paintern.1
/ˈpeɪntə/, U.S. /ˈpeɪn(t)ər/ 1. A person who applies paint for decoration or protection to walls, doors, etc. Cf. decorator n.Recorded earliest as a surname. Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2a.In quot. 1853 used poetically of God.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [noun] > painter
painter1240
painter-stainer1502
liner1819
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > decorator > [noun] > painter
painter1240
smear1725
1240 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 177 (MED) Rich. the Paintur.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 115 (MED) Peyntouris [v.r. peyntores], whanne þey schulen peynte a table, first þei maken it whiȝt, for þer wole no colour lasten but þoruȝ him.
1427–8 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 168 Item, to the peyntour for peintyng of the keyys and batauntes of the celour..and the seide tresance and For the baye Wyndowes..with ix chaptrelles Withowten, Summa v li. xvij s. ix d.
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 12 §1 Artificers of the said Realm..Spurriers, Goldbeaters, Painters, Sadlers.
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vi Fyners, plommers, and penters.
1558 Rye Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquarian Horol. (1976) Winter 53 Payd the same daye to the paynter for payntyng of the dyall vjs.
1595 P. Henslowe Diary (1961) 6 Itm geuen the paynter in earneste xxs.
1615 in Misc. New Spalding Club (1890) I. 114 Robert Skeyne paynter and glasinwricht.
1652 in Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) (1880) I. 194 [I] have Given Graunted Bargained & sould..vnto Augustine Clements of the same Dorchester Painter. one peece: of ground.
1681 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston 71 Samuel Shrimpton became surety to the town for Daniel George, painter.
1711 Act 10 Anne c. 18 §57 All..Printers Painters or Stainers of any such Paper.
1786 W. Bentley Diary I. 36 On Friday morning at 4 o'clock a fire was discovered in a painters' Shop.
1820 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 213 There are..five painters and glaziers; two brush-makers.
1853 J. G. Whittier Garden 1 O Painter of the fruits and flowers, We own Thy wise design.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 26 We are compelled to call both the President of the Royal Academy and the man who paints our carts and hot-bed frames by the common name of painter.
1936 N.Y. Woman 23 Sept. 29/1 Almost before the painter had begun to worry, the house was up, and he was merrily painting the doors and the interior.
2000 Printing World 7 Feb. 13/1 Carpenters, painters and decorators finish off the building.
2.
a. A person who paints pictures; an artist who works with paint.Frequently with of and the name of the artist's preferred subject or type of painting, and as the second element of analogous compounds, as landscape painter, etc. (for the more established of which see the first element).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > painter
paintera1325
painter-stainer1502
depaintera1522
picturer1581
pencil-man1589
brother of the brush1687
brushman1785
knight of the brush1885
a1325 SS. Simon & Jude (Corpus Cambr.) 33 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 449 (MED) A queinte peintour he sende him to peinte is figure..Þo þe peintor to Iesu com, he nemiȝte biholde is face So ssinynge it was and briȝt.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 13 Gregorius..seiþ ‘I haue peynt a wel faire man, and am my self a foule peyntour [?a1475 anon. tr. peynter; L. pictor].’
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 2308 (MED) Ne swa sleygh payntur never nan was..Þat couthe..paynt a poynt aftir þair liknes.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 407 Poyntowre, or peyntoure, pictor.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 362 The peyntour..did make a walle white, and with rede Coloure he depeynted the Image of the woman.
1538 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xii. 238 Payde to Hans Holbyn, one of the Kingis paynters.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. Kv A most excellent peincter.
1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 223 I avoid the sight of all Paynters..lest they shew me the patterne of my pale visage.
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife iii. 39 Painters don't draw the Small Pox, or Pimples in ones face.
1724 B. G. in J. Henley et al. tr. Pliny the Younger Epist. & Panegyrick I. v. x. 238 A Painter seldom does Justice to a perfect Beauty.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 687/2 Edial..became a mezzotinto painter.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. viii. 124 His folded hands, his dishevelled hair and beard..would have afforded a study for Rembrandt, had that celebrated painter existed at the period.
