单词 | ginner |
释义 | † ginnern.1 Obsolete. A beginner, an initiator. Also: a source, an origin.In quot. 1599: an author. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. pr. i. l. 4330 Þei ne vndirstoden ne moeueden it nauȝt by god prince and gynner [?c1425 Cambr. Ii.3.21 bygynnere] of wirkyng. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1231 This was the ferste morwe Of hire gladnesse & gynnere of hire sorwe. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) l. 402 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 499 (MED) Love is gynnere and ground of al my striff. 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. f. 100 Now vaunt thy Troian heades and ginners of thy race. 1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. C8 Here are a few pilles, which will purge melancholy: Prouided alwayes this, that litle is their vertue in operation, vnlesse you pardon the giners presumption. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). ginnern.2 A person who operates a cotton gin (gin n.1 10). Cf. cotton ginner n. at cotton n.1 Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing cotton > [noun] > separating seed > one who ginner1788 1788 City Gaz. (Charleston, South Carolina) 3 Mar. An experienced Ginner will give fifty pounds [of cotton] a day with the common sort of Ginns generally used. 1826 Amer. Farmer 19 May 66/1 The ginner, as fast as the seed accumulates, takes them up with a broad wooden shovel, and throws them into the pen by the aid of the trough very easily. 1879 G. Campbell White & Black in U.S. 360 Merchants and ginners look a good deal after the quality of the seed. 1941 W. C. Mullendore Hist. United States Food Admin., 1917–19 xix. 282 The different elements of the industry may be enumerated as follows: the producer who grows the cotton; the ginner who separates the cotton from the seed [etc.]. 2000 News (Karachi) 25 Apr. 16/6 The ginners who expected the active mill buying to continue..had to draw a long face. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1?c1400n.21788 |
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