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▪ I. shocking, vbl. n.1|ˈʃɒkɪŋ|
[f. shock v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of shock v.2 in various senses.
1692R. L'Estrange Josephus, Wars Jews vi. xii. (1733) 754 Upon the Shocking of the two Bodies, it rais'd such a Dust and Clamour, that there was nothing distinctly to be seen or heard. 1739Hume Hum. Nat. i. iv. v. (1874) I. 529 'Tis absurd to imagine..That the shocking of two globular particles shou'd become a sensation of pain. 1828[H. Best] Italy as it is 89 Foot walkers, spreading over the whole, have not found the necessity for a rule to prevent shocking which we experience on our crowded trottoirs.
b. attrib. in shocking-coil, shocking-machine, names of apparatus for giving electric shocks.
1882Knowledge 17 Mar. 434/2 Would any reader give..particulars for making a powerful shocking coil. 1894S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. 90 The ‘Shocking’ Machine.
▪ II. shocking, vbl. n.2|ˈʃɒkɪŋ|
[f. shock v.3 + -ing1.]
The action of piling sheaves in shocks.
1657W. Coles Adam in Eden cclxxxi, Concerning the gathering, shocking, threshing, watering..and spinning of Hemp. 1764Museum Rust. II. lxxv. 249 Shocking, or stooking, is only a temporary preservative.
▪ III. shocking, ppl. a.|ˈʃɒkɪŋ|
Also 8 chocquing, choquing, choqueing.
[f. shock v.2 + -ing2.]
That shocks, in various senses of the vb.
†1. Of troops: Meeting in the shock of battle.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 115 The shocking squadrons meet in mortal fight. 1716Pope Iliad viii. 75 And now with Shouts the shocking Armies clos'd.
2. That gives offence; offensive. Also, causing unpleasant surprise. Now rare or Obs.
[It is noteworthy that in the earliest quot. the Fr. spelling is used. A little earlier we find the actual Fr. word:
1691Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 392 This is the Drift of my Meaning,..than which I think nothing could be more innocent or inoffensive in it self, how choquant or distastful soever it may appear as our Reverend Author has been pleased to dress it up. ]
1703Fleetwood 17 Serm. (1717) 359 Such different images would have crowded in upon the mind, as must have occasion'd a confusion, horrible and chocquing. 1709Stanhope Paraphr. IV. 534 This was the Choqueing Principle to the Jews. 1710Addison Whig Exam. No. 1 ⁋1 There is such a shocking familiarity both in his railleries and civilities. 1740Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 163, I could tell twenty pleasant stories; but my lady is too nice to hear them; and yet I hope, I should not be shocking neither. 1774tr. Chesterf. Let. to Son 29 Oct. 1739, Nothing is more shocking and disgustful than presumption and impudence. 1782Cowper Alex. Selkirk 16 They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 29 His rude doctrines were polished into a form somewhat less shocking to good sense and good taste.
3. a. In stronger sense: Revolting to the feelings; exciting intense horror or repugnance.
a1704T. Brown Sat. agst. Woman Wks. 1730 I. 57 The tale's too black and shocking to be told. 1749J. Pointer Oxon. Acad. 70 Brazen-nose College... The fine, though shocking, Statue of Cain and Abel in the middle of the Quadrangle. 1769Junius Lett. v. 28 The charge..is of so shocking a complexion that I sincerely wish you may be able to answer it. 1828Scott Aunt Marg. Mirror ii, The shocking tidings were brought from Holland, which fulfilled even her worst expectations. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 418 A state shocking to humanity. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxx, It is shocking enough to see noble beasts ruthlessly mangled.
b. absol.
1893Leland Mem. I. 129 Even the Old Testament, with all its stores of the ‘shocking’, really does very little harm.
c. In colloquial use often hyperbolical: cf. 4 and shockingly 2.
1842Browning Pied Piper iii, And as for our Corporation—shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that [etc.].
d. shocking pink: a vivid, garish shade of pink.
1938Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 248/2 Only one new colour arrived; it is ‘Shocking Pink’, introduced by Schiaparelli in Feb. 1937, then taken up by other designers, with the result that the vanguard of fashionable women everywhere are now seen wearing this crude, cruel shade of rose. 1939Archit. Rev. LXXXV. 305/3 There it is, in its gay ‘shocking pink’ cover, compact, comprehensive and invaluable. 1954E. Schiaparelli Shocking Life ix. 97 My friends and executives..began to say that I was crazy and that nobody would want it because it was really ‘nigger pink’... The colour ‘shocking’ established itself for ever as a classic. Even Dali dyed an enormous stuffed bear in shocking pink. 1960M. Stewart My Brother Michael x. 136 They [sc. socks] were luminous, and of a startling shade of shocking pink. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xix. 520 An involuntary grimace at first sight of her shocking-pink slipper satin.
4. a. ‘Shockingly’ bad, ‘execrable’.
1798Forester in Paget Papers (1896) I. 115 Shocking Weather since you left. 1824W. C. Taylor Anc. Hist. xvii. §2 (ed. 3) 496 His [Vespasian's] first care was to restore the discipline of the army, which he found in a shocking state of demoralization. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton vii, The shocking way those boys spell.
b. quasi-adv. = shockingly. vulgar.
1831Surtees Jorrocks's Jaunts (1838) 36 foot-note, ‘Vot a shocking bad hat!’—the slang cockney phrase of 1831. 1833[S. Smith] Lett. J. Downing xvii. (1835) 102 As soon as I saw what a shocking big place New York was. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. i, A shocking bad road. |