down-prefix

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element.

Forms: see down adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: down adv.

Etymology: < down adv.In Old English attested early prefixed to verbs (see sense 1a), chiefly in element-by-element glosses of Latin verbs in dē- de- prefix (especially classical Latin dēscendere descend v.); compare parallel use of Old English ofdūne- , adūne- (see adown adv. and prep.). In Old English and Middle English it is often unclear whether collocations of down adv. with an immediately following verb should be interpreted as compounds (and hence as showing the prefix). (Word division in Old English and Middle English frequently reflects editorial choices of modern editors of texts, rather than the practice of the manuscripts.) Frequently found in formations modelled on earlier phrasal verbs in down adv.

Prefixed to verbs, adjectives, and nouns, in the sense ‘in a downward direction, down’ (see down adv.).

a. Prefixed to verbs, forming verbs.See also downbear v., downcast v., downgrade v., down-lie v., downsize v., etc.

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eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) cxxxviii. 6 (8) Si discendero in infernum ad, es : gif ic dunestigu [OE Arundel Psalter dunstige] in helle ðu bist et.

lOE Salisbury Psalter lxxi. 6 Descendet sicut pluuia in uellus : dunastah swa ren on flys.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 111 Inclinauit celos et descendit. Ðe heuene abeh and dun asteh.

a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxxiii. 7 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 205 Þaire yhates with axes þai doune schare [L. exciderunt].

a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cvi. 26 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 243 Þai vpstiyhen..And þai dounga [L. descendunt].

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 7123 Þe water þat þan salle doun-ryn, Ffra þair eghen.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) ci. §11. 354 (MED) Vpliftand thou downsmate [L. allisisti] me.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxiv. sig. E2 When sometime loftie towers I see downe rased.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. i. 36 He let fly..and with one blow, confounded and downe-dagger'd him.

1764 W. Falconer Shipwreck (new ed.) iii. 108 The fore-mast totters unsustain'd on high, And..With all it's load down-tumbles o'er the lee.

1782 W. Cowper Progress of Error in Poems 50 Night down-stooping from her ebon throne, Views constellations brighter than her own.

1844 E. B. Barrett Romaunt of Page in Poems I. 166 The boy down-sprung, And stood.

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 61 Down-trampling vulgar hindrance.

1931 C. Day Lewis From Feathers to Iron xxiii. 45 Such is not answerable to mind, Is random as a flake Blindly down-dancing here.

1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xxi. 171 The soot from the oil burners of the hotel next door was down-drafted into the room.

2006 Vertical Dec. 16/2 We down-climbed the snow sections and rappelled the mixed sections.

† down-peise v. Obsolete transitive to cause (something) to sink down, to weigh down; (also) to compensate for.

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a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Ee.i^v Lyke weake necks of poppis crops down peising heauy heads whan rain doth lading greue their tops.

1592 T. Rogers tr. Thomas à Kempis Soliloquium Animae xx. 169 I am depriued of happines, wrapped in the darknes of this life, and downpeised with the waight of mine owne infirmitie.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. iv. 394/1 The presence of the one, downe-peized the absence of the other.

2. Prefixed to present participles, forming adjectives.See also downcoming adj., downfalling adj., downlooking adj., etc.

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1593 ‘P. Foulface’ Bacchus Bountie sig. A2 To crase his crowne with a downedriuing blow.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 187 As a Wolfe..Flies with downe-hanging head.

1666 tr. Horace Epode xvii, in A. Brome et al. tr. Horace Poems 181 Sisyphus his still down-tumbling stone Would roul aloft.

1763 C. Churchill Ghost iv. 144 The Performers.., with down-bending eye, seem wrought Into a Labyrinth of Thought.

1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 388 Snail-horned, having short, down-hanging horns, with blunt points.

1837 H. W. Longfellow Frithiof's Homestead 3 The down-sloping hill-sides.

1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 226 Another downhanging rope.

1900 R. Kipling in Daily Mail 1 May 4/5 A whispering Guardsman, half of whose larynx had been put out of commission by a down-dropping bullet.

1967 Arch. Neurol. (Chicago) 16 210/1 The down-growing axons do not have to identify or receive feedback from every way station of the environment to continue correctly along their way.

