jackstrawn.

Brit.

/ˈdʒakstrɔː/, U.S.

/ˈdʒækˌstrɔ/,

/ˈdʒækˌstrɑ/

Forms: see Jack n.² and straw n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Jack n.², straw n.¹

Etymology: < Jack n.² + straw n.¹ In sense 1 probably to some extent regarded as a generic use of a proper name, and perhaps associated with the Jack Straw identified as one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt (see note), although also alluding to use of Jack n.² in denoting a common or ordinary person, and of straw n.¹ in reference to things of little importance. Compare also Jack-of-straw n. at Jack n.² Phrases 3.Jack Straw appears in numerous medieval and later sources as the name or nickname of one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381; it is unclear whether this was the proper name of a actual person (who may or may not be identical with the Jack Rackstraw also mentioned in some sources), or a pseudonym (perhaps of Wat Tyler), or fictitious. For references to him compare e.g.:c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 574 Certes he Iakke Straw and his meynee Ne made neuere showtes half so shrille.a1500 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 56 Iak strawe made yt stowte.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 342 But Fabian,..Polidore, and many Aucthours doe impute Iack Straw to be chiefe.

1. A worthless, insignificant, or contemptible man. Cf. man of straw at straw n.¹ 2e. rare between 18th and late 20th centuries.In quot. 1539 as the name of a hypothetical ordinary or lowly person, possibly with direct reference to one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 (see the etymology). In later use probably after sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > worthless

chaffc1386

noughta1400

noughtinga1500

trifle?a1500

undought1508

wallydraigle?a1513

jackstraw1565

oatmeal-groat1594

trasha1616

Jack-of-strawa1625

little worth1823

wanworth1832

shicer1846

nowt1847

no good1871

two-spot1885

cannon fodder1917

crumb1918

no-gooder1936

nogoodnik1936

schmatte1967

1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes f. xix^v It becometh not Jacke Strawe to reason of princes maters.]

1565 W. Allen Def. & Declar. Doctr. Purgatory f. 261 For they be as saulcie with goddes Church, Councells, and chefe gouernors, as we be with the Iacke strawes of Geneua.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q4 ^v Those worthlesse Whippets and Iack Strawes.

1652 J. Cook Vindic. Law 86 A Gentleman may be called Devill, Knave, Rogue, Rascall, base paltry fellow, Jackstraw,..and many other barbarous provoking speeches.

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. Pref. p. xviii Thou..an inconsiderable Fellow, and a Jack-straw, and who dependest upon the good will of thy Masters for a poor Stipend.

1702 Brief Hist. Trade Eng. 116 These heedless Jackstraws ought to be exposed and treated accordingly.

1773 tr. C. M. Wieland Adventures Don Sylvio de Rosalva I. iii. vii. 198 One of those sugar-lipp'd Jack-straws, those Butterfly things, that fly and buz about every flower and never stop at any.

1968 R. Coover Universal Baseball Assoc. (1970) viii. 231 With Hardy Ingram..are..Skeeter Parsons, the party proselyte and jack-straw Paul Trench.

2016 T. Bombov Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! xi. 242 This one is such a jackstraw, that he deserves no attention at all.

a. In plural (with singular or plural agreement). A game played with a heap of straws or small strips of wood, bone, or plastic, in which players try to remove one at a time without disturbing the others.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games played with straws or sticks > [noun]

spillikins1734

straw1765

jackstraws1795

long-straws1835

pick-up-sticks1936

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Plantaginaceae > [noun] > narrow-leaved plantain

ribwortc1300

lancella1400

ribgrass?a1500

long plantain1526

ribbed grass1770

cock's head1787

jackstraws1795

fighting cocks1807

ripple grass1819

1795 J. Swanwick Rub from Snub 31 You sport as expertly as boys play at jack-straws.

1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xix. 208 ‘Mr. Percival’, said Belinda, ‘condescending to look at a game of jack-straws!’

