英语词汇“fugie”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

fugie

释义

ˈfugie Sc. Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 8 fugee.
[perh. f. fugæ in the Law Lat. phrase in meditatione fugæ ‘contemplating flight’, occurring in the ‘fugie-warrant’ (see 2).]
1. A cock that will not fight; a runaway. Hence as a term of abuse, a coward.
1777Brand Pop. Antiq. (1813) I. 61 The School-masters were said to preside at the Battle, and claimed the run⁓away Cocks, called Fugees, as their perquisites.1785R. Forbes Poems in Buchan Dial. 29 How foul's the bibble he spits out, Fan he ca's me a fugee!1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xxviii. (1857) 418 The birds..were converted into droits, under the ill-omened name of fugies.1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. xiv. 478 The master..enjoyed the perquisite of all the runaway cocks, called fugies.
2. Comb.: fugie-warrant, a warrant granted against a debtor, on a sworn information that he intends to flee.
1816Scott Antiq. xxxix, ‘Ay’, said Ochiltree, ‘that will be what they ca' the fugie-warrants’.

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