单词 | jack tar |
释义 | Jack tarn. colloquial. Now chiefly historical. (A generic name given to) a seaman in the British Royal Navy or Merchant Navy, esp. during the period of the British Empire; British seamen in naval service considered collectively. Later also more generally: a sailor, esp. one below the rank of officer in naval service. Often modified by jolly. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] shipmanc900 seamanOE buscarlOE shipperc1100 ship-gumec1275 marinerc1300 skipper1390 marinela1400 waterman1421 maryneller1470 seafarer1513 sea-fardingera1550 navigator1574 marinec1575 sailer1585 Triton1589 Neptunist1593 canvas-climber1609 sea-crab1609 tar-lubber1610 Neptunian1620 salt-rover1620 sailora1642 tarpaulin1647 otter1650 water dog1652 tarpauliana1656 Jack1659 tar1676 sea-animal1707 Jack tar1709 sailor-man1761 tarry-breeks1786 hearty1790 ocean-farera1806 tarry-jacket1822 Jacky1826 nautical1831 salt water1839 matelotc1847 knight of the tar-brush1866 main-yard man1867 gobby1883 tarry-John1888 blue jersey1889 lobscouser1889 flat-foot1897 handyman1899 1709 Female Tatler 22 Aug. 2/1 There must be a noble Appearance, his Grace and my Lady Dutchess, Jack Tar, and Mrs. Top-gallant-Sail, with every Coffee-Man, and his Wife. 1720 W. P. Jamaica Lady 6 To lie publick, and let his Wife be expos'd to the View of every sawcy Jack-Tar, went something against the Grain. 1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners I. 53 Our house in this place [sc. Gosport] was chiefly supported by Jack-tars. 1809 T. G. Fessenden Pills 75 She guides Jack Tar, when he carouses, As Adams says in ‘nanny houses’. 1890 Illustr. Amer. 10 May 274/3 How many American Jack Tars have we? Enough to man the Charleston, when she is commissioned? 1908 R. J. Broadbent Ann. of Liverpool Stage 252 One morning a jolly Jack Tar strolled in and duly paid his penny. 1986 Times 14 June 13/3 Budget cuts, you know where they begin. With Tommy and Jack Tar, the conning tower and the cockpit. 2009 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 26 Mar. 48 Rum has come a long way since it gave our jolly Jack tars enough Dutch courage to beat the French at Trafalgar. Compounds attributive, with the sense ‘of, relating to, characteristic of, or associated with a Jack tar; like a Jack tar's’. ΚΠ 1866 W. S. Gilbert in Rates & Taxes 191 He had mixed it [sc. brandy and water] on the Jack-tar principle of ‘half-and-half’. 1935 Amer. Girl July 28/1 All fourteen Girl Scouts, dressed in dark-green sailor suits, with white jack-tar hats and sneakers.., were ready to set out. 1965 T. Roscoe True Tales Bold Escapes iv. 161 A kind of wild Jack Tar jollity that could neither be flogged nor starved out of them. 1991 V. Burton in C. D. Howell & R. J. Twomey Jack Tar in Hist. iii. 180 British merchant seafarers identified the Jack Tar myth as a source of their oppression at the moment when technologically-induced change in the skills and organization of the workforce made possible a renegotiation of status. 2014 J. Hurl-Eamon Marriage & Brit. Army in Long 18th Cent. 8 Merchant seamen in the late Victorian and Edwardian age chafed under the ‘Jack Tar’ stereotype of the roué swabbie with a girl in every port. Derivatives ˈJack tar-like adj. now rare characteristic or reminiscent of, or associated with, a Jack tar; like a Jack tar's. ΚΠ 1812 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Aug. 147 What must we think of this Jack Tar-like slang. 1824 World of Fashion July 38/1 Full of youthful frolic and Jack Tar-like spirit. 1909 Musical Times 1 Oct. 646/2 In appearance..[John Liptrot] Hatton was like some old sailor. His Jack Tar-like characteristics have been happily caught in the excellent caricature of him by Mr. Charles Lyall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1709 |
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