Noah's Arkn.

Brit.

/ˌnəʊəz ˈɑːk/, U.S.

/ˌnoʊəz ˈɑrk/

Forms: Old English Noes arc, Old English Noes arca, Old English Noes earc, Old English Noes earce, early Middle English Noþess arrke ( Ormulum), 1500s–1600s Noes Arke, 1600s Noahs Arke, 1600s– Noah's Ark, 1600s– Noahs Ark (now irregular); also Scottish pre-1700 Noyes ark, pre-1700 Noyis arke.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Noah , ark n.

Etymology: < the genitive of Noah (post-classical Latin Noe (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek Νῶε (Septuagint)), the name of a patriarch in the Old Testament, tenth in descent from Adam (see Adam n.¹) < Hebrew Nōăḥ) + ark n., with reference to the story in Genesis 6–8 (see below).The usual form of the name of the patriarch in Old English and Middle English and in early modern English up to the mid 16th cent. is Noe ; this is the form used by Tyndale and Coverdale, and the Rheims Douai bible (1610) still retains it. The form Noah first appears in the Great Bible (1540), and is used in the Bishops' bible (1568), Geneva bible (1587), and King James Bible (1611). The form Noþ attested only in the Ormulum (alongside the usual Noe ) has not been satisfactorily explained; perhaps compare variant forms with a velar consonant in classical languages (see Noachal adj.).

I. The ark of Noah; something resembling this.

a. The ark in which Noah, his family, and a pair of each of the animals were, according to biblical tradition, saved from the Flood (recounted in Genesis 6–8).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > other types of vessel > [noun] > Noah's Ark

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Noah's ArkOE

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OE Ælfric Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin (Corpus Cambr. 162) xlix, in Anglia (1884) 7 34 Hu wæs noes arc gesceapen?

lOE Prose Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn I (1982) xxii. 29 Saga me hu lang was Noes earc on lenge.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14573 Þa þatt drihhtin barrh. Wiþþ noþ i noþess arrke.

?1544 J. Heywood Foure PP sig. A.i^v On the hylles of Armony where I see Noes arke With holy Job and saynt George in Suthwarke.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Noale, any place, roome, or thing that containeth choise and varietie of things as Noes arke did.

1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 255 A gray Bark That stood at Font for Noah's Ark?

1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iii. 481 All Animals were in Noah's Ark.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. v. 32 She..brought down some of her own work... It is an unfinished piece of Noah's ark, and the rising deluge; the execution admirable.

1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough iii. iii The seat of our family looks like Noah's ark.

1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. xxii. 236 From this diversified collection, which afforded a tolerable idea of the interior of Noah's ark, we entered the long street of a village of white cottages.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad lxi. 646 A sorrier lot of horses, camels and asses than those that came out of Noah's ark, after eleven months of seasickness and short rations.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. vii. 102 Now the steamer was at the huge wharf-boat,..in comparative size like the real Noah's Ark beside a toy ark.

1993 J. H. Brooke Sci. & Relig. (BNC) 29 Take the case of Noah's Ark. A conventional view would be that the proliferation of new species, discovered between 1650 and 1750, sank the ark by the sheer weight of their numbers.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something resembling or suggestive of Noah's Ark in respect of size, shape, inclusiveness, etc.; esp. a large, cumbrous, or old-fashioned trunk, craft, or vehicle.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes

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gardeviance1459

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trunkie1728

trunk-mail1771

imperial1773

cedar chest1775

Noah's Ark1803

wardrobe trunk1815

dress case1819

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pitara1828

bullock-trunk1844

dress basket1857

Saratoga trunk1857

Saratoga1863

black jack1885

innovation trunk1912

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [noun] > cumbrous or old-fashioned

Noah's Ark1803

1803 M. Wilmot Jrnl. 13 Apr. (1934) i. 4 M^r Dunn..took us to see a few of the shops, one in particular of which is a sort of Noah's Ark containing a little of every sort of thing.

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iv. 103 I, and my Noah's ark [sc. sea-chest], lay slap in the way.

1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xxxiv The barouche will hold us all. It is a regular Noah's Ark.

1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 339/2 You hire a sort of floating Noah's ark, and live in it.

1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xvii. 196 This jail was a Noah's Ark of the city's crime.

1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone i. 27 A mass of luggage, including two of those huge trunks with rounded lids that used to be called Noah's Arks.

