allsortsn.

Brit.

/ˈɔːlsɔːts/, U.S.

/ˈɔlˈˌsɔrts/,

/ˈɑlˈˌsɔrts/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adj., sort n.²

Etymology: < all adj. + the plural of sort n.² Compare sort n.² 6b, sort n.² 7c, sort n.² 11d.

a. colloquial. All kinds or varieties of things; miscellaneous items. Cf. it takes all sorts at sort n.² 11d.

ΚΠ

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 143 There they were, all drinking Tuscany wine and all sorts.

1839 T. Hood Our Village 23 There's a shop of all sorts, that sells every thing.

1863 S. P. Hawthorne in N. Hawthorne & his Wife (1885) II. 331 I hope to hear about papa's visit to Rockport, and ‘all sorts’, as dear Mrs. Browning used to say.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 1/3 Asking how it was possible to have complete transport in stock for an Empire of ‘all sorts’ like this.

1976 Norwich Mercury 10 Dec. 2/7 Stalls were of garden produce, hardware,..‘allsorts’ and white elephant.

2002 P. Blom To have & to Hold (2003) 145 The abbey swapped his skull, minus the jawbone, for a box of pious allsorts—a reliquary containing specimens from all the relics held in the Sainte Chapelle.

b. A general mixture; a miscellaneous collection; a salmagundi.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture

hotchpotc1405

hodge-podgec1426

omnigatherum?a1430

mishmashc1475

peasemeala1525

omnium gatherum1530

mingle1548

hotchpotch1549

mingle-mangle1549

gallimaufry1551

rhapsody1574

sauce-medley1579

pell-mellc1586

linsey-woolsey1592

wilderness1594

brewage1599

motley1609

macaronic1611

medley1618

olla podridaa1635

farragoa1637

consarcination1640

porridge1642

olio1645

bisque1653

mélange1653

hash1660

jumble1661

farrage1698

capilotade1705

jargon1710

salmagundi1761

pasticcio1785

pea meal1789

ollapod1804

mixty-maxty1818

macédoine1820

ragbag1820

haggis1822

job lot1828

allsorts1831

conglomerate1837

pot-pourri1841

chow-chow1850

breccia1873

pastiche1873

macaroni1884

mixed bag1919

casserole1930

mixed bunch1958

rattle-bag1982

mulligan1993

1831 J. H. Cooke Personal Narr. iv, in Mem. Late War 80 The former force was know throughout the army by the following familiar appellations: ‘the gentlemen's sons,’ ‘the surprisers,’..‘the all-sorts’.

1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. 61 ‘It takes some of all sorts to make a world;’ and so it does to make an election meeting; and this ‘all sorts’ comprised some curious specimens.

1961 20th Cent. Feb. 99 The architectural all-sorts of the actor's metropolitan Mecca.

2002 16th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (B.F.I. programme booklet) 21/1 From rebel girl in the streets to wild between-the-sheets, this all-sorts of film and video is a good queerfun collection of misbehaving young gals.

c. A mixture of sweets; esp. (frequently more fully liquorice allsorts) one of typically black-and-white or brightly coloured sweets containing liquorice. Also in singular: a sweet of this type.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > liquorice

liquoricec1275

liquorice-stick1580

rigolice1580

glycyrize1599

Spanish liquorice1753

Pomfret?1780

Spanish juice1803

sugarallie1812

allsorts1851

sugarallie button1887

liquorice all-sorts1928

nigger baby1934

bootlace1935

liquorice bootlace1952

1851 Househ. Words 17 May 173/1 Keeps a shop in the sweet business. Means he sells rock, and toffee, and bull's eyes, and all-sorts, and such-like.

1924 Quiver Dec. p. xv/2 (advt.) Wilkinson's Liquorice All-Sorts are good.

1925 Windsor Mag. May 665/1 Everybody sits up and takes notice when Bassett's Liquorice All-sorts are brought out. And nobody can say ‘no’, how ever many times they're offered—they're so delicious and wholesome.

