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hackney
English
Etymology
From Middle English hakeney; probably from Hackney (formerly a town, now a borough of London), used for grazing horses before sale, or from Old French haquenee (“ambling mare for ladies”), Latinized in England to hakeneius (though some recent French sources report that the English usage predates the French).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hækni/
Noun
hackney (plural hackneys)
- (archaic) An ordinary horse.
- A carriage for hire or a cab.
- A horse used to ride or drive.
- A breed of English horse.
- (archaic) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
hackney (not comparable)
- Offered for hire.
- hackney coaches
- (figuratively) Much used; trite; mean.
- hackney authors
- a. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, The Ghost of the old House of Commons to the new one appointed to meet at Oxford.
- his accumulative and hackney tongue
Translations
Verb
hackney (third-person singular simple present hackneys, present participle hackneying, simple past and past participle hackneyed)
- (transitive) To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use.
- (transitive) To use as a hackney.
- (transitive) To carry in a hackney coach.
Translations
hackney From the web:
hireling
English
Etymology
From Middle English hirlyng, from Old English h?rling (“hireling, employee”), from Proto-West Germanic *h??ijuling. Cognate with West Frisian hierling, Dutch huurling (“hireling, mercenary”), German Low German Hüürling,German Heuerling.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ha?.?.l??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?ha???l??/
Noun
hireling (plural hirelings)
- (usually derogatory) An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
- 1611, King James Version, Job 7:1:
- Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
- 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 19:
- When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?
- 1611, King James Version, Job 7:1:
- (usually derogatory) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
- 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
- ... it may be truly affirmed that no kind of men love business for itself but those that are learned; for other persons love it for profit, as a hireling that loves the work for the wages;
- 1821, Lord Byron, Sardanapalus, Act II, sc. 1:
- These vain bickerings
- Are spawn'd in courts by base intrigues and baser
- Hirelings, who live by lies on good men's lives.
- 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
- A horse for hire.
- 1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, Chapter 3, Section 5:
- In the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look for hirellings.
- 1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, Chapter 3, Section 5:
- (obsolete) A prostitute.
Synonyms
- flunky
- lackey
- mercenary
Translations
See also
- underling
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