OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10513

cad

/kæd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
villano
A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.
I make him sound like a cad, but he’s not. Early on, when I fell seriously ill, he cared for me devotedly. He’s witty, sweet, a great cook and easy on the eyes.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the…
boletero
A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
I’ve fallen asleep on my step as the ’bus was going on, and almost fallen off. I have often to put up with insolence from vulgar fellows, who think it fun to chaff a cad, as they c…
We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its ex…
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