1845 E. B. Barrett Let. 6 Nov. in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 267 I..have no sort of presence of mind (not so much as one would use to play at Jack straws).

1907 24th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1902–3 729 The game of jackstraws would seem a natural and logical development from the game of stick-counting.

1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. ii. 5 Anna was..usually the winner in the games they played: shuttlecock,..Meg Merrilies, jackstraws, or shove ha-penny.

2017 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 Jan. b6 The lady astronomers entertain themselves playing rummy and jackstraws.

b. One of the set of straws or strips used in this game.Often in similative expressions denoting an untidy heap.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games played with straws or sticks > [noun] > straw or stick

jackstraw1830

spillikin1883

1830 N.-Y. Mirror 24 July 21/1 It was composed of unknown logs, placed together at the ends, after the manner in which children build their houses of jackstraws.

1860 Harper's Mag. Oct. 588/2 The fresh dung and the trampled grass in all the marshes looking like innumerable heaps of green jackstraws.

1921 O. Wister Straight Deal x. 107 The players sit round the table and with little hooks try in turn to lift one jackstraw out of the heap, without moving any of the others.

1942 L. D. Rich We took to Woods ii. 40 Acres of trees are piled up like jackstraws.

2004 A. Leibs Sports & Games of Renaissance 166 Jackstraws can be purchased and substitutes might include pencils, pipe cleaners, or drinking straws.

3. As the type of something worthless or insignificant. Frequently in negative contexts, as not to care a jackstraw, not to matter a jackstraw, etc. Cf. straw n.¹ 7a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > worthlessness

ames-ace?a1300

noughtinessa1500

unworthness1587

worthlessness1604

vacuity1613

idlenessa1650

nothingness1652

unvaluableness1665

jackstraw1828

valuelessness1830

trashiness1857

dead-beatism1869

1828 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland II. 261 The only thing about this place that's worth one jack-straw.

1841 Pennsylvania Inquirer & Daily Courier 9 Nov. What they offer for sale..does not matter a jackstraw.

1885 Leeds Mercury 16 Dec. 8/1 The Protestants of the North do not care a jackstraw about England.

1916 Munsey's Mag. Nov. 306/1 If either of my worthy friends suspected that I was not a good fellow, my life would not be worth a jack-straw.

1932 E. J. Craine Airplane Boys in Black Woods i. 16 I bet a jack-straw against the White House that he was congratulating himself that we didn't take it back from him.

2012 J. Sharpe Missouri Mastermind xii You've got three horny men trailing you, and they don't care a jackstraw about your ‘breeding’.

4. A flower spike of ribwort plantain, Plantago lanceolata, used in a children's game in which two such spikes are struck together until one is decapitated (cf. cock n.¹ 6, kemp n.¹ 3). Occasionally also (in plural): the plant itself. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1863 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers 238 We used to call the spikes ‘Jack straws’, and many a good game I have had with them fighting my fifty against my neighbour's fifty.

1882 Athenæum 1 July 13/3 These chevaliers, from the description of the game, would almost appear to be the species of plantain so used to this day, and called by children ‘Jack Straws’ or ‘fighting men’, except that they are said to have had broad and pointed leaves.

1900 Ann. Rep. Secretary State Hort. Soc. Mich. 1899 301 Plantago lanceolata L. Ribwort. Rib-grass... Jack-straws.

1932 R. Fisher Eng. Names Commonest Wild Flowers 123 Jack-straws, Ribwort Plantain.

5. English regional (now historical). The whitethroat, Sylvia communis, or (occasionally) the blackcap, S. atricapilla, which frequently use straw in the construction of their nests.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia communis (whitethroat)

whey-beard1614

glut1661

muff1661

whitethroat1673

nettle-monger1712

whitethroat warbler1817

whey-bird1825

muggy1829

nettle-tom1830

muffit1837

mufty1837

nettle creeper1845

feather-bed1854

jackstraw1879

feather-bird1885

mealy-mouth1885

miller1885

muffya1886

1879 Trans. Shropshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 2 372 Willow warbler, Sylvia trochilus... Locally known by the name of ‘Peggy Whitethroat’, the true Whitethroat being called a ‘Jack-straw’.

