geldingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈɡɛldɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɡɛldɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English gildyng, Middle English–1500s geldyng, Middle English–1500s geldynge, Middle English– gelding, late Middle English geldyns (transmission error), late Middle English ȝelding (probably transmission error), 1500s ghelding, 1500s guylding, 1500s gyldinge, 1500s–1600s geldinge, 1500s–1600s guelding, 1600s gilding, 1600s–1700s (North American) (1900s U.S. regional) geilding; Scottish pre-1700 gealding, pre-1700 geldein, pre-1700 geldeng, pre-1700 geldin, pre-1700 geldyng, pre-1700 1700s– gelding.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymons: geld v.¹, -ing suffix³.

Etymology: Either (i) < geld v.¹ + -ing suffix³, or (ii) < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic geldingr , Old Swedish gældinger (Swedish gälling ), Old Danish gelding (Danish gilding )) < the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic geldr geld adj. or gelda geld v.¹ + the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic -ing -ing suffix³.Slightly earlier currency (in sense 2) is probably shown by surnames, as e.g.:1296 in W. Hudson Three Earliest Subsidies Sussex (1910) 6 Galfro Geldyng.1301 in W. Brown Yorks. Lay Subsidy (1897) 48 Thoma Gelding'.

1. A castrated animal, esp. a gelded horse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > stock or breed > neutered animal

gelding?1380

spader1648

spading1648

neuter1855

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > male > gelding

hengestOE

gelding?1380

kadisha1817

?1380 in R. S. Ferguson Testamenta Karleolensia (1893) 134 Et qe Lawrence eit sie demure en vie un hakney bay geldyng et xl. s.

1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 53 (MED) Þat Acris Mersk haue þe grey geldyng.

c1470 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 108 (MED) I have loste vj s..þat I have leyde yn ernyste off a geldyng.

1520 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 116 My blak, trotting gelding w^t a white fote.

1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches ii. sig. D2 Give me the Key oth' Stable, I will goe see my Gelding.

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 116. ⁋7 The jolly Knight, who rode upon a white Gelding.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 20 He..took his grey gelding, and joined Clavers at Killie-krankie.

1937 C. E. Perkins Pinto Horse vi. 35 Among the older gelding was a flea-bitten, much branded grey savage.

2014 New Straits Times (Malaysia) 1 Mar. 29/1 Taken out by a track rider, the eight-year-old Australian gelding..cantered one round of the sand track.

2. A castrated man, a eunuch. Now rare.In Middle English biblical translation sometimes (as in quot. a1382) denoting a high official (whether castrated or not).In later use difficult to distinguish from sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration > person

geldinga1382

eunuchc1430

spadoc1430

chastelinga1570

capon1594

castrate1639

spade1680

wether1724

demi-male1728

androgyne1742

castrato1763

hijra1838

emasculate1886

half-man-

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxvii. 36 Putiphar þe geldyng [L. eunucho] of pharao.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 107^v (MED) Geldyngz ar not podagrez..inmoderate lichery makeþ numerable podagrez.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 953 Lysimachus..thought great skorne that Demetrius should reckon him a gelding [Fr. chastré; Gk. σπάδοντα].

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 114 The Venerable Guelding [L. semivir]..O're-looks the Herd of his inferiour Fry.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Gelding, an eunuch.

1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys viii. 112 Anyone Spermwhale didn't like was either a ‘cunt’, a ‘gelding’, a ‘eunuch’, or a ‘cocksucker’.

3. figurative and in figurative contexts. A man likened to a gelded horse; a man regarded as emasculated. Now somewhat rare.

ΚΠ

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 691 I trowe he were a geldyng or a Mare.

1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret i. i. sig. B2^v Or curse me heauen If all your guilded knaues..Be not made ambling Geldings.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. x. 295 As for Jones, he swore, if he caught him at his House, he would qualify him to run for the Gelding's Plate.

1863 W. Whitman Notebooks & Unpublished Prose (1984) II. 552 My impression of King was good, I think Sumner is a sort of gelding—no good.

1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 328 I could hear the Great American Gelding snoring away like a planing mill. I read somewhere they'd fix men that way to give them women's voices.

