kitchenern.¹

Brit.

/ˈkɪtʃᵻnə/,

/ˈkɪtʃn̩ə/, U.S.

/ˈkɪtʃ(ə)nər/,

/ˈkɪtʃn̩ər/

Forms: Middle English cuchener, Middle English kechener, Middle English kychynnere, 1600s kitchinner, 1800s– kitchener.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: kitchen n.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < kitchen n.¹ + -er suffix¹. With use in sense 1 compare cosyner n. In sense 2 originally as the name of a type of kitchen range first developed and sold in Leamington Spa by ironmonger William Flavel (1779–1844) and subsequently manufactured by Sidney Flavel and Co. Despite being marketed as the ‘Patent Kitchener’ (see quot. 1829 at sense 2), no patent was registered for Flavel's original design, which was widely imitated by other manufacturers and sold under the name ‘kitchener’ (compare e.g. quot. 1845 at sense 2).

Now historical.

1. A person employed in a kitchen, a cook; spec. the person in charge of the kitchen of a monastery, convent, etc.Recorded earliest as a surname.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > monastic functionary > kitchener > [noun]

kitchener1332

focary?c1500

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > service in kitchen > [noun] > kitchen servant

squiller1303

waynpainc1330

kitchener1332

custronc1400

kitchen knave1440

scullion1483

scudler1488

swiller?a1500

dishwashera1529

lubber1538

kitchen maid1551

kitchen wencha1556

scull1566

washpot1570

kitchen stuff1582

scrape-trencher1603

kitchenist?1617

trencher-scraper1650

mediastine1658

drudge-pudding1737

marmiton1754

knife-boy1847

potwalloper1859

kitchen mechanic1861

1332 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 124 (MED) Will. le Cuchener.

c1440 (?a1375) Abbey Holy Ghost (Thornton) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 56 Penance sall be kychynnere [c1390 Vernon Cusyner, c1400 Laud cosyner, a1450 Harl. 2406 cusener, c1465 Harl. 1704 kechener].

1614 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 319 To the black gard the kitchinners vs.

1796 D. Lysons Environs London IV. 69 The prioress had a double portion of provisions, and the cellaresses and the kitchener during their year of office.

1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii^*. 77 Two most important officers of the Convent, the Kitchener and Refectioner.

1884 19th Cent. Jan. 110 Capons, eggs, salmon, eels, herring, &c..passed to the account of the kitchener.

2006 D. J. Stone in C. M. Woolgar et al. Food in Medieval Eng. x. 155 The kitchener of Maxstoke Priory..listed 124 geese in his care in 1449-50.

2. A type of cast iron cooking range or stove heated by an enclosed coal fire, having hotplates on top and one or more ovens at the sides, and often fitted with appliances such as plate warmers, boilers, and water heaters.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun]

range1423

buccan1611

fire-range1668

stew-stove1727

screw-range1772

stew-hole1780

cooking stove1796

range stove1803

cooking range1805

cookstove1820

kitchener1829

gas range1853

cooker1860

gas cooker1873

Soyer's stove1878

hay-box1885

blazer1889

machine oven1890

paraffin stove1891

primus1893

electric cooker1894

electric range1894

Yukon stove1898

fireless cooker1904

picnic stove1910

pressure stove1914

Tommy cooker1915

rangette1922

Aga1931

barbecue1931

Rayburn1947

sigri1949

jiko1973

1829 Leamington Spa Courier 2 May (advt.) The Patent Kitchener, a Register Cooking Grate, Constructed on New & Improved Principles, by Wm. Flavel, Ironmonger, Bath Street, Leamington.

1845 Aris's Birmingham Gaz. 22 Oct. (advt.) Herbert Room's Patent Improved Kitchener, or Kitchen Range.

1868 A. Gouffé tr. J. Gouffé Royal Cookery Bk. i. 19 In kitchens where neither charcoal, or gas stove, or kitchener, is to be found, the common open range is a fair substitute.

1952 F. Swinnerton Master Jim Probity ii. 49 He..saw the big hot kitchener stove at which Aunt Bess was busy.

2012 @Wendell_Howe 3 May in twitter.com (accessed 19 Aug. 2019) I know the Kitchener was not the 1st cast iron cooking stove..it was just the most evolved and efficient one.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

Kitchenern.²

Brit.

