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单词 cullion
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cullionn.

/ˈkʌljən/
Forms: Middle English coillon, coylon, culyon, Middle English colyoun, colyon, coyllon, 1500s colion, collion, collian, coulion, coillen, 1600s cullian, culion, cullyen, cullen, 1500s–1800s cullion.
Etymology: < French couillon = Provençal colho, Spanish cojon, Italian coglione, Romanic derivative of Latin cōleus, culleus bag, testicle, < Greek κόλεος sheath.With sense 5 compare quot. 1652 at culling n.1 3, and 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Cullins, the worst sheep of a flock.
1. A testicle. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > testicle or testicles
bollockeOE
codOE
stone1154
balla1325
cullionc1386
genitoriesa1387
pendantsa1400
bollock stone?a1425
testiclec1425
jewelc1475
dimissariesa1513
dowsetc1560
pill1608
bauble1654
Aaron's bells1681
nutmegs1690
codlings?1691
testis1704
spermarium1861
spermary1864
marblesa1866
nut1865
knackers1866
rock1918
cobbler1934
plum1934
gooly1937
nad1964
cojones1966
nadgers1967
noonies1972
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 624 I wolde I hadde thy coillons [v.r. coylons, colyounnys, coyllons, culyons] in myn hond.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 22 His ryght colyon or balock stone.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lvi. 218 His rootes..are like to a payre of stones or Cullions.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Animelles, the stones, cods, or cullions of Lambes, etc.
1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. II. xiv. 128 I..was beginning to seize upon his Cullions.
2. As a term of contempt: A base, despicable, or vile fellow; a rascal. Obsolete. Cf. French coïon, coyon (Cotgrave).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt > male
houndOE
churlc1300
pagec1385
jockeya1529
sincanterc1540
cullion1575
cur1600
swabber1612
codworm1615
bob-taila1625
pompilliona1625
duck's meata1627
swab1687
person1704
hallion1789
jackeen1810
peat1818
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. ii. sig. Diiiiv It was that crafty cullyon Hodge.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. iii. 43 Away, base Cullions . View more context for this quotation
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. 553 Thou shalt be censured for a cullian and a wretch.
a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. ii. sig. E6, in Five New Playes (1653) Thou Cullion, could not thine own Cellar serve thee, but thou must be sneaking into Court Butteries?
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons i. xi Out on ye, cullions and bezonians!
3. Fortification. ‘That part of a bulwarke which enginers call the pome, the gard, the shoulder or eares to couer the casamats’ (Florio 1611, s.v. Orecchione).
ΚΠ
1589 P. Ive Pract. Fortification 12 in tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres Which cullion or orechion may be made longer and shorter according to the will of the workman.
4.
a. plural. A popular name of plants of the genus Orchis (or allied genera), from the form of the tubers or ‘roots’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids
satyrionOE
bollockwort?a1300
sanicle14..
bollock?a1425
martagon1548
orchis1559
dogstones1562
hare's-ballocks1562
stone1562
bollock grass1578
dog's cods1578
dog's cullions1578
double-leaf1578
fly-orchis1578
goat's cullions1578
goat's orchis1578
priest's pintle1578
twayblade1578
bee-orchis1597
bifoil1597
bird's nest1597
bird's orchis1597
butterfly orchis1597
fenny-stones1597
gelded satyrion1597
gnat satyrion1597
humble-bee orchis1597
lady's slipper1597
sweet ballocks1597
two-blade1605
cullions1611
bee-flower1626
fly-flower1640
man orchis1670
musk orchis1670
moccasin flower1680
gnat-flower1688
faham tea1728
Ophrys1754
green man orchis1762
Arethusa1764
honey flower1771
cypripedium1775
rattlesnake plantain1778
Venus's slipper1785
Adam and Eve1789
lizard orchis179.
epidendrum1791
Pogonia?1801
Vanda1801
cymbidium1815
Oncidium1822
putty-root1822
Noah's Ark1826
yellow moccasin1826
gongora1827
cattleya1828
green man1828
nervine1828
stanhopea1829
dove-flower1831
catasetum1836
Odontoglossum1836
Miltonia1837
letter plant1838
spread eagle1838
letter-leaf1839
swan-plant1841
orchid1843
disa1844
masdevallia1845
Phalaenopsis1846
faham1850
Indian crocus1850
moccasin plant1850
pleione1851
dove orchis1852
nerve root1854
Holy Ghost flower1862
basket-plant1865
lizard's tongue1866
mousetail1866
Sobralia1866
swan-neck1866
swanwort1866
Indian shoe1876
odontoglot1879
wreathewort1879
moth orchid1880
rattlesnake orchid1881
dendrobe1882
dove-plant1882
Madeira orchis1882
man orchis1882
swan-flower1884
slipper-orchid1885
slipper orchis1889
mayflower1894
scorpion orchid1897
moederkappie1910
dove orchid1918
monkey orchid1925
man orchid1927
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids > parts of
cullions1611
thyrsus1704
labellum1810
retinaculum1821
rostellum1821
caudicle1830
pseudobulb1832
massula1856
antenna1862
clinandrium1864
bucket1871
slipper1902
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Couillon de chien, Dogs-stones, Dogs cullions.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1341 Satyrion & Orchis. Cullions or stones.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xiii. 1354 Sweete Cullions.
1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 330 Soldier's Cullions, Orchis.
1879 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants (ed. 3) 60.
b. The paired tubers of Orchis.
ΚΠ
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 115/1 Cullions, or Stone-roots [are] round roots, whether single, double, or trebble.
1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. ; and in later Dicts.
5. Used by confusion for cullin = culling n.1
ΚΠ
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 156 The eldest of the sheep were drawne out as Cullions.

Compounds

cullion-head n. Fortification Obsolete
ΚΠ
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Cullion-head, see Bastian.
cullion-like adj. Obsolete (sense 2).
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > base or vile
low?c1225
lechera1300
vilea1300
feeblea1325
unfreec1330
villain1340
wrackc1375
villains1390
noughty1443
slovenly?1518
peasant1550
sluttish1561
vild1567
knaifatic1568
scallardc1575
base1576
tinkerly?1576
beggarly?1577
cullion-like1591
brokerly1592
broking1592
ignoble1592
cullionly1608
disnoble1609
unsolid1731
lowly1740
blackguard1751
blackguardly1779
menial1837
low-flung1841
caddish1868
basilar1884
bounding1904
bounderish1928
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxv. xxv. 200 For what could be more cullen-like or base?
1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels To Rdr. 10 To desist from those cullion-like courses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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