1995 P. Cody Stolen Child xi. 97 You sneaky, lying little prick. You piece of shit, Marshall. You gelding. Who took your balls, Marshall?

†4. A young date palm producing fruit lacking stones. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by age or life cycle > [noun] > young tree or sapling

spire1392

sapling1415

springa1450

sipling1513

spear1543

gelding1562

saple1589

tiller1664

treeling1847

timberline1867

treelet1874

pole1882

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 75 As long as the tre is very yong the fruite hath no stone within him and therefore suche are called geldynges.

Compounds

Appositive, as gelding colt, gelding horse, gelding man.

ΚΠ

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 359 (MED) It myȝt seeme þat bi lijk skile bitwixe a natural broþer and his natural sister myȝte be verry matrymonye..and also bi twix a gelding man and a woman.

a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 65 A Gelding Earl.

1691 London Gaz. No. 2638/4 A black Gelding Colt.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 71 Guelding Priests.

1733 Fog's Weekly Jrnl. 2 June One dark Roan Gelding Colt.

1760 Public Ledger 29 Oct. 1000/2 (advt.) A Bay Gelding Colt.

1842 Cultivator (Albany, N.Y.) June 99/3 He got two colts, one a three year old gelding colt.

1875 12th Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. Michigan 178 Best gelding colt, four years old.

1986 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 55 173 Observations of fly landing and feeding were made on a single gelding horse.

2006 Sewanee Rev. 114 46 He walked and I followed him on my gelding horse I hired.

Derivatives

† geldingeity n. [after corporeity n., etc.] Obsolete the quality of being a gelding.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 103 Colteity, horseity and geldingeity, must always continue themselves, in whatever beast inexisting.

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

geldingn.²

Brit.

/ˈɡɛldɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɡɛldɪŋ/

Forms: see geld v.¹ and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: geld v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < geld v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.Compare Old Icelandic gelding castrating, spaying.

The action of geld v.¹ in various senses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > castration or spaying

libbing1396

geldinga1398

spaying1575

splaying1607

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration

libbing1396

geldinga1398

castrationc1420

eviration1603

eunuchism1620

emasculation1623

evirating1657

mutilation1728

orchotomy1753

eunuchry1864

orchidectomy1870

asexualization1888

orchidotomy1892

society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > mutilation or cutting parts out of book

gelding1622

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. xvii. 627 The cok hatte gallus and haþ þat name of geldinge.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 6^v (MED) Of circumscisioun, And of castracioun i. geldyng.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 190 Geldynge of beestys, or fowlys, castracio.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxix^v Than shall ye se the oxe caulfe ferre gretter euery way, than the bull. There is no cause but the geldyng.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 182^v This kinde of gelding of your Hiues.

1622 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Boston 77 In gelding of good Authors by expurgatory Indexes.

1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. lviii. 257 The gelding of a Foal is an easy Operation.

1819 Ld. Byron Let. 6 Apr. (1976) VI. 107 I have sent my second Canto—but I will have no more gelding.

1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 i. 25 Ant-hills..the other plan is, to throw them, or what is provincially termed ‘gelding’.

1884 J. Phin Dict. Apiculture Prune, to cut out old combs so that new may be built. Called by the older writers gelding.

1917 R. Storrs Diary 22 Dec. in Orientations (1937) xii. 327 The Turks cut down over 10,000 olive trees..to drive their trains; a barbarous gelding of this difficult soil.

2007 Analecta Hibernica 40 92 Leary combined the job of blacksmith with the gelding of horses.

Compounds

General attributive, as gelding knife, gelding tools, etc.

ΚΠ

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 11^v Cutting kniues, Gelding tooles, Clipping sheares.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Castradera The cutting, or gelding knife.

1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. Castradéra, a Gelding-Knife.

1888 W. Day Horse xxx. 417 Nothing will put a stop to this until coercive measures are introduced, and Government inspectors..authorized to condemn all unfit horses to the gelding-knife.

1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life ii. iv. 140 Those fellows ever cause you any more trouble,..you let me know. I'll introduce them to my gelding clippers, Eh?

