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单词 mender
释义

mendern.

Brit. /ˈmɛndə/, U.S. /ˈmɛndər/
Forms: Middle English mendere, Middle English– mender.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mend v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < mend v. + -er suffix1. Compare amender n.
A person who mends something; a repairer or improver (of).Frequently with prefixed word specifying the object, etc., mended, esp. in occupational terms, as bellows-, road-mender, etc.; for more established compounds see the first element.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > one who or that which
corrector1377
mendera1382
physiciana1398
amenderc1405
redresserc1449
corrigiour1474
repairer?1504
redressc1530
remeder1535
righter1566
rectifier1607
redressor1643
corrective1768
renovator1827
readjuster1850
Mr Fixit1924
fixer-upper1932
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun] > one who improves
mendera1382
raisera1400
betterer1600
improver1613
meliorator1782
ameliorator1930
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun]
clouterc1440
maker-up?a1444
botcher1499
repairer?1504
reparationer1520
patcher1528
bodger1538
repareller1546
mender1552
sarcinator1646
vamper1712
piecer1764
renovator1827
repairman1856
fixer?1881
serviceman1905
Mr Fixit1924
fixit man1949
fixit1982
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Wisd. vii. 15 God..is duke of wisdam & þe mendere of wise men.
c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 135 (MED) Heil mender of eueri monnes mynde.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. EEiiiv I shulde accompt it amonge my great lucres and vauntages..to be reproued or correct of my reformer or mender.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bodger, botcher, mender, or patcher of olde garmentes.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A mender, a setler, an ordrer.
1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois ii. 18 All vaunt themselues, Law-menders and suppliers.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. i. 14 Mur. But what Trade art thou? Answer me directly. Cob. A Trade Sir, that I hope I may vse, with a safe Conscience, which is indeed Sir, a Mender of bad soules. View more context for this quotation
1689 B. Keach Distressed Sion Relieved 74 Gods Laws are sound, and need no humane menders.
1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks iii. sig. F1v Thou Varnisher of thy Mistresses Imperfections, Cabinet of her Intreagues, Heiress of old Cloaths, and Mender of fusty foul Linnen.
1774 O. Goldsmith Retaliation 62 The Terence of England, the mender of hearts.
1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer I. xxvi. 126 The mender of pens groaned.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 295 A mender of old shoes, or a patcher up of clothes.
1894 Ld. Rosebery in Times 25 May 8/3 I have always been rather a mender than an ender.
1905 Strand Mag. Mar. 268/1 A good looking young ‘trouble-shooter’—as a mender of telephone lines is called.
1972 B. J. Kahan in Misc. Current Care (Nat. Council Unmarried Mother) 22/1 Their children's shoes were going to be at the mender's for ten days.
1989 A. Lambert Love among Single Classes (1990) 83 To have gone from being an economics professor to a violin mender would have been bad enough.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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