skin merchant

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who trades in skin-based products like furs and leather.
    — The fur broker buys and sells on commission for his clients, while the skin merchant buys for his own stock the kinds of furs for which he anticipates a demand. Each class of trader is of necessity an expert in raw furs, and the skin merchant can tell not only the exact grade and value of a skin, but often the precise district of its country of origins.
  2. A recruiting officer. derogatory,obsolete
    — Capt. Trepan says: ‘I am a manufacturer of honour and glory—vulgarly called a recruiting dealer—or, more vulgarly still, a skin merchant.’
  3. A prostitute. colloquial
    — When Chad fucked the skin merchant, what did he do to make it better with y’all?

词形变化

skin merchants plural skin-merchant alternative

词源

From skin + merchant.
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