burke

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burke

1. Burk, Martha Jane Burk, Burke, Martha Jane Burke, Calamity Jane, Edmund Burke.

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murhata, lakaista

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Burke

• puhekieltä To murder in the same manner as Burke, to kill by suffocation

• 1829 February 2, Times (London), 3/5

As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke him, Burke him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘Burke Hare too!’

• puhekieltä To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.

• 1833, T. Hook, Parsons Daughter'', II. i. 26

Perhaps he is Burked, and his body sold for nine pounds.

• 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, s:The Pickwick Papers/Chapter 31|Chapter 31:

‘You don’t mean to say he was burked, Sam?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.

• puhekieltä To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.

• 1835, J. A. Roebuck. Dorchester Labourers, 6/1 (note)

The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked.

• 1888, Rudyard Kipling, s:A Bank Fraud|"A Bank Fraud," Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, page 128:

He put away—burked—the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley

• 1953, (w), Poems, 4

Socrates and Plato burked the issue.

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