knobstick

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈnɒbstɪk/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stick with a rounded knob at the end.
    — The “Budd”, or Somali club, resembles the Kafir “Tonga”. It is a knobstick, about a cubit long, made of some hard wood: the head is rounded on the inside, and the outside is cut to an edge.
  2. One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union. slang
    — ‘Don’t you see what you would be? You’d be a knobstick. You'd be taking less wages than the other labourers—all for the sake of another man’s children. Think how you’d abuse any poor fellow who was willing to take what he could get to keep his own children. You and your Union would soon be down upon him […]’

词形变化

knobsticks plural

词汇关系

近义词
abaa

词源

From knob + stick.
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