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单词 podar
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podarn.

Forms: 1700s–1800s podar, 1800s poder.
Origin: A borrowing from Cornish. Etymon: Cornish podar.
Etymology: < Cornish podar, poder worthless stuff, mundic, use as noun of podar , poder rotten, worthless < classical Latin puter rotten (see putrid adj.).Compare:1707 E. Lhuyd Archæologia Britannica 132–3 Putridus..Rotten, corrupt. C. podar.1754 W. Borlase Observ. Antiq. Cornwall (Cornish-Eng. Vocab.) 403/2 Podar, rotten: corrupt:..Mundic: ugly.
Mining. English regional (Cornwall). Obsolete.
Pyrites; mundic; esp. copper pyrites as refuse.
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1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 325/2 Podar, rotten, corrupt; Mundick—Copper Ore was formerly called Podar.
1816 J. A. Paris Guide Mount's Bay 117 Upon the first discovery of copper ore, the miner, to whom its nature was entirely unknown, gave it the name of Poder... About the year 1735,..Mr. Coster a mineralogist of Bristol observed this Poder among the heaps of rubbish.
1838 J. A. Alexander Amer. Mechanic xxix. 176 The tinners of Cornwall threw away the ores of copper, as refuse, under the name of poder.
1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. Dial. Cornwall Podar, mundic, pyrites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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