英语词汇“horse、breaker”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

horse-breaker

释义

ˈhorse-breaker
1. One who breaks in horses or trains them to the bridle or collar.
1550Coverdale Spir. Perle vi. (1588) 66 Whan the horsse breaker geueth vnto a lusty freshe yong horsse, too much of the bridle, he is wilde and wanton.1601Holland Pliny I. 222 Hereupon horse-breakers..haue an art by cords to bring a horse to the like amble.1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 9 The most furious and robust man is not the best horse-breaker and pacer.1864J. Payn Sir Massingberd 58 If he had been a horsebreaker by profession, he could not have taken greater pains with the animal.
†2. A courtesan; a demi-mondaine; a prostitute. Freq. pretty horsebreaker. Obs.
1861Times 28 June 12/4 They are, in the end, only fit for the company of ‘horsebreakers’.Ibid. 12/5 If she thinks men prefer the society of ‘pretty horsebreakers’..she never was more mistaken.1861Punch 13 July 13 (caption) Stout Equestrian. ‘Dou [sic] you know, love, I'm rather sorry I got this hat, for suppose I should be taken for a ‘pretty horsebreaker’!’1865Public Opinion 30 Sept. 352/2 These demi-monde people,..horsebreakers, hetairæ..are by degrees pushing their way into ‘society’.1865C. Knight Shadows of Old Booksellers v. 112 He..was intimate with all the high ― (read ‘pretty horse-breakers’) in town... Some of these girls he often asked to dine with him.1966D. Crow Theresa xvi. 189 While Brewster's aim was to show her up as a pretty horse-breaker, hers was to proclaim her purity.1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 265 The vestiges of sensual innocence hung around long enough to endow us with obsolete terms like..pretty horsebreaker.

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