“gold、finder”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

gold-finder

释义

ˈgold-ˌfinder
1. One whose occupation it is to find gold.
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 51 The graue-rakers, these gold-finders are called theeues.1749Fielding Tom Jones vi. i, The truth-finder and the gold-finder.1852Earp Gold Col. Australia viii. 130 The camp of the goldfinders was called the city of Ophir.
†2. A scavenger. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Guigneron, a Gold-finder, a Dung-farmer.1685Crowne Sir Courtly Nice ii. 10 A gold-finder, Madam? look into jakes for bits o' money? I had a spirit above it.1724Swift Wood's Execution, Gold-finder. I'll make him stink.1755Man No. 13. 6 My cart..might, in imitation of..the gold-finders, wait at the doors of persons of fashion, to take in a loading privately..when the prying vulgar are asleep. [1896Warwicksh. Gloss. s.v. Gold-dust, The name gold-finder or gold-farmer..still lingers in Shrewsbury.]

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