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单词 amper
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ampern.

Brit. /ˈampə/, U.S. /ˈæmpər/
Forms: early Old English amprae, early Old English ampre, early Old English omprae, early Old English omprę, early Old English ompre, early Middle English ampre, 1600s– amper, 1600s–1700s ampor.
Origin: Perhaps a word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Perhaps < the same Germanic base as Old Norwegian ampa to impose (Norwegian (Nynorsk) ampa to vex, to bother), itself probably a variant of the base of Old Icelandic ama, Faroese ama, Norwegian (Nynorsk) ama, perhaps < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit amīvā misery. Compare Icelandic ampi (a1800), Faroese ampi, Norwegian (Nynorsk) ampe, all in the sense ‘inconvenience, trouble’.Compare the rare early modern English derivative ampring kind of blemish on the skin (first half of the 16th cent.; compare -ing suffix1).
In later use English regional (southern and East Anglian) and Canadian regional (Newfoundland). Now rare.
A swelling on the skin, esp. a boil, pustule, or pimple; a rash. Also: †a flaw in woven cloth (obsolete).In quot. eOE apparently: a swollen (varicose) vein.In quot. a1225 figurative, perhaps with the sense ‘affliction’.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance
ampereOE
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lump?a1500
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bump1533
puff1538
tumour?1541
swelling1542
elevation1543
enlarging1562
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pimple1582
ganglion1583
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phyma1585
emphysema?1587
flesh-pimple1587
oedem?a1591
burgeon1597
wartle1598
hurtle1599
pough1601
wart1603
extumescence1611
hulch1611
peppernel1613
affusion1615
extumescency1684
jog1715
knibloch1780
tumefaction1802
hunch1803
income1808
intumescence1822
gibber1853
tumescence1859
whetstone1886
tumidity1897
Osler's node1920
eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 56 Uarix, amprae [eOE Erfurt Gloss. omprae].
a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 237 Þri ampres were an mancyn ær his to-cyme. Ure acenneng was ful, un [read ur] lif unwreast, ur deað grislic.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Amper vel Ampor, vox Rusticis agri Essexciensis usitatissima, quæ tumorem vel phlegmonen designat.
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 57 An Amper: a fault or flaw in linnen or woollen cloath, Suss. Skinner makes it to be a word much used by the common or countrey-people in Essex to signifie a tumour, rising or pustule.
1847 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. (ed. 2) Gloss. 314 Amper, pustules, or the matter of them. ‘The chile is all out in an amper.’
1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. Amper, a tumour, boil or blister.
1982 Dict. Newfoundland Eng. 7/1 Amper, a boil or gathering.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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