2001 Ecologist May 18/1 The mine is located in a unique high altitude wetland—a Noah's Ark for wildlife.

c. A children's toy consisting of a small model of Noah's Ark (sense 1a).

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others

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Jack-in-the-box1659

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card house1733

snapper1788

card castle1792

Aaron's bells?1795

Noah's Ark1807

Jacob's ladder1820

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beanbag1861

playboat1865

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weet-weet1878

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water cracker1887

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comforter1898

pacifier1901

dummy1903

bubble water1904

yo-yo1915

paper airplane1921

snowstorm1926

titty1927

teaser1935

Slinky1948

teether1949

Mr Potato Head1952

squeeze toy1954

Frisbee1957

mobile1957

chew toy1959

water-rocket1961

Crazy Foam1965

playshop1967

war toy1973

waterball1974

pull-along1976

transformer1984

Aerobie1985

1807 D. Wordsworth Let. 30 Aug. (1969) II. 161 Johnny wished to show him his Noah's Ark by way of a treat. It is the nicest plaything that ever was.

1845 C. Dickens Cricket on Hearth ii. 59 Noah's Arks, in which the Birds and Beasts were an uncommonly tight fit.

1883 J. Ruskin Art of Eng. 9 A Noah's Ark from the nearest toy-shop.

1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. v. 194 In the week before Christmas I came upon Lena..gazing in at the wax dolls and blocks and Noah's arks arranged in the frosty show window.

1980 A. Mars-Jones Lantern Lect. & Other Stories (1981) 4 He encourages children..to fill their mouths with the tiny wooden animals of the..Noah's-Ark set.

2. A small bivalve mollusc, Arca noae (family Arcidae), found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coast of Africa and southern Europe, having a ribbed rectangular shell likened to a boat, and attached within crevices by means of a byssus; a shell of this. Also Noah's Ark shell.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Arcade > member of

Noah's Ark1713

sot's cap1713

ark-shell1854

1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 2/1 Chama Noachina, Noahs Ark.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Noah's ark shell,..the name of a kind of sea shell [etc.].

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Noah's-ark, the Arca Noæ of Linnæus, a species of the Arkshell.

1854 A. Catlow Pop. Conchol. (ed. 2) 279 The Arca Noæ or Noah's Ark and several other species like it in form and character.

1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 A near ally of the mussel, the Mediterranean Noah's Ark shell.

1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells Shell Life (new ed.) 62 The Common Noah's Ark..is a quaint little yellow and brown box-like shell of distorted aspect that loves to spend its time in the crevices of rocks.

1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) xiii. 274 Linnaeus established the genus Arca with many species, one of them, popularly known as the ‘Noah's Ark shell’, being named by him Arca noae.

1982 Macdonald Encycl. Shells No. 137 Arca noae. Noah's Arc.

3. A formation of cirrus cloud that is likened to the outline of a ship's hull.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > other specific shapes

Noah's Ark?1789

lenticular cloud1894

?1789 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) ii. viii. 145 When..there are small black fragments of clouds like smoke, flying underneath, which some call messengers, and other Noah's Ark,..rain is not far off.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 27 As oft from ‘Noah's Ark’ great floods descend.

1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell xxxi Daubed with lumps of vapour which mariners call ‘Noah's arks’.

1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 279 Halos, ‘Noah's Arks’ and unusual clearness of sky are all good signs of rain.

1906 W. Marriott Hints to Meteorol. Observers (ed. 6) 67/2 Noah's Ark, a cloud formed by stripes of cirrus which (owing to perspective) appear to coalesce at opposite points of the horizon.

1934 A. H. R. Goldie Abercromby's Weather (rev. ed.) ii. 41 The stripes of cirrus which form the cloud popularly known as ‘Noah's Ark’.

