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▪ I. Kodak, n.|ˈkəʊdæk|
[An arbitrary word invented by Mr. G. Eastman for trade-mark purposes.]
The proprietary name of a range of cameras produced by Kodak Ltd.
1888Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Off.) XLIV. 1072/1 Photographic Cameras and Sensitized Plates and Film Therefor.—The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company... ‘The word ‘Kodak’.’ 1890Kodak Man. 9 The principal thing to learn in using the Kodak is to hold it steady. 1890Rev. of Rev. II. 489/2 The use of even a Kodak is attended with considerable difficulty. 1893Mrs. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker III. 124 A clever young ‘new chum’..who had brought a Kodak, took photographs. 1899Merwin & Webster Short Line War v. 62 Near the box was a kodak picture of Miss Porter. 1907W. James Pragmatism viii. 290 We want a Kodak-picture and we press a button. 1913F. A. Talbot Pract. Cinematogr. 22 Contrary to general belief, taking the ‘movies’ is quite as simple as snapshot photography with a Kodak. 1933R. L. Sutton Arctic Safari 43 We had to exercise considerable self-restraint in the matter of kodak portraiture... I think that we did not use up more than three packs of film. 1966J. Betjeman High & Low 47 These are the walls adorned with portraits, Camera studies and Kodak snaps. 1974Times 26 Jan. 8/3 Americans walk the length of the street market in the Portobello Road snapping it with Kodaks.
fig.1899F. C. Gould in Westm. Gaz. 6 Sept. 1/3 Printed on the endless roll of sensitised material with which our brain kodaks are fitted.
b. transf. A photograph taken with a Kodak.
1895Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 2/3 That a photographer in ambush could get..a ‘Kodak’ of the document, which would be legible under a microscope. 1898N.Y. Observer 3 Mar. 258/1 Some of the rest took kodaks of us. 1901E. Hornby Jrnl. 22 Mar. in Sinai & Petra (1907) 180 M. at once took two kodaks of it. 1930B. Willis Living Afr. vii. 98 After I had taken a couple of kodaks.
c. attrib.
1890Kodak Man. 76 Any Kodak negative that will make a good contact print, will make a good enlargement. 1893F. Harrison in Westm. Gaz. 10 Apr. 3/2 The Kodak school of romance, the snap-shots at every day realism with a hand camera.
▪ II. Kodak, v. Now rare.|ˈkəʊdæk|
Also kodak.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. and intr. To photograph with a Kodak.
1891Anthony's Photogr. Bull. IV. 59 A next door neighbor, who is just beginning to ‘kodak’. 1892Ill. Sport. & Dram. News 23 July 695/2 Chloe..insisted upon kodaking us all in every conceivable position. 1924New Republic 24 Dec. 120 Our Main Street is the happy-hunting ground of the ill-willed camera. Picture ahead, Kodak as you go. 1928Ibid. 12 Dec. 90 The young cook who had been one of the last to leave the ship, Kodaking as he went. 1936Time 14 Dec. 21 A French actress who recognizes Mrs. Simpson and tries to Kodak her gets a blow from the British bodyguard knocking her camera from her hand. 1954Life 26 Apr. 155 Kodaked by friend as he himself aimed a Kodak, Eastman was photographed on a ship in 1890 by early model which took round pictures.
b. fig. To ‘catch’ or describe quickly or vividly.
1892Daily News 2 Dec. 6/1 His only aim having been to ‘kodak’..with camera and pen a few phases of life in Japan. 1897Ibid. 2 Mar. 8/2 The President of the Transvaal, as recently kodaked by Labouchere out of Rhodes. 1900Westm. Gaz. 22 Jan. 1/2 His writing had, naturally enough, the defects of its qualities—there are obvious drawbacks in the process of kodaking. 1934J. Collier Defy Foul Fiend 318 Willoughby's eye had kodaked the attitude of a beaten child, sulking in tears. 1948H. M. Gloster Negro Voices Amer. Fiction 165 McKay's second novel, Banjo (1929), an impressionistic kodaking of life among the colored boys of the Marseilles breakwater.
Hence ˈKodaker, ˈKodakist, one who photographs with a Kodak; ˈKodakry. (All app. obs.)
1890Kodak Man. 51 If..the Kodaker wishes to develop and print his own negatives, he can easily learn to do so. 1898Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 9/2 The Prince had to pass through a triple file of kodakers, each anxious to get a good shot. 1895Workman Algerian Mem. 13 The opportunity here offered the kodakist is a rare one. 1893York Powell in Classical Rev. May 229/1 In these days of Kodakry, a little photograph can usually be secured of any larger object on the spot. |