单词 | nodder |
释义 | noddern. A person who nods (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > one who sleeps or is asleep > falls asleep nodder1625 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [noun] owl1568 tire-brain1589 wiseacre1595 Solonist1607 formalist1612 nodder1625 Solon1631 wiseling1633 self-wiseling1649 sophy1649 Solomon1656 conjurer1668 wisdomship1692 sage1751 wisehead1756 wisebones1894 society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [noun] > head gestures > person who noddant1589 nodder1625 head-shaker1813 1625 R. Montagu in J. Cosin Corr. 7 Feb. (1869) I. xxxii. 54 You delt bravely with that nodder with his grave head you wrote of. 1653 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica Ep. Ded. sig. A5 Which those drowsie Nodders over the letter of the Scripture have very oscitantly collected. 1715 A. Pope Corr. 15 July (1956) I. 306 A sett of Nodders, Winkers, and Whisperers. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 59/2 Even the furr'd nodders on the B—h have benefited by these young Scotch pleaders. 1810 Sporting Mag. 35 250 Nodding his head at him [he] significantly added, ‘I am the nodder and you are the noddee.’ 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. vi. 74 With a congregation of fifty thousand.., and never so much as a nodder, even, among them! 1868 A. E. Senter Diddler 20 I nod at you; then I am the nodder and your lordship is the noddee. 1931 B. Marshall Father Malachy's Miracle v. 86 The deliberateness of the nodding suggests that the nodder..has won for Caledonians the reputation of being one hundred times as intelligent as they really are. 1999 Independent 9 July ii. 8/1 Although we are traditionally left to cope alone in England's shops, there have been sightings of nodders and smilers poised in doorways. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1625 |
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