| 释义 |
▪ I. hick, n.1
[A familiar by-form of the personal name Richard: cf. Dick, and Hob = Robert, Hodge = Roger.]
a. An ignorant countryman; a silly fellow, booby. Now chiefly U.S.
1565Harding in Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 529 Be it that Hicke, Hob, and Hans, of your Sects haue impudentlie accused him. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Hick, any Person of whom any Prey can be made..; also a silly Country Fellow. 1702Steele Grief A-la-Mode iv. i, Richard Bumpkin! Ha! A perfect Country Hick. 1713Acad. Compl. 204 (N. s.v. Hycke-scorner), That not one hick spares. Ibid., That can bulk any hick. 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap iii. 113 So I yelled out back to an old hick of a gardener..and he comes running. 1923R. D. Paine Comrades of Rolling Ocean vi. 106, I come from a small town and that makes me a hick. My opinions aren't worth much. 1925Glasgow Herald 16 Sept. 4 In the United States the ‘Hicks’ are still for the most part tenacious of that doctrine which assigns to speculations a ‘bearish’ or depressing influence on the markets. 1927Observer 1 May 10/2 It is..much easier to write a good play about hicks, boobs, hayseeds, highbrows,..and sentimentalists than about decent English people. 1928World's Work Apr. 628 Broadway humorists, only a few years ago, used to make fun of Long Islanders by calling them ‘hicks’. 1929A. Conan Doyle Maracot Deep 18 He could not make these country hicks understand. 1970W. Burroughs Jr. Speed ii. 39 The proprietor was a knobby, obliging old hick and he watched us all real close to make sure we didn't try to lift any fertilizer. 1970J. Hansen Fadeout (1972) ii. 10 He was killed... They just stopped playing him. As though we was such hicks we didn't know there's such a thing as tapes these days.
b. attrib. or as adj. Like a hick, unsophisticated, provincial. colloq. (chiefly N. Amer.).
1920S. Lewis Main Street xiv. 164 He graduated from a hick college in Pennsylvania. 1920― in Sat. Even. Post 11 Dec. 92/2 Why the plates turned over? That's hick-town stuff. 1921H. C. Witwer Leather Pushers ix. 216 His..features wasn't bad looking in a hick way. 1936J. Dos Passos Big Money 256 Tad was sitting there hanging his head, his hick hands dangling between his knees. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) xii. 243 He..nodded triumphantly at his friend,..who had been trying to persuade him that science fantasy was hick. 1958Punch 27 Aug. 283/3 Why stick with some depressing Yank writer who takes a cool six hundred pages to chronicle the twenty-four-hour doings of a single character in a hick town? 1967Listener 17 Aug. 218/3 Telly was still rather a hick affair back in 1951.
▪ II. hick, n.2 rare.
Also hic.
[See hicket.]
1. a. A hiccup. b. A hesitation in speech.
1607R. C. tr. Estienne's World Wonders i. xiv. 70 To pronounce them with their right accents..without either hicke or hem. 1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 218 Hiccup.—The orthography of this word is very unsettled; some writing as here; others, Hiccough, Hick, Hichoc, and Hicket. 1825Jamieson Hick, the act of hiccuping. 1847J. Crawford in Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) (1890) II. 237 Monie hicks an' hums Ye've war'd owre puirtith's antrin dauds.
2. Comb. † hick-yex, hiccup.
1628Hobbes Thucyd. (1822) 99 Most of them had all the hickeyexe which brought with it a strong convulsion.
▪ III. hick, v. rare.
Also hic.
[f. prec. n.]
intr. To hiccup. Hence ˈhickingly adv., in the manner of a hiccup; with short spasmodic efforts.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 294 He would cough, and cannot but hickingly, as though he had eaten small bones. 1825Jamieson, Hick..to hiccup. |