night-walkern.

Brit.

/ˈnʌɪtˌwɔːkə/, U.S.

/ˈnaɪtˌwɔkər/,

/ˈnaɪtˌwɑkər/

Forms: see night n. and walker n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: night n., walker n.¹

Etymology: < night n. + walker n.¹

a. A person who walks around at night, esp. with criminal intentions; a nocturnal thief or miscreant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > walking at night > one who

night-walker1422

noctambulist1731

noctambulator1894

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > frequenting streets > at night

night-walker1422

night-runner1670

scourer1672

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets > at night

night-walker1422

nightcap1623

night-runner1670

scourer1672

1422 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 122 We present the Cachepolle in Smythfeld for a nyghtwalkere, and also for he anoyth the feld with dong.

1467 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 264 Ricardus Colman..est communis noctivagus vocatus Anglice, a nyghtwalker, contra forman Statuti.

?1518 Virgilius sig. Di^v The nyghtwalkers carede not a poynt for that crye.

1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xx. 185 Watches to be kept for arresting of suspected persons and night-walkers.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. xxii. 400 Nero Cæsar,..using (as he did) to be a night-walker,..met otherwhiles with those that would so beat him.

1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 580 To lodge the remainder of the night among the debauched or unruly sort of people, calld Rats or Night-walkers.

1732 London Mag. 1 334 Give some share of credit to the out-lying Night-walkers, and Suburbian ghosts.

1771 E. Long Trial of Carter's Dog in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 206 He never..hurt any body but rogues and night-walkers.

1808 Sporting Mag. 30 263 One of the night-walkers came in with his legs foremost.

1820 W. Scott Abbot III. viii. 259 If he turns resetter of idle companions and night-walkers, the place must be rid of him.

1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter ii The gates of the park were opening and the bedraggled company of night-walkers were being at last admitted into that paradise of lawns.

1929 W. B. Yeats Byzantium in Words for Music Perhaps (1932) 1 Night's resonance recedes, night-walkers [1933 Scrutiny night-walker's; Coll. Poems night-walkers'] song After great cathedral gong.

1986 H. Kraft Lenape vi. 186 The Kimochne (‘night walkers’) ‘get into the houses..and steal whatever they can get’.

b. A prostitute, esp. one who solicits on the streets at night; a streetwalker. Now chiefly Law.In quot. 1648 probably ‘noctural companion’, implying ‘prostitute.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute

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Paphian1598

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small girl1671

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town woman1675

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Whetstone whore1684

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hack1699

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woman (also lady) of the town1766

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Cyprian1819

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lady of the evening1924

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working girl1928

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maggie1932

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brass nail1934

mud kicker1934

scupper1935

model1936

poule de luxe1937

pro1937

chromo1941

Tom1941

pan-pan1949

twopenny upright1958

scrubber1959

slack1959

yum-yum girl1960

Suzie Wong1962

mattress1964

jamette1965

ho1966

sex worker1971

pavement princess1976

parlour girl1979

crack whore1990

1648 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 17. sig. R2 The clocke striking seven, it was not convenient the more Joviall Members should lose their Night-walkers.

1670–1 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1888) VI. A Huby woman presented for being a common night-walker.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 8. ⁋3 I am very well acquainted with all the Haunts and Resorts of Female Night-walkers.

1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. Air xiii, in Author's Farce 45 Young Virgins are scarce as Rails, Sir; Plenty as Batts the Night-walkers go.

1740 D. Garrick Let. 5 July (1963) I. 24 I have already given him a just detestation for y^e lewd Night Walkers & vile polluters of Youth.

1825 Act 6 George IV c. 97 §3 Every common Prostitute and Night-Walker.

1968 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 July 10/3 Laureen Raabe of Vancouver pleaded guilty to committing vagrancy by being a common prostitute or nightwalker.

1982 All Eng. Law Rep. 3 664 The person arrested was not in fact a common prostitute or night-walker.

†c. A bellman. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > town crier or bellman

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lantern and candle man1592

night-walker1699

yelper1725

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Night-walker, a Bell-man; also a Light Woman, a Thief, a Rogue.

a. An animal that is active at night. Now rare.

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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > that goes by night

night-walker1655

nocturnals1840

the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]

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calcops1727

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bonefish1734

Negro fish1735

isinglass-fish1740

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smelt1776

night-walker1777

water monarch1785

hardhead1792

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yellowback1796

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flat1847

butterfish1849

croppie1856

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silt1863

silt-snapper1863

mullet-head1866

sailor1883

hogback1893

skipper1898

stocker1904

1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 197 One of our English-men..shot a Tygre..after which..[we] were not so much troubled with those night-walkers.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 243 Most certain it is that Eeles are such night-walkers.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 104 The Tamandua or Ant-Bear, described by Marcgrave and Piso, who saith of them, that they are Night-walkers, and seek their Food by Night.