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 24 Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)..builds its nest of hay, roots, and hair, in a low bush or hedge, hence its names Jack straw (Somerset) [etc.].

1904 C. M. Gaskell Old Shropshire Life 305 Jack straw, common whitethroat.

2006 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 6 July 8 The whitethroat had many nicknames from ‘haychat’, ‘nettle-creeper’, ‘Jack Straw’, and ‘Charlie Miftie’, to ‘Wheetie-why-bird’, ‘Whantie’ and ‘Peggy Whitethroat’.

Compounds

C1. attributive with the sense ‘having no authority or influence; insignificant.’

ΚΠ

1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. xi. 57 I command you on your obedience to accept of this—I will not be a Jack-straw father.

1839 Indiana Jrnl. 27 July 1/3 He is evidently..only a ‘jackstraw journeyman printer’.

1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Aug. e1 There have been some murmurings among the media that I'll be..a mere figurehead, a jackstraw executive.

C2. attributive with the sense ‘resembling or reminiscent of a jackstraw or pile of jackstraws.’

ΚΠ

1906 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 452/1 The grass-grown wharves,—silver-gray piles which crumbled at the ends into a jackstraw heap of rotting logs.

1922 Collier's 4 Feb. 7/1 The jackstraw jumble of loud new factories and pathetic old landmarks.

1980 N. Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. c1 Slim steel beams in jackstraw arrangements.

1999 S. Weidensaul Living on Wind (2000) iv. 89 They flutter and swoop like bats, reaching out with their long, jackstraw legs and webbed feet to patter about the surface of the water.

