英语词汇“parlyaree”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

parlyaree

释义

parlyaree|pɑːlɪˈɑːriː|
Also parlary.
[f. It. parlare to speak, talk.]
A form of slang used by actors and showmen, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries, and characterized by Italianate vocabulary. Cf. palarie v.
The word appears to be related to nanty parnarly recorded in Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang (1890) II. 81/2.
1933Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday iii. 223 Until about the end of the eighteenth century, actors were so despised that, in self-protection, they had certain words that, properly, should be described as cant and were actually known as Parlyaree.1933Times Lit. Suppl. 15 June 412/3 Circus slang is a nineteenth-century offshoot from the Parlyaree of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.1950Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 117 It was among showmen and strolling players that parlyaree originated.Ibid. 122 Most parlyaree-speakers prefer a carser or carsey, i.e. a house, when they can get it.Ibid. 125 Parlyaree..is a glossary, a vocabulary, not a complete language.1952Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 132 Parlyaree (occasionally parlary). Little is known about this language which has neither accidence nor syntax of its own but is built on a base of Italian words and phrases, whereon cant terms and illiteracies are piled.1960J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 106/1 The term [sc. parlamaree] is obviously a mispronunciation of Parlyaree, the language of the Circus.1960Spectator 11 Mar. 355 The canting jargon of the Victorian fairgrounds known as ‘parlyaree’.

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