2012 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 3 Jan. 47 For the moment Spirit Of Boom is saved from the gelding knife.

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

单词	gelding
释义	geldingn.¹ Brit. /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English gildyng, Middle English–1500s geldyng, Middle English–1500s geldynge, Middle English– gelding, late Middle English geldyns (transmission error), late Middle English ȝelding (probably transmission error), 1500s ghelding, 1500s guylding, 1500s gyldinge, 1500s–1600s geldinge, 1500s–1600s guelding, 1600s gilding, 1600s–1700s (North American) (1900s U.S. regional) geilding; Scottish pre-1700 gealding, pre-1700 geldein, pre-1700 geldeng, pre-1700 geldin, pre-1700 geldyng, pre-1700 1700s– gelding. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymons: geld v.¹, -ing suffix³. Etymology: Either (i) < geld v.¹ + -ing suffix³, or (ii) < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic geldingr , Old Swedish gældinger (Swedish gälling ), Old Danish gelding (Danish gilding )) < the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic geldr geld adj. or gelda geld v.¹ + the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic -ing -ing suffix³.Slightly earlier currency (in sense 2) is probably shown by surnames, as e.g.:1296 in W. Hudson Three Earliest Subsidies Sussex (1910) 6 Galfro Geldyng.1301 in W. Brown Yorks. Lay Subsidy (1897) 48 Thoma Gelding'. 1. A castrated animal, esp. a gelded horse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > stock or breed > neutered animal gelding?1380 spader1648 spading1648 neuter1855 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > male > gelding hengestOE gelding?1380 kadisha1817 ?1380 in R. S. Ferguson Testamenta Karleolensia (1893) 134 Et qe Lawrence eit sie demure en vie un hakney bay geldyng et xl. s. 1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 53 (MED) Þat Acris Mersk haue þe grey geldyng. c1470 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 108 (MED) I have loste vj s..þat I have leyde yn ernyste off a geldyng. 1520 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 116 My blak, trotting gelding w^t a white fote. 1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches ii. sig. D2 Give me the Key oth' Stable, I will goe see my Gelding. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 116. ⁋7 The jolly Knight, who rode upon a white Gelding. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 20 He..took his grey gelding, and joined Clavers at Killie-krankie. 1937 C. E. Perkins Pinto Horse vi. 35 Among the older gelding was a flea-bitten, much branded grey savage. 2014 New Straits Times (Malaysia) 1 Mar. 29/1 Taken out by a track rider, the eight-year-old Australian gelding..cantered one round of the sand track. 2. A castrated man, a eunuch. Now rare.In Middle English biblical translation sometimes (as in quot. a1382) denoting a high official (whether castrated or not).In later use difficult to distinguish from sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration > person geldinga1382 eunuchc1430 spadoc1430 chastelinga1570 capon1594 castrate1639 spade1680 wether1724 demi-male1728 androgyne1742 castrato1763 hijra1838 emasculate1886 half-man- a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxvii. 36 Putiphar þe geldyng [L. eunucho] of pharao. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 107^v (MED) Geldyngz ar not podagrez..inmoderate lichery makeþ numerable podagrez. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 953 Lysimachus..thought great skorne that Demetrius should reckon him a gelding [Fr. chastré; Gk. σπάδοντα]. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 114 The Venerable Guelding [L. semivir]..O're-looks the Herd of his inferiour Fry. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Gelding, an eunuch. 1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys viii. 112 Anyone Spermwhale didn't like was either a ‘cunt’, a ‘gelding’, a ‘eunuch’, or a ‘cocksucker’. 3. figurative and in figurative contexts. A man likened to a gelded horse; a man regarded as emasculated. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 691 I trowe he were a geldyng or a Mare. 1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret i. i. sig. B2^v Or curse me heauen If all your guilded knaues..Be not made ambling Geldings. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. x. 295 As for Jones, he swore, if he caught him at his House, he would qualify him to run for the Gelding's Plate. View more context for this quotation 1863 W. Whitman Notebooks & Unpublished Prose (1984) II. 552 My impression of King was good, I think Sumner is a sort of gelding—no good. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 328 I could hear the Great American Gelding snoring away like a planing mill. I read somewhere they'd fix men that way to give them women's voices. 