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单词 abbey-lubber
释义

abbey-lubber

English

Noun

abbey-lubber (plural abbey-lubbers)

  1. (obsolete, historical, derogatory) An able-bodied idler who grew sleek and fat from the charity of religious houses; a lazy monk.[1]
    • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar, III-iii:
      This is no huge overgrown abbey-lubber.

References

  1. “abbey-lubber” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.
  • The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914
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