单词 | parkie |
释义 | parkie, parky colloq. (chiefly Sc. and north.).|ˈpɑːkɪ| [f. park n. 2 + -y6, -ie.] A park-keeper.
[1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 587 Touching our Phoenix Rangers' nuisance at the meeting of the waitresses,..and those pest of parkies, twitch, thistle and charlock.] 1953Scottish Jrnl. Theol. VI. 424 [Schopenhauer] one day sat hunched up on a seat in the Tiergarten, sunk in profound reflection. A Parkaufseher, or as we should say ‘parky’, saw him and not unnaturally put him down as at least a suspicious character. 1957J. Kirkup Only Child 124 We lived in mortal terror of being caught by the parky. 1965Listener 4 Nov. 720/1 The Parkie's usually an auld man and he cannie climb the poles. 1971Sunday Times 9 May 34 It's just coats on the ground and the parkies chase us at least once a month for doing something wrong. 1975Scottish Field Apr. 4/3 You had to be on the lookout for the Parky if, as was likely, you had nipped on [to the Alexandra Park golf course] without paying. |

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