1844 Ld. Brougham Albert Lunel III. iv. 125 She has some pretensions as a painter of still life.
1876 H. James Roderick Hudson iv. 146 She was the unmarried..daughter of an old American painter of very bad landscapes.
1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness iii, in Youth 173 I had taken him for a painter who wrote for the papers, or else for a journalist who could paint.
1937 Life 26 July 22/2 Thomas Hart Benton..is perhaps the ablest living painter of the American scene.
1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) Pref. p. x Even the great abstract painters have first to learn figure drawing.
b. figurative. A person who describes something in a pictorial or graphic style.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > one who describes
descriptor1528
describer?1550
painter1570
presenter1608
delineator1631
imagera1680
detailer1794
descriptionist1819
pictorialist1839
word-painter1839
delineatress1848
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. dij To describe..how, vsuall howers, may be (by the Sunnes shadow) truely determined: will be found no sleight Painters worke.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. Observ. 276 Homer would have been a very bad painter of human Nature, if he had drawn Penelope thus heated with passion in the mild temper of Euryclea.
1774 O. Goldsmith Retaliation 63 A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 246 Dickens..is a painter of English details, like Hogarth; local and temporary in his tints and style.
a1877 W. Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) 205 The great works of the real painters of essential human nature.
1989 N. Smith Essent. A–Z of Creative Writing 48 What is a writer but a painter with words?
c. Astronomy. With capital initial. The southern constellation Pictor. Also called Painter's Easel (see Compounds 2).Although the Latin name Equuleus Pictoris has been superseded by the shorter form Pictor, this is frequently glossed using the longer English term Painter's Easel.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Pictor
Pictor1847
Painter's Easel1853
painter1925
1925 Science 5 June Suppl. p. x/2 The nova is in the constellation of Pictor, the ‘Painter’, which can never be seen from points north of the Tropic of Cancer.
1994 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 3 July g9 Beta Pictoris is part of the Southern Hemisphere constellation called Pictor, or Painter.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [noun]
black?c1225
sablec1374
blacknessc1384
blackheada1425
nigredity1547
nigritudea1654
painter1688
sableness1839
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 152/1 Colours, of which there is only seven used in Glass-painting..Black, called Painter by them.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. † painter-engraving n. Obsolete
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1889 Cent. Mag. Aug. 585/1 This truth should not be lost sight of in estimating the true value of technique in painter-engraving.
1890 F. S. Haden Art of Painter-etcher 4 This great-master engraving, this original engraving, this painter-engraving.
painter etching n.
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1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 487/1 I am speaking now of original etchings only—of ‘painter etchings’ as distinguished from reproductive work.
1924 F. Weitenkampf Amer. Graphic Art (new ed.) p. vii The most recent efforts at original expression, as we see them in the present revival of painter-etching.
1989 R. Schneider (title) American painter etchings, 1853–1908.
b. Appositive (see also painter-stainer n.).† painter-muse n. Obsolete
painter-engraver n.
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1878 Harper's Mag. Aug. 326/1 They include nearly all of the famous ‘painter-engravers’—those who engraved their own designs.
1999 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 2 Oct. 8 Ravilious, the son of the painter-engraver Eric Ravilious, caught the oddness of daily village life.
painter-etcher n.
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1880 Times 23 Dec. 7/5 Society of Painter Etchers.—.. The society..has been formed to ‘promote original etching and the interest of painters practising that branch of art’.
1920 E. H. Hubbard Etchings 128 The work of ‘painter-etchers’ (men who execute original subjects direct on the plate).
1988 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 94 79 Before their style of working went out of fashion in the 1930s, all the artists studied had been recognized as painter-etchers.
painter-graver n.
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1879 F. S. Haden About Etching ii. 47 Leyden, Lucas Van..A Flemish painter-graver of great reputation.
1953 S. Gilbert tr. J. Lassaigne Lautrec 101 When Vollard asked him to contribute to his ‘Album of Painter-Gravers’ he produced The English Dogcart and..The Tandem.
painter-husband n.
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1870 New Monthly Mag. Jan. 38 She is singing her song..and yet is paying all attention to her brisk and bustling painter-husband.
