junglen.
1. In India, originally, as a native word, Waste or uncultivated ground (= ‘forest’ in the original sense); then, such land overgrown with brushwood, long grass, etc.; hence, in Anglo-Indian use:
a. Land overgrown with underwood, long grass, or tangled vegetation; also, the luxuriant and often almost impenetrable growth of vegetation covering such a tract.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > jungle
jungle1776
belukar1849
shola1862
ulu1878
thorn jungle1913
boonies1954
the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > vegetation characteristic of particular regions or habitats
jungle1816
pindan1888
garigue1896
savannah1903
1776 N. B. Halhed tr. Code Gentoo Laws xiii. 190 Land Waste for Five Years..is called Jungle.
1816 Mrs. Sherwood Ayah & Lady Gloss. Jungle, brushwood, or very high grass.
1816 Mrs. Sherwood Ayah & Lady ix. 52 The banks were covered with thick jungle down to the very brink of the water.
1832 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 2) iii. 121 In loading and unloading—in moving through jungle.
1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 640/1 [My] concealment for safety in the fields of jhow and jangal.
b. with a and plural. A particular tract or piece of land so covered; esp. as the dwelling-place of wild beasts.
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1783 E. Burke Speech Fox's E. India Bill in Wks. (1815) IV. 24 That land..is now almost throughout a dreary desart, covered with rushes, and briers, and jungles full of wild beasts.
1804 W. Austin Lett. from Eng. 167 (note) Lord Cornwallis writes that 3/5 of the territory has become a Jingle, that is deserted by the natives and possessed by wild beasts.
1858 J. B. Norton Topics for Indian Statesmen 275 Transforming uninhabitable jungles into well cultivated plantations.
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 45 A somewhat similar manner of beating is employed in the case of canal bank jungles.
c. Extended to similar tracts in other lands, especially tropical.
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1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 603 It [Sedgemoor] was a vast pool, wherein were scattered many islets of shifting and treacherous soil, overhung with rank jungle.
1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains I. i. i. 5 We passed the night in the jungle which shuts in the river.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 282 The Jordan..threading its tortuous way through its tropical jungle.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi x. 214 Our course passed though a dense thorn jungle.
2. transferred and figurative.
a. A wild, tangled mass. Also, a place of bewildering complexity or confusion; a place where the ‘law of the jungle’ prevails; a scene of ruthless competition, struggle, or exploitation; esp. with qualification, as blackboard jungle (see blackboard n. Compounds 2) in schools, asphalt jungle, concrete jungle in cities.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a scene or place of confusion
Troy-banea1520
Troy-towna1520
whirlpool?1529
Babel1537
whirlwind1714
jungle1850
morass1867
Troy-fair1870
three-ring circus1898
monkey house1910
madhouse1917
amateur night1937
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled > tangled mass
matting?1615
wreath1648
scurry1839
jungle1850
fog1869
tangle-twine1878
tardle1898
snaggle1904
society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > law of the jungle > place where it prevails
jungle1920
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > fierce or ruthless > scene of
jungle1920
feeding frenzy1972
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iii. 1 What a world-wide jungle of redtape.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvii. 433 We could see the perfect jungle of sea-weed that was growing under us.
1879 Academy 10 May 412/2 In that tangled jungle of disconnected precedents [Digest of Justinian].
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xxi. 493 Out of the luxuriant jungle of information that followed I gathered that no man's soul dallies below long.
1906 U. Sinclair (title) The Jungle.
1920 G. Ade Hand-made Fables 83 After the newly arrived Delegate from the Asphalt Jungles had read a Telegram..he..sauntered back to the Bureau of Information.
1924 A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl ii. vi. 150 The jungle itself was part of the order, since the demimondaine was taken as much for granted as the femme du monde.
1949 W. R. Burnett (title) The asphalt jungle.
1954 E. Hunter (title) Blackboard jungle.
1956 ‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) viii. 70 Their front page..shouted ‘The Police Jungle—What Goes On In Our Precincts.’
1958 Economist 29 Nov. 784/1 This is a variation, andante moderato, on the theme of the blackboard jungle. Mr Townsend describes the teacher's end of the stick—now used more and more sparingly—in the new system of secondary modern education.
