“scrouger”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

scrouger

释义

ˈscrouger
[f. scrouge v. + -er¹.]
1. U.S. Anything exceptional in size, capacity, etc.; a ‘bouncer’.
1822Amer. Beacon (Norfolk, Va.) 6 Sept. 4/1 The barge⁓men..are divided into classes, such as Tuscaloosa Roarers, Alabama Screamers, Cahawba Scrougers, and the like gentle names.1837Davy Crockett's Almanack Wild Sports 1838 I. iv. 13 He found me a real scrouger. I brake three of his ribs.1847Robb Squatter Life (Bartlett 1860), The gals among them warn't any of your pigeon critters,..but real scrougers; any of 'em could lick a bar easy.1852Haliburton Traits Amer. Humour xxi. (1866) 119 A drum, and a regular scrouger at that.
2. A fishing-line fitted with several hooks used for illegal fishing (= scrodgill).
1897Kipling Capt. Cour. viii. 157 A man..had been convicted of using a tackle with five or six hooks—a ‘scrowger’ they call it—on the Shoals.

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