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单词 pimlico
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Pimlicon.1

Forms: 1600s Pimlyco, 1600s Pimplico, 1600s–1700s Pimlico.
Origin: Probably from a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pimlico.
Etymology: Probably < the name of the Pimlico alehouse in Hoxton, north-east central London, which was itself probably named after the name (or nickname) of its publican Ben Pimlico : see further A. D. Mills Dict. London Place-names (2001) 178–9, R. Coates in Names 43 (1995) 213–28. The origin of sense 3 is uncertain; it may perhaps show a different word.Compare the modern Hoxton street name Pimlico Walk.
Obsolete.
1. A type of strong ale brewed at the Pimlico Tavern in Hoxton in the first decade of the 17th cent.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > other ales
strawberry ale1523
red ale1557
sixteens1584
bottle ale1586
hostler ale1590
Pimlico1609
eyebright1612
quest-ale1681
hugmatee1699
Newcastle brown (ale)1707
pale ale1708
twopenny ale (or beer)1710
twoops1729
flux ale1742
pale1743
Ringwood1759
brown ale1776
light ale1780
blue cap1789
brown1820
India pale ale1837
Tipper1843
ostler ale1861
fourpenny ale1871
four-ale1883
ninepenny1886
Scotch1886
barley wine1940
IPA1953
light1953
real ale1972
1609 (title) Pimlyco, or runne red cap. 'Tis a mad world at Hogsdon.]
1609 Pimlyco sig. C4v Nor can the Greekish Vintage show A liquor matching Pimlyco.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. ii. sig. L2v Gallants..seene to flock here..as to a second Hogs-den, In dayes of Pimlico, and Eye-bright. View more context for this quotation
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse iii. iii, in Wks. II. 135 I'll..march vp, And take in Pimlico, and kill the bush, At every tauerne!
1670 in J. Nichols Coll. Poems (1780) III. 263 Or stout March-beer, or Windsor-ale,..Or Pimlico, whose too great sale Did marr it.
2. A kind of drinking vessel, perhaps waisted or marked with a hoop on the inner surface. rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun]
chalicec825
napeOE
copc950
fullOE
cupc1000
canOE
shalec1075
scalec1230
maselin?a1300
mazer1311
richardine1352
dish1381
fiole1382
pece1383
phialc1384
gobletc1400
bowl-cup1420
chalice-cup1420
crusec1420
mazer-cup1434
goddard1439
stoup1452
bicker1459
cowl1476
tankard1485
stop1489
hanapa1513
skull1513
Maudlin cup1544
Magdalene cup?a1549
mazer bowl1562
skew1567
shell1577
godet1580
mazard1584
bousing-can1590
cushion1594
glove1609
rumkin1636
Maudlin pot1638
Pimlico1654
mazer dish1656
mug1664
tumbler1664
souce1688
streaker1694
ox-eye1703
false-cup1708
tankard-cup1745
poculum1846
phiale1867
tumbler-cup1900
stem-cup1915
sippy cup1986
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. vi. 103 No small services nor misers glasses will doe the businesse here, nor Pimplico's discharg'd to the round in the middle.
3. A white fabric used for clothing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > of specific colour
Paris black1533
Pimlico1685
Nubian1899
1685 S. Wesley Maggots 79 Courtly Dames so gawdy, tho' They dress their mouths in pimlico.
1687 Honour of Taylors ii. 23 The laughing Fellow, dressed up in Pimlico, as Painters..Picture..the shadow of a Ghost.
1760 J. Hawkins in Walton's & Cotton's Compl. Angler ii. p. xx To bedizen them out in Pimlico, or bloat them up with turgid bombast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

pimlicon.2

Brit. /ˈpɪmlᵻkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpɪmlᵻˌkoʊ/
Forms: 1600s pemblico, 1600s pemblyco, 1600s pemlico, 1600s pimplicoe, 1600s pimplicoes (plural), 1600s 1800s– pimlico.
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative of the bird's call, partly assimilated to Pimlico n.1 (compare quot. c1625 at sense 1).
Now rare.
1. Audubon's shearwater, Puffinus lherminieri, a small shearwater of tropical parts of the Indian, Pacific, and western Atlantic Oceans, whose head and body are black above and white below. Chiefly Caribbean in later use.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Puffinus (shearwater) > other types
cohow1615
pimlico1615
mutton-bird1846
Audubon1909
1615 L. Hughes Let. in J. H. Lefroy Mem. Bermudas (1877) II. 578 About the middle of October, Birds which we call Cahouze and Pimlicoes come in.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 171 Another small Bird there is, because she cries Pemblyco they call her so.
c1625 J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 4 Another smale Birde ther is, the which, by some Ale-hanters of London sent ouer hether, hath bin termed the pimplicoe, for so they imagine (and a little resemblance putts them in mind of a place so dearely beloued), her note articulates.
1670 S. Clarke True & Faithful Acct. Four Chiefest Plantations Eng. in Amer. 22 The Pemblico is seldom seen by day, and by her crying foretells Tempests.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ii. 3 The Crow, Cock,..Peacock, the Pimlico.
1840 Trans. Geol. Soc. 5 113 The caves..were frequented..by a sea bird, whose local name [in Bermuda], derived from its peculiar cry, is Pim-li-co.
1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 18 Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri... Local names: Pimlico; [etc.].
2. Australian. Any of various honeyeaters of the genus Philemon, of northern and eastern Australia; a friarbird.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Meliphagidae (honey-eater) > genus Philemon (friar bird)
friar1798
four o'clock1848
pimlico1848
1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. IV. Pl. 58 From the fancied resemblance of its notes to these words, it has obtained from the Colonists the various names of ‘Poor Soldier’, ‘Pimlico’, ‘Four o'clock’, etc.
1918 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 May 24/3 The bobala has probably more aliases than any other Australian bird, being variously known as friar bird, monk, Pimlico, four o'clock, poor soldier and leatherhead.
1944 L. Welsh Kookaburra 12 Noisy friar birds..have many names—Leatherhead, Monk, Four O'Clock, Pimlico, and Poor Soldier.
1987 Wildlife Austral. Autumn 6/3 Earlier names, some of which are still in popular use, were friar, monk, leather head, poor soldier, four o'clock, and pimlico. The last three names are onomatopoeic, or imitative of the call.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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