4. U.S. Any of several lady's slipper orchids (genus Cypripedium), esp. the pink-lipped C. acaule (also called moccasin flower), and the yellow-lipped C. calceolus var. pubescens.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids

satyrionOE

bollockwort?a1300

sanicle14..

bollock?a1425

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Ophrys1754

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Arethusa1764

honey flower1771

cypripedium1775

rattlesnake plantain1778

Venus's slipper1785

Adam and Eve1789

lizard orchis179.

epidendrum1791

Pogonia?1801

Vanda1801

cymbidium1815

Oncidium1822

putty-root1822

Noah's Ark1826

yellow moccasin1826

gongora1827

cattleya1828

green man1828

nervine1828

stanhopea1829

dove-flower1831

catasetum1836

Odontoglossum1836

Miltonia1837

letter plant1838

spread eagle1838

letter-leaf1839

swan-plant1841

orchid1843

disa1844

masdevallia1845

Phalaenopsis1846

faham1850

Indian crocus1850

moccasin plant1850

pleione1851

dove orchis1852

nerve root1854

Holy Ghost flower1862

basket-plant1865

lizard's tongue1866

mousetail1866

Sobralia1866

swan-neck1866

swanwort1866

Indian shoe1876

odontoglot1879

wreathewort1879

moth orchid1880

rattlesnake orchid1881

dendrobe1882

dove-plant1882

Madeira orchis1882

man orchis1882

swan-flower1884

slipper-orchid1885

slipper orchis1889

mayflower1894

scorpion orchid1897

moederkappie1910

dove orchid1918

monkey orchid1925

man orchid1927

1826 W. Darlington Florula Cestrica 95 C. pubescens... Noah's Ark. Yellow Mocasin [sic] flower.

1898 C. A. Creevey Flowers of Field 296 Stemless Lady's Slipper. Noah's Ark. Moccasin-flower. Cypripedium acaule.

1949 E. L. Palmer Fieldbk. Nat. Hist. 148/2 It bears a number of common names such as Noah's ark, squirrel's shoes, camel's foot, nerveroot, old goose, Indian moccasin, and two lips.

1975 B. Dwyer Thangs Yankees don' Know 37 Noah's Ark, Pink Lady's slipper.

5. A fairground ride consisting of models of various animals on which people ride around a circular undulating track.

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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > merry-go-round

carousel1673

whimsic chair?c1684

whimsy1684

merry-go-round1729

roundabout1763

turnabout1789

whirligig1816

spin-'em-round1851

go-round1857

whirly-go-round1865

merry-go-around1873

giddy-go-round1879

go-around1888

razzle-dazzle1890

joy-wheel1911

chairoplane1922

whip1925

Noah's Ark1945

waltzer1961

swirl1962

1945 Archit. Rev. 97 59/3 In the 1920's an import from Germany, simpler in erection, faster and thus more thrilling, threatened the supremacy of the switchback... This new machine—the Noah's Ark..had decorative features which continued the tradition of coarse splendour.

1965 Observer 29 Aug. (Colour Suppl.) 10/2 The showmen are setting up their stalls and heavy riding machines: Dodgems, Noah's Arks, Waltzers, Shows, and Hurricane Jets.

2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 1 Nov. 2 The Noah's Ark klaxon blared as it reached top speed.

II. Rhyming slang.

6. slang. = nark n. 1a, 2a.

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society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer > police informer

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knark1851

police informer1851

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sarbut1897

Noah's Ark1898

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finger1914

policeman1923

stoolie1924

shelf1926

grass1929

grasshopper1937

grasser1950

stukach1969

supergrass1975

1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. (Red Page) An informer or mar-plot is a nark or a Jonah or a Noah's Ark.

1914 E. Dyson Spats' Fact'ry 72 ‘Feathers, don't be a Noah's Ark!’ ‘A nark—me?’

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 49 A Noah's ark, a dull, witless fellow. A rhyme on ‘nark’.

1941 V. Davis Phenomena in Crime xix. 254 A stoolie, Noah's Ark, a grasshopper, a nark or informer.

1960 J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 101/1 Noah's ark, (1) nark (an informer),..has been in use in England since the first decade of the 20 C. It is also used in the form of a Spoonerism 'oah's Nark, the first word having the inference, ‘whore's’ and when thus inverted it is the supreme expression of contempt.

1968 J. Alard He who shoots Last 97 Ya knows Bill, yer gettin' to be a real Noah's Ark.

7. slang. A park.

