“crack、rope”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

crack-rope

释义

† ˈcrack-rope Obs.
[f. crack v. + rope.]
1. = crack-halter; also = rogue, vituperatively, and playfully.
c1450Henryson Tod's Confessioun 48 (Jam.) Syne widdie⁓nek and crak-raip callit als, And till our hyre hangit up be the hals.1571Edwards Damon & P. in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 68 Away, you crack-ropes, are you fighting at the court⁓gate?1611Cotgr., Baboin, a crackrope, waghalter, unhappie rogue, retchless villaine.1620Shelton Don Quix. III. iii. 19 ‘Sancho, you are a Crack-rope’, quoth Don Quixote, ‘ifaith you want no Memory’.1708Motteux Rabelais v. vii, About a score of fusty Crackropes and Gallowclappers.
2. attrib. or adj.
1611Tarlton's Jests (1844) 19 There was a crack-rope boy, meeting Tarlton in London street.1631Shirley Love in Maze iv. iii, You do not know the mystery: this lady is a boy, a very crack-rope boy.1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxx, Ye crack-rope padder, born beggar, and bred thief.

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