单词 | lingo |
释义 | lingon.1 In early use frequently depreciative. Now usually colloquial and humorous. A language, dialect, etc., that is strange or unintelligible to the person who hears it; spec. a foreign language. Later also: the vocabulary or jargon of a particular group of people, subject, or field of activity. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > a foreign language foreign language1555 uplandish1586 Welsh1598 outlandisha1626 lingo1659 second language1875 the bat1887 target language1965 foreign1971 the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon language1502 term of art1570 fustiana1593 jargoning1623 jargon1651 speciality1657 lingo1659 cant1684 linguaa1734 patois1790 slang1801 shibboleth1829 glim-glibber1844 argot1860 gammy1864 patter1875 stagese1876 vernacular1876 palaver1909 babble1930 buzzword1946 in word1964 rabbit1976 1659 New Haven Colonial Rec. (1858) 337 To wch the plant [= plaintiff] answered, that he was not acquainted with Duch lingo. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 55 Well, Well, I shall understand your Lingo one of these days, Cozen, in the mean while, I must answer in plain English. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. ii. 234 I have often warned you not to talk the Court Gibberish to me. I tell you, I don't understand the Lingo . View more context for this quotation 1758 J. Clubbe Hist. Wheatfield 30 When Men speak French, or any Outlandish Linguo. 1820 H. L. Porter Child of Providence ii. 15 I wonders what country she comes from... I em thinking, as my master has such a power of learning, he will be able to understand her lingo main well. 1839 E. W. Tucker Five Months in Labrador & Newfoundland i. 16 When I thought I had mastered sufficiently the lingo of the quarter-deck, to know the jib from the foresail, I determined one day to try my skill. 1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. xvii I should be half inclined to name the Yankee a lingo rather than a dialect. 1938 Life 14 Nov. 6/3 The word ‘Goon’ was first popularized by college students who used it to mean any stupid person. Labor union lingo has given it a second meaning: a tough or thug. 1974 W. Holt in R. M. Sherman & R. B. Sherman Over Here! (1979) i. 16 I was just given the old ho-heave and now I got no place to get my hat hung—if you get my lingo. 2008 C. Newkey-Burden in J. Burchill & C. Newkey-Burden Not in my Name App. 179 The best part is, pretty much everyone in France speaks English so you don't even have to learn the lingo to join in! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lingon.2 Weaving. Now chiefly historical. In various types of loom: a small weight, typically elongated in shape or made from a length of heavy wire, suspended from the loop or heddle through which each warp thread passes. ΚΠ 1731 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 37 106 Every Thread of the Warp goes through a small Brass Ring called a Male, or through a Loop in the Leish, and hath a small long Weight or Lingoe hung below, to counter-balance the Packthreads. 1824 Repertory Arts, Manufactures, & Agric. 2nd Ser. 44 260 This motion may be given to either of the punch-projectors, by advancing that endless cord which passes through the eye formed upon it in the direction from I to J, while the lingoe F will return to its former position. 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 254 The cords whereby the leaden weights, which are called lingos, are attached to the harness. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Lingo, a long, thin weight of wire used in Jacquard looms. 1905 New Internat. Encycl. XII. 448/2 To the lower end of each leash-string is attached the lingo. 1930 U.S. Patent 1,760,649 1/1 My invention..relates more particularly to the manner of connecting the lingo to the heddle whereby there is produced a composite article particularly adaptable for use in Jacquard looms and the like. 1979 E. Broudy Bk. Looms vii. 130/2 Each lingoe might weigh no more than an ounce, but for a simple silk pattern the drawboy might have to pull, including the friction of the cords, some thirty-six pounds. 2007 E. Talbert et al. Picturing Hist. Person County 130 The cords up on top of the machine were called lingo cords. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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