1754 Stow's Survey of London (ed. 6) I. i. xx. 124/1 What the Keepers call their School of Apes, which contains two Egyptian Night-Walkers, and two Apes from Turkey.

1777 W. Anderson Jrnl. 25 Feb. in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. ii. 808 We caught..another [fish].., of a reddish colour with a little beard which we call'd night walkers from the greatest number being caught in the night.

1800 C. D. Rouso d'Eres Mem. 170 The Wolf is a great night walker.

1992 E. Hoagland in Balancing Acts 178 The kinkajou is [a] ‘nightwalker’.

b. U.S. = nightcrawler n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > that goes by night

night-walker1894

1894 Outing 24 137/2 The huge nightwalkers or bob-worms.

1910 E. B. White Let. 21 Apr. (1976) 12 Wallace Hart still keeps on eating night walkers and live flies.

1967 R. J. McDavid in A. Frazier New Direct. Elem. Eng. 127 The lowly earthworm..is known under such aliases as..night walkers.

1989 H. F. Mosher Stranger in Kingdom 331 At first I thought it was fishermen navigating around on the lawn and picking up nightwalkers.

†3. A sleepwalker. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > sleepwalking > one who

noctambuloa1631

noct-ambler1680

noctambulant1685

noctambulist1731

noctambulec1740

sleepwalker1747

night-walker1753

somnambulist1794

somnambulator1822

somnambule1837

moonwalker1950

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > walking in sleep > one who

