单词 | nominy |
释义 | nominyn. English regional (chiefly northern) and Irish English. A speech; a sermon, esp. a long or tedious one. Also: a form of words or rhyming formula in popular use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > mechanical quality > writing or expression nominy?1746 stereotype1850 cliché1881 boilerplate1891 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity > prolix passage > rigmarole Ragman?1507 rat-rane1513 rat-rhyme1553 reavel-ravel1568 paternoster1651 kyrielle1653 rat1671 rigmarolec1736 nominy?1746 Megillah1911 ?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. 19 Th'Justice sed o nominy to 'im. 1814 Costume of Yorks. 63 in Brand's Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1849) II. 188 He..repeats a speech, or what they term a nominy, which..is here subjoined. 1846 M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. Legendary Div. III. 160 It was formerly the custom, in the more remote parts of the county of Durham, to address complimentary verses to a newly married couple... This was called ‘saying the Nominy’. 1889 J. Nicholson Folk-speech E. Yorks. 8 Should the boy be unable to recite this rhyme, he would be told ‘he didn't knaw his nominy’. 1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore 158 ‘Ran-tan-tan to my owd tin can’ is the commencement of a famous nomony in ‘Riding the Stang’. 1964 J. Braidwood Ulster & Elizabethan Eng. III. 83 The Latin in nomine patris, used as an invocation before a sermon, became nominy, and since we know what preachers used to be like, it came to mean ‘a rigmarole, a long, rambling, wordy, tiresome tale, or speech’. 1998 Sunday Tel. 20 Dec. (Review section) 14/8 Ian Duhig's poems in Nominies..—the title is taken from a Yorkshire word meaning ‘children's chants’—are mainly narrative-driven. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1746 |
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