bereavement lurk n.
a form of begging that depends on attracting sympathy for the fact that one’s wife has supposedly just died.
in Ribton-Turner (1887) 642: The ‘bereavement lurk’ is a lucrative one—(i.e.) the pretended loss of a wife [etc.]. |
a form of begging that depends on attracting sympathy for the fact that one’s wife has supposedly just died.
in Ribton-Turner (1887) 642: The ‘bereavement lurk’ is a lucrative one—(i.e.) the pretended loss of a wife [etc.]. |