ark ruffianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ark ruffian (複数形 ark ruffians)

1. (archaic, cant) A rogue who, in conjunction with watermen, robbed, and sometimes murdered, on the water, by picking a quarrel with the passengers in a boat, boarding it, plundering, stripping, and throwing them overboard, etc.
   • 1996, S. I. Martin, Incomparable World (page 157)

     "Let the ark ruffians make the first move," Buckram said aloud, reluctantly acknowledging his role as the most able-bodied male passenger.

参照

• Grose, Francis, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue / Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence: altered and enlarged (London; 1811)