1969 D. Morris Human Zoo 8 The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
1971 Sunday Times 30 May 31/5 Namier..fitted especially ill in the academic jungle.
1971 Times 17 July 5/2 New York seemed to me infernal... By night the streets become concrete jungles, their occupants hysteric, terrified of predators.
1972 Guardian 14 Feb. 10/5 The Minister lit up some lurid corners of the taxation jungle.
1974 Black World Jan. 38 The Waikiki jungle is kind of a—you might call it a ghetto surrounded by high-rise buildings in Waikiki.
b. the jungle (Stock Exch. slang): the West African share market: cf. jungle-market n. at Compounds 2. plural. Shares in West African concerns. Also attributive ? Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > traffic in stocks and shares > types of market
commodity market1843
primary market1859
short interest1866
bear market1873
aftermarket1887
terminal market1887
Kaffir Circus1889
shop1889
bull market1891
open1898
curb-market1900
the junglea1901
jungle-market1900
short market1900
down market1915
short end1964
third market1964
Unlisted Securities Market1979
USM1979
bulldog market1980
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > share > shares in specific country or industry
railway share1822
railroad shares1828
railway stock1836
railroads1848
Canada1868
coalers1878
Mets1886
industrial1887
golds1888
Kaffir1889
electrics1892
rails1893
Westralians1894
kangaroo1896
coppers1899
the junglea1901
electricals1901
Rhodesians1901
diamonds1905
Siberians1906
steels1912
utility1930
properties1964
engineer1976
mining1983
a1901 Mod. Newspr. Signs of renewed activity in the jungle.
1904 Daily Chron. 2 Dec. 1/7 Kaffirs weakened, but Jungles moved upward.
1906 Daily Chron. 9 Feb. 2/3 Jungle shares were..firm.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 10 Dec. 15/4 A Jungle Dividend.
c. A camp for hoboes, tramps, or the like. Also attributive. slang (originally U.S.).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > type of
ordu1673
chantier1823
douar1829
outcamp1844
log-camp1858
lumbering-camp1858
yayla1864
refugee camp1865
cow-camp1873
gypsyry1873
work camp1877
tent town1878
logging-camp1880
lumber-camp1882
town camp1885
base camp1887
line-camp1888
wanigan1890
isolation camp1891
tent village1899
sheep-camp1911
safari camp1912
jungle1914
transit camp1919
Siwash camp1922
health camp1925
tent city1934
fly camp1939
bivvy1961
1908 C. Johnson Highways & Byways Pacific Coast 215 My companions spoke of the grove they were in as the ‘Hoboes Jungle’.]
1914 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Apr. 10/3 It followed the two along the tracks and into the jungle.
1914 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Apr. 11/3 Frisco Red slouched into the jungle.
1915 N.Y. World Mag. 9 May 14 Jungle buzzard, a tramp who sneaks around hobo or tramp camps to get a free meal.
1915 N.Y. World Mag. 9 May 14 Jungle court, a make-believe court held in woods by hoboes.
1923 N. Anderson Hobo ii. 21 Most ‘jungle buzzards’, men who linger in the jungles from season to season, take an interest in the running of things.
1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 65 ‘This is a pretty snide jungle,’ he said, ‘no cans.’
1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 82 There was a grand jungle by a small, clean river where they boiled up their verminous clothes.
1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 Apr. 12/1 During the depression in the 1930s gangs of youths ranged across the country, riding the rails and sleeping in jungles, and caused us concern.
3. Passing into adj. = characteristic of the jungle; savage, untamed; spec. designating a style of jazz music characterized by primitive sounds redolent of the jungle.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective]
