英和和英

語源

rough +‎ -mans

名詞

ruffmans (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) Woods, hedges or bushes.
   • 1611, Middleton, Thomas, “The Roaring Girl”, in Bullen, Arthur Henry, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton^[1], volume 4, published 1885, Act 5, Scene 1, pages 128–129:

     Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.

   • 1994, Scott, Amanda, Dangerous Illusions, ISBN 9780786000180:

     Happen we seen there was a damber in the ruffmans, and since we'd no yen t' deck the chates, we'd ha' binged a wast but for the rhino we was promised.

参照

• Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue^[2], 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
• Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 2, page 191
• Farmer, John Stephen (1903) Slang and Its Analogues^[3], volume 6, pages 71–72