knockaboutadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈnɒkəbaʊt/, U.S.

/ˈnɑkəˌbaʊt/

Forms: Also knock-about.

Etymology: The phrase knock about (see to knock about at knock v. Phrasal verbs), used attributively, and hence by ellipsis as noun.

A. adj.

a. Characterized by knocking about, or dealing blows; rough, violent, boisterous.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough > rough or boisterous

robustious1548

boisterous1568

rory-tory1683

randy1723

rumgumptious1781

lungeous1787

rowdy dowdy1816

roaritorious1821

riproarious1830

rough and tumble1831

rowdy1832

rowdy-dow1832

tear-brass1880

knockabout1885

rory-cum-tory1893

roughhouse1896

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Apr. 4/1 The rage for this knockabout sport [football].

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 7/1 Prize fights, and street-fights, and knockabout performances.

b. Theatrical slang. Of noisy and violent character. Also transferred.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [adjective] > types of play

gowneda1661

monodramatic1801

one-act1801

Palais Royala1839

knockabout1892

two-part1894

uncut1896

psychodramatic1927

cliff-hanging1930

no-budget1937

kitchen sink1959

single-set1961

1892 Daily News 10 May 3/4 The ‘knockabout’ character of sketches.

1893 Times 25 Dec. 6/2 Two very droll and daring knock-about comedians.

1897 G. Floyd in Compl. Cyclist vi. 156 The intelligent foreigner..imagines that the type of English humour is a knockabout entertainment.

1914 A. Huxley Let. Feb. (1969) 57 The whole city is permeated with the Mission to Undergraduates—the Bp of Oxford being heard twice nightly in a knock-about sermon at St. Mary's.

1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xiii. 183 He liked plays with shooting in them, and knockabout farce.

1969 New Yorker 31 May 110/2 His strong colloquial flavour and knock-about verbiage cannot be conveyed in French.

1974 Daily Tel. 5 Oct. 16/1 One would have expected the argument in the Election campaign to have been conducted with a high level of rigour and seriousness, which would not be incompatible with some of the traditional knockabout fun.

a. Characterized by being driven to and fro, or wandering irregularly about.

ΘΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > inclined to or characterized by wandering

wancraunt1422

roving1566

runabout1573

wandering1582

vagrant1583

gaddy1637

outward-bound1743

gadabout1753

free-ranging1841

planeticose1849

knockabout1886

picaresque1959

1886 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 158 Such a knock~about day as I had on Monday!

1890 R. D. Blackmore Kit & Kitty III. xvi A knockabout fellow swore to find out all about you.

b. Of a garment, etc.: Suitable for travelling or ‘knocking about’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [adjective]

list1661

stroud1683

throw-over1754

knockabout1880

throwabout1916

pillowing1924

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > for specific purpose > other

morningc1620

tropical1774

underground1827

lingeriea1865

summer weight1866

winter weight1871

knockabout1880

dog robber1898

Ascot1907

day length1932

live-in1944

1880 Echo 23 Nov. 4/4 Knockabout Corduroy Cloth.

1895 ‘M. E. Francis’ Daughter of Soil 130 Any make,..from knock-about suits to dress-clothes.

1900 Daily Tel. 25 Aug. 3/2 Concocting with their own nimble fingers tasteful blouses, useful knockabout skirts, and dainty trifles of lace and muslin.

c. Australia. Applied to a labourer on a station who is ready to turn his hand to any kind of work. Cf. rouseabout n.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [adjective] > odd-job or handyman

knockabout1876

1876 W. Harcus S. Austral. 275 Knockabout hands, 17s. to 20s. per week.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xix We're getting rather too many knockabout men for a small station like this.

a. North American. Designating a class of sloop-rigged sailing-yacht (see quots. 1894, 1897); also, designating a sailing-yacht without a bowsprit. Also as n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of yacht > types of

knockabout1894

one-design1897

sonder1905

1894 in Forest & Stream (1895) 12 Jan. 35/2 A knock~about boat is a seaworthy keel boat (not to include fin-keels) decked or half-decked, of fair accommodations, rigged simply, without bowsprit, and with only mainsail and one head sail.

1897 Outing Dec. 235/1 The knockabout class, which originated in Boston a few seasons ago, has much to recommend it... It is free from all freakiness. It has no fin-keel... With a moderate sail area it is under control at all times... This class is limited to five hundred square feet of sail. All are keel-boats, and all must be under twenty-one feet on the load water-line.

1919 Canad. Fisherman 695/1 The fine new knockabout schooner, General Haig, the first of her kind ever built here.

1970 Amer. Neptune XXX. 196 The term knockabout soon was restricted to the type lacking a bowsprit and was further used attributively to designate any rig in which a long fore overhang took the place of a bowsprit.

1970 Amer. Neptune XXX. 197 The single knock~about yawl was Arapahoe, built in 1893.

b. More generally, descriptive of small yachts or dinghies. Also as n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [adjective] > small pleasure vessel

knockabout1904

1904 [see sense B. 4].

1921 Yachting Monthly Dec. 105/2 The usual lug and mizen clinker built ‘knockabout’ boats, common to seaside watering-places.

1970 Motor Boat & Yachting 16 Oct. 39/2 It [sc. the balanced lug] is a powerful sail and very well suited to knockabout dinghies.

B. n.

1. Theatrical slang. A ‘knockabout’ performer or performance: see A. 1b. Also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play

king play1469

king game1504

historya1509

chronicle history1600

monology1608

horseplaya1627

piscatory1631

stock play1708

petite pièce1712

mimic1724

ballad opera1730

ballad farce1735

benefit-play1740

potboiler1783

monodrama1793

extravaganza1797

theo-drama1801

monodrame1803

proverb1803

stock piece1804

bespeak1807

ticket-night1812

dramaticle1813

monopolylogue1819

pièce d'occasion1830

interlude1831

mimea1834

costume piece1834

mummers' play1849

history play1850

gag-piece1860

music drama1874

well-made1881

playlet1884

two-decker1884

slum1885

kinderspiel1886

thrill1886

knockabout1887

two-hander1888

front-piece1889

thriller1889

shadow-play1890

mime play1894

problem play1894

one-acter1895

sex play1899

chronicle drama1902

thesis-play1902

star vehicle1904

folk-play1905

radio play1908

tab1915

spy play1919

one-act1920

pièce à thèse1923

dance-drama1924

a mess of plottage1926

turkey1927

weepie1928

musical1930

cliffhanger1931

mime drama1931

triangle drama1931

weeper1934

spine-chiller1940

starrer1941

scorcher1942

teleplay1947

straw-hatter1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

tab show1951

conversation piece1952

psychodrama1956

whydunit1968

mystery play1975

State of the Nation1980

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor in specific type of play

comedy player1550

tragedy player1552

comediant1568

tragic1577

tragedian1590

comedian1603

comic1619

interludera1627

pastorista1627

tragicomediana1627

tragedy actor1690

low comedian1740

tragedy man1784

exodiary1793

farcer1813

monopolylogist1830

stock actor1839

beneficiaire1841

monologuist1853

monologist1858

burlesquer1869

opera-bouffer1870

low comedy1885

knockabout1887

farceur1889

folk-player1936

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Sept. 3/2 Bounding brothers, knock~abouts, step-dancers.

1892 Daily News 7 June 6/3 Singers, dancers, knockabouts, and quick-change artistes.

1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 83 These two Troupers began their Professional Career with a Road Circus..doing a Refined Knockabout in the Grand Concert or Afterpiece.

1930 Observer 2 Mar. 15/3 The actors attack both the recitative and knockabout delightfully.

1955 Times 9 Aug. 2/5 One called The Cold War, in which Mr. Wisdom, suffering from a fever, tries out different miraculous cures evincing immediately their different after-effects, is the most intricate piece of knockabout seen on the London stage for some time.

1959 Ann. Reg. 1958 50 The proceedings were wound up by a forcible speech from the leader of the party, Mr Grimond, in a style of party-political knockabout in which he demonstrated that it was easier to abuse the other parties than to explain the purposes of one's own.

1970 New Society 5 Mar. 406/3 For while there is some knockabout..most of the pieces here are technically of a high order.

2. Australia. A ‘knock-about’ man: see A. 2c.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [noun] > odd-job or handyman

factotum1562

Magister factotum1573

Johannes factotum1592

Jack of all trades1618

Tom of all trades1631

John-of-all-trades1639

handyman1742

odd man1743

gimcrack1766

Jack of all work1773

orraman1802

bottle washer1835

Jack1836

odd-jobs man1859

roustabout1862

hob-jobber1873

rouster1882

odd-jobber1886

knockabout1889

orra-loon1895

rouser1896

trouncer1896

leatherneck1898

loppy1898

rouseabout1901

bluetongue2002

1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xvi The knock~abouts and those other three chaps won't come it on us.

3. A rough fight. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > with the fists

fisticuffs1600

buffet1675

fist-work1819

fisticuffery1823

fisticuffing1855

knockabout1903

fist-fighting1950

1903 A. H. Lewis Boss xxii. 316 But he wouldn't listen; he was all for th' strong-arm, an' th' knock-about!

4. North American. A ‘knock-about’ boat: see A. 3a, A. 1b.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > small

knockabout1904

weekender1932

1904 N.Y. Evening Post 21 May 6 There are numerous knockabouts and other small yachts in the Pawcatuck River.

1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 96/1 Knock~about, a sloop or schooner without a bowsprit and whose jib sets from a stay at the stern.

5. A small motor vehicle for casual use.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > small or cheap

flivver1910

runabout car1912

throwabout1922

knockabout1956

1956 W. H. Whyte Organization Man (1957) vi. 71 A little knock-about for the wife to run down to the station in.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	knockabout
释义	knockaboutadj.n. Brit. /ˈnɒkəbaʊt/, U.S. /ˈnɑkəˌbaʊt/ Forms: Also knock-about. Etymology: The phrase knock about (see to knock about at knock v. Phrasal verbs), used attributively, and hence by ellipsis as noun. A. adj. 1. a. Characterized by knocking about, or dealing blows; rough, violent, boisterous. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough > rough or boisterous robustious1548 boisterous1568 rory-tory1683 randy1723 rumgumptious1781 lungeous1787 rowdy dowdy1816 roaritorious1821 riproarious1830 rough and tumble1831 rowdy1832 rowdy-dow1832 tear-brass1880 knockabout1885 rory-cum-tory1893 roughhouse1896 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Apr. 4/1 The rage for this knockabout sport [football]. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 7/1 Prize fights, and street-fights, and knockabout performances. b. Theatrical slang. Of noisy and violent character. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [adjective] > types of play gowneda1661 monodramatic1801 one-act1801 Palais Royala1839 knockabout1892 two-part1894 uncut1896 psychodramatic1927 cliff-hanging1930 no-budget1937 kitchen sink1959 single-set1961 1892 Daily News 10 May 3/4 The ‘knockabout’ character of sketches. 1893 Times 25 Dec. 6/2 Two very droll and daring knock-about comedians. 1897 G. Floyd in Compl. Cyclist vi. 156 The intelligent foreigner..imagines that the type of English humour is a knockabout entertainment. 1914 A. Huxley Let. Feb. (1969) 57 The whole city is permeated with the Mission to Undergraduates—the Bp of Oxford being heard twice nightly in a knock-about sermon at St. Mary's. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xiii. 183 He liked plays with shooting in them, and knockabout farce. 1969 New Yorker 31 May 110/2 His strong colloquial flavour and knock-about verbiage cannot be conveyed in French. 1974 Daily Tel. 5 Oct. 16/1 One would have expected the argument in the Election campaign to have been conducted with a high level of rigour and seriousness, which would not be incompatible with some of the traditional knockabout fun. 2. a. Characterized by being driven to and fro, or wandering irregularly about. ΘΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > inclined to or characterized by wandering wancraunt1422 roving1566 runabout1573 wandering1582 vagrant1583 gaddy1637 outward-bound1743 gadabout1753 free-ranging1841 planeticose1849 knockabout1886 picaresque1959 1886 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 158 Such a knock~about day as I had on Monday! 1890 R. D. Blackmore Kit & Kitty III. xvi A knockabout fellow swore to find out all about you. b. Of a garment, etc.: Suitable for travelling or ‘knocking about’. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [adjective] list1661 stroud1683 throw-over1754 knockabout1880 throwabout1916 pillowing1924 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > for specific purpose > other morningc1620 tropical1774 underground1827 lingeriea1865 summer weight1866 winter weight1871 knockabout1880 dog robber1898 Ascot1907 day length1932 live-in1944 1880 Echo 23 Nov. 4/4 Knockabout Corduroy Cloth. 1895 ‘M. E. Francis’ Daughter of Soil 130 Any make,..from knock-about suits to dress-clothes. 1900 Daily Tel. 25 Aug. 3/2 Concocting with their own nimble fingers tasteful blouses, useful knockabout skirts, and dainty trifles of lace and muslin. c. Australia. Applied to a labourer on a station who is ready to turn his hand to any kind of work. Cf. rouseabout n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [adjective] > odd-job or handyman knockabout1876 1876 W. Harcus S. Austral. 275 Knockabout hands, 17s. to 20s. per week. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xix We're getting rather too many knockabout men for a small station like this. 3. a. North American. Designating a class of sloop-rigged sailing-yacht (see quots. 1894, 1897); also, designating a sailing-yacht without a bowsprit. Also as n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of yacht > types of knockabout1894 one-design1897 sonder1905 1894 in Forest & Stream (1895) 12 Jan. 35/2 A knock~about boat is a seaworthy keel boat (not to include fin-keels) decked or half-decked, of fair accommodations, rigged simply, without bowsprit, and with only mainsail and one head sail. 1897 Outing Dec. 235/1 The knockabout class, which originated in Boston a few seasons ago, has much to recommend it... It is free from all freakiness. It has no fin-keel... With a moderate sail area it is under control at all times... This class is limited to five hundred square feet of sail. All are keel-boats, and all must be under twenty-one feet on the load water-line. 1919 Canad. Fisherman 695/1 The fine new knockabout schooner, General Haig, the first of her kind ever built here. 1970 Amer. Neptune XXX. 196 The term knockabout soon was restricted to the type lacking a bowsprit and was further used attributively to designate any rig in which a long fore overhang took the place of a bowsprit. 