wilda1300
bestiala1398
wilderna1400
savagine?a1439
barbaric1490
rudea1530
barbar1535
barbarous1538
pagan1550
uncivil1553
Scythical1559
raw?1573
savaged1583
incivil1586
savage1589
barbarian1591
uncivilized1607
negerous1609
mountainous1613
ruvid1632
ruvidous1632
barbarious1633
incivilizeda1645
alabandical1656
inhumanea1680
tramontane1740
semi-barbarous1798
irreclaimed1814
semi-savage1833
semiferine1854
warrigal1855
sloven1856
semi-barbaric1864
pre-civilized1876
wild and woolly1884
jungle1908
medieval1917
jungli1920
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of
Chicagoan1861
bad1897
hot1918
red-hot1918
soft1921
low-down1922
sweet1924
barrel-house1926
New Orleans1926
straight1926
crazy1927
dirty1927
hotcha1930
jungle1935
solid1935
traditional jazz1935
powerhouse1937
gutty1939
riffy1939
jivey1944
Kansas City1946
cool1948
West Coast1949
far-out1954
nutty1955
swinging1955
mainstream1957
Afro-Latin1958
1908 A. Noyes William Morris 118 Torn by the savage jungle-cries of the elemental passions.
1909 Daily Chron. 22 Jan. 3/3 These wild poems of fierce jungle-passion and horror.
1935 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 71/3 The savagery of their rhythm calls forth the terms ‘shake music’ and ‘jungle music’.
1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz vii. 133 Early Ellington orchestral characteristics included the use of what he originally called ‘jungle style’ effects, through the use of plunger mutes.
1955 O. Keepnews & W. Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz xiii. 141 Cootie Williams..produced a fine, muted ‘jungle’ sound.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Oct. 637/2 A clearly truthful account of the lives and jungle-fights of those cold-hearted career-women who make fortunes from knocking pounds of unnecessary weight off sad fat ladies without love.
1972 Jazz & Blues Feb. 20/2 Duke's ‘jungle’ sounds.
Compounds
C1. Special combinations: esp. in specific names of animals inhabiting the jungles of India.
jungle-hog n.
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1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 292 Deer of the largest kind, bisons, bears, jungle hog.
jungle-peacock n.
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1837 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) xiii. 118 I am taming some fine jungle peacocks.
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jungle-bashing n. [bashing n. 3.] slang movement through a jungle, esp. by soldiers; so jungle-basher.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > other operations
combined operation1834
night operation1835
police action1855
night op1916
special operation1917
island-hopping1944
jungle-bashing1954
special op1963
psy-op1965
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller in jungle
jungli1927
jungle-basher1954
1954 V. Bartlett Rep. from Malaya iii. 46 A man does an average of 700 hours ‘jungle-bashing’ before he kills a Communist.
1963 Times 24 May 14/6 All the poor ‘jungle-bashers’ could offer by way of city reminiscence was the egregious Calcutta.
1969 J. M. Gullick Malaysia ii. 113 British, Malay and other Commonwealth troops spent many weary hours on patrol, ‘jungle-bashing’ as they called it, with the object of contacting terrorists.
jungle-bear n. the Sloth-bear of India, Prochilus labiatus.
jungle bunny n. a derogatory term used by some white people to designate black people, Australian Aborigines, etc.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun]
person of colour1786
buck1800
coloured1832
Indiano1836
nigger1843
skepsel1844
native1846
non-white1864
fuzzy1890
fuzzy-wuzzy1892
monk1903
non-European1906
golliwog1916
wog1921
non-European1925
gook1935
boong1941
jungle bunny1966
Indio1969
1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 27 Both middle-aged informants giving jungle bunny..work with adolescents.
1968–70 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3–4 76 Junglebunny, n. Negro (derogatory).
1973 Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 51/3 Australians in the Territory can be grossly insensitive to the pride of the local people, using terms like ‘jungle bunnies’.
1974 New Society 14 Mar. 627/2 White South Africans who wanted to gamble, buy Playboy..and go to bed with a ‘jungle bunny’.
jungle-cat n. the Marsh-lynx, Felis chaus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Lynx (lynx) > other types of
loup cervier1725
syagush1727
red cat1731
caracal1760
Persian cat1771
Persian lynx1781
rooikat1785
Canada lynx1824
lucifee1825
banded lynx1829
booted lynx1839
jungle-cat1895
1895 I. Petrie in Life (1900) ix. 199 A huge jungle-cat, who had discovered the milk-jug.
jungle-cock n. the male jungle-fowl.
jungle-fever n. a form of remittent fever caused by the miasma of a jungle; the hill-fever of India.
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1803 S. Smith Ceylon in Wks. (1867) I. 43 A low and malignant fever, known to Europeans by the name of the jungle-fever.