1995 P. Cody Stolen Child xi. 97 You sneaky, lying little prick. You piece of shit, Marshall. You gelding. Who took your balls, Marshall? †4. A young date palm producing fruit lacking stones. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by age or life cycle > [noun] > young tree or sapling spire1392 sapling1415 springa1450 sipling1513 spear1543 gelding1562 saple1589 tiller1664 treeling1847 timberline1867 treelet1874 pole1882 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 75 As long as the tre is very yong the fruite hath no stone within him and therefore suche are called geldynges. Compounds Appositive, as gelding colt, gelding horse, gelding man. ΚΠ c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 359 (MED) It myȝt seeme þat bi lijk skile bitwixe a natural broþer and his natural sister myȝte be verry matrymonye..and also bi twix a gelding man and a woman. a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 65 A Gelding Earl. 1691 London Gaz. No. 2638/4 A black Gelding Colt. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 71 Guelding Priests. 1733 Fog's Weekly Jrnl. 2 June One dark Roan Gelding Colt. 1760 Public Ledger 29 Oct. 1000/2 (advt.) A Bay Gelding Colt. 1842 Cultivator (Albany, N.Y.) June 99/3 He got two colts, one a three year old gelding colt. 1875 12th Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. Michigan 178 Best gelding colt, four years old. 1986 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 55 173 Observations of fly landing and feeding were made on a single gelding horse. 2006 Sewanee Rev. 114 46 He walked and I followed him on my gelding horse I hired. Derivatives † geldingeity n. [after corporeity n., etc.] Obsolete the quality of being a gelding.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 103 Colteity, horseity and geldingeity, must always continue themselves, in whatever beast inexisting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). geldingn.² Brit. /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/ Forms: see geld v.¹ and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: geld v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < geld v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.Compare Old Icelandic gelding castrating, spaying. The action of geld v.¹ in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > castration or spaying libbing1396 geldinga1398 spaying1575 splaying1607 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration libbing1396 geldinga1398 castrationc1420 eviration1603 eunuchism1620 emasculation1623 evirating1657 mutilation1728 orchotomy1753 eunuchry1864 orchidectomy1870 asexualization1888 orchidotomy1892 society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > mutilation or cutting parts out of book gelding1622 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. xvii. 627 The cok hatte gallus and haþ þat name of geldinge. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 6^v (MED) Of circumscisioun, And of castracioun i. geldyng. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 190 Geldynge of beestys, or fowlys, castracio. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxix^v Than shall ye se the oxe caulfe ferre gretter euery way, than the bull. There is no cause but the geldyng. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 182^v This kinde of gelding of your Hiues. 1622 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Boston 77 In gelding of good Authors by expurgatory Indexes. 1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. lviii. 257 The gelding of a Foal is an easy Operation. 1819 Ld. Byron Let. 6 Apr. (1976) VI. 107 I have sent my second Canto—but I will have no more gelding. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 i. 25 Ant-hills..the other plan is, to throw them, or what is provincially termed ‘gelding’. 1884 J. Phin Dict. Apiculture Prune, to cut out old combs so that new may be built. Called by the older writers gelding. 1917 R. Storrs Diary 22 Dec. in Orientations (1937) xii. 327 The Turks cut down over 10,000 olive trees..to drive their trains; a barbarous gelding of this difficult soil. 2007 Analecta Hibernica 40 92 Leary combined the job of blacksmith with the gelding of horses. Compounds General attributive, as gelding knife, gelding tools, etc. ΚΠ 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 11^v Cutting kniues, Gelding tooles, Clipping sheares. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Castradera The cutting, or gelding knife. 1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. Castradéra, a Gelding-Knife. 1888 W. Day Horse xxx. 417 Nothing will put a stop to this until coercive measures are introduced, and Government inspectors..authorized to condemn all unfit horses to the gelding-knife. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life ii. iv. 140 Those fellows ever cause you any more trouble,..you let me know. I'll introduce them to my gelding clippers, Eh? 2012 Courier Mail (Austral.) 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