fifteenadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌfɪfˈtiːn/,

/ˈfɪftiːn/, U.S.

/ˌfɪfˈtin/,

/ˈfɪfˌtin/

Forms:

α. early Old English fieftiene, Old English fiftyne, Old English fyftine, Old English–Middle English fyftyne, Old English–1600s fiftene, Old English–1600s fyftene, late Old English fiftenæ, late Old English fihtene, late Old English fihtyne, early Middle English fiftienne, early Middle English fyftena, Middle English feftene, Middle English ffifftene, Middle English ffiftene, Middle English ffyftene, Middle English fifftene, Middle English fifteen, Middle English fiftiene (in a copy of an Old English charter), Middle English fiftine, Middle English fijftene, Middle English fyfftene, Middle English fythtene, Middle English uiftene, Middle English uyftene, Middle English viftene, Middle English–1500s fyften, Middle English–1600s fiften, Middle English–1600s fyfteene, Middle English–1700s fifteene, 1500s fyfteen, 1700s fifthene (Irish English); Scottish pre-1700 fifftene, pre-1700 fifteene, pre-1700 fiftein, pre-1700 fifteine, pre-1700 fiften, pre-1700 fiftene, pre-1700 fifteyn, pre-1700 fifteyne, pre-1700 fiftine, pre-1700 fiwten, pre-1700 fyftain, pre-1700 fyfteene, pre-1700 fyftein, pre-1700 fyfteine, pre-1700 fyften, pre-1700 fyftene, pre-1700 fyfteyn, pre-1700 fyfteyne, pre-1700 fyftine, pre-1700 fyftyne, pre-1700 fyvtein, pre-1700 fyvteine, pre-1700 fyvtene, pre-1700 fywtein, pre-1700 fywten, pre-1700 1700s– fifteen, pre-1700 1700s– fyfteen.

β. Middle English fiueten, Middle English fiuetene, Middle English fyfeten, Middle English fyueteen, Middle English fyueten, Middle English fyvetene, Middle English–1500s fyuetene, 1500s fiuetiene, 1500s fyueteene, 1500s fyveten, 1600s fifeteene, 1600s fiveteene, 1600s–1700s fiveteen; Scottish pre-1700 fayftin, pre-1700 fayftine, pre-1700 fiveteine, pre-1700 fivetene, pre-1700 fyfeten, pre-1700 fyfetene, pre-1700 fyiftein, pre-1700 fyifteine, pre-1700 fyiften, pre-1700 fyiftene, pre-1700 fyuetene, pre-1700 fyvetane, pre-1700 fyvetein, pre-1700 fyveteine, pre-1700 fyveten, pre-1700 fyvetene, pre-1700 fyvetine, 1700s fifeteen, 1800s feifteen, 1800s foifteen.

Also represented by the numerical symbols 15, xv, XV.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian fīftēne (West Frisian fyftjin , fyftsjin ), Middle Dutch vijftien (Dutch vijftien ), Old Saxon fīftein (Middle Low German vefteyn , vifteyn ), Old High German fimfzehan (Middle High German vünfzehen , vünfzēn , German fünfzehn ), Old Icelandic fimtán , fimmtán , Old Swedish fämtan (Swedish femton ), Old Danish fæmtæn (Danish femten ), Gothic fimftaihun < the Germanic base of five adj. + the Germanic base of ten adj. (compare -teen comb. form).The β. forms show remodelling after five adj. For the development of the second element in English see discussion at -teen comb. form.

The cardinal numeral composed of ten and five, represented by the symbols 15 or xv.

A. adj.

1. With modified noun expressed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > fifteen

fifteenOE

OE Guthlac B 936 Siþþan he on westenne wiceard geceas, fiftynu gear, þa wæs frofre gæst eadgum æbodan ufan onsended.

OE Beowulf 1582 He..sloh..fyftyne men.

c1160 Hatton Gosp. John xi. 18 Ofer fyftena furlenga.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 416 A..comete..hym ssewede vyftene nyȝt ywys.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 415 For fiftene ger hadde adam, Ðan caim of eue cam.