1894 G. M. Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 24 I'm burnt up with the cursed old jungle fever.
jungle-fowl n. (a) an East Indian bird of the genus Gallus, esp. G. ferrugineus ( G. bankiva); (b) a mound-bird of Australia, as Megapodius timulus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl)
chickenOE
chicka1398
fowla1586
biddya1616
chuck1615
pull-fowla1688
chucky1724
dunghill1753
dunghill fowl1796
jungle-fowl1824
chook1888
gump1914
1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 3 Dec. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xviii. 508 A small flock or covey of jungle fowl..crowing and cackling. My companions were not able to tell me whether the jungle poultry had ever been tamed.
1871 S. Mateer Travancore 2 The jungle fowl, a small bird with brilliant plumage, is perhaps the original of the common domestic fowl.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 289 Of the genus Gallus..four well-marked species are known. The first of these is the Red Jungle-Fowl of the greater part of India, G. ferrugineus..which is almost undoubtedly the parent stock of all the domestic races.
jungle green n. a dark green colour; clothes of this colour; also attributive.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > of specific colour
purpureeOE
blackc1225
greyc1225
white?c1225
greena1250
yellow1368
violet1380
purplec1390
blue1480
colours1641
tawnies1809
butternut1810
subfusc1853
solid1883
Lovat1908
jungle green1946
the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > dark green
steel-greena1560
moss green1705
bottle1784
corbeau1810
forest-green1810
rifle green1829
spinach-green1845
hunter's green1872
moss1897
army green1908
jungle green1946
loden1964
1946 Nature 14 Sept. 386/2 Land Army hose, sea-boot stockings, R.A.F. socks and jungle-green pullovers also came under the scheme.
1947 Coast to Coast 1946 280 It only took about five minutes to make a new cobber out of almost anyone in jungle green and a Digger hat.
1973 D. Lees Rape of Quiet Town iii. 53 A commanding figure in jungle green with a Lüger pistol in his hand.
jungle gym n. (formerly a trade name in the U.S.) a type of climbing frame.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > climbing frame
jungle gym1923
climbing frame1929
scramble net1944
1923 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 30 Jan. 844/2 Junglegym, Inc., Chicago, Ill. Filed Nov. 14, 1921. Junglegym... Playground Apparatus, in Particular Climbing Frames.
1925 Playground Mar. 721 (advt.) 22 Units—Now in the New York City Playgrounds... Junglegym is six years old this spring.
1929 L. F. Zwarg Study of Hist. Apparatus Physical Educ. i. 81 Many odd contrivances [of physical education apparatus] of former years have disappeared entirely, others have from time to time been rediscovered or reinvented. The climbing tower (jungle gym) and the teeter ladder, are examples of this.
1931 Recreation May 97 The low climbing device (which is known as the Junglegym).
1951 W. van Hagen et al. Physical Educ. Elem. Sch. v. 93 Monkey rings... Manufactured under various names, such as climbing trees, junglegyms, climbing towers, castle towers, and climbing maze.
1963 H. C. Barnard & J. A. Lauwerys Handbk. Brit. Educ. Terms 115 Jungle gym, a simple gymnastic apparatus on which children in an infant school can climb or swing as part of their free activity curriculum.
1967 J. Redgate Killing Season (1968) ii. vii. 104 Through the kitchen window he could see the children laughing and wrestling with each other inside their jungle gym.
1973 Washington Post 3 Oct. B1/4 (heading) Recreation 1973: Everything from jungle gyms to the Bataca bromb.
jungle-hen n. the female jungle-fowl n. (b).
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Megapodidae (mound-builder) > megapodius or scrub-fowl
scrub-hen1864
jungle-hen1890
scrub-fowl1908
1890 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals 97 The jungle-hens (mound builders)..The bird is of a brownish hue, with yellow legs and immensely large feet; hence its name Megapodius.
jungle juice n. slang alcoholic liquor, esp. liquor that is either very powerful or that has been prepared illicitly or amateurishly; also transferred.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > strong > home-made
popskull1865
panther sweat1929
faamafu1934
panther piss1941
jungle juice1945
torpedo juice1946
panther juice1958
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. viii. 157 Jungle juice, any alcoholic beverage concocted by servicemen in the tropics.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. viii. 158 Jungle juice, poor quality petrol.
1958 R. Stow To Islands i. 19 The cartoons..about going troppo and drinking jungle juice.
1960 News Chron. 9 Mar. 7/4 The draught cider and gin they drink in the West of England and call ‘jungle juice’.
1967 O. Norton Now lying Dead vi. 99 Oh, I know what our ale can do! Jungle-juice, as the lads call it.
jungle law n. the ‘law of the jungle’ (see law n.1 16d).
