| 单词 |
Hawcubite |
| 释义 |
Hawcubite|ˈhɔːkəbaɪt| Also Hawca-, Hawku-. One of a band of dissolute young men who infested the streets of London in the beginning of the 18th century; a street-bully, a ruffian.
1712Swift Wonderf. Proph. Wks. 1755 III. i. 174, I am the porter, that was barbarously slain in Fleet street: by the Mohocks and Hawcubites was I slain. 1880Brewer Reader's Hand-bk., Hawcabite. 1882Athenæum 25 Nov. 693/1 Pounce in the ‘Tender Husband’..having a wholesome distrust at his return of possible Mohocks and Hawkubites. |

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