garreter

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of garreteer (“poor writer; literary hack”). alt-of,alternative
    — Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate And to be forced to write hackney for bread.
  2. A thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows. obsolete
    — [A]bout 40 were burglars, "dancers," "garreters," and other adepts with the skeleton keys.

词形变化

garreters plural

词源

From garret + -er.
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