单词 | old ned |
释义 | Old Nedn. North American colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). 1. regional (southern and south-western). Salt pork; bacon. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > salt or cured pork Old Ned1833 sidemeat1841 sow-belly1867 salt side1892 pancetta1954 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > bacon baconc1330 ruff-peck1567 sawney1819 Old Ned1833 1833 J. E. Alexander Transatlantic Sketches 260 Bacon, or ‘Old Ned’, as it is called in Tennessee. 1869 Overland Monthly 3 129 Southern smoke-cured pork,..in allusion to the famous negro song, was termed ‘Old Ned’, from its sable appearance. 1909 Dial. Notes 3 353 We had plenty of Old Ned and corn dodger. 1931 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. 46 1304 This old Ned (bacon) orter last a good span. 2. The Devil. Cf. Old Nick n.Chiefly in phrases evoking a bad or chaotic state of affairs (cf. devil n. Phrases 3, hell n. and int. Phrases 4, raise v.1 22b). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] devileOE Beelzebubc950 the foul ghosteOE SatanOE warlockOE SatanasOE worsea1200 unwinea1225 wondc1250 quedea1275 pucka1300 serpenta1300 dragon1340 shrew1362 Apollyon1382 the god of this worldc1384 Mahoundc1400 leviathan1412 worsta1425 old enemyc1449 Ruffin1567 dismal1570 Plotcocka1578 the Wicked One1582 goodman1603 Mahu1603 foul thief1609 somebody1609 legiona1616 Lord of Flies1622 walliman1629 shaitan1638 Old Nicka1643 Nick1647 unsel?1675 old gentleman1681 old boy1692 the gentleman in black1693 deuce1694 Black Spy1699 the vicious one1713 worricow1719 Old Roger1725 Lord of the Flies1727 Simmie1728 Old Scratch1734 Old Harry1777 Old Poker1784 Auld Hornie1786 old (auld), ill thief1789 old one1790 little-good1821 Tom Walker1833 bogy1840 diabolarch1845 Old Ned1859 iniquity1899 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. v. 69 Your fact'ry gals..'ll go to work raisin' promiscoous Ned.] 1859 N.Y. Weekly Tribune 10 Sept. 7/4 The accounts in The Tribune raise Old Ned. 1896 Cent. Mag. Dec. 319/1 Course there was old Ned to pay then! 1923 S. Anderson Horses & Men 203 [The horses] both raised old Ned every time we headed them up the back stretch. 1961 R. Moody Mary Emma & Company (1994) v. 49 Then Old Ned broke loose! 1991 R. Davies Murther & Walking Spirits iv. xiii. 200 The only way to bring up children is to beat the Old Ned out of them whenever He asserts himself. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833 |
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