2005 R. Anderson Little Fugue viii. 41 The dark Asian quilt with the jackstraw tendrils and the malignant plums.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	jackstraw
释义	jackstrawn. Brit. /ˈdʒakstrɔː/, U.S. /ˈdʒækˌstrɔ/, /ˈdʒækˌstrɑ/ Forms: see Jack n.² and straw n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Jack n.², straw n.¹ Etymology: < Jack n.² + straw n.¹ In sense 1 probably to some extent regarded as a generic use of a proper name, and perhaps associated with the Jack Straw identified as one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt (see note), although also alluding to use of Jack n.² in denoting a common or ordinary person, and of straw n.¹ in reference to things of little importance. Compare also Jack-of-straw n. at Jack n.² Phrases 3.Jack Straw appears in numerous medieval and later sources as the name or nickname of one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381; it is unclear whether this was the proper name of a actual person (who may or may not be identical with the Jack Rackstraw also mentioned in some sources), or a pseudonym (perhaps of Wat Tyler), or fictitious. For references to him compare e.g.:c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 574 Certes he Iakke Straw and his meynee Ne made neuere showtes half so shrille.a1500 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 56 Iak strawe made yt stowte.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 342 But Fabian,..Polidore, and many Aucthours doe impute Iack Straw to be chiefe. 1. A worthless, insignificant, or contemptible man. Cf. man of straw at straw n.¹ 2e. rare between 18th and late 20th centuries.In quot. 1539 as the name of a hypothetical ordinary or lowly person, possibly with direct reference to one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 (see the etymology). In later use probably after sense 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > worthless chaffc1386 noughta1400 noughtinga1500 trifle?a1500 undought1508 wallydraigle?a1513 jackstraw1565 oatmeal-groat1594 trasha1616 Jack-of-strawa1625 little worth1823 wanworth1832 shicer1846 nowt1847 no good1871 two-spot1885 cannon fodder1917 crumb1918 no-gooder1936 nogoodnik1936 schmatte1967 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes f. xix^v It becometh not Jacke Strawe to reason of princes maters.] 1565 W. Allen Def. & Declar. Doctr. Purgatory f. 261 For they be as saulcie with goddes Church, Councells, and chefe gouernors, as we be with the Iacke strawes of Geneua. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q4 ^v Those worthlesse Whippets and Iack Strawes. 1652 J. Cook Vindic. Law 86 A Gentleman may be called Devill, Knave, Rogue, Rascall, base paltry fellow, Jackstraw,..and many other barbarous provoking speeches. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. Pref. p. xviii Thou..an inconsiderable Fellow, and a Jack-straw, and who dependest upon the good will of thy Masters for a poor Stipend. 1702 Brief Hist. Trade Eng. 116 These heedless Jackstraws ought to be exposed and treated accordingly. 1773 tr. C. M. Wieland Adventures Don Sylvio de Rosalva I. iii. vii. 198 One of those sugar-lipp'd Jack-straws, those Butterfly things, that fly and buz about every flower and never stop at any. 1968 R. Coover Universal Baseball Assoc. (1970) viii. 231 With Hardy Ingram..are..Skeeter Parsons, the party proselyte and jack-straw Paul Trench. 2016 T. Bombov Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! xi. 242 This one is such a jackstraw, that he deserves no attention at all. 2. a. In plural (with singular or plural agreement). A game played with a heap of straws or small strips of wood, bone, or plastic, in which players try to remove one at a time without disturbing the others. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games played with straws or sticks > [noun] spillikins1734 straw1765 jackstraws1795 long-straws1835 pick-up-sticks1936 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Plantaginaceae > [noun] > narrow-leaved plantain ribwortc1300 lancella1400 ribgrass?a1500 long plantain1526 ribbed grass1770 cock's head1787 jackstraws1795 fighting cocks1807 ripple grass1819 1795 J. Swanwick Rub from Snub 31 You sport as expertly as boys play at jack-straws. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xix. 208 ‘Mr. Percival’, said Belinda, ‘condescending to look at a game of jack-straws!’ 1845 E. B. Barrett Let. 6 Nov. in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 267 I..have no sort of presence of mind (not so much as one would use to play at Jack straws). 1907 24th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1902–3 729 The game of jackstraws would seem a natural and logical development from the game of stick-counting. 1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. ii. 5 Anna was..usually the winner in the games they played: shuttlecock,..Meg Merrilies, jackstraws, or shove ha-penny. 2017 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 Jan. b6 The lady astronomers entertain themselves playing rummy and jackstraws. b. One of the set of straws or strips used in this game.Often in similative expressions denoting an untidy heap. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games played with straws or sticks > [noun] > straw or stick jackstraw1830 spillikin1883 1830 N.