/ˈkɪtʃᵻnə/, U.S.

/ˈkɪtʃ(ə)nər/

Forms: 1900s Kitchner (in sense Compounds 1b), 1900s– Kitchener.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Kitchener.

Etymology: < the name of Major General (later Field Marshal) Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener, later Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850–1916), Irish-born British army officer and colonial administrator, who served as Chief of Staff (1900–2) in the Second Boer War, commander-in-chief of the British army in Egypt (1892–8) and India (1902–9), and Secretary of State for War (1914–16).In sense Compounds 1b with allusion to a request made by Lord Kitchener to Queen Mary (as patron of Queen Mary's Needlework Guild) to assist in encouraging volunteers to provide socks for British soldiers in the First World War in September 1914; compare:1914 Guardian 23 Sept. 10/5 Lord Kitchener has asked the Queen to supply 300,000 belts, knitted or woven, and 300,000 pairs of socks, to be ready, if possible, early in November.

Chiefly British.

1. A person, esp. a man, likened to Kitchener in some way, esp. in having an imposing and resolute personality.

ΚΠ

1897 Moonshine 13 Feb. 74/2 Kitchener is good; we could do with more Kitcheners.

1910 S. L. Bensusan Home Life in Spain xxiv. 293 General Valeriano Weyler, the strongest and most resolute soldier in his country's service, the Kitchener of Spain.

1956 Public Admin. 34 393 A Wyndham and a Chamberlain go for a peccadillo, a Kitchener will remain despite major blunders.

1995 S. Featherstone War Poetry i. i. 14 Brooke was a different kind of military hero to the Gordons and Kitcheners of the late Victorian era.

2. In plural. The soldiers recruited while Kitchener was Secretary of State for War (1914–16), esp. as distinct from regular soldiers who enlisted before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Now historical and rare.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > British > specific

redcoatc1605

cavalier1642

cavy1645

cave1661

peninsular1888

Ironside1889

Brodrick1903

Kitcheners1916

1916 M. S. MacInnes Let. 9 Apr. in Proc. 22nd Ann. Convent. National League Nursing Educ. 311 Old soldiers and new—regulars, ‘Kitcheners’, and ‘Colonials’.

1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 304/1 Kitcheners, a name given by the Regulars to soldiers enlisting for the emergency.

2005 J. Spiller Instinct for War x. 284 After the Regulars were used up and the Kitcheners and Lord Derby's men started coming in, I can imagine your trade improved, as it were.

Phrases

Kitchener wants you: used as an appeal for people to enlist in the armed forces, and subsequently (Army slang) in ironic use, with reference to any arduous, unpleasant, or dangerous task. Now historical.With reference to an image showing Kitchener's head and his raised arm pointing towards the viewer, designed by Alfred Leete, used in the recruitment campaign at the beginning of the First World War (1914–18), originally as the front cover of the London Opinion of 5 Sept. 1914.

ΚΠ

1915 Spectator 16 Jan. 78/1 We have had appeals on posters, and otherwise, such as ‘Kitchener Wants You’, ‘The King's Army Wants 500,000 Men’, ‘Your King and Country Want You’, but there has never been a really personal appeal from the King himself.

1930 Illustr. London News 3 May 794/2 No one who remembers the war can forget the face which stared down from the posters with such compelling force that the legend ‘Kitchener Wants You’ seemed a command that could not be evaded.

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 458/1 Kitchener wants you! A military c.p. to a man selected for filthy, arduous or perilous work.

1974 Irish Times 29 July 10/5 ‘Lord Kitchener wants you!’—marching feet—‘Tipperary’, ‘Dolly Gray’. An army troop-ship sailing away!

2001 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 11 129 Though he kept his head down, wartime conditions impinged on his life in various ways. A boy shouted ‘Kitchener wants you!’ at him when he was going into his club.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive and in the genitive, chiefly with reference to the soldiers recruited while Kitchener was Secretary of State for War, as Kitchener battalion, Kitchener's army, etc. Cf. sense 2. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1914 N.Y. Tribune 12 Aug. 3/7 (heading) Five thousand recruits for Kitchener's army enrolled in 12 hours.