1931 W. Holtby Poor Caroline iii. 76 Pink sugared hazel nuts, and Liquorice All Sorts.

1937 P. V. Carroll Shadow & Substance i. 24 Do have a liquorice-all-sort, Mr. O'Flingsley.

1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 162 His C.O...with the broad ring and a row of gongs that reminded Joe of liquorice all-sorts.

1952 Atlantic Nov. 24/1 Allsorts is vastly popular not only in England but also in the United States, Canada, and other countries.

1991 Independent (Nexis) 6 Apr. 48 The gelding is like a bag of allsorts–you never know what you are going to get out of him.

2000 C. Ward in R. Middelhurst Teaching Chicken to Swim 175 Bite the red and yellow coconut from the liquorice allsorts and keep the black bits till last.

2008 L. O'Sullivan Back along Track 123 A single orange and black striped Allsort would surely not be missed?

†2. slang. Cheap gin sold in a gin shop, made up of slops, spillages, leavings, etc. Cf. all nations n. at all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Compounds 1e. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > made from drips or dregs

allsorts1823

bull1830

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun] > inferior gin

ruin1819

allsorts1823

bluestone1880

bath-tub gin1930

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 3 All sorts, or All Nations, spirits compounded of all the drippers in a cellar, and the pewter save-all on a gin-shop counter.

1852 G. A. Sala in Househ Words. 22 May 227/1 The drainings, overflowings, and out-spillings of the gin-glasses..which..is..dispensed to his customers under the title of ‘all-sorts’.

Compounds

allsorts shop n. (usually in form all-sorts shop) now rare a shop which sells miscellaneous goods; a general store.

ΚΠ

1853 E. C. G. Murray From Mayfair to Marathon xxiv. 267 We halt at a small all-sorts shop, where an intelligent little girl is dealing out small jorums of oil, and cigars, and cheese.

1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin xiv. 260 He kept a little all-sorts shop, the stock in which ranged from pastry and sweet-stuff to pins and needles.