2002 Times 4 Apr. 34/1 The latch would turn only if the key lifted down-pointing pins to the right height.

a. Prefixed to past participles, forming adjectives.See also downcast adj., downfallen adj., downtrodden adj., etc.

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a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxi. §3. 215 Wall that is withouten cyment downput.

1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Niiii Downe-burnt Turrets.

1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. F3 With lift-vp-hands, and downe-bowed knee.

1759 J. Mitchell Mem. 16 I had loosed the reins of my affections, with a downborn head, to follow the idol of sinful courses.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 54 I sate alone With downdropt eyes.

1882 L. C. Lillie Prudence 96 She kept her face passionately down-bent.

1959 A. V. Heyl et al. Geol. Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-lead District (U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 309) 44/2 Open fissues and down-dropped rock wedges are characteristic features.

2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 23 The second cut is a down-angled cut, which, together with your first cut, will remove a wedge-shaped piece of wood from the tree.

down-curved adj.

Brit.

/daʊnˈkəːvd/

U.S.

/daʊnˈkərvd/

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1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) 318 The down-curved tusks of the lower jaw..led De Blainville to the supposition that it was a cetacean.

1966 S. D. Woodruff Methods of Working Coal & Metal Mines III. a. iv. 158 (caption) Hydraulic turret overcutter with down-curved jib for roof cutting.

2000 S. L. Bentley Native Orchids Southern Appalachian Mountains 136 The downcurved lip is curled into a ‘U’ shape toward the base.

(a) Prefixed to verbal nouns in -ing, forming nouns.See also downcoming n., downfalling n., downpulling n., etc.

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a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 90 (MED) Whenne water ys ouercomand in Planetys and staunches noght but by dounshedyng.

1554 J. Knox Faythfull Admon. sig. G6^v Of Peters downsynckynge in y^e sea.

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 11 For the dountramping of ydolatrie.

1641 S. D'Ewes Speech Commons, July 7th 5 To adde..but one graine, to the down-ballancing of the affaires of Christendome.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. i. 277 The dust and downrushing of a Bastille.

1883 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 575 The upheavals and downsinkings.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvii. 457 Great storms in 1882 had pushed the warm Gulf Stream off its usual course, and allowed an incursion and down-sinking of chilly water.

1996 C. Frankel Volcanoes Solar Syst. iii. 65 The down-dropping of the western block.

(b)

† down ganging n. chiefly Scottish Obsolete the setting of the sun.

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a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 4779 Til þe tyme of þe son doun gangyng.

1480 Newbattle Coll. MSS (Edinb. Reg. House) in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Dounganging A day..betuyx the son rysing and doun gangin of that ilk.

downgoing n.

Brit.

/ˈdaʊnɡəʊɪŋ/

U.S.

/ˈdaʊnˌɡoʊɪŋ/

the action or an act of going down; spec. the setting of the sun (cf. down ganging n.).

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xvi. 489 He [sc. þe sonne] semeþ more in his arisinge and doungoynge.

1616 Sheriff Court Bk. Orkney & Shetland (National Archives Scotl.: SC10/1/3–4) f. 63^v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Doun-going Jone Stewart quha wes slane..at the doun going of the soone.

1638 Charles I Let. 25 June in Bp. G. Burnet Mem. Dukes of Hamilton (1677) 60 The telling you that I have not changed my mind in this particular, is Answer sufficient, since it was both foreseen by me, and fully debated betwixt us two before your down-going.

1834 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakspere 22 His down-goings and up-risings.

1912 S. Graham Undiscovered Russia viii. 53 I swear they..smoked clay pipes at the downgoing of the sun.

1995 D. F. Krell Lunar Voices i. i. 12 A turning of the tide..in which the downgoing of the prior epoch embodies the upsurgence of the new.

b. Prefixed to nouns of action, forming nouns. Cf. down adj. 1b.See also downcast n.¹, downdraught n., downfall n., etc.

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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xii. sig. H4 The very first downe-steppe to all wickednes.

1628 R. Hayman tr. Severall Sententious Epigr. 47 in Quodlibets There is an easie downe-descent to Hell: Those that goe there, doe know it too-too well.

