dwarf-holder

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A poor farmer with a very small holding, especially one smaller than required for subsistence.
    — It represented the rural middle classes against the bigger men, especially against their creditors, but it neither represented nor cared for the dwarf-holders, still less the agricultural labourers.

词形变化

dwarf-holders plural dwarfholder alternative dwarf holder alternative

词源

From dwarf + holder, by analogy with smallholder. First attested in the 1930s.
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