-Y. Mirror 24 July 21/1 It was composed of unknown logs, placed together at the ends, after the manner in which children build their houses of jackstraws. 1860 Harper's Mag. Oct. 588/2 The fresh dung and the trampled grass in all the marshes looking like innumerable heaps of green jackstraws. 1921 O. Wister Straight Deal x. 107 The players sit round the table and with little hooks try in turn to lift one jackstraw out of the heap, without moving any of the others. 1942 L. D. Rich We took to Woods ii. 40 Acres of trees are piled up like jackstraws. 2004 A. Leibs Sports & Games of Renaissance 166 Jackstraws can be purchased and substitutes might include pencils, pipe cleaners, or drinking straws. 3. As the type of something worthless or insignificant. Frequently in negative contexts, as not to care a jackstraw, not to matter a jackstraw, etc. Cf. straw n.¹ 7a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > worthlessness ames-ace?a1300 noughtinessa1500 unworthness1587 worthlessness1604 vacuity1613 idlenessa1650 nothingness1652 unvaluableness1665 jackstraw1828 valuelessness1830 trashiness1857 dead-beatism1869 1828 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland II. 261 The only thing about this place that's worth one jack-straw. 1841 Pennsylvania Inquirer & Daily Courier 9 Nov. What they offer for sale..does not matter a jackstraw. 1885 Leeds Mercury 16 Dec. 8/1 The Protestants of the North do not care a jackstraw about England. 1916 Munsey's Mag. Nov. 306/1 If either of my worthy friends suspected that I was not a good fellow, my life would not be worth a jack-straw. 1932 E. J. Craine Airplane Boys in Black Woods i. 16 I bet a jack-straw against the White House that he was congratulating himself that we didn't take it back from him. 2012 J. Sharpe Missouri Mastermind xii You've got three horny men trailing you, and they don't care a jackstraw about your ‘breeding’. 4. A flower spike of ribwort plantain, Plantago lanceolata, used in a children's game in which two such spikes are struck together until one is decapitated (cf. cock n.¹ 6, kemp n.¹ 3). Occasionally also (in plural): the plant itself. Now rare. ΚΠ 1863 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers 238 We used to call the spikes ‘Jack straws’, and many a good game I have had with them fighting my fifty against my neighbour's fifty. 1882 Athenæum 1 July 13/3 These chevaliers, from the description of the game, would almost appear to be the species of plantain so used to this day, and called by children ‘Jack Straws’ or ‘fighting men’, except that they are said to have had broad and pointed leaves. 1900 Ann. Rep. Secretary State Hort. Soc. Mich. 1899 301 Plantago lanceolata L. Ribwort. Rib-grass... Jack-straws. 1932 R. Fisher Eng. Names Commonest Wild Flowers 123 Jack-straws, Ribwort Plantain. 5. English regional (now historical). The whitethroat, Sylvia communis, or (occasionally) the blackcap, S. atricapilla, which frequently use straw in the construction of their nests. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia communis (whitethroat) whey-beard1614 glut1661 muff1661 whitethroat1673 nettle-monger1712 whitethroat warbler1817 whey-bird1825 muggy1829 nettle-tom1830 muffit1837 mufty1837 nettle creeper1845 feather-bed1854 jackstraw1879 feather-bird1885 mealy-mouth1885 miller1885 muffya1886 1879 Trans. Shropshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 2 372 Willow warbler, Sylvia trochilus... Locally known by the name of ‘Peggy Whitethroat’, the true Whitethroat being called a ‘Jack-straw’. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 24 Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)..builds its nest of hay, roots, and hair, in a low bush or hedge, hence its names Jack straw (Somerset) [etc.]. 1904 C. M. Gaskell Old Shropshire Life 305 Jack straw, common whitethroat. 2006 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 6 July 8 The whitethroat had many nicknames from ‘haychat’, ‘nettle-creeper’, ‘Jack Straw’, and ‘Charlie Miftie’, to ‘Wheetie-why-bird’, ‘Whantie’ and ‘Peggy Whitethroat’. Compounds C1. attributive with the sense ‘having no authority or influence; insignificant.’ ΚΠ 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. xi. 57 I command you on your obedience to accept of this—I will not be a Jack-straw father. 1839 Indiana Jrnl. 27 July 1/3 He is evidently..only a ‘jackstraw journeyman printer’. 1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Aug. e1 There have been some murmurings among the media that I'll be..a mere figurehead, a jackstraw executive. C2. attributive with the sense ‘resembling or reminiscent of a jackstraw or pile of jackstraws.’ ΚΠ 1906 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 452/1 The grass-grown wharves,—silver-gray piles which crumbled at the ends into a jackstraw heap of rotting logs. 1922 Collier's 4 Feb. 7/1 The jackstraw jumble of loud new factories and pathetic old landmarks. 1980 N. Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. c1 Slim steel beams in jackstraw arrangements. 1999 S. Weidensaul Living on Wind (2000) iv. 89 They flutter and swoop like bats, reaching out with their long, jackstraw legs and webbed feet to patter about the surface of the water. 2005 R. Anderson Little Fugue viii. 41 The dark Asian quilt with the jackstraw tendrils and the malignant plums. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1565
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