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单词 heckler
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Brit. /ˈhɛkl̩ə/, /ˈhɛklə/, U.S. /ˈhɛk(ə)lər/
Forms: Middle English hekelare, Middle English hekeler, Middle English hekelere, Middle English hekyller, 1700s– heckler.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: heckle v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < heckle v. + -er suffix1. Compare Middle Dutch hekelare someone who hackles flax or hemp (Dutch hekelaar , also in sense ‘someone who scolds’ (1785)). Compare later hatcheller n. With later uses (in sense 1) compare also hackler n.
1. A person employed to hackle flax or hemp (see hackle v.2 1a); a flax or hemp dresser. Cf. hackler n. Now historical.Recorded earliest as a surname.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > heckling > one who
heckler1297
hatchellerc1450
hecklester1480
hackler1649
hemp-dressera1658
1297 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 82 (MED) Will. le Hekelere.
1314–15 in T. Foulds Cal. Nottingham Borough Court Rolls (Nottinghamshire Archives: CA 1255) John le Hekeler.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 234/1 Hekelare, mataxatrix.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 62 A hekyller, hic mataxarius [1483 BL Add. 89074 mataxarius, mataxatrix].
1720 London Gaz. No. 5882/10 Robert Pickering, Heckler.
1758 W. Bailey Treat. Better Employment of Poor in Workhouses 63 Flax, by the Heckler's and Spinner's Arts, may be brought to such a Degree of Fineness.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 306/2 The hecklers or flax-dressers, can unfold ‘a tale of wo’ on this subject.
1869 D. Bremner Industries Scotl. 257 Machines were invented which performed the work as well as..the hecklers, and the result was that the hand hecklers were thrown out of employment.
1926 J. H. Clapham Econ. Hist. Mod. Brit. v. 146 The flax industry had a parallel to the worsted combers in the hecklers who prepared the flax for spinning.
1982 D. Turnock Hist. Geogr. Scotl. since 1707 iii. 54 Hecklers came to cluster around the mills where flax was brought to be scutched.
2015 Sunday Express (Nexis) 22 Feb. 81 A heckler's job was to tease or comb out the fibres from flax.
2. Originally Scottish. A person who subjects another (esp. a politician) to rigorous questioning or examination. In later use also: a person who abuses or taunts a speaker, performer, etc., with derisive or aggressive comments. Cf. heckle v. 3a, 3b.figurative in quot. 1824.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > [noun] > heckling > person engaged in
heckler1824
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 124 Ha, melancholy mirky wight, Grim Heckler o' the feeling soul.
1868 Bradford Observer 31 Oct. 4/4 Mr. Dalgleish gave a smart answer to an election ‘heckler’, at a meeting held in Glasgow this week.
1895 Vanity Fair 15 Aug. 117/2 He once fired a Parthian shot at a famous cross-examining Queen's Counsel..and completely nonplussed his heckler.
1925 N.Y. Times 1 Oct. 14/5 The visiting delegates..were met by hecklers shouting..‘Down with Mulcahy’.
1949 Life 29 Aug. 28/1 When Reds ‘packed’ halls with hecklers, opposing hecklers shouted back.
1991 Sports Illustr. 12 Aug. 52/2 When Wallace made his debut for Vandy, the threat of violence was as real and near as the redneck hecklers sitting just behind the benches.
2015 D. Frances-White & M. Shandur Off the Mic viii. 233 As you become more well-known as a comedian, your proficiency with handling hecklers increases.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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