Abaddonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

abaddon (複数形 abaddons)

1. (archaic, 英国用法 スラング) An informer; a criminal who informs on other criminals to the authorities.
   • c. 1839, Report of the Trial of the Great Gold Dust Robbery:

     The prisoner, Money Moses, better known among thieves and fences as Moses the abaddon, has been, to my knowledge, for the last twenty years a receiver and dealer in stolen property.

同意語

• grass, nark, stool pigeon, see Thesaurus:informant

参照

• “abaddon” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 2.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues‎^[1], volume 1, page 3