单词 | number two |
释义 | number twon. 1. euphemistic and nursery. An act of defecation; faeces. Also in plural in same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun] gorec725 mixeOE quedeeOE turdeOE dungOE worthinga1225 dirta1300 drega1300 naturea1325 fen1340 ordurec1390 fimea1475 merd1486 stercory1496 avoidc1503 siegec1530 fex1540 excrement1541 hinder-fallings1561 gong1562 foil1565 voiding1577 pilgrim-salvec1580 egestion1583 shita1585 sir-reverence1592 purgament1597 filinga1622 faecesa1625 exclusion1646 faecality1653 tantadlin1654 surreverence1655 draught1659 excrementitiousness1660 jakes1701 old golda1704 dejection1728 dejecture1731 shitea1733 feculence1733 doll1825 crap1846 excreta1857 excretes1883 hockey1886 dejecta1887 job1899 number two1902 mess1903 ming1923 do1930 tomtit1930 pony1931 No. 21937 dog shit1944 Shinola1944 big job1945 biggie1953 doo-doo1954 doings1957 gick1959 pooh1960 pooh-pooh1962 dooky1965 poopy1970 whoopsie1973 pucky1980 jobbie1981 1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang V. 75/2 Number two,..(nursery). Evacuation. 1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream 15 You felt sick and told mother, and she felt your forehead and asked how long it was since you did number two. 1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 145 When I had done Number Two, you always washed them out yourself before sending them to the diaper service. 1992 I. Rankin Good Hanging 95 Wandered over here looking for a place to do his number twos. Had a torch with him. Found this. 2. A person or thing ranking second in importance, esp. a deputy or second in command.In quots. 1908, 1934 denoting provincial towns on the theatrical circuit. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > provincial town number two1908 society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > person in second position seconda1616 No. 21847 number two1952 1908 G. B. Shaw Let. 11 Aug. in Lett. to Granville Barker (1956) 134 You might let her begin on a number two tour of it [sc. a play]. 1934 R. Ferguson Celebrated Sequels 180 My elocution..has been admired in such Number Two towns as Wigan. 1952 ‘M. Innes’ Private View xiv. 214 This fellow, Cadover, is your husband's Number Two? 1970 Guardian Weekly 25 Apr. 17 Russia feels the understandable necessity to catch up in the arms race... It just does not pay to be number two. 1991 Petersen's Bowhunting Dec. 39/3 Young's Shawnee County buck holds the number two pot in the state of Kansas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasnumber two c. Originally Military. Prefixed to a numeral, as number one, number two, etc., designating progressively longer haircuts. ΚΠ 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 211 At an inspection, for instance, an officer would tell a man, whose hair seemed too long, to ‘Get a Number One before next Parade’. 1982 N. Knight Skinhead 20 The hairstyle would be a number two or three crop with feathered fringes all round. 1991 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army (rev. ed.) Gloss. 504 Number three haircut, standard haircut, as opposed to a Number one, which is shearing ‘right down to the wood’. number two e. As ordinal: = second adj. 1. Now only after the noun (also number two); cf. B. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [adjective] othereOE afterOE second1297 tothera1400 secondarya1425 two1586 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. G.i Make short either the two, foure, sixe, eight, tenne, twelue sillable. 1824 T. De Quincey Dialogues Three Templars in London Mag. May 564/1 Column two. 1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 14 §1 The additional duty..imposed by the second paragraph of section two of that Act. 1916 N.E.D. at Two Mod. Hymn number two. number two c. A person or thing denoted by this number, usually as being the second in a series. Also number two. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [noun] > the figure denoting > person or thing denoted by two1890 1890 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Apr. 499 Smith who rowed two in the last University race. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 288 [We] are having a glass of champagne; will you join us?—it is ‘number two’. < n.1902 as lemmas |
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