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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > pleasure-ground or playground > park

spring garden1612

parka1635

water park1714

summer garden1775

national park1851

Noah's Ark1924

parkette1945

1924 G. H. Lawson Dict. Austral. Words & Terms Noah's Ark, park.

1944 Amer. Speech 19 194/1 Noah's Ark, a park.

1971 J. Jones Rhyming Cockney Slang 21 Noah's Ark, park.

8. Australian slang. A shark. Cf. Noah n.

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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of (shark)

shark1569

hay-fish1613

sea-shark1655

sea-panther1668

beam-fish1742

squalus1753

water-lawyer1794

squaloid1836

Noah's Ark1945

Noah1965

1945 Dit (Melbourne) Sept. 129 ‘Poor blighter, what about the “Noah's Arks”?’ voices exclaimed.

1968 D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 52 Any water that's swarming with Noah's Arks is water I like to be a long way away from.

1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 27 Jan. 5 We were all a bit nervous because we had about three people on surfboards out there and everybody was afraid of noah's arks.

Compounds

attributive. Palaeontology. Designating a theory according to which all modern humans are descended from a single, ancestral, population of Homo sapiens which subsequently spread to other parts of the world.

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1976 W. W. Howells in Jrnl. Human Evol. 5 480 In the Noah's Ark hypothesis the region accepted is presently unknown. I do not use ‘Noah's Ark’ in derision, but only to label the pattern starkly: a single origin, outward migration of separate strips, like the sons of Noah, and an empty world to occupy.

1988 I. Tattersall et al. Encycl. Human Evol. 269/2 The ‘Noah's Ark’ model proposes that all modern humans derived from a single recent common ancestral population.

1993 Sci. Amer. Apr. 67/2 William W. Howells of Harvard University dubbed them [sc. the two models] the ‘Noah's Ark’ and the ‘Neanderthal phase’ theories.

