couple-beggar

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who, for a fee, performs an unauthorised wedding service, especially for poor people (originally beggars). historical
    — Yet you'd have no license, but be married by beggarly bans ! [...] Sure it's wonderful you don't seek out a couple-beggar, and get married like the heathens in the time of Nebecudnazar !

词形变化

couple-beggars plural

词源

Originally a verb-noun compound, "one who couples beggars"; later extended to cases where the spouses were not destitute.
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