whopstraw

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rustic, a clod-hopper.
    — Charles had not been employed at Darracott Place above six months, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
  2. A thresher, one who separates the grain from the chaff by beating with a flail.
    — Parker Clare became a flail-thresher, a whopstraw

词形变化

whopstraws plural
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