1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 June vii. 22/1 [She] receives an invitation to a convention..and goes with her painter-husband's blessings and instructions to stay at his sister's house rather than at a hotel.
painter-minister n.
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1904 N.E.D. at Painter1 Painter-minister.
1990 M. M. Anderson Hidden Power 71 Families everywhere..eagerly presented their girls, many paying bribes to the painter-minister if he accepted their daughters as candidates.
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1709 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ (ed. 2) iii. 310 The Painter-Muse with glancing Eye Observ'd a Manly Spirit nigh.
a1761 J. Cawthorn Poems (1771) 50 Here, the painter-muse display'd Diviner forms of light and shade.
painter-poet n.
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a1801 J. Hurdis Poems (1808) III. iv. 176 Now let the painter poet walk abroad.
1897 Catholic World Aug. 638 [They] are pictured as only a painter-poet could picture them.
1972 W. Blake Mod. European Art iv. 75 The chaste flame and volute forms of another painter-poet, William Blake, are utilized to express the voluptuous eroticism of half-length female enchantresses.
painter-saint n.
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1899 Month Jan. 38 The painter-saint of Fiesole.
2000 Hollywood Reporter (Nexis) 10 Feb. The dead artist..is suddenly the focus of a local TV station's news department, which is determined to turn his pathetic death into the tragedy of a ‘painter saint’.
painter-sculptor n.
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1877 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 508 Between them and our painter-sculptor-architect there were continual misunderstandings and bickerings.]
1885 Dict. National Biogr. IV. 131/2 The niggling veracity of that English school of painter-sculptors who followed the fashion of France.
1992 Apollo June 402/3 G. F. Watts, another painter-sculptor and idealist whose example proved inspirational.
painter-servant n.
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1872 J. Ruskin Eagle's Nest §199 When the English gentleman becomes an art-patron, he employs his painter-servant only to paint himself and his house.
2003 www.origrafica.com 28 Mar. (O.E.D. Archive) A less conventional explanation, which should also include a reason why Philip the Good was willing to pay his painter-servant for the use of time and material.
C2. † painter's gold n. Obsolete (a) orpiment; (b) powdered gold suspended in honey for use as a pigment.
painter's colic n. (also painters' colic) mercury or (esp.) lead poisoning caused by handling toxic pigments.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in back
back-ache?c1225
ripples1568
lumbago1684
ripplec1700
bellon1794
rachialgia1807
painter's colic1822
notalgia1833
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 189 House-painters..who are, often, too little attentive to personal cleanliness, are to the present hour so frequently affected by it [i.e. colic of Pitou], as to give it the still more general name of Painter's colic.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 7 ‘Occupation neuroses’ such as painter's colic or mercurial tremor.
1992 Occupational Med. 7 369 Coal miners' nystagmus, scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, phossy jaw, hatters' shakes, painters' colic, potters' rot, [etc.].
1996 J. Grenfell-Hill Growing up in Wales 175 When the War started in 1939 I went into the munitions factory in Bridgend... I painted the shells. But the lead in the paint gave me painter's colic.
Painter's Easel n. [after post-classical Latin Equuleus Pictoris (see Pictor n.)] Astronomy = sense 2c.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Pictor
Pictor1847
Painter's Easel1853
painter1925
1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (ed. 3) 277/1 Lacaille.., while observing at the Cape of Good Hope,..added to the list no fewer than 14 new constellations..[including] Equuleus Pictoris (the Painter's Easel).
1944 Science 11 Feb. (Suppl.) 12/2 The old nova in the southern constellation of Pictor, the Painter's Easel, is decidedly elongated.
