单词 | mangling |
释义 | manglingn.1 The action of mangling something (mangle v.1); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] rusteOE vice1297 corrumpciona1340 infectiona1398 corruptiona1400 foulinga1400 viciousness1440 inquination1447 turpitude1490 intoxicationa1513 pravitya1513 bracery1540 insincerity1548 corruptness1561 sophistication1564 faultiness1571 depravation1577 base-mindedness1582 mangling1585 reprobacy1591 uninnocence1593 vitiosity1603 turkessing1612 reprobancea1616 debauchedness1618 tortuosity1621 depravedness1623 deboistness1628 debauchness1640 depravity1646 corruptedness1648 moral turpitude1660 unprincipledness1792 demoralization1797 erosion1804 miscreancy1804 trituration1832 unwholesomeness1881 ne'er-do-wellism1891 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > laceration > action of laceration1598 mangling1807 1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke viii. sig. Eiii Regeneration and renouation, & not that paynefvll cutting and mangling of that parte of the body. 1590 J. Penry Humble Motion Priuie Counsell 26 The manglings are very little better. For first diuers members are cut off, as governing Elders & Deacons. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxii. sig. Y6 It was Darius his confession, that he had rather haue one whole Zopirus then tenne such Babylons as his mangling wanne. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) ix. Intro. 379 Without any mincing or mangling of the Words. 1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 22 Most of the Books we see now a-days, are full of those Manglings and Abbreviations. 1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 245 He did not intend to declare positively, that the mangling of a vesicle..could not..produce so much mischief. 1902 Daily Chron. 29 Mar. 5/1 The mangling of British names by French newspapers is an old story. 1976 P. Francis Volcanoes (1979) (BNC) Somehow, by the mangling that place names go through, the name Krakatoa was corrupted from Rakata. 1991 S. Larsen & R. Larsen Fire in Mind i. iii. 77 His summary of Christian assimilations and ‘manglings’..of pagan fertility motifs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). manglingn.2 The pressing of linen, etc., in a mangle. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > smoothing clothes in a mangle mangling1775 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Mangling, the act of smoothing linen in a mangle. 1808 Monthly Mag. Sept. 146/1 Mangling Machine. This machine, which is described with drawings, in the specification, will mangle almost all descriptions of linen. 1824 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) 181 He has commenced business in Drury-Lane, in the Mangling Department. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 254 By this machine the operation of mangling was well enough done. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop xv. 171 Mangling-women, washerwomen, cobblers, tailors, chandlers, driving their trades in parlours and kitchens and back rooms and garrets. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Dag To sprinkle clothes with water preparatory to mangling or ironing. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §384 A mangler..who minds a mangling machine through which cloth is passed. 1963 A. J. Hall Textile Sci. vi. 282 Detergent liquor..has to be removed in successive stages of mangling. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 153 Mangling boards..were formerly used in many parts of Europe, but more particularly in Scandinavia and Friesland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). manglingadj. rare. That mangles, in the senses of mangle v.1 ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > lacerated or lacerable > lacerating mangling1593 flesh-tawing1609 lacerating1609 lacerative1666 flesh-mangling1813 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Giij And then she reprehends her mangling eye, That makes more gashes, where no breach shuld be. View more context for this quotation 1794 R. Southey Poems Slave Trade iii Gasping he lies..While that inhuman driver lifts on high The mangling scourge. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby vi. 327 As mute as fox 'mongst mangling hounds. 1961 R. Lowell Let. 7 Nov. (1982) 293 I seem to be getting a rain of mangling reviews. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11585n.21775adj.1593 |
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