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单词 neckercher
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neckerchern.

Brit. /ˈnɛkətʃə/, U.S. /ˈnɛkərtʃər/
Forms: late Middle English nekcher, late Middle English neke-kycher, 1500s neckeger, 1500s necke kercher, 1500s– neckercher, 1800s– neck-curchor (English regional (north-eastern), 1800s– neckurchor (English regional (north-eastern), 1800s– neckycher (south-western).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: neck n.1, kercher n.
Etymology: < neck n.1 + kercher n. Compare handkercher , variant of handkerchief n., and slightly earlier neckerchief n. Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. neke-kicher n. suggests a possible alternative gloss for neke-kycher in quot. c1475 as ‘amice’. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (ne·kəɹtʃəɹ) /ˈnɛkətʃə(r)/.
Now rare. regional (British and U.S.) in later use.
= neckerchief n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neckerchief
neckerchiefc1384
kerchiefc1400
neckercher1466
neckinger1573
napkin1590
neckcloth1598
neck-handkerchief1642
squeeze clout1795
throat cloth1871
1466–7 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 390 (MED) Item, the same day my mastyr paid fore nekchers for my lady, x s.
c1475 Mankind (1969) 607 (MED) Whope who! Mercy hath brokyn hys neke-kycher, avows, Or he hangyth by þe neke hye wppon þe gallouse.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxvi Euery mantle had lettice about ye necke like a neckercher.
1579 Aldeburgh Rec. in Notes & Queries 16 Oct. 328/2 An upper bodye and lyninge and a neckercher for hir.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. iii. sig. G3 My wife ha's..pawnd her neckerchers for cleane bands for him. View more context for this quotation
1662 in Statutes at Large, Ireland (1765) II. 460 Neckerchers of Flanders making.
1786 R. Cumberland Observer III. lxv. 44 A close-bellied doublet coming down with a peake behind as far as the crupper, and cut off before by the breastbone like a partlet or neckercher.
1815 W. Scott Antiquary II. iii, in Waverley Novels (1829–33) VI. 40 Starch—dat is what the women-washers put in to de neckerchers, and de shirt collar.
1885 J. W. Riley in Indianapolis Jrnl. 8 Nov. 10/6 When I started out sparkin', at twenty, And had my first neckercher on!
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlvii. 132 ‘He hev left off his black coat and white neckercher, and hev cut off his whiskers; but he's the same man for all that.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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