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

单词	noahs ark
释义	Noah's Arkn. Brit. /ˌnəʊəz ˈɑːk/, U.S. /ˌnoʊəz ˈɑrk/ Forms: Old English Noes arc, Old English Noes arca, Old English Noes earc, Old English Noes earce, early Middle English Noþess arrke ( Ormulum), 1500s–1600s Noes Arke, 1600s Noahs Arke, 1600s– Noah's Ark, 1600s– Noahs Ark (now irregular); also Scottish pre-1700 Noyes ark, pre-1700 Noyis arke. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Noah , ark n. Etymology: < the genitive of Noah (post-classical Latin Noe (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek Νῶε (Septuagint)), the name of a patriarch in the Old Testament, tenth in descent from Adam (see Adam n.¹) < Hebrew Nōăḥ) + ark n., with reference to the story in Genesis 6–8 (see below).The usual form of the name of the patriarch in Old English and Middle English and in early modern English up to the mid 16th cent. is Noe ; this is the form used by Tyndale and Coverdale, and the Rheims Douai bible (1610) still retains it. The form Noah first appears in the Great Bible (1540), and is used in the Bishops' bible (1568), Geneva bible (1587), and King James Bible (1611). The form Noþ attested only in the Ormulum (alongside the usual Noe ) has not been satisfactorily explained; perhaps compare variant forms with a velar consonant in classical languages (see Noachal adj.). I. The ark of Noah; something resembling this. 1. a. The ark in which Noah, his family, and a pair of each of the animals were, according to biblical tradition, saved from the Flood (recounted in Genesis 6–8). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > other types of vessel > [noun] > Noah's Ark arkc950 Noah's ArkOE arche?c1225 kista1400 ship1422 OE Ælfric Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin (Corpus Cambr. 162) xlix, in Anglia (1884) 7 34 Hu wæs noes arc gesceapen? lOE Prose Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn I (1982) xxii. 29 Saga me hu lang was Noes earc on lenge. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14573 Þa þatt drihhtin barrh. Wiþþ noþ i noþess arrke. ?1544 J. Heywood Foure PP sig. A.i^v On the hylles of Armony where I see Noes arke With holy Job and saynt George in Suthwarke. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Noale, any place, roome, or thing that containeth choise and varietie of things as Noes arke did. 1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 255 A gray Bark That stood at Font for Noah's Ark? 1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iii. 481 All Animals were in Noah's Ark. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. v. 32 She..brought down some of her own work... It is an unfinished piece of Noah's ark, and the rising deluge; the execution admirable. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough iii. iii The seat of our family looks like Noah's ark. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. xxii. 236 From this diversified collection, which afforded a tolerable idea of the interior of Noah's ark, we entered the long street of a village of white cottages. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad lxi. 646 A sorrier lot of horses, camels and asses than those that came out of Noah's ark, after eleven months of seasickness and short rations. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. vii. 102 Now the steamer was at the huge wharf-boat,..in comparative size like the real Noah's Ark beside a toy ark. 1993 J. H. Brooke Sci. & Relig. (BNC) 29 Take the case of Noah's Ark. A conventional view would be that the proliferation of new species, discovered between 1650 and 1750, sank the ark by the sheer weight of their numbers. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something resembling or suggestive of Noah's Ark in respect of size, shape, inclusiveness, etc.; esp. a large, cumbrous, or old-fashioned trunk, craft, or vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes trussing coffera1387 lode-malea1400 gardeviance1459 trussing mail1485 trussing chest1540 trunk1609 portmanteau trunk1683 hair-trunk1693 mail-trunka1726 trunkie1728 trunk-mail1771 imperial1773 cedar chest1775 Noah's Ark1803 wardrobe trunk1815 dress case1819 yakdan1824 pitara1828 bullock-trunk1844 dress basket1857 Saratoga trunk1857 Saratoga1863 black jack1885 innovation trunk1912 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [noun] > cumbrous or old-fashioned Noah's Ark1803 1803 M. Wilmot Jrnl. 13 Apr. (1934) i. 4 M^r Dunn..took us to see a few of the shops, one in particular of which is a sort of Noah's Ark containing a little of every sort of thing. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iv. 103 I, and my Noah's ark [sc. sea-chest], lay slap in the way. 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xxxiv The barouche will hold us all. It is a regular Noah's Ark. 1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 339/2 You hire a sort of floating Noah's ark, and live in it. 1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xvii. 196 This jail was a Noah's Ark of the city's crime. 