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单词 number two
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number twon.

Brit. /ˌnʌmbə ˈtuː/, U.S. /ˌnəmbər ˈtu/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: number n., two n.
Etymology: < number n. + two n. Compare No. 2 n., number one n.
1. euphemistic and nursery. An act of defecation; faeces. Also in plural in same sense.
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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.
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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).

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number two
c. Originally Military. Prefixed to a numeral, as number one, number two, etc., designating progressively longer haircuts.
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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’.
extracted from numbern.
number two
e. As ordinal: = second adj. 1. Now only after the noun (also number two); cf. B. 1c.
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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.
extracted from twoadj.n.adv.
number two
c. A person or thing denoted by this number, usually as being the second in a series. Also number two.
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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’.
extracted from twoadj.n.adv.
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