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4564 Aftir þair dede..Anticrist sal regne, yhit fiften days.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27737 Þir ar þe springes o wreth fythtene.

a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 59 Heere bygynneth the fyftene psalmes.

1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 472 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xcvii The beste ffyuetene shealinges not surmowntinge.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxiii. 275 Saint Nicholas Bay..fifteene hundreth Miles from Mosco is away.

1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 235 Taken in clap-nets of fiveteen yards length.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 246/2 For fifteen months.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. i. 2 Fifteen men on the dead man's chest.

2. With ellipsis of the noun, which may usually be supplied from context. the Fifteen n. the Court of Session (formerly) consisting of fifteen Judges. Also, the first Jacobite rising (in the year 1715).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > fifteen things, persons, etc.

fifteenc1050

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > an insurrection > specific

Jacquerie1523

powder treason1607

powder plot1611

the Fifteena1797

Gunpowder Plot1796

whisky insurrection1824

the Forty-five1832

whisky rebellion1863

Easter Rising1916

intifada1985

c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 303 Gif þær synt fiftene to lafe todælað þa eall swa þa oðre.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8863 Thritte eln..It [sc. a temple] hade on lenght..And of heght it had fiften.

1660 B. Ruddier in Earl of Pembroke Poems 83 Give me a Virgin of Fifteen.

1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iv. 33 Hail wayward Queen; Who rule the Sex to Fifty from Fifteen.

1769 Dublin Mercury 16–19 Sept. 2/2 A Black Gelding..about fifteen high.

a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) I. 266 A man engaged in the former rebellion or as the Scotch call it in the Fifteen.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xvi. 240 Ye were just as ill aff in the feifteen .

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 323 A man's aye the better thought of in our country for having been afore the feifteen.

1842 J. W. Orderson Creoleana viii. 75 From adolescent fifteen..to mature twenty-five.

†3. = fifteenth adj. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > fifteen > fifteenth

fifteenthc900

fifteenc1430

c1430 Freemasonry 251 The fyftene artycul maketh an ende, For to the mayster he ys a frende.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 17 On ye fyften day.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxxv. [cxxi.] 356 To be at Hamton the fyftene day of May.

1605 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales (rev. ed.) vi. vi. 130 The fifteene Kalends of Nouember.

1623 Bill of Compl. in N. Shaks. Soc. Trans. (1885) 498 In the fifteene yeare of his Ma^ties raigne.

B. n.

1. English History. = fifteenth adj. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > one-fifteenth

fifteenthc1380

quinzièmec1400

quinzine1451

quindecimc1475

fifteena1513

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > fifteen things, persons, etc. > a fifteenth

fifteenthc1380

fifteena1513

fifteenth part1626

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxix In this yere also the Kynge helde his Parlyament..In the whiche was graunted vnto hym thre Fyftenys.

1540 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 379 To Master Meyre in money to make owte the Fyften v.li.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. vii. 20.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 23 Both the Houses gave halfe a tenth and halfe a fifteene, to be disposed of as the Lords thought fit, for the defence of the Realme.

2. A set of fifteen persons or things:

a. A set of fifteen players forming a ‘side’ at Rugby football.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of player > team

fifteen1878

1878 Cliftonian Apr. 232 No O.C. has ever complained of difficulty in accommodating himself to the fifteen game.

1878 Cliftonian Apr. 233 There will..be some competition to get into the fifteen.

1880 Times 12 Nov. 4/4 The two Universities..always place strong fifteens in the field.

1890 Daily News 4 Dec. 2/5 The visitors brought a powerful fifteen, and secured the victory after a splendid game.

†b. (see quot. 1688) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun]

rosary1548

bead-roll1598

rosario1622

prayer bead1630

fifteen1688

paternoster1870

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 231/2 A pair of Beads called Fifteens, containing fifteen Pater Nosters and 150 Aves.

c. Cribbage. An exact sum of fifteen pips counted on two or more cards, a court card reckoning as 10.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > score

fifteen1674

end-hole1796

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester ix. 108 That makes you six Games, because there is two fifteens and a pair.

