trunk-makerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

trunk-maker (複数形 trunk-makers)

1. A person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).
2. (theater, obsolete) A critic who pounds upon the benches in a show of approval.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292, book IV:

     This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.

語源

trunk +‎ maker