared.

1894 Southern Planter Apr. 216/1 People were defrauded by ‘yellow-dog’ notes.

1913 J. T. Stewart Indiana County Pennsylvania I. xxxv. 530 It [sc. fraudulent paper currency] was also called ‘yellow dog money’ because it resembled that kind of animal, which was always worthless.

单词	yellow-dog note
释义	> as lemmas yellow-dog note †a. U.S. attributive with the sense ‘designating a worthless or fraudulent banknote, esp. one issued by a bank with little or no capital; of or relating to such notes’, as yellow dog money, yellow-dog note, etc. Cf. red dog n. 1. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1875 Chicago Tribune 26 Aug. 4/1 The grand mass-meeting in Detroit in favor of cheap imitation money of the ‘blue-pup’ and ‘yellow dog’ variety proved to be a wretched failure. 1876 Van Wert (Ohio) Weekly Bull. 21 Apr. The small silver change that had continued in use through the previous eras of ‘stump-tail’, ‘wild-cat’, and ‘yellow-dog’ paper-money disappeared. 1894 Southern Planter Apr. 216/1 People were defrauded by ‘yellow-dog’ notes. 1913 J. T. Stewart Indiana County Pennsylvania I. xxxv. 530 It [sc. fraudulent paper currency] was also called ‘yellow dog money’ because it resembled that kind of animal, which was always worthless. extracted from yellow dogn. < as lemmas
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