cracksn.

Brit.

/kraks/, U.S.

/kræks/

Forms: 1800s– cracks, 1800s– crex, 1800s– cricksey, 1900s– cricks, 1900s– crixies.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: winter crack n.

Etymology: Apparently < the plural of crack (in winter crack n.).The form crixies shows double plural marking; cricksey is probably an inferred singular formed on it. There is apparently no foundation for the explanation of the semantic motivation of the word given in quots. 1898 and 1908: see discussion at winter crack n.

English regional (midlands and East Anglian) and Welsh English (Pembrokeshire).

Any of various late-ripening plums; esp. a damson or bullace ( Prunus domestica insititia). Cf. winter crack n.

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1851 Notes & Queries 7 June 451/1 Crex is the ordinary name with Cambridgeshire folk for the White Bullace. I cannot answer for the orthography, as neither Dictionary nor Provincial Glossary acknowledges the word.

1888 E. Laws Hist. Little Eng. beyond Wales App. 420 Cracks, wild plums.

1898 Notes & Queries 13 Aug. 235/2 A fair-sized round, yellowish plum, only fully ripe in November, is known in Derbyshire as the ‘winter-crack’. They are called ‘cracks’ because with the first frosts the fruit cracks on one side, being then fully ripe.

1908 Bye-gones 8 July 250/1 Cracks... In my father's garden at Tong Norton there used to be several large trees of these plums. They were round and black, and when ripe would crack down one side, thus, perhaps, getting the name ‘Cracks’.

1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 35 Cricks, Cricksey, wild plum (Prunus domestica), or bullace (Prunus insititia).

1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. S. Pembrokeshire 17/2 Cracks, the large purple sloes, wild plums.

1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 199 Wild plums, P. domestica agg. (VN: Bully tree, Crixies, Winter crack).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cracks
释义	cracksn. Brit. /kraks/, U.S. /kræks/ Forms: 1800s– cracks, 1800s– crex, 1800s– cricksey, 1900s– cricks, 1900s– crixies. Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: winter crack n. Etymology: Apparently < the plural of crack (in winter crack n.).The form crixies shows double plural marking; cricksey is probably an inferred singular formed on it. There is apparently no foundation for the explanation of the semantic motivation of the word given in quots. 1898 and 1908: see discussion at winter crack n. English regional (midlands and East Anglian) and Welsh English (Pembrokeshire). Any of various late-ripening plums; esp. a damson or bullace ( Prunus domestica insititia). Cf. winter crack n. ΚΠ 1851 Notes & Queries 7 June 451/1 Crex is the ordinary name with Cambridgeshire folk for the White Bullace. I cannot answer for the orthography, as neither Dictionary nor Provincial Glossary acknowledges the word. 1888 E. Laws Hist. Little Eng. beyond Wales App. 420 Cracks, wild plums. 1898 Notes & Queries 13 Aug. 235/2 A fair-sized round, yellowish plum, only fully ripe in November, is known in Derbyshire as the ‘winter-crack’. They are called ‘cracks’ because with the first frosts the fruit cracks on one side, being then fully ripe. 1908 Bye-gones 8 July 250/1 Cracks... In my father's garden at Tong Norton there used to be several large trees of these plums. They were round and black, and when ripe would crack down one side, thus, perhaps, getting the name ‘Cracks’. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 35 Cricks, Cricksey, wild plum (Prunus domestica), or bullace (Prunus insititia). 1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. S. Pembrokeshire 17/2 Cracks, the large purple sloes, wild plums. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 199 Wild plums, P. domestica agg. (VN: Bully tree, Crixies, Winter crack). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851
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