Piccadilly butcherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

In reference to their savage onslaught upon the crowd on the occasion of the arrest of Sir Francis Burdett at his house in Piccadilly.

名詞

Piccadilly butcher (複数形 Piccadilly butchers)

1. (obsolete, Britain, slang, derogatory) A member of the regiment of Horse Guards, or "Royal Blues".
   • 1875, The Law Magazine and Review (page 554)

     The mob in the meantime holloaed out, "No Corn Bill!" While they were proceeding in this manner, a cry was raised that "the Piccadilly butchers were coming."

   • 1913, Ash's Monthly (page 532)

     "In 1810, my father very nearly had his head cloven by a Piccadilly butcher when merely looking on to see Sir Francis Burdett taken to the tower."

参照

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary