kaputadj.

Brit.

/kəˈpʊt/, U.S.

/kəˈpʊt/,

/kɑˈpʊt/

Forms: Also kaputt.

Etymology: < German kaputt, < French (être ) capot (to be) without tricks in the card game of piquet; see capot n.¹

(in pred. use). slang.

a. Finished, worn out; dead or destroyed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > destroyed

forwroughta1325

lorna1400

destroyedc1440

perishedc1440

shentc1440

defeatc1540

spiltc1540

dissolved?1541

interempt1561

baned1568

mischievedc1570

defeated1578

ruined1585

downcast1592

gone1598

collapsed1610

to take up for hawks' meat1612

naughta1616

blasted1747

wreckeda1821

butchered1839

fucked-up1863

kaput1895

piled-up1906

shambled1940

1895 W. M. Conway Alps from End to End iii. 59 The thing would then go wie's Donnerwetter and the man would be kaput at once.

1972 New Yorker 9 Sept. 30 It's a real American tragedy—Wunderkind at twenty, Übermensch at thirty, kaputt at forty.

1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xix. 220 Sherlock Holmes is finished. Finito. Kaput.

b. Rendered useless or unable to function.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [adjective] > unserviceable > by having ceased to function

broken-down1816

napoo1915

spitchered1920

kaput1924

bent1957

1914 Duchess of Sutherland Six Weeks at War p. xiv When Prussian military despotism is ‘Kaputt’—to use the Germans' favourite word about their foe, meaning ‘done’.]

1924 Glasgow Herald 11 Dec. 7 The intellectual consciousness is kaput.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 286 So self-willed, self-centred, self-conscious people die The death of nothingness, worn-out machines, kaput!

1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 19 North gate, sorrow's edge, Purse kaput, nothing to pledge.

1959 J. Braine Vodi iv. 63 He could now see that his whole life was kaputt.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kaput
释义	kaputadj. Brit. /kəˈpʊt/, U.S. /kəˈpʊt/, /kɑˈpʊt/ Forms: Also kaputt. Etymology: < German kaputt, < French (être ) capot (to be) without tricks in the card game of piquet; see capot n.¹ (in pred. use). slang. a. Finished, worn out; dead or destroyed. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > destroyed forwroughta1325 lorna1400 destroyedc1440 perishedc1440 shentc1440 defeatc1540 spiltc1540 dissolved?1541 interempt1561 baned1568 mischievedc1570 defeated1578 ruined1585 downcast1592 gone1598 collapsed1610 to take up for hawks' meat1612 naughta1616 blasted1747 wreckeda1821 butchered1839 fucked-up1863 kaput1895 piled-up1906 shambled1940 1895 W. M. Conway Alps from End to End iii. 59 The thing would then go wie's Donnerwetter and the man would be kaput at once. 1972 New Yorker 9 Sept. 30 It's a real American tragedy—Wunderkind at twenty, Übermensch at thirty, kaputt at forty. 1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xix. 220 Sherlock Holmes is finished. Finito. Kaput. b. Rendered useless or unable to function. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [adjective] > unserviceable > by having ceased to function broken-down1816 napoo1915 spitchered1920 kaput1924 bent1957 1914 Duchess of Sutherland Six Weeks at War p. xiv When Prussian military despotism is ‘Kaputt’—to use the Germans' favourite word about their foe, meaning ‘done’.] 1924 Glasgow Herald 11 Dec. 7 The intellectual consciousness is kaput. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 286 So self-willed, self-centred, self-conscious people die The death of nothingness, worn-out machines, kaput! 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 19 North gate, sorrow's edge, Purse kaput, nothing to pledge. 1959 J. Braine Vodi iv. 63 He could now see that his whole life was kaputt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1895
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