1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship ix. 43 A down leap is not so very dangerous.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 12 The hypapophysial downgrowths.

1915 Peking Daily News 19 Mar. 5/4 After the downbreak of the old tenth army in the winter battle in Mazuria.

1985 G. Benford Artifact ii. iii. 69 Over the millennia the down-drop has carved out giant cisterns.

2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Mar. b7/1 A down-swipe produces an icon-based [weather] prediction for the next three days.

5. Forming parasynthetic adjectives referring to lowered or drooping features, as down-backed, down-rumped, down-shouldered.See also downfaced adj. 1, downhearted adj., downlooked adj.

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1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Bossu, downe backed, crooke-shouldered.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3300/4 A bay Gelding..a little down Rumpt.

?1816 R. Lawrence Compl. Farrier 349/1 Irish horses..are commonly short in the hind-quarters, and down-rumped.

1899 Wingham (New S. Wales) Chron. 19 Aug. They look as ‘down-lipped’ as if some great calamity had befallen them all.

2006 L. Hugo Graceland ix. 59 Even Wayne is here, though he's keeping to himself, down-shouldered and miserable-looking.

6. Forming agent nouns, often corresponding to phrasal verbs.See also downcomer n., downhauler n., down-puller n., etc.

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1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. i. sig. I^v I haue vp-rizers and downe-lyers within the Citty.

1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. ii. 144 Up-risers and down-lyers in this mighty City.

1744 J. Paterson Compl. Comm. Paradise Lost 386 Down-setters; officers who set the dishes in good order upon the King's table.

1956 Progress-Index (Petersburg-Colonial Heights, Va.) 28 Sept. 18/8 If the seat of his pants shows more wear than the soles of his shoes, he may be a downsitter.

1988 R. Angell Season Ticket (1989) xii. 297 The split-fingered fastball, a deadly little down-diver that he perfected some years ago.

