英和和英

名詞

upright man (複数形 upright men)

1. (archaic, Britain, thieves' cant) The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants.
   • 1611, Middleton, Thomas, The Roaring Girle^[1]:

     I hope then you can cant, for by your cudgels, you sirra are an upright man.

   • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering:

     And the gentry had kind hearts, and would have given baith lap and pannel to ony puir gypsy; and there was not one, from Johnnie Faa the upright man, to little Christie that was in the panniers, would cloyed a dud from them.

2. Used other than as an idiom: see upright,‎ man.
   • 2013, Danson Enogiomwan Ubebe, Return to God: The ABC of 'set Free by Knowing the Truth', ISBN 1780884826, page 19:

     Later He gave him freedom from the Lord to live alone as an upright man to cultivate and keep His garden called Eden.

同意語

• See Wikisaurus:criminal leader

参照

• “upright man” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 391.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues^[2], volume 7, page 264