| 单词 | dog-hanging |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdog-hanging dog-hanging n. English regional (a) (formerly, in Essex) a wedding feast held to collect money for the bride (historical in later use); (b) (more generally) any social gathering (now rare). [Probably with allusion to the gathering at the spectacle of dog being publicly (and sometimes judicially) hanged; compare what dog is a hanging? at Phrases 13.] ΚΠ 1646 Maldon Parish Rec. 12 Mar. in W. W. Addison Essex Heyday (modernized text) 103 [Thomas Reid heard William Came say] that the next day being the sabbath day he was to go to a dog-hanging feast to Robert Bigges's house. 1699 W. Winstanley Essex Champion ix. 133 Now in most parts of Essex (where this Wedding was kept) it is a common Custom when Poor People Marry, to make a kind of a Dog-Hanging, or Mony-gathering, which they call a Wedding-Dinner. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words at word Dog-hanging. A wedding feast, where money was collected for the bride. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) There's some folks will go to any kind of a dog-hanging. 1949 W. W. Addison Essex Heyday 103 But as disapproval of mirth is as constant as enjoyment of it, we must have this curious report of a dog-hanging feast in the spring of 1646. 1994 P. Beale Let. (O.E.D. Archive) Gus Thornton, in conversation..remarked that ‘a dog hanging’ was well known to his generation (born ca. 1920) as a term for any sort of social gathering or celebration. < as lemmas |
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