1970 Amer. Neptune XXX. 197 The single knock~about yawl was Arapahoe, built in 1893. b. More generally, descriptive of small yachts or dinghies. Also as n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [adjective] > small pleasure vessel knockabout1904 1904 [see sense B. 4]. 1921 Yachting Monthly Dec. 105/2 The usual lug and mizen clinker built ‘knockabout’ boats, common to seaside watering-places. 1970 Motor Boat & Yachting 16 Oct. 39/2 It [sc. the balanced lug] is a powerful sail and very well suited to knockabout dinghies. B. n. 1. Theatrical slang. A ‘knockabout’ performer or performance: see A. 1b. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play king play1469 king game1504 historya1509 chronicle history1600 monology1608 horseplaya1627 piscatory1631 stock play1708 petite pièce1712 mimic1724 ballad opera1730 ballad farce1735 benefit-play1740 potboiler1783 monodrama1793 extravaganza1797 theo-drama1801 monodrame1803 proverb1803 stock piece1804 bespeak1807 ticket-night1812 dramaticle1813 monopolylogue1819 pièce d'occasion1830 interlude1831 mimea1834 costume piece1834 mummers' play1849 history play1850 gag-piece1860 music drama1874 well-made1881 playlet1884 two-decker1884 slum1885 kinderspiel1886 thrill1886 knockabout1887 two-hander1888 front-piece1889 thriller1889 shadow-play1890 mime play1894 problem play1894 one-acter1895 sex play1899 chronicle drama1902 thesis-play1902 star vehicle1904 folk-play1905 radio play1908 tab1915 spy play1919 one-act1920 pièce à thèse1923 dance-drama1924 a mess of plottage1926 turkey1927 weepie1928 musical1930 cliffhanger1931 mime drama1931 triangle drama1931 weeper1934 spine-chiller1940 starrer1941 scorcher1942 teleplay1947 straw-hatter1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 tab show1951 conversation piece1952 psychodrama1956 whydunit1968 mystery play1975 State of the Nation1980 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor in specific type of play comedy player1550 tragedy player1552 comediant1568 tragic1577 tragedian1590 comedian1603 comic1619 interludera1627 pastorista1627 tragicomediana1627 tragedy actor1690 low comedian1740 tragedy man1784 exodiary1793 farcer1813 monopolylogist1830 stock actor1839 beneficiaire1841 monologuist1853 monologist1858 burlesquer1869 opera-bouffer1870 low comedy1885 knockabout1887 farceur1889 folk-player1936 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Sept. 3/2 Bounding brothers, knock~abouts, step-dancers. 1892 Daily News 7 June 6/3 Singers, dancers, knockabouts, and quick-change artistes. 1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 83 These two Troupers began their Professional Career with a Road Circus..doing a Refined Knockabout in the Grand Concert or Afterpiece. 1930 Observer 2 Mar. 15/3 The actors attack both the recitative and knockabout delightfully. 1955 Times 9 Aug. 2/5 One called The Cold War, in which Mr. Wisdom, suffering from a fever, tries out different miraculous cures evincing immediately their different after-effects, is the most intricate piece of knockabout seen on the London stage for some time. 1959 Ann. Reg. 1958 50 The proceedings were wound up by a forcible speech from the leader of the party, Mr Grimond, in a style of party-political knockabout in which he demonstrated that it was easier to abuse the other parties than to explain the purposes of one's own. 1970 New Society 5 Mar. 406/3 For while there is some knockabout..most of the pieces here are technically of a high order. 2. Australia. A ‘knock-about’ man: see A. 2c. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [noun] > odd-job or handyman factotum1562 Magister factotum1573 Johannes factotum1592 Jack of all trades1618 Tom of all trades1631 John-of-all-trades1639 handyman1742 odd man1743 gimcrack1766 Jack of all work1773 orraman1802 bottle washer1835 Jack1836 odd-jobs man1859 roustabout1862 hob-jobber1873 rouster1882 odd-jobber1886 knockabout1889 orra-loon1895 rouser1896 trouncer1896 leatherneck1898 loppy1898 rouseabout1901 bluetongue2002 1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xvi The knock~abouts and those other three chaps won't come it on us. 3. A rough fight. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > with the fists fisticuffs1600 buffet1675 fist-work1819 fisticuffery1823 fisticuffing1855 knockabout1903 fist-fighting1950 1903 A. H. Lewis Boss xxii. 316 But he wouldn't listen; he was all for th' strong-arm, an' th' knock-about! 4. North American. A ‘knock-about’ boat: see A. 3a, A. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > small knockabout1904 weekender1932 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 21 May 6 There are numerous knockabouts and other small yachts in the Pawcatuck River. 1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 96/1 Knock~about, a sloop or schooner without a bowsprit and whose jib sets from a stay at the stern. 5. A small motor vehicle for casual use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > small or cheap flivver1910 runabout car1912 throwabout1922 knockabout1956 1956 W. H. Whyte Organization Man (1957) vi. 71 A little knock-about for the wife to run down to the station in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1876
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