单词 | clunch |
释义 | clunchn. 1. A lump, a heavy and unshapely mass.(Known only in modern dialect, but probably of considerable age.) [So East Frisian klunt.] ΚΠ 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Clunch, a lump. ‘He's got a clunch of snow on his boot.’ 2. A lumpish fellow, a clown, boor, lout. Cf. clod n., clot n. Obsolete exc. dialect. [So East Frisian klunt.] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun] carter1509 clumpertonc1534 club1542 pig1546 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 hoyden1593 clunch1602 clod1607 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 clota1637 hoyde1636 Hottentot1710 yahoo1726 polisson1866 mucker1884 bohunk1908 hairy ape1931 cafone1949 trog1956 oafo1959 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person bearc1395 carter1509 kensy?a1513 clumpertonc1534 club1542 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 clown1583 hoyden1593 boor1598 kill-courtesy1600 rustic1600 clunch1602 loblolly1604 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 rough diamonda1625 hoyde1636 clodhopper1699 roughhead1726 indelicate1741 vulgarian1809 snob1838 vulgarist1847 yahoo1861 cave-dweller1865 polisson1866 mucker1884 caveman1907 wampus1912 yobbo1922 yenta1923 yob1927 rude1946 cafone1949 no-neck1961 ocker1971 1602 in J. Manningham Diary 30 Jan. (1976) 171 Howe like a clowne, a clunche, an asse, he aunsweres. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xv. 71 A very clounch, and bacon-slicer of Brene. a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 414 These rascals, scorned and sleighted by every tatter'd Clunch. 1875 Lanc. Gloss. Clunch, a clod~hopper or boor. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Clunch, a heavy stupid person or animal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > types of pawa1450 talons1594 mutton-fist1664 clunch1709 baby hand1763 needle-hand1827 1709 W. King Art of Love (new ed.) v Others try her greasy Clunches With stoning Currants in whole Bunches. 4. A name given locally to various stiff clays; esp. an indurated clay of the coal-measures. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > in coal measures clunch1686 soap-scale1704 sill1774 poundstone1799 clunch-clay1815 blond-metal1831 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 131 Upon the surface they meet first with earth and stone, 2. blew clunch. 1712 F. Bellers in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 541 A Blewish hard Clay; the Miners call it Clunch. This is one of the certain Signs of Coal. 1816 W. Smith Strata Identified 21 Hard clay rising in lumps, called Clunch. 5. A soft white limestone forming the lower and harder beds of the chalk, occasionally used for building purposes, esp. internal carved work. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > clunch clunch-lime1793 clunch1823 1823 J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth III. 76 (note) Carved in clunch or soft stone. 1844 D. T. Ansted Geol. II. 455 Like other kinds of clunch (as the lower chalk is sometimes called), this bed forms an easily cut and a very useful material for certain kinds of internal decorative work. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 188 The western portal..owing to the friable clunch of which it is constructed, has lost the greater part of its decorations. Compounds clunch-clay n. = 4; also the Oxford clay. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > in coal measures clunch1686 soap-scale1704 sill1774 poundstone1799 clunch-clay1815 blond-metal1831 1815 W. Smith Mem. to Map Strata Eng. & Wales 19 In the vale of Blackmore..the clunch clay..from the base of the Chalk hills to the edge of the Cornbrash limestone. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. i. 93 A bed of clay, called clunch clay and Oxford clay, separates the lower oolites from the middle oolites. clunch-lime n. = 5. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > clunch clunch-lime1793 clunch1823 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §210 What is called near Lewis in Sussex, the Clunch Lime..a species of chalk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † clunchadj. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. Lumpy, lumpish; heavy and stiff, or close, as clay or pudding; thickset, ‘chunky,’ in figure. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stiff or thick standingc1400 chargeantc1425 woolly1687 clunch1776 stodgya1852 the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad short shoulderedc1405 bunting1584 squaddy1593 chubby1611 truncheon1611 squat1630 squabbish1666 truss1674 squab1675 squad1675 stocky1676 punch1679 trunch1683 squat1688 stub1711 fodgel1724 thick-set1724 puddy1747 chunky1749 dumpy1750 squabby1754 knurly1758 clunch1776 trunchy1778 fubsy1780 punchy1780 humpty-dumpty1785 trunched1787 pudgy1788 fubby1790 runty1807 squattish1809 roly-poly1818 stumpy1822 hoddy-doddy1824 spuddya1825 hodmandod1825 stubby1831 podgy1832 fubsical1834 dumpty1847 fatling1847 stuggy1847 nuggety1856 cloddy1876 blocky1879 chumpy188. cobby1883 squidgy1891 stockish1913 pyknic1925 humpisha1935 1776 C. Anstey Election Ball 23 In Pudding there's zomething zo clumsy and clunch. 1777 F. Burney Jrnls. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 275 She is..fat, clumsy, clunch, and heavy. 1787 F. Burney Diary 13 July (1842) III. 397 I found him [sc. Dr. Beattie] pleasant..with a round, thick, clunch figure, that promises nothing either of his works or his discourse. 2. dialect. (See quot.) Cf. clumse adj., clumsed adj. 4. ΚΠ 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Clunch: 1. Close, hot, cloudy (of the weather): 2. sullen, morose. 1889 Nottingham dial. Clunch, morose, sulky. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). † clunchv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. = clench v.1 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > act of drawing body into compact form > drawn into compact form [verb (intransitive)] > clench clunch1628 clinch1652 clench1843 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxi. sig. E2 His fist is cluncht with the habite of disputing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1602adj.1776v.1628 |
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