单词 | backdoor |
释义 | backdoorn. 1. a. A door at the back of a building or enclosure, as opposed to the front-door; a secondary or private entrance. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door hall-doorc1275 falling doorc1300 stable doorc1330 vice-door1354 hecka1400 lodge-doorc1400 street door1465 gate-doora1500 portal1516 backdoor1530 portal door1532 side door1535 by-door1542 outer door1548 postern door1551 house door1565 fore-door1581 way-door1597 leaf door1600 folding door1611 clap-door1625 balcony-door1635 out-door1646 anteportc1660 screen door1668 frontish-door1703 posticum1704 side entrance1724 sash-door1726 Venetian door1731 oak1780 jib-door1800 trellis?c1800 sporting door1824 ledge-door1825 through door1827 bivalves1832 swing-door1833 tradesmen's entrance1838 ledged door1851 tradesmen's door?1851 fire door1876 storm door1878 shoji1880 fire door1889 Dutch door1890 patio door1900 stable door1900 ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901 suicide door1925 louvre door1953 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 196/1 Backe dore, huys de derriere. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges iii. 23 Ehud gat him out at the backe dore. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vii. 29 He would stand at the Door..to keep off the Duns, till John got out at the Back-Door. 1857 C. Heavysege Saul (1869) 106 They shall sneak in at Gibeah's back-door. b. back-door trot (figurative); also spec., diarrhoea, dialect. ΚΠ 1789 D. Sillar Poems 57 I fear they've [sc. letters have] tane the back-door trott, An' miss'd the road. 1801 E. Wright Marvellous Pleasant Love-story I. xiii. 176 Cooky had for certain put some jalup i' the pudding, for Master George had gotten the back-door-trot with a witness! 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Back-door trot I be saafe, nif I was vor ate very many o' they there, twid zoon gie me the back-door trot. 2. figurative; also attributive = Unworthily secret, clandestine. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] > accomplished by stealth stolenc1400 secret1548 clandestine1566 stealed1577 backdoor1581 underhand1592 surreptitial1602 surreptitious?1615 furtive1628 surreptious1630 by1633 surreptive1633 subreptitious1641 surreptitious1645 postern1648 backstairs1663 smuggled1707 underneath1747 underhanded1806 hidlingsa1810 hole-and-corner1835 side door1862 under-cover1933 under the table1938 crafty1946 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. iii. 32 b The children of the right side..proue doltes..contrariwise, those which come in at the backe doore..auaunce themselves. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 45 Hauing found the backe doore open Of the vnguarded hearts. View more context for this quotation 1701 W. Paterson Proposals Council of Trade 195 Their Back-Door to let in Mischief. 1805 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 46 Our back-door counsellors. 1907 Daily Chron. 12 Sept. 5/3 Several makers began to do a back-door sort of business. 1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1012/2 France did a backdoor deal for Egyptian cotton. 1965 New Statesman 30 Apr. 671/3 Having safeguarded their back door with China..the Pakistanis may be tougher about their frontiers with India. Draft additions March 2006 slang. The anus, the rectum.In quot. 1613 as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > large intestine > rectum longaona1400 arse-guta1413 rectum?a1425 backdoor1613 shitholea1629 asshole1865 rinktum1886 rectosigmoid1912 shitter1927 patootie1959 1613 J. Marston & W. Barksted Insatiate Countesse ii. i Thais. But you meane they shall come in at the backe-dores. Abig. Who, our Husbands? nay, and they come not in at the fore-dores, there will be no pleasure in't. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xliv. 170 Joane's back-door was filthily puffing and roaring. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Back Back gammon player, a sodomite... Gentleman of the back door, the same. 1810 W. Wheeler Let. 30 Aug. (1951) 39 Three ounces and a half of the bitter gall Epsom salts, and two hours knapsack drill in double quick time would open my back door. 1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I. 8 Back door, the anus... Back door work, sodomy. 1952 ‘J. Little’ Maybe—Tomorrow iv. 41 Come on dearie..I'm hotter than a bitch dog..ain't had a piece in two days. Ain't ever been up the back door. 1995 For Him Mag. Sept. 97/3 Unlike children, dogs respond to other dogs with either a fangs-out lunge or a good sniff around the back door. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1530 |
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