1830 R. Hardie Hoyle made Familiar 58 They neither form a pair, a fifteen, a sequence nor a flush.

3. A card game: see quot. 1884.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others

laugh and lie down1522

mack1548

decoyc1555

pinionc1557

to beat the knave out of doors1570

imperial1577

prima vista1587

loadum1591

flush1598

prime1598

thirty-perforce1599

gresco1605

hole1621

my sow's pigged1621

slam1621

fox-mine-host1622

whipperginnie1622

crimpa1637

hundred1636

pinache1641

sequence1653

lady's hole1658

quebas1668

art of memory1674

costly colours1674

penneech1674

plain dealing1674

wit and reason1680

comet1685

lansquenet1687

incertain1689

macham1689

uptails1694

quinze1714

hoc1730

commerce1732

matrimonya1743

tredrille1764

Tom come tickle me1769

tresette1785

snitch'ems1798

tontine1798

blind hazard1816

all fives1838

short cards1845

blind hookey1852

sixty-six1857

skin the lamb1864

brisque1870

handicap1870

manille1874

forty-five1875

slobberhannes1877

fifteen1884

Black Maria1885

slapjack1887

seven-and-a-half1895

pit1904

Russian Bank1915

red dog1919

fan-tan1923

Pelmanism1923

Slippery Sam1923

go fish1933

Russian Banker1937

racing demon1938

pit-a-pat1947

scopa1965

1884 Daily News 13 Feb. 5/6 During a game of fifteen, a species of poker, several cards were marked.

Compounds

C1.

fifteen-spined adj.

ΚΠ

1832 G. Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 1. 7 The fifteen-spined stickleback.

C2.

fifteen-pounder n. a gun throwing a shot that weighs fifteen pounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot

fifteen-pounder1684

four-pounder1684

hundred-pounder1684

six-pounder1684

three-pounder1684

ten-pounder1695

nine-pounder1713

seven-pounder1762

long nine1780

half-pounder1800

twelve-pounder1801

sices1804

twelve1804

one-pounder1811

eighteen1834

eighteen-pounder1866

1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 109 Fifteen pounders.

fifteen-shilling adj. worth fifteen shillings.

ΚΠ

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 698 The ministers..resolved to issue..fifteenshilling bills, for the payment of the troops.

Draft additions April 2002

fifteen minutes n. (also fifteen minutes of fame) [after famous for fifteen minutes at famous adj. Additions] a brief period of fame or notoriety.

ΚΠ

1979 Washington Post Mag. 8 July 9/1 ‘Like if I didn't break the world record, people thought I had a bad meet.’ Nehemiah doesn't want Warhol's 15 minutes of fame to go away.

1989 ‘D. Bowie’ & R. Gabrels I can't Read (song) in ‘Tin Machine’ Tin Machine (CD sleeve notes) When you see a famous smile No matter where you run your mile To be right in that photograph Andy where's my fifteen minutes.

1996 Guardian 7 May i. 7/3 The people of La Iglesuela del Cid, a hamlet in the remote Spanish region of Teruel, had been revelling in their fifteen minutes of fame. But they watched in despair yesterday as the American actress Faye Dunaway was forced by a bishop to leave.

2001 P. Marber Howard Katz i. 61 Hideous, hideous egos—all of them—monsters—kicking and screaming for their ‘fifteen minutes’—and on top of that I'm brown-nosing the press.

Draft additions June 2017

Real Tennis and Tennis. The first point won in a game by a player or doubles partnership.In quot. ?1536 as part of an extended metaphor likening an engagement during Henry V's campaign in France in 1415 to a tennis game, based on the insulting gift of tennis balls sent to him by the Dauphin of France. [After Middle French quinze (late 15th cent. with reference to real tennis or paume).]

ΚΠ

?1536 Batayll of Eygyngecourte sig. A.iii Fyftene afore sayd London tho Her balles full fayre she gan out throwe.

1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica ii. ix. 60/3 Fifteene all.

1634 Noble Souldier ii. ii I ha been at Tennis, Madam, with the King. I gave him 15 and all his faults.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xi. 90 The first Bout..is usually at Tennis called Fifteen.

1740 S. Lowe French Rudim. (new ed.) 31 15 all, at tennis.

1775 ‘Connoisseur’ Ann. Gaming iii. 52 Instead of its being marked one, two, three, four, it is called fifteen, thirty, forty, game.

