单词 | hazing |
释义 | hazingn. 1. a. Originally English regional (northern and north-eastern). A sound beating, a thrashing.In North American use probably influenced by sense 2b. ΚΠ 1825 Gentleman's Mag. May 396/1 I gave him a hazing. 1900 J. Good Gloss. Words E. Lincs. Hazing, a beating. 1908 Amer. Digest 1897–1906 (Decennial ed.) II. 1150/2 While plaintiff, a peddler, was passing defendants' house he was subjected to a severe hazing by a number of defendants' friends who were assembled there. 1964 E. G. Valens Number of Things ii. 24 A bronze door opened at sunrise, and Pythagoras was shaved, tossed into a cell, and in general given a thorough hazing. b. North American. A reprimand; an expression of disapproval. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of admonishingc1350 reproofc1400 fliting1435 rebuke?a1439 snibc1450 reprehensiona1500 redargution1514 remorda1529 piece of one's mind1536 check1541 snuba1556 rebuking1561 boba1566 sneap1600 snipping1601 reprimand1636 repriment1652 rubber1699 slap1736 twinkation1748 rap1777 throughgoing1817 dressing-down1823 downset1824 hazing1829 snubbing1841 downsetting1842 raking1852 calling1855 talking toc1875 rousting1900 strafe1915 strafing1915 raspberry1919 rousing1923 bottle1938 reaming1944 ticking-off1950 serve1967 1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. xvii. 107 He found great fault one morning, with the precincts of the galley. The midshipman of the deck was following..and received a severe hazing for it; which was terminated with an order that every thing should receive a double coat of whitewash. 1905 Pennsylvania Med. Jrnl. 8 262/2 The dull routine of business was very much enlivened by a thorough hazing administered to the secretary for not having minutes that would harmonize with the recollection of members in the matter of dues paid. 1948 Washington Post 9 Jan. 12/1 Counsel for the State of Oklahoma took a severe hazing from the Supreme Court yesterday. 1999 J. T. Soister Of Gods & Monsters (2005) 303/1 In light of such delusions, U.S. cavalrymen could be preoccupied with polo matches and not receive a hazing from the citizenry. 2. a. Nautical (chiefly North American, now historical). The action or an act of punishing a sailor with constant disagreeable and unnecessary hard work. ΚΠ 1850 Boston Post 7 Sept. The evidence showed a series of hazing and using up on the part of the mate, through the whole voyage. 1854 Hunt's Yachting Mag. Jan. 40 May be we did not give the lads a hazing, for it was notorious then, as it is now, that yachtsmen are infernally lazy as well as ignorant in the matter of signalling. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island xxviii. 233 ‘I stood hazing long enough from one,’ added another. ‘I'll be hanged if I'll be hazed by you, John Silver.’ 1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 285 The process is called ‘hazing’. The sufferer gets all the dirtiest and most disagreeable..jobs to be found on shipboard. 1935 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 43 638 The desire to desert..was formerly stimulated by the hard and monotonous conditions of shipboard life plus a brutal discipline under which certain individuals were often singled out for ‘hazing’ or ‘working up’. b. North American. The action or an act of forcing a new or potential recruit to the military, a university fraternity or sorority, a sports team, etc., to perform strenuous, humiliating, or dangerous tasks. Also: gen. bullying: intimidation; subjection of a person to teasing and ridicule. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > practised on college freshmen hazing1855 ragging1903 bastardization1964 1855 Harvard Mag. Oct. 413 The absurd and barbarous custom of hazing, which has long prevailed in College,..is discontinued. 1858 Boston Post 14 Oct. 1/8 The ‘hazing’ has grown more severe, and this year it included..compelling them [sc. freshmen] to submit to insults and violence that were not consistent with gentlemanly dignity. 1859 J. W. De Forest Seacliff xvi. 224 Those cursed powows and freshman-hazings, and initiations. 1892 Daily News 28 June 5/3 ‘Hazing’ at Yale has unhappily led to the death of an unfortunate young student. 1901 Congress. Rec. 19 Feb. 2635/2 Mr. Spooner. Is the Senator hazing me? Mr. Tillman. Not at all; I am resisting hazing. You are hazing me. You are subjecting me to the malice aforethought of your eloquence or logic, or rather your sophistry. 1905 G. W. Lewis Whip Hand iv. 55 Lawton..was totally in the dark as to whether the sergeant was making a joke at his expense or whether he was really to be tendered a rough reception and perhaps an unpleasant hazing by the members of the company with which his lot was cast. 1958 Life 8 Sept. 87/2 The Lions go further than most clubs and make college-type hazing a part of training. 1962 I. Levin General Seeger ii. 37 I told my wife about some of the hazings I received, and I frankly confess I made them sound a heck of a lot worse than they were, just as I've exaggerated some of my combat experiences to her. 2000 B. S. Feinberg J. McCain ii. 13 In those days, the academy encouraged hazing to find out who could endure harsh treatment. Compounds General attributive, as hazing incident, hazing ritual, etc. ΚΠ 1851 Amer. Rev. Dec. 528/1 It is..respect to duty, not fear of punishment, that is to be relied on... It was none of your hazing discipline that led one of the crew of the foundered Somers, [etc.]. 1869 Galaxy Oct. 539 I was in the hands of some men of the older classes, who were out on what was called in those days a hazing expedition. 1871 College Courant 26 Aug. 74/3 To read of the ‘fagging’ system in English schools, and the ‘hazing’ outrages in our own colleges, encourages the belief that during college days the Saxon youth relapses into partial barbarism. 1893 Beta Theta Pi Oct. 14 Every hazing incident that occurs..has been reported to them as primarily due to college fraternities. 1908 E. Doyle Comet ii. i. 39 The expelled Student..is ranked by the Eureka men as a genius, second only to Paul Gardner, whose verses form a part of their hazing ritual. 1939 Boys' Life Sept. 15/1 Up ahead they could hear the ribald shouts of the hazing party. 1992 G. Steinem Revol. from Within i. iii. 59 Classmates in his public school also remember him as the most ferocious paddler of younger boys in hazing rituals. 2015 J. J. Waldron in R. J. Schinke & K. R. McGannon Psychol. Sub-culture in Sport & Physical Activity i. iii. 37 Rookies engage in these hazing incidents because..they must succumb to hazing to be a real teammate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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