单词 | caser |
释义 | ▪ I. † caser1 Obs.
1585Wills & Inv. N.C. (1860) 112, j caser, j chair and a launce, 12d. ▪ II. caser2 slang.|ˈkeɪsə(r)| [Yiddish; f. Heb. kesef silver.] A crown; five shillings; in the U.S., a dollar.
1849‘A. Harris’ Emigrant Fam. I. ix. 212 A caser (dollar) if you fine him a night of it; and four if he gets what'll make him quiet. 1860Hotten Slang Dict. 111. Caser is the Hebrew word for a crown. 1879J. W. Horsley in Macm. Mag. Oct. 501/2 One morning I found I did not have more than a caser (5s.). 1899Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Jan., Caser, a five-shilling piece [cited as N.Z. slang]. 1900H. Lawson Over Sliprails (1945) 145, I borrowed half a caser off a murderer once. 1939J. B. Priestley Let People Sing x. 256 Knocker brought some money and examined it... ‘A nicker, half a bar, a caser an' a hole.’ 1967Sunday Mirror 19 Mar. 24/4, 5s.—Oxford scholar or caser. |

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