1916 J. N. Hall Kitchener's Mob i. 1 ‘Kitchener's Mob’ they were called in the early days of August, 1914, when London hoardings were clamorous with the first calls for volunteers.

1916 J. N. Hall Kitchener's Mob iii. 23 ‘Kitchener's Rag-Time Army I calls it!’ growls the veteran of South African fame.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 136 Kitchener's blue, a name given to the blue serge uniform served out to recruits in the autumn of 1914 in consequence of the shortage of khaki.

1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 43 The first Kitchener battalion, they said, to hold the sector.

1930 C. D. Baker-Carr From Chauffeur to Brigadier ix. 127 The new Kitchener Divisions were now beginning to arrive.

1965 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Long Trail 139 K1 (K One), the first 100,000 of the New (Kitchener's) Army of 1914 volunteers.

2013 M. Axworthy Revolutionary Iran iv. 219 The young men of Kitchener's army preparing for similar infantry attacks against prepared defences on the Somme in 1916 or elsewhere.

b. Knitting. Designating a stitch used to sew together two edges of a piece of knitting in such a way as to create a seamless join; (also, in early use) designating a (part of a) garment, esp. a sock, made using such a stitch. Now chiefly in Kitchener stitch. Cf. grafting n. 3d.Originally with reference to socks knitted by volunteers for soldiers fighting in the First World War (1914–18), which were made in this way in order to minimize discomfort and risks to health associated with long wear, trench conditions, etc.: cf. quot. 1917².

ΚΠ

1915 N.Z. Times 28 Oct. 9/2 Many knitters might like to take advantage of this opportunity of learning to knit the ‘Kitchener’ toe.

1917 Papers & Proc. 11th Ann. Meeting Amer. Sociol. Soc. 45 The ‘Queen Mary Toe’ and the ‘Kitchener Heel’ are words as familiar in the allied trenches today as are aeroplanes and caterpillars.

1917 Detroit Free Press 21 May 7/6 The Kitchener ventilated sock, so shaped that it can be turned on the foot after holes have been worn in either heels or toes.

1918 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 27 May 5/3 Finish the toe of the sock with the Kitchener stitch.

1987 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Oct. (Harford County section) 19/3 Edge treatments, kitchener stitch, grafting and blocking will be featured in this four-week course.

2009 D. T. Ratigan Knitting Perfect Pair ii. 43 When complete, the remaining stitches are grafted together with Kitchener stitch.

C2.

Kitchener helmet n. a pith helmet (as worn by British soldiers overseas); esp. a white pith helmet introduced by Kitchener into the uniform of the Indian Army during his period as commander-in-chief in India (1902–9).

ΚΠ

1904 Times of India 23 Dec. 1/4 (advt.) Kitchener helmet. Solid cork, covered khaki.

1971 D. Meiring Wall of Glass viii. 62 He wore summer khaki drill, with Kitchener helmet and Sam Browne.

2012 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 18 Apr. 35 Their white Kitchener helmets were in sharp contrast to the black bearskins of the Old Guard.

Kitchener moustache n. a long, thick, drooping moustache similar to that worn by Kitchener; a walrus moustache.

ΚΠ

1898 Daily Mail 1 Oct. 7/1 (headline) The latest fad is the Kitchener moustache.

1969 ‘A. Cade’ Turn up Stone i. 20 A large European wearing a pink shirt, baggy grey trousers and a drooping Kitchener moustache.

2008 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 11 Aug. 10 ‘It's obvious if you ask me,’ said a man of military bearing with a Kitchener moustache.

Derivatives

ˈKitchenerism n. rare policies or qualities associated with Kitchener.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > expediency > expedience > [noun] > pragmatism or practicality

practicalness1657

pragmaticality1836

practicality1841

practicalism1843

pragmatism1872

thinginess1891

Kitchenerism1901

hard-boiledness1912

1901 Washington Post 12 Feb. 3/2 We are in partnership with England and Kitchenerism in South Africa. Kitchener's orders are ‘burn the houses, kill the men, drive the women and children out into the veldt to die so that they may understand the power of the British monarchy’.