2002 Honolulu Advertiser (Nexis) 13 Apr. 1 a The star is Beta Pictoris, which is visible to the naked eye in winter, about 28 degrees above the southern horizon in the constellation Pictor, the painter's easel.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments
yelloweOE
motey1353
arsenica1393
orpimentc1395
auripigmenta1398
ochre1440
pink1464
massicot1472
yellow ochre1482
orpine1548
painter's gold1591
spruce1668
giallolino1728
king's yellow1738
Naples yellow1738
stil de grain1769
yellow earth1794
queen's yellow1806
chromate1819
chrome yellow1819
Oxford ochre1827
Indian yellow1831
Italian pink1835
Montpellier yellow1835
Turner1835
quercitron lake1837
jaune brillant1851
zinc chromate1851
zinc sulphide1851
brush-gold1861
zooxanthin1868
Oxford chrome1875
aureolin1879
cadmium yellow1879
Cassel yellow1882
Neapolitan yellow1891
zinc chrome1892
Mars1899
jaune jonquille1910
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Oropel Leather gilt, painters gold [1599 Minsheu adds: Orpin or base gold for painters].
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oripeau, base gold, leafe gold, false gold, Orpine, Painters gold.
1854 E. C. Evans tr. T. J. Pelouze & E. Frémy Gen. Notions of Chem. 282 Gold may be obtained in powder..by grinding gold leaf with honey. Gold prepared by this last method..is called..painter's gold.
painter's mussel n. (also painters' mussel) a European freshwater mussel, Unio pictorum, the shell of which was formerly used by artists to hold paint.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Unionidae > genus Unio > member of
river mussel1637
painter's mussel1896
1862 J. G. Jeffreys Brit. Conchol. I. 34 U[nio]pictorum... Painters'.
1865 L. Reeve Conchologia Iconica XXV. at Unio, species 123 The painters' Unio. Shell elongately oblong,..fulvous-olive.]
1896 L. E. Adams Collector's Man. Brit. Land & Freshwater Shells (ed. 2) 148 The ‘Painters' Mussel’ is found in similar localities to U[nio]tumidus.
1952 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles xvi. 268 The Painter's Mussel..has a long, thin shell, about two to three inches in length.
1988 Coarse Fishing Handbk. June–July 31/1 Painters mussels..are longer and narrower than the swan and duck mussels, and have teeth in the hinge of their shells.
painter's oil n. (also †painter oil, painters' oil) now rare a pale, flammable drying oil used by artists, spec. linseed oil.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > linseed oil
painter's oil?a1425
linseed-oil1548
?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 25v (MED) Flax or lyne..oyle made of the sede called paynter oyll is gode to a-noynte for fire brenynge.
1545 Rates Custome House sig. cij Paynters oyle the barrel.
1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 22 Jan. 2/2 Painters oyl and colours, and sundry other Goods usually imported into this Province.
1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxxii. 223 Nor have I ventur'd on the toil That dares consume the painter's oil.
1863 L. B. Urbino Art Recreations 146 The paper having been previously prepared with painter's oil, to make it transparent.
1918 Sci. Monthly Feb. 123 From China also has come the Tung-oil tree, capable of producing one of the finest painters' oils.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
paintern.2
/ˈpeɪntə/, U.S. /ˈpeɪn(t)ər/ 1. † a. A short rope or chain by which the shank of an anchor is held fast to a ship's side when not in use; = shank-painter n. at shank n. Compounds 2. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > lashings, seizings, or securing ropes > securing anchor at ship's side
painter1336
shank-painter1495
wing-stopper1794
cat-head stopper1830
ring-stopper1834
1336–7 in N. H. Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 471 Et in xv. petris cord' de canabo..emptis..pro peyntours et seysynges.
1425 Foreign Accts. (Public Rec. Office) 59 ij shevys eneis pro pentr' ancor.
1487 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 44 Paynters for the ankres..iiij.
1661 J. Tatham London's Tryumphs in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 478 Stand ready by the Anchor Let go your open Penter, and hold fast your Stopper.
b. A rope attached to the bow of a (usually small) boat for tying it to a ship, quay, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel > painter
boat rope1336
seizing1336
tether?1504
painter1699
cut-rope1909
putty1927
1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 258 Bowpayntours for destrelles feble j Shankpayntors for destrelles worne & feble ij.]
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Painter, the Rope that lies in the Ship's Longboat, or Barge, alwaies ready to Fasten her, or Hale her on Shoar.
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 154 For the Longboat... Painter, 1/ 2 the Boat Rope and 1/ 5 of the Le(ngth).
