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单词 palmy
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palmyn.

Brit. /ˈpɑːmi/, U.S. /ˈpɑ(l)mi/, Scottish English /ˈpɔmɪ/, /ˈpamɪ/
Forms: Scottish 1700s– pammie, 1800s– palmie, 1800s– palmy, 1800s– paumie, 1800s– pawmie, 1800s– pawmy, 1900s– paamie, 1900s– pambie (eastern); English regional (Northumberland) 1900s– palmie.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin pande palmam , -y suffix6; French palmee.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps (i) < palm- (in post-classical Latin pande palmam ‘stretch out your palm!’ ( < classical Latin pande (see pandy n.1) + palmam , accusative singular of palma palm n.2), although this phrase is nowhere attested; compare classical Latin pandere palmās , and post-classical Latin pande manum ) + -y suffix6 (compare earlier pandy n.1); or perhaps (ii) the reflex of a borrowing < Middle French palmee, paumee (French paumée (now chiefly regional) slap, stroke on the palm of the hand (c1190 in Old French in sense ‘slap, blow with the hand’, 1213 in sense ‘clap of the hand’); compare Spanish palmada slap, blow (13th cent.), Portuguese palmada slap, blow (13th cent.), Italian palmata stroke on the palm, clap of the hand (a1400)) < post-classical Latin palmata slap (from 8th cent. in British sources, from 11th cent. in continental sources) < classical Latin palma palm n.2 + -āta -y suffix5 (compare palmer n.2).
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.

Brit. /ˈpɑːmi/, U.S. /ˈpɑ(l)mi/
Forms: see palm n.1 and -y suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: palm n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < palm n.1 + -y suffix1.
1.
a. Chiefly poetic. Made of palm leaves, palm sap, etc. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈpɑːmi/, U.S. /ˈpɑ(l)mi/, Scottish English /ˈpɔmɪ/, /ˈpamɪ/
Forms: see palmy n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: palmy n.
Etymology: < palmy n. Compare earlier pandy v.
Scottish. Now rare.
transitive. To beat or strike on the palm of the hand.
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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).
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