† merry landn.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: proper name Maryland.

Etymology: Variant of the name of Maryland (see Maryland n.), probably after or assimilated to merry adj. (the same variant occurs as a playful alteration of the place name with the punning sense ‘place of sexual adventure’ in 17th- and 18th-cent. literature, apparently earliest in Mercurius Democritus (see quot. 1652) (also compare later Maryland n. 6:1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 5. 35 There's a goodly Vessel lately built on the West side of London-Bridge call'd the Floating Ark of pleasure, bound for Merry-land, man'd with female Mariners.

Obsolete. rare.

= Maryland n. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > of type from specific area

Trinidado1599

Verinas1624

Virginia1624

Orinoco1660

merry land1688

Virginia tobacco1700

Varinas1747

Latakia1833

tumbak1836

Shiraz1840

mahorka1857

Turkish1859

perique1865

Sobranie1899

torori1905

Yenidje1954

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 274/1 Sorts of Tobacco..Merry land, leafe Tobacco.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

单词	merry land
释义	† merry landn. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: proper name Maryland. Etymology: Variant of the name of Maryland (see Maryland n.), probably after or assimilated to merry adj. (the same variant occurs as a playful alteration of the place name with the punning sense ‘place of sexual adventure’ in 17th- and 18th-cent. literature, apparently earliest in Mercurius Democritus (see quot. 1652) (also compare later Maryland n. 6:1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 5. 35 There's a goodly Vessel lately built on the West side of London-Bridge call'd the Floating Ark of pleasure, bound for Merry-land, man'd with female Mariners. Obsolete. rare. = Maryland n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > of type from specific area Trinidado1599 Verinas1624 Virginia1624 Orinoco1660 merry land1688 Virginia tobacco1700 Varinas1747 Latakia1833 tumbak1836 Shiraz1840 mahorka1857 Turkish1859 perique1865 Sobranie1899 torori1905 Yenidje1954 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 274/1 Sorts of Tobacco..Merry land, leafe Tobacco. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1688
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