1833 W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. 496/2 The game..is called for the first stroke, fifteen; for the second, thirty; for the third, forty.

1875 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 31/1 The marker cries ‘Two faults,’ and adds ‘Fifteen love!’

1908 Amer. Lawn Tennis 15 June 75/1 Long pulled out another game from a 15-40 lead.

1987 Spectator 4 July 46/3 When it was fifteen-thirty, I heard my father say, ‘Go easy with the drop-shots.’

2008 Coaching Youth Tennis (ed. 4) iii. 28 If the receiver wins the first point, the score is love-15.

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单词	fifteen
释义	fifteenadj.n. Brit. /ˌfɪfˈtiːn/, /ˈfɪftiːn/, U.S. /ˌfɪfˈtin/, /ˈfɪfˌtin/ Forms: α. early Old English fieftiene, Old English fiftyne, Old English fyftine, Old English–Middle English fyftyne, Old English–1600s fiftene, Old English–1600s fyftene, late Old English fiftenæ, late Old English fihtene, late Old English fihtyne, early Middle English fiftienne, early Middle English fyftena, Middle English feftene, Middle English ffifftene, Middle English ffiftene, Middle English ffyftene, Middle English fifftene, Middle English fifteen, Middle English fiftiene (in a copy of an Old English charter), Middle English fiftine, Middle English fijftene, Middle English fyfftene, Middle English fythtene, Middle English uiftene, Middle English uyftene, Middle English viftene, Middle English–1500s fyften, Middle English–1600s fiften, Middle English–1600s fyfteene, Middle English–1700s fifteene, 1500s fyfteen, 1700s fifthene (Irish English); Scottish pre-1700 fifftene, pre-1700 fifteene, pre-1700 fiftein, pre-1700 fifteine, pre-1700 fiften, pre-1700 fiftene, pre-1700 fifteyn, pre-1700 fifteyne, pre-1700 fiftine, pre-1700 fiwten, pre-1700 fyftain, pre-1700 fyfteene, pre-1700 fyftein, pre-1700 fyfteine, pre-1700 fyften, pre-1700 fyftene, pre-1700 fyfteyn, pre-1700 fyfteyne, pre-1700 fyftine, pre-1700 fyftyne, pre-1700 fyvtein, pre-1700 fyvteine, pre-1700 fyvtene, pre-1700 fywtein, pre-1700 fywten, pre-1700 1700s– fifteen, pre-1700 1700s– fyfteen. β. Middle English fiueten, Middle English fiuetene, Middle English fyfeten, Middle English fyueteen, Middle English fyueten, Middle English fyvetene, Middle English–1500s fyuetene, 1500s fiuetiene, 1500s fyueteene, 1500s fyveten, 1600s fifeteene, 1600s fiveteene, 1600s–1700s fiveteen; Scottish pre-1700 fayftin, pre-1700 fayftine, pre-1700 fiveteine, pre-1700 fivetene, pre-1700 fyfeten, pre-1700 fyfetene, pre-1700 fyiftein, pre-1700 fyifteine, pre-1700 fyiften, pre-1700 fyiftene, pre-1700 fyuetene, pre-1700 fyvetane, pre-1700 fyvetein, pre-1700 fyveteine, pre-1700 fyveten, pre-1700 fyvetene, pre-1700 fyvetine, 1700s fifeteen, 1800s feifteen, 1800s foifteen. Also represented by the numerical symbols 15, xv, XV. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian fīftēne (West Frisian fyftjin , fyftsjin ), Middle Dutch vijftien (Dutch vijftien ), Old Saxon fīftein (Middle Low German vefteyn , vifteyn ), Old High German fimfzehan (Middle High German vünfzehen , vünfzēn , German fünfzehn ), Old Icelandic fimtán , fimmtán , Old Swedish fämtan (Swedish femton ), Old Danish fæmtæn (Danish femten ), Gothic fimftaihun < the Germanic base of five adj. + the Germanic base of ten adj. (compare -teen comb. form).The β. forms show remodelling after five adj. For the development of the second element in English see discussion at -teen comb. form. The cardinal numeral composed of ten and five, represented by the symbols 15 or xv. A. adj. 1. With modified noun expressed. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > fifteen fifteenOE OE Guthlac B 936 Siþþan he on westenne wiceard geceas, fiftynu gear, þa wæs frofre gæst eadgum æbodan ufan onsended. OE Beowulf 1582 He..sloh..fyftyne men. c1160 Hatton Gosp. John xi. 18 Ofer fyftena furlenga. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 416 A..comete..hym ssewede vyftene nyȝt ywys. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 415 For fiftene ger hadde adam, Ðan caim of eue cam. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4564 Aftir þair dede..Anticrist sal regne, yhit fiften days. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27737 Þir ar þe springes o wreth fythtene. a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 59 Heere bygynneth the fyftene psalmes. 