noctambuloa1631

noctambulist1731

sleepwalker1747

night-walker1753

somnambulist1794

somnambulator1822

somnambule1837

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Noctambulatio Those..afflicted with it..are by some called lunatic night-walkers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	night-walker
释义	night-walkern. Brit. /ˈnʌɪtˌwɔːkə/, U.S. /ˈnaɪtˌwɔkər/, /ˈnaɪtˌwɑkər/ Forms: see night n. and walker n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: night n., walker n.¹ Etymology: < night n. + walker n.¹ 1. a. A person who walks around at night, esp. with criminal intentions; a nocturnal thief or miscreant. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > walking at night > one who night-walker1422 noctambulist1731 noctambulator1894 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > frequenting streets > at night night-walker1422 night-runner1670 scourer1672 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets > at night night-walker1422 nightcap1623 night-runner1670 scourer1672 1422 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 122 We present the Cachepolle in Smythfeld for a nyghtwalkere, and also for he anoyth the feld with dong. 1467 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 264 Ricardus Colman..est communis noctivagus vocatus Anglice, a nyghtwalker, contra forman Statuti. ?1518 Virgilius sig. Di^v The nyghtwalkers carede not a poynt for that crye. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xx. 185 Watches to be kept for arresting of suspected persons and night-walkers. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. xxii. 400 Nero Cæsar,..using (as he did) to be a night-walker,..met otherwhiles with those that would so beat him. 1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 580 To lodge the remainder of the night among the debauched or unruly sort of people, calld Rats or Night-walkers. 1732 London Mag. 1 334 Give some share of credit to the out-lying Night-walkers, and Suburbian ghosts. 1771 E. Long Trial of Carter's Dog in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 206 He never..hurt any body but rogues and night-walkers. 1808 Sporting Mag. 30 263 One of the night-walkers came in with his legs foremost. 1820 W. Scott Abbot III. viii. 259 If he turns resetter of idle companions and night-walkers, the place must be rid of him. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter ii The gates of the park were opening and the bedraggled company of night-walkers were being at last admitted into that paradise of lawns. 1929 W. B. Yeats Byzantium in Words for Music Perhaps (1932) 1 Night's resonance recedes, night-walkers [1933 Scrutiny night-walker's; Coll. Poems night-walkers'] song After great cathedral gong. 1986 H. Kraft Lenape vi. 186 The Kimochne (‘night walkers’) ‘get into the houses..and steal whatever they can get’. b. A prostitute, esp. one who solicits on the streets at night; a streetwalker. Now chiefly Law.In quot. 1648 probably ‘noctural companion’, implying ‘prostitute. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1648 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 17. sig. R2 The clocke striking seven, it was not convenient the more Joviall Members should lose their Night-walkers. 1670–1 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1888) VI. A Huby woman presented for being a common night-walker. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 8. ⁋3 I am very well acquainted with all the Haunts and Resorts of Female Night-walkers. 1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. Air xiii, in Author's Farce 45 Young Virgins are scarce as Rails, Sir; Plenty as Batts the Night-walkers go. 1740 D. Garrick Let. 5 July (1963) I. 24 I have already given him a just detestation for y^e lewd Night Walkers & vile polluters of Youth. 1825 Act 6 George IV c. 97 §3 Every common Prostitute and Night-Walker. 1968 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 July 10/3 Laureen Raabe of Vancouver pleaded guilty to committing vagrancy by being a common prostitute or nightwalker. 1982 All Eng. Law Rep. 3 664 The person arrested was not in fact a common prostitute or night-walker. †c. A bellman. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > town crier or bellman criera1387 bellman1391 beadlec1432 forcriera1440 common crier1535 town crier1560 lantern and candle man1592 night-walker1699 yelper1725 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Night-walker, a Bell-man; also a Light Woman, a Thief, a Rogue. 2. a. An animal that is active at night. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > that goes by night night-walker1655 nocturnals1840 the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun] whalec950 tumbrelc1300 sprout1340 squame1393 codmop1466 whitefish1482 lineshark?a1500 salen1508 glaucus1509 bretcock1522 warcodling1525 razor1530 bassinatc1540 goldeney1542 smy1552 maiden1555 grail1587 whiting1587 needle1589 pintle-fish1591 goldfish1598 puffin fish1598 quap1598 stork1600 black-tail1601 ellops1601 fork-fish1601 sea-grape1601 sea-lizard1601 sea-raven1601 barne1602 plosher1602 whale-mouse1607 bowman1610 catfish1620 hog1620 kettle-fish1630 sharpa1636 carda1641 housewifea1641 roucotea1641 ox-fisha1642 sea-serpent1646 croaker1651 alderling1655 butkin1655 shamefish1655 yard1655 sea-dart1664 sea-pelican1664 Negro1666 sea-parrot1666 sea-blewling1668 sea-stickling1668 skull-fish1668 whale's guide1668 sennet1671 barracuda1678 skate-bread1681 tuck-fish1681 swallowtail1683 piaba1686 pit-fish1686 sand-creeper1686 horned hog1702 soldier1704 sea-crowa1717 bran1720 grunter1726 calcops1727 bennet1731 bonefish1734 Negro fish1735 isinglass-fish1740 orb1740 gollin1747 smelt1776 night-walker1777 water monarch1785 hardhead1792 macaw-fish1792 yellowback1796 sea-raven1797 blueback1812 stumpnose1831 flat1847 butterfish1849 croppie1856 gubbahawn1857 silt1863 silt-snapper1863 mullet-head1866 sailor1883 hogback1893 skipper1898 stocker1904 1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 197 One of our English-men..shot a Tygre..after which..[we] were not so much troubled with those night-walkers. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 243 Most certain it is that Eeles are such night-walkers. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 104 The Tamandua or Ant-Bear, described by Marcgrave and Piso, who saith of them, that they are Night-walkers, and seek their Food by Night. 1754 Stow's Survey of London (ed. 6) I. i. xx. 124/1 What the Keepers call their School of Apes, which contains two Egyptian Night-Walkers, and two Apes from Turkey. 1777 W. Anderson Jrnl. 25 Feb. in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. ii. 808 We caught..another [fish].., of a reddish colour with a little beard which we call'd night walkers from the greatest number being caught in the night. 1800 C. D. Rouso d'Eres Mem. 170 The Wolf is a great night walker. 1992 E. Hoagland in Balancing Acts 178 The kinkajou is [a] ‘nightwalker’. b. U.S. = nightcrawler n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > that goes by night night-walker1894 1894 Outing 24 137/2 The huge nightwalkers or bob-worms. 1910 E. B. White Let. 21 Apr. (1976) 12 Wallace Hart still keeps on eating night walkers and live flies. 1967 R. J. McDavid in A. Frazier New Direct. Elem. Eng. 127 The lowly earthworm..is known under such aliases as..night walkers. 1989 H. F. Mosher Stranger in Kingdom 331 At first I thought it was fishermen navigating around on the lawn and picking up nightwalkers. †3. A sleepwalker. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > sleepwalking > one who noctambuloa1631 noct-ambler1680 noctambulant1685 noctambulist1731 noctambulec1740 sleepwalker1747 night-walker1753 somnambulist1794 somnambulator1822 somnambule1837 moonwalker1950 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > walking in sleep > one who noctambuloa1631 noctambulist1731 sleepwalker1747 night-walker1753 somnambulist1794 somnambulator1822 somnambule1837 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Noctambulatio Those..afflicted with it..are by some called lunatic night-walkers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1422
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