Billy Barlow

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A clown who performs in the streets. UK,obsolete
    — […] for at an election meeting in East Maitland in 1845 William Lipscomb, the local wit, said of the squatters that 'so far from being wealthy, they had produced more Billy Barlows than any other class'.

词形变化

Billy Barlows plural

词源

Named after a real Billy Barlow, who (according to Hotten; see reference) was a well-known street character around the East End of London, and died in Whitechapel Workhouse.
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