1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 472 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xcvii The beste ffyuetene shealinges not surmowntinge. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxiii. 275 Saint Nicholas Bay..fifteene hundreth Miles from Mosco is away. 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 235 Taken in clap-nets of fiveteen yards length. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 246/2 For fifteen months. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. i. 2 Fifteen men on the dead man's chest. 2. With ellipsis of the noun, which may usually be supplied from context. the Fifteen n. the Court of Session (formerly) consisting of fifteen Judges. Also, the first Jacobite rising (in the year 1715). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > fifteen things, persons, etc. fifteenc1050 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > an insurrection > specific Jacquerie1523 powder treason1607 powder plot1611 the Fifteena1797 Gunpowder Plot1796 whisky insurrection1824 the Forty-five1832 whisky rebellion1863 Easter Rising1916 intifada1985 c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 303 Gif þær synt fiftene to lafe todælað þa eall swa þa oðre. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8863 Thritte eln..It [sc. a temple] hade on lenght..And of heght it had fiften. 1660 B. Ruddier in Earl of Pembroke Poems 83 Give me a Virgin of Fifteen. 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iv. 33 Hail wayward Queen; Who rule the Sex to Fifty from Fifteen. 1769 Dublin Mercury 16–19 Sept. 2/2 A Black Gelding..about fifteen high. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) I. 266 A man engaged in the former rebellion or as the Scotch call it in the Fifteen. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xvi. 240 Ye were just as ill aff in the feifteen . View more context for this quotation 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 323 A man's aye the better thought of in our country for having been afore the feifteen. 1842 J. W. Orderson Creoleana viii. 75 From adolescent fifteen..to mature twenty-five. †3. = fifteenth adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > fifteen > fifteenth fifteenthc900 fifteenc1430 c1430 Freemasonry 251 The fyftene artycul maketh an ende, For to the mayster he ys a frende. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 17 On ye fyften day. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxxv. [cxxi.] 356 To be at Hamton the fyftene day of May. 1605 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales (rev. ed.) vi. vi. 130 The fifteene Kalends of Nouember. 1623 Bill of Compl. in N. Shaks. Soc. Trans. (1885) 498 In the fifteene yeare of his Ma^ties raigne. B. n. 1. English History. = fifteenth adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > one-fifteenth fifteenthc1380 quinzièmec1400 quinzine1451 quindecimc1475 fifteena1513 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > fifteen things, persons, etc. > a fifteenth fifteenthc1380 fifteena1513 fifteenth part1626 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxix In this yere also the Kynge helde his Parlyament..In the whiche was graunted vnto hym thre Fyftenys. 1540 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 379 To Master Meyre in money to make owte the Fyften v.li. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. vii. 20. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 23 Both the Houses gave halfe a tenth and halfe a fifteene, to be disposed of as the Lords thought fit, for the defence of the Realme. 2. A set of fifteen persons or things: a. A set of fifteen players forming a ‘side’ at Rugby football. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of player > team fifteen1878 1878 Cliftonian Apr. 232 No O.C. has ever complained of difficulty in accommodating himself to the fifteen game. 1878 Cliftonian Apr. 233 There will..be some competition to get into the fifteen. 1880 Times 12 Nov. 4/4 The two Universities..always place strong fifteens in the field. 