| 单词 | hickory oil |
| 释义 | > as lemmashickory oil hickory oil n. (a) oil extracted from the nuts of a North American hickory tree and used traditionally by North American Indians as a source of food (now chiefly historical); (b) U.S. figurative corporal punishment using a hickory switch or similar instrument, viewed as a treatment for bad behaviour (now rare); cf. sense 2c and oil n.1 Compounds 2c. During the first half of the nineteenth cent., the phrase was also used to refer to the administration of U.S. President Andrew Jackson, nicknamed Old Hickory (see Old Hickory n. at old adj. Compounds 4), which may have influenced the development of sense (b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating > instance of threshingOE fustigation1428 breeching1520 trouncingc1550 bace1575 firking1594 belting1602 knave's grease1602 oil of baston1604 oil of birch1604 oil of hazel1604 oil of holly1604 oil of whip1604 lamb-pie1607 lamming1611 drubbing1650 vapulation1656 warming1681 floggation1688 working over1695 cullis1719 thrashing1720 halberd1756 licking1756 dressing1769 leathering1790 nointing1794 dusting1799 teasing1807 hiding1809 whopping1812 thrumming1823 toco1823 flaking1829 teaser1832 lathering1835 welting1840 pasting1851 towelling1851 whaling1852 hickory oil1855 swishing1859 slating1860 going-over1881 six of the best1912 belt beating1928 ass-kicking1943 stomping1958 seeing to1968 butt-kicking1970 1690 R. Hooke Diary 20 Jan. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. Oxf. (1935) X. 181 Mr Ashby hiccary oyle. 1802 J. T. Callender Conduct of Meriwether Jones 116 Three hundred gallons of hickory oil. 1855 Daily Disp. (Richmond, Va.) 20 July Nothing less than a chain gang, and an extra supply of hickory oil, well administered, would be sufficient punishment for this miserable carricature [sic] of humanity. 1888 W. T. Brannt Pract. Treat. Animal & Veg. Fats & Oils ix. 291 Hickory oil..resembles walnut oil, and is used as table and lamp oil. 1942 Amer. Speech 17 172 When children need a dose of ‘hickory oil’ the threat that ‘I'm just going to give you one out of the salt!’ has intimidated generations of..Little Orvies. 2003 C. M. Scarry in P. E. Minnis People & Plants in Anc. Eastern N. Amer. iii. 61 Archaeological evidence suggests that extracting hickory oil was a long-standing tradition in the Eastern Woodlands. < as lemmas |
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