单词 | jamboree |
释义 | jamboreen. a. A noisy revel; a carousal or spree. Originally U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun] > noisy or riotous revela1375 riotc1440 revel-rout1587 wassail1603 randan1640 rant1650 high-go1774 splore?a1786 gilravagea1796 spree1804 lark1811 spray1813 shindy1821 randy1825 randy-dandy1835 batter1839 flare-up1844 barney1850 jamboree1868 tear1869 whoop-up1876 beano1888 razzle1892 razzle-dazzle1893 bash1901 1868 N.Y. Herald 10 July 8/3 The Seventh regiment has gone on a jamboree to Norwich, Connecticut. 1872 Scribner's Monthly 4 363 (Farmer) There have not been so many dollars spent on any jamboree. 1878 W. H. Daniels That Boy xv. 236 He enjoyed a drinking bout or a jamboree as well as if he couldn't write the finest poetry in the language. 1895 W. O'Brien On the Eve 25/2 The Orange bad boys who..would be making the air of Belfast hideous about this time of the year with their annual jamboree over the July anniversaries. 1955 H. Spring These Lovers fled Away iii. 90 There was some jamboree or other at the Assembly Rooms. 1959 Economist 27 June 1144/1 This is sufficiently important, and difficult, to warrant a top-level western conference this year—not merely another Atlantic jamboree. 1960 A. Huxley Let. 17 July (1969) 893 Meet me in Boston with the Microbus and drive me..to Hanover, where you might stay for all or part of the Jamboree (at which I am to receive an honorary degree). 1973 G. Scott Water Horse (1974) v. 33 Even the most respectable souls milled around the countryside..holding all sorts of jamborees. b. Euchre. A lone hand containing the five highest cards. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > euchre > [noun] > type of hand jamboree1886 1886 Euchre: how to play It 45 Jamboree signifies the combination of the five highest cards, as, for example, the two Bowers, Ace, King, and Queen of trumps in one hand, which entitles the holder to count sixteen points. The holder of such a hand simply announces the fact, as no play is necessary; but should he play the hand as a Jambone, he can count only eight points, whereas he could count sixteen if he announced it as a Jamboree. c. The name given to the 1920 International Rally of Boy Scouts, and now applied to any large scout rally. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 1919 Times 17 Oct. 9/6 The Council of the Boy Scouts Association announce that a ‘Jamboree’ will be held at Olympia, for about eight days next August. 1931 Mag. Univ. Students' Union Apr. 2 The Jamboree spirit was marvellous. 1955 Times 20 Aug. 9/3 The four-year cycle for jamborees is being broken in order to commemorate in 1957 the fiftieth anniversary of scouting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1868 |
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