2001 Observer (Nexis) 22 July 27 It is surely unthinkable that the blokeish celebrity, such a hilarious downputter of vanity in others, has succumbed to the cosmetic surgeon's scalpel.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	down-
释义	down-prefix Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element. Forms: see down adv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: down adv. Etymology: < down adv.In Old English attested early prefixed to verbs (see sense 1a), chiefly in element-by-element glosses of Latin verbs in dē- de- prefix (especially classical Latin dēscendere descend v.); compare parallel use of Old English ofdūne- , adūne- (see adown adv. and prep.). In Old English and Middle English it is often unclear whether collocations of down adv. with an immediately following verb should be interpreted as compounds (and hence as showing the prefix). (Word division in Old English and Middle English frequently reflects editorial choices of modern editors of texts, rather than the practice of the manuscripts.) Frequently found in formations modelled on earlier phrasal verbs in down adv. Prefixed to verbs, adjectives, and nouns, in the sense ‘in a downward direction, down’ (see down adv.). 1. a. Prefixed to verbs, forming verbs.See also downbear v., downcast v., downgrade v., down-lie v., downsize v., etc. ΚΠ eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) cxxxviii. 6 (8) Si discendero in infernum ad, es : gif ic dunestigu [OE Arundel Psalter dunstige] in helle ðu bist et. lOE Salisbury Psalter lxxi. 6 Descendet sicut pluuia in uellus : dunastah swa ren on flys. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 111 Inclinauit celos et descendit. Ðe heuene abeh and dun asteh. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxxiii. 7 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 205 Þaire yhates with axes þai doune schare [L. exciderunt]. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cvi. 26 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 243 Þai vpstiyhen..And þai dounga [L. descendunt]. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 7123 Þe water þat þan salle doun-ryn, Ffra þair eghen. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) ci. §11. 354 (MED) Vpliftand thou downsmate [L. allisisti] me. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxiv. sig. E2 When sometime loftie towers I see downe rased. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. i. 36 He let fly..and with one blow, confounded and downe-dagger'd him. 1764 W. Falconer Shipwreck (new ed.) iii. 108 The fore-mast totters unsustain'd on high, And..With all it's load down-tumbles o'er the lee. 1782 W. Cowper Progress of Error in Poems 50 Night down-stooping from her ebon throne, Views constellations brighter than her own. 1844 E. B. Barrett Romaunt of Page in Poems I. 166 The boy down-sprung, And stood. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 61 Down-trampling vulgar hindrance. 1931 C. Day Lewis From Feathers to Iron xxiii. 45 Such is not answerable to mind, Is random as a flake Blindly down-dancing here. 1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xxi. 171 The soot from the oil burners of the hotel next door was down-drafted into the room. 2006 Vertical Dec. 16/2 We down-climbed the snow sections and rappelled the mixed sections. b. † down-peise v. Obsolete transitive to cause (something) to sink down, to weigh down; (also) to compensate for. ΚΠ a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Ee.i^v Lyke weake necks of poppis crops down peising heauy heads whan rain doth lading greue their tops. 1592 T. Rogers tr. Thomas à Kempis Soliloquium Animae xx. 169 I am depriued of happines, wrapped in the darknes of this life, and downpeised with the waight of mine owne infirmitie. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. iv. 394/1 The presence of the one, downe-peized the absence of the other. 2. Prefixed to present participles, forming adjectives.See also downcoming adj., downfalling adj., downlooking adj., etc. ΚΠ 1593 ‘P. Foulface’ Bacchus Bountie sig. A2 To crase his crowne with a downedriuing blow. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 187 As a Wolfe..Flies with downe-hanging head. 1666 tr. Horace Epode xvii, in A. Brome et al. tr. Horace Poems 181 Sisyphus his still down-tumbling stone Would roul aloft. 1763 C. Churchill Ghost iv. 144 The Performers.., with down-bending eye, seem wrought Into a Labyrinth of Thought. 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 388 Snail-horned, having short, down-hanging horns, with blunt points. 1837 H. W. Longfellow Frithiof's Homestead 3 The down-sloping hill-sides. 1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 226 Another downhanging rope. 1900 R. Kipling in Daily Mail 1 May 4/5 A whispering Guardsman, half of whose larynx had been put out of commission by a down-dropping bullet. 1967 Arch. Neurol. (Chicago) 16 210/1 The down-growing axons do not have to identify or receive feedback from every way station of the environment to continue correctly along their way. 2002 Times 4 Apr. 34/1 The latch would turn only if the key lifted down-pointing pins to the right height. 3. a. Prefixed to past participles, forming adjectives.See also downcast adj., downfallen adj., downtrodden adj., etc. ΚΠ a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxi. §3. 215 Wall that is withouten cyment downput. 1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Niiii Downe-burnt Turrets. 1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. F3 With lift-vp-hands, and downe-bowed knee. 1759 J. Mitchell Mem. 16 I had loosed the reins of my affections, with a downborn head, to follow the idol of sinful courses. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 54 I sate alone With downdropt eyes. 1882 L. C. Lillie Prudence 96 She kept her face passionately down-bent. 1959 A. V. Heyl et al. Geol. Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-lead District (U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 309) 44/2 Open fissues and down-dropped rock wedges are characteristic features. 2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 23 The second cut is a down-angled cut, which, together with your first cut, will remove a wedge-shaped piece of wood from the tree. b. down-curved adj. Brit. /daʊnˈkəːvd/ , U.S. /daʊnˈkərvd/ ΚΠ 1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) 318 The down-curved tusks of the lower jaw..led De Blainville to the supposition that it was a cetacean. 1966 S. D. Woodruff Methods of Working Coal & Metal Mines III. a. iv. 158 (caption) Hydraulic turret overcutter with down-curved jib for roof cutting. 2000 S. L. Bentley Native Orchids Southern Appalachian Mountains 136 The downcurved lip is curled into a ‘U’ shape toward the base. 4. a. (a) Prefixed to verbal nouns in -ing, forming nouns.See also downcoming n., downfalling n., downpulling n., etc. ΚΠ a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 90 (MED) Whenne water ys ouercomand in Planetys and staunches noght but by dounshedyng. 1554 J. Knox Faythfull Admon. sig. G6^v Of Peters downsynckynge in y^e sea. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 11 For the dountramping of ydolatrie. 1641 S. D'Ewes Speech Commons, July 7th 5 To adde..but one graine, to the down-ballancing of the affaires of Christendome. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. i. 277 The dust and downrushing of a Bastille. 1883 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 575 The upheavals and downsinkings. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvii. 457 Great storms in 1882 had pushed the warm Gulf Stream off its usual course, and allowed an incursion and down-sinking of chilly water. 1996 C. Frankel Volcanoes Solar Syst. iii. 65 The down-dropping of the western block. (b) † down ganging n. chiefly Scottish Obsolete the setting of the sun. ΚΠ a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 4779 Til þe tyme of þe son doun gangyng. 1480 Newbattle Coll. MSS (Edinb. Reg. House) in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Dounganging A day..betuyx the son rysing and doun gangin of that ilk. downgoing n. Brit. /ˈdaʊnɡəʊɪŋ/ , U.S. /ˈdaʊnˌɡoʊɪŋ/ the action or an act of going down; spec. the setting of the sun (cf. down ganging n.). ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xvi. 489 He [sc. þe sonne] semeþ more in his arisinge and doungoynge. 1616 Sheriff Court Bk. Orkney & Shetland (National Archives Scotl.: SC10/1/3–4) f. 63^v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Doun-going Jone Stewart quha wes slane..at the doun going of the soone. 1638 Charles I Let. 25 June in Bp. G. Burnet Mem. Dukes of Hamilton (1677) 60 The telling you that I have not changed my mind in this particular, is Answer sufficient, since it was both foreseen by me, and fully debated betwixt us two before your down-going. 1834 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakspere 22 His down-goings and up-risings. 1912 S. Graham Undiscovered Russia viii. 53 I swear they..smoked clay pipes at the downgoing of the sun. 1995 D. F. Krell Lunar Voices i. i. 12 A turning of the tide..in which the downgoing of the prior epoch embodies the upsurgence of the new. b. Prefixed to nouns of action, forming nouns. Cf. down adj. 1b.See also downcast n.¹, downdraught n., downfall n., etc. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xii. sig. H4 The very first downe-steppe to all wickednes. 1628 R. Hayman tr. Severall Sententious Epigr. 47 in Quodlibets There is an easie downe-descent to Hell: Those that goe there, doe know it too-too well. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship ix. 43 A down leap is not so very dangerous. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 12 The hypapophysial downgrowths. 1915 Peking Daily News 19 Mar. 5/4 After the downbreak of the old tenth army in the winter battle in Mazuria. 1985 G. Benford Artifact ii. iii. 69 Over the millennia the down-drop has carved out giant cisterns. 2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Mar. b7/1 A down-swipe produces an icon-based [weather] prediction for the next three days. 5. Forming parasynthetic adjectives referring to lowered or drooping features, as down-backed, down-rumped, down-shouldered.See also downfaced adj. 1, downhearted adj., downlooked adj. ΚΠ 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Bossu, downe backed, crooke-shouldered. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3300/4 A bay Gelding..a little down Rumpt. ?1816 R. Lawrence Compl. Farrier 349/1 Irish horses..are commonly short in the hind-quarters, and down-rumped. 1899 Wingham (New S. Wales) Chron. 19 Aug. They look as ‘down-lipped’ as if some great calamity had befallen them all. 2006 L. Hugo Graceland ix. 59 Even Wayne is here, though he's keeping to himself, down-shouldered and miserable-looking. 6. Forming agent nouns, often corresponding to phrasal verbs.See also downcomer n., downhauler n., down-puller n., etc. ΚΠ 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. i. sig. I^v I haue vp-rizers and downe-lyers within the Citty. 1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. ii. 144 Up-risers and down-lyers in this mighty City. 1744 J. Paterson Compl. Comm. Paradise Lost 386 Down-setters; officers who set the dishes in good order upon the King's table. 1956 Progress-Index (Petersburg-Colonial Heights, Va.) 28 Sept. 18/8 If the seat of his pants shows more wear than the soles of his shoes, he may be a downsitter. 1988 R. Angell Season Ticket (1989) xii. 297 The split-fingered fastball, a deadly little down-diver that he perfected some years ago. 2001 Observer (Nexis) 22 July 27 It is surely unthinkable that the blokeish celebrity, such a hilarious downputter of vanity in others, has succumbed to the cosmetic surgeon's scalpel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < prefixeOE
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