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun]
tyrantry1340
tyranny1475
licentiousness1553
lawlessness1591
exorbitance1611
exorbitancy1619
anarchism1642
outlawry1836
outlawry1869
jungle law1894
law of the jungle1894
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > jungle law
jungle law1894
law of the jungle1927
1894 R. Kipling in To-day 7 Apr. 284/2 One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores.
1957 M. Kennedy Heroes of Clone iii. vi. 204 It was awkward having to explain jungle law to someone who had never..emerged from a well-kept shrubbery.
1971 Daily Nation (Nairobi) 10 Apr. 13/2 The Obote regime had turned the country into ‘a political jungle ruled by jungle law’ whereby some people earned their living by putting others into prison.
jungle-market n. Stock Market the market in shares of West African Companies.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > traffic in stocks and shares > types of market
commodity market1843
primary market1859
short interest1866
bear market1873
aftermarket1887
terminal market1887
Kaffir Circus1889
shop1889
bull market1891
open1898
curb-market1900
the junglea1901
jungle-market1900
short market1900
down market1915
short end1964
third market1964
Unlisted Securities Market1979
USM1979
bulldog market1980
1900 Westm. Gaz. 12 Oct. 9/1 The new Jungle Market, or Assis Market, as it has been called because of the number of companies whose names bear the affix assis.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 9/1 With all its prospectusless companies the Jungle Market is a regular Monte Carlo.
jungle-nail n. an East Indian tree, Acacia tomentosa ( Treasury Bot. 1866).
jungle-ox n. the gayal, Bibos sylhetanus.
jungle poultry n. jungle-fowls.
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1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 3 Dec. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xviii. 508 My companions were not able to tell me whether the jungle poultry had ever been tamed.
jungle-rice n. the millet-rice, Panicum colonum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > millet > other types of millet
panic?1440
panicle1577
Turkey mill1597
panicum1739
ragi1788
tocusso1790
Egyptian millet1829
eleusine1836
shamalo1846
marua1847
moha1855
shama1874
jungle-rice1886
fonio1903
1886 A. H. Church Food-grains of India 50 This millet [Shama] sometimes called ‘Wild Rice’ or ‘Jungle Rice’, is a poor food.
jungle rot n. slang name given to a tropical skin disease.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > yaws
pian1625
yaws1679
crab yaws1740
framboesia1782
parangi1821
craw-craw1863
Barcoo rot1889
jungle rot1944
1944 Amer. Notes & Queries Mar. 183/1 Can somebody identify a tropical disease called ‘jungle rot’? Is it a new name for an old illness?
1945 Time 13 Aug. 76 Jungle rot; New Guinea crud; the creeping crud: GI names for any and every kind of skin disease.
jungle-sheep n. an Indian ruminant, Kemas hypocrinus.
jungle war n. a war fought in jungle, also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > jungle war
jungle war1958
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > jungle war
jungle war1958
1958 Times 28 Oct. 4/5 (headline) N.A.L.G.O. fear ‘jungle war’—arbitration move opposed.
jungle warfare n.
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1955 E. Waugh Officers & Gentlemen i. vi. 70 They put me in charge of a jungle warfare school.
1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play viii. 61 He had forgotten more about jungle warfare than a fellow like that would learn in a lifetime.
1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xix. 194 It has..a big tangle of forest and swamp for jungle-warfare training.
jungle-wood n. (see quot.).
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1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 357 The karamarda (Terminalia coriacea), called ‘jungle-wood’, with bark very rough and cracked in squares, like a tortoise's back.
C3. General attributive. Simple attributive.
a.
jungle-bush n.
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1884 Sunday at Home June 398/2 We crept under the shade of a thick crop of jungle-bush.
jungle-craft n.
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1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 27 June 24 Even an expert can make mistakes in jungle craft.
1946 W. S. Churchill Secret Session Speeches 59 The Japanese armies..having added their jungle-craft..have established themselves..in the whole of these wide regions.
jungle-fire n.
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1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 37 The destruction of his home by jungle-fire or flood.
jungle-folk n.
jungle-grass n.
