单词 | needler |
释义 | needlern. 1. Originally: a person who makes needles (disused). Now applied to various other occupations involving the handling of needles (see quots. 1921, 1970). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > needle- or pin-maker > [noun] needler1275 pinner1281 pinmaker1350 needle-maker1571 reed-maker1627 pin manc1680 1275 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 214 (MED) Neldare. Le Neldere. Nedlerstrete. c1311 in W. Hudson Rec. City of Norwich (1906) I. 379 (MED) Joh. le Nedelere de Stratton. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 161 Hikke þe hakeney mon and Hogge þe neldere [c1400 B text nedeler]. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vj Pynners, nedelers, and glasyers. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 387/1 Needler's Punch,..With this tool the Eye of the Needle is made. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xv. 241/1 Pinners and Needlers. 1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. 209 Three needlers from the square of Cordova. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §279 Needler, assists temple maker (210) q.v. and keeps him supplied with steel pins or needles. 1970 Classif. of Occupations (Office of Population Censuses & Surv.) 58/3 Needler (textile making-up). 2. ΚΠ 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Needler, a keen, active, thrifty person—a niggard. 1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. i Needler, a sharper, a niggard.] b. A person who goads, irritates, or torments others, esp. with the intention of provoking a reaction. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [noun] > causing anger > one who or that which wrather1382 aggravator1598 provoke1773 needler1874 the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > action of irritating > cause of irritation > one who or that which irritates fly?c1225 terrer1382 prickc1384 taryerc1440 stub1531 provokera1542 a mote in the eye1546 annoying1566 nettler1611 gadfly1622 flea-biter1629 exasperator1632 badgerer?1791 irritator1855 needler1874 nagger1881 holy terror1883 knob1920 jerkface1942 needle artist1982 d-bag1984 knob-end1989 hater1996 1874 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 301/2 The dear old man is a perfect needler at a critical paper (Greek particles and scholarship tips, &c., you know), and was bound to lick me any way. 1947 F. Wakeman Saxon Charm iii. 41 The king roars at this remark by the world's champion needler of doctors. 1964 Listener 20 Feb. 299/2 When the needlers request the publication of attendance records.., many an indolent director begins to mend his ways. 1997 A. R. Ammons Glare 270 Are you just a miserable little needler who can't stand anybody else's happiness? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1275 |
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