1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone i. 27 A mass of luggage, including two of those huge trunks with rounded lids that used to be called Noah's Arks. 2001 Ecologist May 18/1 The mine is located in a unique high altitude wetland—a Noah's Ark for wildlife. c. A children's toy consisting of a small model of Noah's Ark (sense 1a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others spurc1450 cock1608 turnel1621 corala1625 house of cardsa1625 Jack-in-the-box1659 (Prince) Rupert's Drops1662 sucker1681 whirligig1686 playbook1694 card house1733 snapper1788 card castle1792 Aaron's bells?1795 Noah's Ark1807 Jacob's ladder1820 cat-stairs1825 daisy chain1841 beanbag1861 playboat1865 piñata1868 teething ring1872 weet-weet1878 tumble-over1883 water cracker1887 jumping-bean1889 play money1894 serpentin1894 comforter1898 pacifier1901 dummy1903 bubble water1904 yo-yo1915 paper airplane1921 snowstorm1926 titty1927 teaser1935 Slinky1948 teether1949 Mr Potato Head1952 squeeze toy1954 Frisbee1957 mobile1957 chew toy1959 water-rocket1961 Crazy Foam1965 playshop1967 war toy1973 waterball1974 pull-along1976 transformer1984 Aerobie1985 1807 D. Wordsworth Let. 30 Aug. (1969) II. 161 Johnny wished to show him his Noah's Ark by way of a treat. It is the nicest plaything that ever was. 1845 C. Dickens Cricket on Hearth ii. 59 Noah's Arks, in which the Birds and Beasts were an uncommonly tight fit. 1883 J. Ruskin Art of Eng. 9 A Noah's Ark from the nearest toy-shop. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. v. 194 In the week before Christmas I came upon Lena..gazing in at the wax dolls and blocks and Noah's arks arranged in the frosty show window. 1980 A. Mars-Jones Lantern Lect. & Other Stories (1981) 4 He encourages children..to fill their mouths with the tiny wooden animals of the..Noah's-Ark set. 2. A small bivalve mollusc, Arca noae (family Arcidae), found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coast of Africa and southern Europe, having a ribbed rectangular shell likened to a boat, and attached within crevices by means of a byssus; a shell of this. Also Noah's Ark shell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Arcade > member of Noah's Ark1713 sot's cap1713 ark-shell1854 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 2/1 Chama Noachina, Noahs Ark. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Noah's ark shell,..the name of a kind of sea shell [etc.]. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Noah's-ark, the Arca Noæ of Linnæus, a species of the Arkshell. 1854 A. Catlow Pop. Conchol. (ed. 2) 279 The Arca Noæ or Noah's Ark and several other species like it in form and character. 1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 A near ally of the mussel, the Mediterranean Noah's Ark shell. 1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells Shell Life (new ed.) 62 The Common Noah's Ark..is a quaint little yellow and brown box-like shell of distorted aspect that loves to spend its time in the crevices of rocks. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) xiii. 274 Linnaeus established the genus Arca with many species, one of them, popularly known as the ‘Noah's Ark shell’, being named by him Arca noae. 1982 Macdonald Encycl. Shells No. 137 Arca noae. Noah's Arc. 3. A formation of cirrus cloud that is likened to the outline of a ship's hull. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > other specific shapes Noah's Ark?1789 lenticular cloud1894 ?1789 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) ii. viii. 145 When..there are small black fragments of clouds like smoke, flying underneath, which some call messengers, and other Noah's Ark,..rain is not far off. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 27 As oft from ‘Noah's Ark’ great floods descend. 1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell xxxi Daubed with lumps of vapour which mariners call ‘Noah's arks’. 1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 279 Halos, ‘Noah's Arks’ and unusual clearness of sky are all good signs of rain. 1906 W. Marriott Hints to Meteorol. Observers (ed. 6) 67/2 Noah's Ark, a cloud formed by stripes of cirrus which (owing to perspective) appear to coalesce at opposite points of the horizon. 1934 A. H. R. Goldie Abercromby's Weather (rev. ed.) ii. 41 The stripes of cirrus which form the cloud popularly known as ‘Noah's Ark’. 4. U.S. Any of several lady's slipper orchids (genus Cypripedium), esp. the pink-lipped C. acaule (also called moccasin flower), and the yellow-lipped C. calceolus var. pubescens. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids satyrionOE bollockwort?a1300 sanicle14.. bollock?a1425 martagon1548 orchis1559 dogstones1562 hare's-ballocks1562 stone1562 bollock grass1578 dog's cods1578 dog's cullions1578 double-leaf1578 fly-orchis1578 goat's cullions1578 goat's orchis1578 priest's pintle1578 twayblade1578 bee-orchis1597 bifoil1597 bird's nest1597 bird's orchis1597 butterfly orchis1597 fenny-stones1597 gelded satyrion1597 gnat satyrion1597 humble-bee orchis1597 lady's slipper1597 sweet ballocks1597 two-blade1605 cullions1611 bee-flower1626 fly-flower1640 man orchis1670 musk orchis1670 moccasin flower1680 gnat-flower1688 faham tea1728 Ophrys1754 green man orchis1762 Arethusa1764 honey flower1771 cypripedium1775 rattlesnake plantain1778 Venus's slipper1785 Adam and Eve1789 lizard orchis179. epidendrum1791 Pogonia?1801 Vanda1801 cymbidium1815 Oncidium1822 putty-root1822 Noah's Ark1826 yellow moccasin1826 gongora1827 cattleya1828 green man1828 nervine1828 stanhopea1829 dove-flower1831 catasetum1836 Odontoglossum1836 Miltonia1837 letter plant1838 spread eagle1838 letter-leaf1839 swan-plant1841 orchid1843 disa1844 masdevallia1845 Phalaenopsis1846 faham1850 Indian crocus1850 moccasin plant1850 pleione1851 dove orchis1852 nerve root1854 Holy Ghost flower1862 basket-plant1865 lizard's tongue1866 mousetail1866 Sobralia1866 swan-neck1866 swanwort1866 Indian shoe1876 odontoglot1879 wreathewort1879 moth orchid1880 rattlesnake orchid1881 dendrobe1882 dove-plant1882 Madeira orchis1882 man orchis1882 swan-flower1884 slipper-orchid1885 slipper orchis1889 mayflower1894 scorpion orchid1897 moederkappie1910 dove orchid1918 monkey orchid1925 man orchid1927 1826 W. Darlington Florula Cestrica 95 C. pubescens... Noah's Ark. Yellow Mocasin [sic] flower. 