1937 W. de la Mare This Year, Next Year An all-sorts shop.

1970 L. R. Banks Backward Shadow iv. 49 ‘What was here?’ she asked. ‘All-sorts shop,’ I said. ‘Very dingy, doomed to fail.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	allsorts
释义	allsortsn. Brit. /ˈɔːlsɔːts/, U.S. /ˈɔlˈˌsɔrts/, /ˈɑlˈˌsɔrts/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adj., sort n.² Etymology: < all adj. + the plural of sort n.² Compare sort n.² 6b, sort n.² 7c, sort n.² 11d. 1. a. colloquial. All kinds or varieties of things; miscellaneous items. Cf. it takes all sorts at sort n.² 11d. ΚΠ 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 143 There they were, all drinking Tuscany wine and all sorts. 1839 T. Hood Our Village 23 There's a shop of all sorts, that sells every thing. 1863 S. P. Hawthorne in N. Hawthorne & his Wife (1885) II. 331 I hope to hear about papa's visit to Rockport, and ‘all sorts’, as dear Mrs. Browning used to say. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 1/3 Asking how it was possible to have complete transport in stock for an Empire of ‘all sorts’ like this. 1976 Norwich Mercury 10 Dec. 2/7 Stalls were of garden produce, hardware,..‘allsorts’ and white elephant. 2002 P. Blom To have & to Hold (2003) 145 The abbey swapped his skull, minus the jawbone, for a box of pious allsorts—a reliquary containing specimens from all the relics held in the Sainte Chapelle. b. A general mixture; a miscellaneous collection; a salmagundi. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture hotchpotc1405 hodge-podgec1426 omnigatherum?a1430 mishmashc1475 peasemeala1525 omnium gatherum1530 mingle1548 hotchpotch1549 mingle-mangle1549 gallimaufry1551 rhapsody1574 sauce-medley1579 pell-mellc1586 linsey-woolsey1592 wilderness1594 brewage1599 motley1609 macaronic1611 medley1618 olla podridaa1635 farragoa1637 consarcination1640 porridge1642 olio1645 bisque1653 mélange1653 hash1660 jumble1661 farrage1698 capilotade1705 jargon1710 salmagundi1761 pasticcio1785 pea meal1789 ollapod1804 mixty-maxty1818 macédoine1820 ragbag1820 haggis1822 job lot1828 allsorts1831 conglomerate1837 pot-pourri1841 chow-chow1850 breccia1873 pastiche1873 macaroni1884 mixed bag1919 casserole1930 mixed bunch1958 rattle-bag1982 mulligan1993 1831 J. H. Cooke Personal Narr. iv, in Mem. Late War 80 The former force was know throughout the army by the following familiar appellations: ‘the gentlemen's sons,’ ‘the surprisers,’..‘the all-sorts’. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. 61 ‘It takes some of all sorts to make a world;’ and so it does to make an election meeting; and this ‘all sorts’ comprised some curious specimens. 1961 20th Cent. Feb. 99 The architectural all-sorts of the actor's metropolitan Mecca. 2002 16th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (B.F.I. programme booklet) 21/1 From rebel girl in the streets to wild between-the-sheets, this all-sorts of film and video is a good queerfun collection of misbehaving young gals. c. A mixture of sweets; esp. (frequently more fully liquorice allsorts) one of typically black-and-white or brightly coloured sweets containing liquorice. Also in singular: a sweet of this type. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > liquorice liquoricec1275 liquorice-stick1580 rigolice1580 glycyrize1599 Spanish liquorice1753 Pomfret?1780 Spanish juice1803 sugarallie1812 allsorts1851 sugarallie button1887 liquorice all-sorts1928 nigger baby1934 bootlace1935 liquorice bootlace1952 1851 Househ. Words 17 May 173/1 Keeps a shop in the sweet business. Means he sells rock, and toffee, and bull's eyes, and all-sorts, and such-like. 1924 Quiver Dec. p. xv/2 (advt.) Wilkinson's Liquorice All-Sorts are good. 1925 Windsor Mag. May 665/1 Everybody sits up and takes notice when Bassett's Liquorice All-sorts are brought out. And nobody can say ‘no’, how ever many times they're offered—they're so delicious and wholesome. 1931 W. Holtby Poor Caroline iii. 76 Pink sugared hazel nuts, and Liquorice All Sorts. 1937 P. V. Carroll Shadow & Substance i. 24 Do have a liquorice-all-sort, Mr. O'Flingsley. 1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 162 His C.O...with the broad ring and a row of gongs that reminded Joe of liquorice all-sorts. 1952 Atlantic Nov. 24/1 Allsorts is vastly popular not only in England but also in the United States, Canada, and other countries. 1991 Independent (Nexis) 6 Apr. 48 The gelding is like a bag of allsorts–you never know what you are going to get out of him. 2000 C. Ward in R. Middelhurst Teaching Chicken to Swim 175 Bite the red and yellow coconut from the liquorice allsorts and keep the black bits till last. 2008 L. O'Sullivan Back along Track 123 A single orange and black striped Allsort would surely not be missed? †2. slang. Cheap gin sold in a gin shop, made up of slops, spillages, leavings, etc. Cf. all nations n. at all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Compounds 1e. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > made from drips or dregs allsorts1823 bull1830 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun] > inferior gin ruin1819 allsorts1823 bluestone1880 bath-tub gin1930 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 3 All sorts, or All Nations, spirits compounded of all the drippers in a cellar, and the pewter save-all on a gin-shop counter. 1852 G. A. Sala in Househ Words. 22 May 227/1 The drainings, overflowings, and out-spillings of the gin-glasses..which..is..dispensed to his customers under the title of ‘all-sorts’. Compounds allsorts shop n. (usually in form all-sorts shop) now rare a shop which sells miscellaneous goods; a general store. ΚΠ 1853 E. C. G. Murray From Mayfair to Marathon xxiv. 267 We halt at a small all-sorts shop, where an intelligent little girl is dealing out small jorums of oil, and cigars, and cheese. 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin xiv. 260 He kept a little all-sorts shop, the stock in which ranged from pastry and sweet-stuff to pins and needles. 1937 W. de la Mare This Year, Next Year An all-sorts shop. 1970 L. R. Banks Backward Shadow iv. 49 ‘What was here?’ she asked. ‘All-sorts shop,’ I said. ‘Very dingy, doomed to fail.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1794
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