1916 H. G. Wells Mr. Britling sees it Through i. iii. 74 He was presented as a monster of energy and self-discipline; as the determined foe of every form of looseness, slackness, and easy-goingness... ‘It's Kitchenerism.’.. ‘It's the army side of the efficiency stunt.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kitchener
释义	kitchenern.¹ Brit. /ˈkɪtʃᵻnə/, /ˈkɪtʃn̩ə/, U.S. /ˈkɪtʃ(ə)nər/, /ˈkɪtʃn̩ər/ Forms: Middle English cuchener, Middle English kechener, Middle English kychynnere, 1600s kitchinner, 1800s– kitchener. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: kitchen n.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < kitchen n.¹ + -er suffix¹. With use in sense 1 compare cosyner n. In sense 2 originally as the name of a type of kitchen range first developed and sold in Leamington Spa by ironmonger William Flavel (1779–1844) and subsequently manufactured by Sidney Flavel and Co. Despite being marketed as the ‘Patent Kitchener’ (see quot. 1829 at sense 2), no patent was registered for Flavel's original design, which was widely imitated by other manufacturers and sold under the name ‘kitchener’ (compare e.g. quot. 1845 at sense 2). Now historical. 1. A person employed in a kitchen, a cook; spec. the person in charge of the kitchen of a monastery, convent, etc.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > monastic functionary > kitchener > [noun] kitchener1332 focary?c1500 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > service in kitchen > [noun] > kitchen servant squiller1303 waynpainc1330 kitchener1332 custronc1400 kitchen knave1440 scullion1483 scudler1488 swiller?a1500 dishwashera1529 lubber1538 kitchen maid1551 kitchen wencha1556 scull1566 washpot1570 kitchen stuff1582 scrape-trencher1603 kitchenist?1617 trencher-scraper1650 mediastine1658 drudge-pudding1737 marmiton1754 knife-boy1847 potwalloper1859 kitchen mechanic1861 1332 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 124 (MED) Will. le Cuchener. c1440 (?a1375) Abbey Holy Ghost (Thornton) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 56 Penance sall be kychynnere [c1390 Vernon Cusyner, c1400 Laud cosyner, a1450 Harl. 2406 cusener, c1465 Harl. 1704 kechener]. 1614 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 319 To the black gard the kitchinners vs. 1796 D. Lysons Environs London IV. 69 The prioress had a double portion of provisions, and the cellaresses and the kitchener during their year of office. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii^. 77 Two most important officers of the Convent, the Kitchener and Refectioner. 1884 19th Cent.* Jan. 110 Capons, eggs, salmon, eels, herring, &c..passed to the account of the kitchener. 2006 D. J. Stone in C. M. Woolgar et al. Food in Medieval Eng. x. 155 The kitchener of Maxstoke Priory..listed 124 geese in his care in 1449-50. 2. A type of cast iron cooking range or stove heated by an enclosed coal fire, having hotplates on top and one or more ovens at the sides, and often fitted with appliances such as plate warmers, boilers, and water heaters. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] range1423 buccan1611 fire-range1668 stew-stove1727 screw-range1772 stew-hole1780 cooking stove1796 range stove1803 cooking range1805 cookstove1820 kitchener1829 gas range1853 cooker1860 gas cooker1873 Soyer's stove1878 hay-box1885 blazer1889 machine oven1890 paraffin stove1891 primus1893 electric cooker1894 electric range1894 Yukon stove1898 fireless cooker1904 picnic stove1910 pressure stove1914 Tommy cooker1915 rangette1922 Aga1931 barbecue1931 Rayburn1947 sigri1949 jiko1973 1829 Leamington Spa Courier 2 May (advt.) The Patent Kitchener, a Register Cooking Grate, Constructed on New & Improved Principles, by Wm. Flavel, Ironmonger, Bath Street, Leamington. 1845 Aris's Birmingham Gaz. 22 Oct. (advt.) Herbert Room's Patent Improved Kitchener, or Kitchen Range. 1868 A. Gouffé tr. J. Gouffé Royal Cookery Bk. i. 19 In kitchens where neither charcoal, or gas stove, or kitchener, is to be found, the common open range is a fair substitute. 1952 F. Swinnerton Master Jim Probity ii. 49 He..saw the big hot kitchener stove at which Aunt Bess was busy. 2012 @Wendell_Howe 3 May in twitter.com (accessed 19 Aug. 2019) I know the Kitchener was not the 1st cast iron cooking stove..it was just the most evolved and efficient one. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). Kitchenern.