1890 Daily News 4 Dec. 2/5 The visitors brought a powerful fifteen, and secured the victory after a splendid game. †b. (see quot. 1688) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun] rosary1548 bead-roll1598 rosario1622 prayer bead1630 fifteen1688 paternoster1870 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 231/2 A pair of Beads called Fifteens, containing fifteen Pater Nosters and 150 Aves. c. Cribbage. An exact sum of fifteen pips counted on two or more cards, a court card reckoning as 10. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > score fifteen1674 end-hole1796 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester ix. 108 That makes you six Games, because there is two fifteens and a pair. 1830 R. Hardie Hoyle made Familiar 58 They neither form a pair, a fifteen, a sequence nor a flush. 3. A card game: see quot. 1884. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1884 Daily News 13 Feb. 5/6 During a game of fifteen, a species of poker, several cards were marked. Compounds C1. fifteen-spined adj. ΚΠ 1832 G. Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 1. 7 The fifteen-spined stickleback. C2. fifteen-pounder n. a gun throwing a shot that weighs fifteen pounds. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot fifteen-pounder1684 four-pounder1684 hundred-pounder1684 six-pounder1684 three-pounder1684 ten-pounder1695 nine-pounder1713 seven-pounder1762 long nine1780 half-pounder1800 twelve-pounder1801 sices1804 twelve1804 one-pounder1811 eighteen1834 eighteen-pounder1866 1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 109 Fifteen pounders. fifteen-shilling adj. worth fifteen shillings. ΚΠ 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 698 The ministers..resolved to issue..fifteenshilling bills, for the payment of the troops. Draft additions April 2002 fifteen minutes n. (also fifteen minutes of fame) [after famous for fifteen minutes at famous adj. Additions] a brief period of fame or notoriety. ΚΠ 1979 Washington Post Mag. 8 July 9/1 ‘Like if I didn't break the world record, people thought I had a bad meet.’ Nehemiah doesn't want Warhol's 15 minutes of fame to go away. 1989 ‘D. Bowie’ & R. Gabrels I can't Read (song) in ‘Tin Machine’ Tin Machine (CD sleeve notes) When you see a famous smile No matter where you run your mile To be right in that photograph Andy where's my fifteen minutes. 1996 Guardian 7 May i. 7/3 The people of La Iglesuela del Cid, a hamlet in the remote Spanish region of Teruel, had been revelling in their fifteen minutes of fame. But they watched in despair yesterday as the American actress Faye Dunaway was forced by a bishop to leave. 2001 P. Marber Howard Katz i. 61 Hideous, hideous egos—all of them—monsters—kicking and screaming for their ‘fifteen minutes’—and on top of that I'm brown-nosing the press. Draft additions June 2017 Real Tennis and Tennis. The first point won in a game by a player or doubles partnership.In quot. ?1536 as part of an extended metaphor likening an engagement during Henry V's campaign in France in 1415 to a tennis game, based on the insulting gift of tennis balls sent to him by the Dauphin of France. [After Middle French quinze (late 15th cent. with reference to real tennis or paume).] ΚΠ ?1536 Batayll of Eygyngecourte sig. A.iii Fyftene afore sayd London tho Her balles full fayre she gan out throwe. 1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica ii. ix. 60/3 Fifteene all. 1634 Noble Souldier ii. ii I ha been at Tennis, Madam, with the King. I gave him 15 and all his faults. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xi. 90 The first Bout..is usually at Tennis called Fifteen. 1740 S. Lowe French Rudim. (new ed.) 31 15 all, at tennis. 1775 ‘Connoisseur’ Ann. Gaming iii. 52 Instead of its being marked one, two, three, four, it is called fifteen, thirty, forty, game. 1833 W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. 496/2 The game..is called for the first stroke, fifteen; for the second, thirty; for the third, forty. 1875 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 31/1 The marker cries ‘Two faults,’ and adds ‘Fifteen love!’ 1908 Amer. Lawn Tennis 15 June 75/1 Long pulled out another game from a 15-40 lead. 1987 Spectator 4 July 46/3 When it was fifteen-thirty, I heard my father say, ‘Go easy with the drop-shots.’ 2008 Coaching Youth Tennis (ed. 4) iii. 28 If the receiver wins the first point, the score is love-15. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.OE
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