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名詞

polisson

1. (rare) A dishonest or mischievous person; a scamp.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:villain

   • 1896 October, George du Maurier, “The Martian”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XCIII, number DLVII, New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, page 664, column 1:

     The polisson picked up his pocket-handkerchief and went—quite quietly, with simple manly grace; and that's the first I ever saw of Barty Josselin—and it was some fifty years ago.

参照

• “polisson, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.