backyardn.

Forms: Also back yard, back-yard.

Etymology: back- comb. form 1b(b).

A yard or enclosure at the back of a house. Also figurative.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] > (back or front) yard

yardOE

backside1450

stead1546

outyard1600

lot1657

backyard1659

outlet1667

area1712

back lot1714

backlet1724

door-yardc1764

front yard1767

rear yard1800

tenement yard1874

sitooterie1994

1659 in Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) (1885) III. 246 A back yard lying on the north side of the sajd dwelling house.

1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot Epist. sig. a Creeping into back-yards, and firing stacks of Bavins.

1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 125 Land sufficient to build a house on, with gardens and back-yard.

1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table x. 311 A stone with a whitish band crossing it, belonging to the pavement of the back-yard.

1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxiii. 186 The crowing of a cock in the back-yard of a suburban villa.

1920 J. Mander Story N.Z. River i. iv. 64 When you..have seen the backyard side of people..you don't get upset by trifles.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Feb. 11 Nine Sydney he-men out of ten get sun-tanned by lying in the back yard.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Sept. 10/2 She worked a backyard farmlet in one of the outer suburbs.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Aug. 143/1 Few backyard henhouses appear to be planned for the number of birds they ultimately hold.

1962 Listener 11 Jan. 51/2 Inside the area which a substantial power regards as its own backyard, the writ of the United Nations does not run.

Derivatives

backˈyarder n. colloquial (a) a person who keeps fowls in his or her backyard; a small poultry-keeper; (b) a fowl kept in the backyard of a house.

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the world > animals > birds > wild or domestic birds > [noun] > domestic > poultry

poultrya1387

backyarder1922

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > keeper of poultry

poultry keeper1745

poultry maid1798

poultry farmer1852

backyarder1922

sexer1933

sexor1940

1922 Daily Mail 18 Nov. 11 Backyarders can make money out of fowls if they will feed them on the simple Karswood system.

1922 Daily Mail 9 Dec. 14 The average total of eggs per day is seven, which..is very good, especially as they are backyarders.

1942 Gen. 1 Oct. 21/1 Backyarders keep fifteen million hens according to Agriculture Ministry census.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	backyard
释义	backyardn. Forms: Also back yard, back-yard. Etymology: back- comb. form 1b(b). A yard or enclosure at the back of a house. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] > (back or front) yard yardOE backside1450 stead1546 outyard1600 lot1657 backyard1659 outlet1667 area1712 back lot1714 backlet1724 door-yardc1764 front yard1767 rear yard1800 tenement yard1874 sitooterie1994 1659 in Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) (1885) III. 246 A back yard lying on the north side of the sajd dwelling house. 1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot Epist. sig. a Creeping into back-yards, and firing stacks of Bavins. 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 125 Land sufficient to build a house on, with gardens and back-yard. 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table x. 311 A stone with a whitish band crossing it, belonging to the pavement of the back-yard. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxiii. 186 The crowing of a cock in the back-yard of a suburban villa. 1920 J. Mander Story N.Z. River i. iv. 64 When you..have seen the backyard side of people..you don't get upset by trifles. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Feb. 11 Nine Sydney he-men out of ten get sun-tanned by lying in the back yard. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Sept. 10/2 She worked a backyard farmlet in one of the outer suburbs. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Aug. 143/1 Few backyard henhouses appear to be planned for the number of birds they ultimately hold. 1962 Listener 11 Jan. 51/2 Inside the area which a substantial power regards as its own backyard, the writ of the United Nations does not run. Derivatives backˈyarder n. colloquial (a) a person who keeps fowls in his or her backyard; a small poultry-keeper; (b) a fowl kept in the backyard of a house. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > wild or domestic birds > [noun] > domestic > poultry poultrya1387 backyarder1922 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > keeper of poultry poultry keeper1745 poultry maid1798 poultry farmer1852 backyarder1922 sexer1933 sexor1940 1922 Daily Mail 18 Nov. 11 Backyarders can make money out of fowls if they will feed them on the simple Karswood system. 1922 Daily Mail 9 Dec. 14 The average total of eggs per day is seven, which..is very good, especially as they are backyarders. 1942 Gen. 1 Oct. 21/1 Backyarders keep fifteen million hens according to Agriculture Ministry census. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1659
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