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单词 corn-baby
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corn-babyn.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: kirn-baby n.
Etymology: Alteration of kirn-baby n. after corn n.1, arising from a mistaken etymological analysis in quot. 1777, and thence taken up by some later writers on folklore.
= kirn-baby n. (= harvest-home doll: see baby n. 3).
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1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1810) 341 The Northern word [Kern-baby] is plainly a corruption of Corn Baby, or Image.
1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. II. xiii. 617 The old Gauls used to parade a figure of Berecynthia over the fields... This is the Kern, or Cornbaby.
1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. iii. 344 In the North of England the last handful of corn was cut by the prettiest girl and dressed up as the Corn Baby or Kern Baby.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

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corn-baby
A rude semblance of a human figure made out of the last handful of corn cut on the harvest-field, and dressed as a female, which formerly played a part in the ceremonial of the kirn or harvest-home, and was afterwards often hung up on the farmer's kitchen wall until the next harvest, when its place was taken by a new one. Also called kirn-doll or kirn-dolly, kirn-maiden, harvest-queen, and, in books, after a mistaken suggestion of Brand (quot. 1777), corn-baby. In the most usual form, the cluster of ears formed the head of the figure, while part of the stalks were plaited into two arms, and the rest expanded as a body in skirts, the whole being decorated with ribbons or gaily dressed in doll's clothes.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > three-dimensional representation > [noun] > model of a human
woman1509
manikin1535
malkinc1565
man1600
kirn-baby1777
maid1794
knack1813
snowman1827
moggie1896
1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. xxxi. 307 Kern Baby..the northern Word is plainly a Corruption of Corn Baby or Image, as is the Kern or Churn Supper of Corn Supper.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Kern-baby, an image dressed up with corn, carried before the reapers to their mell~supper, or harvest home.
1813 H. Ellis in Brand's Observ. Pop. Antiq. (rev. ed.) I. 422 (note) An old woman..informed me that, not half a century ago, they used every where [in Northumberland] to dress up something, similar to the figure above described, at the end of Harvest, which was called a Harvest Doll, or Kern Baby.
1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1166 A sort of kern baby is placed on the top at front of the load [of wheat].
1846 M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. (new ed.) Legendary Div. II. 375 The corn-baby or kirn-dolly.
1866 W. Henderson Notes Folk Lore Northern Counties 66 When the sickle is laid down and the last sheaf set on end..an image is at once hoisted on a pole..crowned with wheat ears and dressed up in gay finery, a white frock and coloured ribbons being its conventional attire. The whole group [of reapers] circle round this harvest queen or Kernbaby, curtseying to her, and dancing and singing.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Kern baby, an image, or possibly only a small sheaf of the newly cut corn, gaily dressed up and decorated with clothes, ribbons, flowers, &c.
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