under-spur-leather
短语发音
US
词形变化
under-spur-leathers
复数
under-spur-leathers
释义与例句
n.
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1.
Subordinate, underling.
废旧1711, Jonathan Swift, Letter to Esther Johnson dated 9 October, 1711, in Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift, London: C. Bathurst et al., 3rd edition, 1769, p. 61, I have instructed an under-spur-leather to write so, that it is taken for mine.
1816, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf in Tales of my Landlord, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Chapter 12, p. 242, […] I have opened house, not only for the gentry, but for the under-spur-leathers whom we must necessarily employ.
词源
From under- + spur-leather.
来源:wiktionary