1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 34 The skiff was..let down; but the painter not being fast, the rope run an end, and the skiff went adrift.
1790 J. Wolcot Advice to Future Laureat in Wks. (1812) II. 338 Just like the Victory or Fame That by its painter drags the Gig or Yawl.
1806 Naval Chron. 15 462 This..allowed time to cut the boat's penter.
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. xxxiv. 277 I..slipped the painter which held the boat.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 29 [He] jumped out with the painter of his skiff in his hand.
1912 H. Belloc This & That 282 I took the little painter of my boat and made it fast to this noble buoy.
1988 Yachting Monthly Oct. 94/2 The connections between painter and liferaft had included a ‘fail-safe’ weak link, designed to part in the event of the ship going down before there should be time to cut the painter.
2015 M. Poland Keeper v. 46 The boat..swung on its painter in the swell.
2. figurative. to cut (also slip) the painter: to effect a separation, sever a connection; to free oneself of something; to break free.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate [verb (intransitive)]
dealc1000
to make separationc1450
to break up1535
diverta1575
disjoina1642
unherd1661
separate1690
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
enisle1852
segregate1863
bust1880
isolate1988
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously
to send packingc1450
trussa1500
to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577
to set packing1577
pack1589
ship1594
to send away with a fly in one's ear1606
to give a packing penny to1609
to pack off1693
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
to send about one's business1728
trundle1794
to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816
bundle1823
to give the bucket to1863
shake1872
to give (a person) the finger1874
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (someone or something) the chuck1888
to give (someone) the gate1918
to get the (big) bird1924
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938
to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) I'll Cut your Painter for ye, I'll prevent ye doing me any Mischief.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) I'll cut your painter for you, I'll send you off.
1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan ii. ii. 31 Aren't you a neat gorgon of an uncle now, to cut the painter of a pretty pinnace like this?
1841 R. E. Landor Ferryman ii, in Earl of Brecon 251 His wits have slipped the painter—drifted off. Past help he is.
1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxiii. 126 ‘Mr Benjamin is off, you know.’ ‘Benjamin off?’ ‘Cut the painter, my lord, and started.’
1900 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 63 657 If these..colonies had taken it into their heads to ‘cut the painter’, as the phrase then went, i.e., to throw off the sovereignty of the old country, and set up housekeeping for themselves.
1976 R. Massey When I was Young xiv. 109 I had cut the painter with the University.
1994 New Yorker 22 Aug. 70/3 He is less of a machine politician than his two predecessors... ‘That's his asset,’ says Howard. ‘He can cut the painter with the past.’
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/ˈpeɪntə/, U.S. /ˈpeɪn(t)ər/ U.S. regional.
The puma or cougar, Felis concolor.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Felis > felis concolor (puma)
tiger1604
mountain lion?1615
panther1683
painter1738
red tiger1763
puma1771
American mountain lion1774
cougar1774
poltroon tiger1790
catamount1794
Indian devil1838
black panther1857
1738 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Alm. 1739 22 Mercury will..so confound the Speech of People, that when a Pensilvanian would say panther he shall say painter.
1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. 382 My master..said that I ought to live among painters and wolves, and sold me to a Georgia man for two hundred dollars.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. ix. 133 It might frighten an older woman to see a she-painter so near her, with a dead cub by its side.
1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life i. 5 This alarmed me, and I screamed out like a young painter.
1901 T. Roosevelt in Scribner's Mag. Oct. 430/1 The cougar... In the Eastern States it is usually called panther or painter; in the Western States, mountain lion, or, toward the South, Mexican lion. The Spanish-speaking people usually call it simply lion.
1925 A. L. Fries tr. C. G. Reuter Wachau in Rec. Moravians N. Carolina II. 577 Painter, or Panther, has the color of a Deer.
1940 O. Arnold & J. P. Hale Hot Irons 9 You learn, accidentally, that a ‘painter’ is really a panther.
1984 M. Dittrick & D. Dittrick No Uncertain Terms 29 Puma, commonly called mountain lion, cougar, panther, painter, American lion, and catamount. They're all the same feline.
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