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1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xiii. 136 The tall jungle-grass fit roofing gave Beneath that genial sky.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 573 We clamber up into the long jungle-grass region.
jungle-growth n.
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1894 Athenæum 5 May 572/1 The jungle-growth of seventeenth and eighteenth century dreaming has been..cleared away.
jungle-land n.
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1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 14 To..foster the sport by the grant of waste jungle lands to serve as preserves.
jungle-life n.
jungle-people n.
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1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 14 He made the First of the Tigers..the judge of the Jungle, to whom the Jungle People should bring their disputes.
jungle-side n.
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1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 522 Nags..unworthy to contest the glories of either the turf or the ‘jungle-side’.
jungle-tale n.
jungle-tribe n.
b. Instrumental.
jungle-clad adj.
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1900 Daily News 30 July 6/3 Mr. H. C. P. Bell has done much in excavating the jungle-clad remains of Anuradhapura.
jungle-covered adj.
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1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 13/2 Jungle-covered wastes of abandoned cornfields.
jungle-worn adj.
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1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1900) I. 229 Old friends, now jungle-worn men of war.
c. Locative.
jungle-travelling n.
jungle-trudging n.
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1866 C. Brooke Ten Years Saráwak I. 30 I did not admire Bornean jungletrudging.
jungle-walking n.
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A genre of dance music, originating in Britain in the early 1990s, which incorporates elements of ragga, hip-hop, and techno, and is characterized by its bare instrumentation which consists almost exclusively of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower, booming synthesized bass lines.Although the precise origin of the usage is disputed, it has been said to derive from ‘The Jungle’, a name given to the Tivoli Gardens district of Kingston, Jamaica (see quot. 1995 at junglist n. and adj.). Other commentators have ascribed the name to the music's rhythmic drumming and repetitive chanting vocals (cf. sense 3) or to the emphatically urban concerns of its lyrics (as in concrete jungle, urban jungle).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music
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1992 City Limits 2 July 37/2 Queen Maxine, Smokin'Jo, Vikki Red and Mrs.Woods playing Belgian techno and jungle whilst Fat Tony and Anthony keep things Garagey & disco-like upstairs.
1994 Independent on Sunday 17 July (Review Suppl.) 20/1 Jungle, an exclusively homegrown, London-based hybrid, incorporating elements of soul, hip-hop and especially ragga, whose overloading bass-lines and rumbling vocal style are ever more prominent.
2001 Evening Standard (Electronic ed.) 2 Jan. They had come to hear 40 ultra-cool DJs playing house music, jungle and garage.
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jungle babbler n. a large greyish-brown songbird, Turdoides striata (family Leiotrichidae), widespread in South Asia, having a long tail and living in small noisy flocks.
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1863 T. C. Jerdon Birds India II. i. 62 Malacocircus Malabaricus... The Jungle Babbler. Descr.—Very like M. terricolor, but somewhat darker in color, with broader and more distinct pale mesial streaks on the feathers of the back.
1914 T. B. Fletcher Some South Indian Insects xxiii. 224 The Jungle Babbler (C. canorus), commonly called ‘Seven Sisters’, is common throughout Southern India.
2018 Indian Express (Nexis) 18 May There was more cacophonous belligerence by a gang of fluffed-up jungle babblers who bounced menacingly towards another.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
junglev.
/ˈdʒʌŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈdʒəŋɡ(ə)l/ intransitive. To prepare a meal at a hoboes' camp; to form such a camp; to join forces with another person. Usually with up.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > camp or encamp [verb (intransitive)] > in hoboes' camp
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > prepare food [verb (intransitive)] > at hoboes' camp
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1922 J. Tully Emmett Lawler 252 The fire was built in the improvised furnace, and water was carried from the brook. They returned laden with meat and eggs, potatoes, and coffee... The method is called ‘jungling up’ by tramps.
1924 ‘Digit’ Confessions 20th Cent. Hobo 12 Jungle up, bivouac in the weeds and clean up generally.
1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 70 You're welcome to travel with me, kid, if you want to jungle-up for a month or two.
1931 U. Ledoux Mr. Zero's Scrapbk.: Ho-bo-ho Medley No. 1 11 Hoboes and Yeggs never mix and jungle in separate camps.
1937 J. Steinbeck Of Mice & Men i. 8 Tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water.
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