² Brit. /ˈkɪtʃᵻnə/, U.S. /ˈkɪtʃ(ə)nər/ Forms: 1900s Kitchner (in sense Compounds 1b), 1900s– Kitchener. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Kitchener. Etymology: < the name of Major General (later Field Marshal) Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener, later Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850–1916), Irish-born British army officer and colonial administrator, who served as Chief of Staff (1900–2) in the Second Boer War, commander-in-chief of the British army in Egypt (1892–8) and India (1902–9), and Secretary of State for War (1914–16).In sense Compounds 1b with allusion to a request made by Lord Kitchener to Queen Mary (as patron of Queen Mary's Needlework Guild) to assist in encouraging volunteers to provide socks for British soldiers in the First World War in September 1914; compare:1914 Guardian 23 Sept. 10/5 Lord Kitchener has asked the Queen to supply 300,000 belts, knitted or woven, and 300,000 pairs of socks, to be ready, if possible, early in November. Chiefly British. 1. A person, esp. a man, likened to Kitchener in some way, esp. in having an imposing and resolute personality. ΚΠ 1897 Moonshine 13 Feb. 74/2 Kitchener is good; we could do with more Kitcheners. 1910 S. L. Bensusan Home Life in Spain xxiv. 293 General Valeriano Weyler, the strongest and most resolute soldier in his country's service, the Kitchener of Spain. 1956 Public Admin. 34 393 A Wyndham and a Chamberlain go for a peccadillo, a Kitchener will remain despite major blunders. 1995 S. Featherstone War Poetry i. i. 14 Brooke was a different kind of military hero to the Gordons and Kitcheners of the late Victorian era. 2. In plural. The soldiers recruited while Kitchener was Secretary of State for War (1914–16), esp. as distinct from regular soldiers who enlisted before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > British > specific redcoatc1605 cavalier1642 cavy1645 cave1661 peninsular1888 Ironside1889 Brodrick1903 Kitcheners1916 1916 M. S. MacInnes Let. 9 Apr. in Proc. 22nd Ann. Convent. National League Nursing Educ. 311 Old soldiers and new—regulars, ‘Kitcheners’, and ‘Colonials’. 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 304/1 Kitcheners, a name given by the Regulars to soldiers enlisting for the emergency. 2005 J. Spiller Instinct for War x. 284 After the Regulars were used up and the Kitcheners and Lord Derby's men started coming in, I can imagine your trade improved, as it were. Phrases Kitchener wants you: used as an appeal for people to enlist in the armed forces, and subsequently (Army slang) in ironic use, with reference to any arduous, unpleasant, or dangerous task. Now historical.With reference to an image showing Kitchener's head and his raised arm pointing towards the viewer, designed by Alfred Leete, used in the recruitment campaign at the beginning of the First World War (1914–18), originally as the front cover of the London Opinion of 5 Sept. 1914. ΚΠ 1915 Spectator 16 Jan. 78/1 We have had appeals on posters, and otherwise, such as ‘Kitchener Wants You’, ‘The King's Army Wants 500,000 Men’, ‘Your King and Country Want You’, but there has never been a really personal appeal from the King himself. 1930 Illustr. London News 3 May 794/2 No one who remembers the war can forget the face which stared down from the posters with such compelling force that the legend ‘Kitchener Wants You’ seemed a command that could not be evaded. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 458/1 Kitchener wants you! A military c.p. to a man selected for filthy, arduous or perilous work. 1974 Irish Times 29 July 10/5 ‘Lord Kitchener wants you!’—marching feet—‘Tipperary’, ‘Dolly Gray’. An army troop-ship sailing away! 2001 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 11 129 Though he kept his head down, wartime conditions impinged on his life in various ways. A boy shouted ‘Kitchener wants you!’ at him when he was going into his club. Compounds C1. a. General attributive and in the genitive, chiefly with reference to the soldiers recruited while Kitchener was Secretary of State for War, as Kitchener battalion, Kitchener's army, etc. Cf. sense 2. Now historical. ΚΠ 1914 N.Y. Tribune 12 Aug. 3/7 (heading) Five thousand recruits for Kitchener's army enrolled in 12 hours. 1916 J. N. Hall Kitchener's Mob i. 1 ‘Kitchener's Mob’ they were called in the early days of August, 1914, when London hoardings were clamorous with the first calls for volunteers. 