1898 C. A. Creevey Flowers of Field 296 Stemless Lady's Slipper. Noah's Ark. Moccasin-flower. Cypripedium acaule. 1949 E. L. Palmer Fieldbk. Nat. Hist. 148/2 It bears a number of common names such as Noah's ark, squirrel's shoes, camel's foot, nerveroot, old goose, Indian moccasin, and two lips. 1975 B. Dwyer Thangs Yankees don' Know 37 Noah's Ark, Pink Lady's slipper. 5. A fairground ride consisting of models of various animals on which people ride around a circular undulating track. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > merry-go-round carousel1673 whimsic chair?c1684 whimsy1684 merry-go-round1729 roundabout1763 turnabout1789 whirligig1816 spin-'em-round1851 go-round1857 whirly-go-round1865 merry-go-around1873 giddy-go-round1879 go-around1888 razzle-dazzle1890 joy-wheel1911 chairoplane1922 whip1925 Noah's Ark1945 waltzer1961 swirl1962 1945 Archit. Rev. 97 59/3 In the 1920's an import from Germany, simpler in erection, faster and thus more thrilling, threatened the supremacy of the switchback... This new machine—the Noah's Ark..had decorative features which continued the tradition of coarse splendour. 1965 Observer 29 Aug. (Colour Suppl.) 10/2 The showmen are setting up their stalls and heavy riding machines: Dodgems, Noah's Arks, Waltzers, Shows, and Hurricane Jets. 2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 1 Nov. 2 The Noah's Ark klaxon blared as it reached top speed. II. Rhyming slang. 6. slang. = nark n. 1a, 2a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer > police informer setter1630 nose1789 mouchard1802 rat1818 stool-pigeon1830 knark1851 police informer1851 nark1859 telegraph1864 copper1885 sarbut1897 Noah's Ark1898 stool1906 snout1910 finger1914 policeman1923 stoolie1924 shelf1926 grass1929 grasshopper1937 grasser1950 stukach1969 supergrass1975 1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. (Red Page) An informer or mar-plot is a nark or a Jonah or a Noah's Ark. 1914 E. Dyson Spats' Fact'ry 72 ‘Feathers, don't be a Noah's Ark!’ ‘A nark—me?’ 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 49 A Noah's ark, a dull, witless fellow. A rhyme on ‘nark’. 1941 V. Davis Phenomena in Crime xix. 254 A stoolie, Noah's Ark, a grasshopper, a nark or informer. 1960 J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 101/1 Noah's ark, (1) nark (an informer),..has been in use in England since the first decade of the 20 C. It is also used in the form of a Spoonerism 'oah's Nark, the first word having the inference, ‘whore's’ and when thus inverted it is the supreme expression of contempt. 1968 J. Alard He who shoots Last 97 Ya knows Bill, yer gettin' to be a real Noah's Ark. 7. slang. A park. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > pleasure-ground or playground > park spring garden1612 parka1635 water park1714 summer garden1775 national park1851 Noah's Ark1924 parkette1945 1924 G. H. Lawson Dict. Austral. Words & Terms Noah's Ark, park. 1944 Amer. Speech 19 194/1 Noah's Ark, a park. 1971 J. Jones Rhyming Cockney Slang 21 Noah's Ark, park. 8. Australian slang. A shark. Cf. Noah n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of (shark) shark1569 hay-fish1613 sea-shark1655 sea-panther1668 beam-fish1742 squalus1753 water-lawyer1794 squaloid1836 Noah's Ark1945 Noah1965 1945 Dit (Melbourne) Sept. 129 ‘Poor blighter, what about the “Noah's Arks”?’ voices exclaimed. 1968 D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 52 Any water that's swarming with Noah's Arks is water I like to be a long way away from. 1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 27 Jan. 5 We were all a bit nervous because we had about three people on surfboards out there and everybody was afraid of noah's arks. Compounds attributive. Palaeontology. Designating a theory according to which all modern humans are descended from a single, ancestral, population of Homo sapiens which subsequently spread to other parts of the world. ΚΠ 1976 W. W. Howells in Jrnl. Human Evol. 5 480 In the Noah's Ark hypothesis the region accepted is presently unknown. I do not use ‘Noah's Ark’ in derision, but only to label the pattern starkly: a single origin, outward migration of separate strips, like the sons of Noah, and an empty world to occupy. 1988 I. Tattersall et al. Encycl. Human Evol. 269/2 The ‘Noah's Ark’ model proposes that all modern humans derived from a single recent common ancestral population. 1993 Sci. Amer. Apr. 67/2 William W. Howells of Harvard University dubbed them [sc. the two models] the ‘Noah's Ark’ and the ‘Neanderthal phase’ theories. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.OE
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