单词 | palmy |
释义 | palmyn. Scottish and English regional (Northumberland). Now rare. A blow or stroke on the palm of the hand, given as a punishment, esp. to a child. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > stroke with strap or rod pandy1765 palmy1812 1812 P. Forbes Poems 95 Nae school being in, Our pammies o'er, syne aff we'd rin. 1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds iv. 32 There was na a day I did na get a pawmy but ane, and on it I got twa. 1883 Q. Rev. Apr. 400 He got..many a ‘palmy’ on his hand with a thick strap of leather. 1921 V. Jacob Bonnie Joann 23 The dominie's pawmies are little use. 1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's ii. 16 I got the belt from the Infant Mistress for swooping about like an aeroplane. So I got my wee palmy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). palmyadj. 1. ΚΠ tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 458 (MED) Taak leues grene ynough of citurtre, And in palmy [L. palmea] basket hem dispose. c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 84 Than Roland haid..euir hichlie borne the palmie croune. a1745 T. Warton Poems Several Occasions (1930) 39 Each Seraph tore his Palmy-crown, Each threw his Harp or Trumpet down. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 5 The naked Negro..Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine. 1807 R. Mant Slave & Other Poet. Pieces 14 At ease by Gambia's golden flood recline; Or quaff on Ambris' banks the palmy wine. a1856 H. Miller Ess. (1865) 317 Ye virgins meek that wear the palmy crown Of patient faith. b. Frequently poetic. Resembling or reminiscent of a palm tree; containing or abounding in palm trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [adjective] palmy1569 palmful1615 palmiferous1656 palmeous1657 rotan1697 palmaceous1731 troolie1825 piassava1841 timite1858 murumuru1927 sacsac1947 1569 W. Samuel Abridgem. Olde Test.: Ezek. xli. sig. X.v The holy place, the Cherubins, and eke the Palmy trees. a1618 J. Sylvester tr. G. Fracastoro Maidens Blush (1620) sig. E8v Past Idumæas Palmy Groves, and past Syrbonian Moors. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 254 Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap Of som irriguous Valley. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 294 We pass'd Selinus, and the Palmy Land, And widely shun the Lilybæan Strand. 1735 J. Thomson Greece: 2nd Pt. Liberty 82 The neighbouring Land, whose palmy Shore The silver Jordan laves. 1821 R. Heber in Evangelical Mag. July 316 From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain. 1866 B. Taylor Poems 267 Her lithe and palmy grace. 1872 H. Macmillan True Vine vii. 285 The winter-green and the palmy shield-fern creep into the solitude of the pine~wood. 1908 R. G. T. Coventry New Poems 107 I see the waters calm, and deep, That lap the palmy shore. 1992 Condé Nast Traveler Aug. 77 A sunny, 23-block stretch of shops, clubs, hotels, and hangouts around palmy, pastel Ocean Drive. 2. figurative. Triumphant, flourishing, successful (frequently used of past times, as in palmy days, palmy state, etc.). See palm n.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity wealthfula1400 boona1513 summer1592 sunshine1594 palmy1604 white?1614 booming1879 boomy1888 the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > time of prosperity highOE golden age1561 halcyon days1570 gilded age1655 heyday1751 high point1787 millennium1821 palmy days1837 up1843 clover summer1866 flower-time1873 belle époque1910 glory-days1956 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 106 + 6 In the most high and palmy state of Rome. 1617 W. Drummond Forth Feasting sig. B3 And like Augustus palmie Raigne bee deem'd. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 6 In the high and palmy state of the Monarchy of France, it fell to the ground without a struggle. 1837 C. Dickens Let. 31 Jan. (1965) I. 232 I hope you will meet with every happiness that you picture to yourself in these palmy days. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) ix. 301 The period was a palmy one for men, who held a pen of power. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 341 The 16th century was indeed Pasquin's palmy time. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 85 The great singers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—the palmy days of Italian singing. 1964 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 16 July (1995) 348 In Beaufort Road was a house, occupied in its palmier days, by Mr Shorthouse, a manufacturer of acids. 1993 Vandance Jan. 27/1 Dennis Nahat..was a stalwart at American Ballet Theatre in the palmy Lucia Chase era. Derivatives ˈpalmily adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adverb] on (also upon) hand (also hands)a1200 goder-heala1225 soundfula1300 wealsomely1382 wealfully1388 prosperouslyc1425 flourishingly1609 thrivingly1745 palmily1886 1886 G. B. Shaw in Mag. Music Jan. 222/2 A palmily stall-less pit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). palmyv. Scottish. Now rare. transitive. To beat or strike on the palm of the hand. ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Pawmie, to strike the palm with a ferula. 1826 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Apr. 415 ‘Ye maun ha'e your weekly dues, so haud out your luif’; and poor Bob was palmied. 1843 Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 313 [I] got well palmied by the probationer for not knowing one word of my lessons. 1920 J. Donald Old Greenock Characters 13 More serious offenders he ‘palmied’ with a longer and thinner weapon which inflicted distinctly more acute pain. 1985 A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's xx. 164 Happily married too to the only Heidie who ever palmied the compiler of this book. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1812adj.?1440v.1825 |
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