1916 J. N. Hall Kitchener's Mob iii. 23 ‘Kitchener's Rag-Time Army I calls it!’ growls the veteran of South African fame. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 136 Kitchener's blue, a name given to the blue serge uniform served out to recruits in the autumn of 1914 in consequence of the shortage of khaki. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 43 The first Kitchener battalion, they said, to hold the sector. 1930 C. D. Baker-Carr From Chauffeur to Brigadier ix. 127 The new Kitchener Divisions were now beginning to arrive. 1965 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Long Trail 139 K1 (K One), the first 100,000 of the New (Kitchener's) Army of 1914 volunteers. 2013 M. Axworthy Revolutionary Iran iv. 219 The young men of Kitchener's army preparing for similar infantry attacks against prepared defences on the Somme in 1916 or elsewhere. b. Knitting. Designating a stitch used to sew together two edges of a piece of knitting in such a way as to create a seamless join; (also, in early use) designating a (part of a) garment, esp. a sock, made using such a stitch. Now chiefly in Kitchener stitch. Cf. grafting n. 3d.Originally with reference to socks knitted by volunteers for soldiers fighting in the First World War (1914–18), which were made in this way in order to minimize discomfort and risks to health associated with long wear, trench conditions, etc.: cf. quot. 1917². ΚΠ 1915 N.Z. Times 28 Oct. 9/2 Many knitters might like to take advantage of this opportunity of learning to knit the ‘Kitchener’ toe. 1917 Papers & Proc. 11th Ann. Meeting Amer. Sociol. Soc. 45 The ‘Queen Mary Toe’ and the ‘Kitchener Heel’ are words as familiar in the allied trenches today as are aeroplanes and caterpillars. 1917 Detroit Free Press 21 May 7/6 The Kitchener ventilated sock, so shaped that it can be turned on the foot after holes have been worn in either heels or toes. 1918 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 27 May 5/3 Finish the toe of the sock with the Kitchener stitch. 1987 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Oct. (Harford County section) 19/3 Edge treatments, kitchener stitch, grafting and blocking will be featured in this four-week course. 2009 D. T. Ratigan Knitting Perfect Pair ii. 43 When complete, the remaining stitches are grafted together with Kitchener stitch. C2. Kitchener helmet n. a pith helmet (as worn by British soldiers overseas); esp. a white pith helmet introduced by Kitchener into the uniform of the Indian Army during his period as commander-in-chief in India (1902–9). ΚΠ 1904 Times of India 23 Dec. 1/4 (advt.) Kitchener helmet. Solid cork, covered khaki. 1971 D. Meiring Wall of Glass viii. 62 He wore summer khaki drill, with Kitchener helmet and Sam Browne. 2012 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 18 Apr. 35 Their white Kitchener helmets were in sharp contrast to the black bearskins of the Old Guard. Kitchener moustache n. a long, thick, drooping moustache similar to that worn by Kitchener; a walrus moustache. ΚΠ 1898 Daily Mail 1 Oct. 7/1 (headline) The latest fad is the Kitchener moustache. 1969 ‘A. Cade’ Turn up Stone i. 20 A large European wearing a pink shirt, baggy grey trousers and a drooping Kitchener moustache. 2008 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 11 Aug. 10 ‘It's obvious if you ask me,’ said a man of military bearing with a Kitchener moustache. Derivatives ˈKitchenerism n. rare policies or qualities associated with Kitchener. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > expediency > expedience > [noun] > pragmatism or practicality practicalness1657 pragmaticality1836 practicality1841 practicalism1843 pragmatism1872 thinginess1891 Kitchenerism1901 hard-boiledness1912 1901 Washington Post 12 Feb. 3/2 We are in partnership with England and Kitchenerism in South Africa. Kitchener's orders are ‘burn the houses, kill the men, drive the women and children out into the veldt to die so that they may understand the power of the British monarchy’. 1916 H. G. Wells Mr. Britling sees it Through i. iii. 74 He was presented as a monster of energy and self-discipline; as the determined foe of every form of looseness, slackness, and easy-goingness... ‘It's Kitchenerism.’.. ‘It's the army side of the efficiency stunt.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1332n.²1897
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