“gallows-clapper”的英英意思

单词	gallows-clapper
释义	† gallow(s)-clapper Obs. [f. gallows n. + clapper. ? From the swinging of the body to and fro like the clapper of a bell or of a scarecrow.] = gallows-bird. 1570Levins Manip. 81/4 A Gallowclapper, furcifer.1583Golding Calvin on Deut. li. 305 It is not only the gallowes-clappers that say so I meane those whose faultes and crymes are manifest.1640Brome Antip. ii. ix. Wks. 1873 III. 271 Come, come, ye Gallows-clappers.1708Motteux Rabelais v. vii, Their Worships as he call'd them were about a score of fusty Crackropes and Gallowclappers.

　

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