单词 | pooter |
释义 | † pootern.1 Obsolete. rare. An instrument for crimping the folds of a ruff. Cf. putter n.1 4, poting stick n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements pressing iron1343 cold press1552 setting-stick?1578 putter1583 putting stick1583 poking-stick1592 pooter1596 poting stick1600 poker1604 goose1606 poking-iron?1606 iron1613 smoothing-iron1627 steel1638 box iron1640 smoothing-boxa1684 press iron1695 ironing board1721 sad iron1759 ironing blanket1774 ironing table1778 flat-iron1810 sleeve-board1826 ironer1833 Italian iron1833 press-board1849 ironing machine1851 goffering-iron1861 skirt-board1861 goffer1865 trouser press1880 ironing board cover1886 trouser presser1888 electric iron1890 press cloth1918 press-pad1924 tie press1926 steam-iron1951 pressing board1969 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvii. 220 Busks, Perrewigs, Maskes, Plumes of Fethers fram'd, Supporters, Pooters, Fardingales aboue the Loynes to waire, That be she near so bombe-thin, yet she crosse-like seem's four-squaire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). pootern.2 Chiefly Entomology. A suction bottle for collecting small insects and other terrestrial arthropods, typically having one tube through which they are drawn into the bottle and another, protected by a gauze or membrane, which is sucked. Also called aspirator.For safety reasons pooters are now often made to operate by blowing or by mechanical suction. ΚΠ 1939 Amateur Entomologist Sept. 33 A coleopterist's sucking tube (a pooter) is useful when collecting large numbers. 1968 M. Tweedie Pleasure from Insects 115 Not all kinds of ants can be collected by the convenient tin-and-slate method, and a more usual way is to use an aspirator or ‘pooter’. 1997 Independent on Sunday 30 Nov. i. 12/1 ‘It was quite remarkable,’ said Mr Foulds, taking a break from sucking on a length of plastic tubing—a pooter as it's known in the spider-catching trade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Pootern.3 A person resembling or reminiscent of the character Charles Pooter, esp. in displaying parochial self-importance, over-fastidiousness, or lack of imagination. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person bug1536 bladder1579 God almighty1632 cockalorumc1796 his nibs1821 prima donna1834 fly on the (coach-)wheel1840 high muck-a-muck1856 nobs1877 high muckety-muck1882 muckamuck1883 Pooh Bah1886 prima ballerina1923 I AM1926 muckety-muck1927 Pooter1957 cheese1965 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person > trite, banal, or conventional bromide1906 square1944 corn-ball1952 Pooter1957 pedestrian1969 1892 G. Grossmith & W. Grossmith Diary of Nobody xx The dinner-party consisted of Mr. Franching, Mr. Hardfur Huttle,..and, last but not least, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pooter.] 1957 J. Betjeman in Vogue Nov. 115 The chemicals from various factories Have bitten deep into the Portland stone And streaked the white Carrara of the graves Of many a Pooter and his Caroline. 1971 Times Lit. Suppl. 1393/3 The lesser funerals, of Pooters with Joneses to keep up with, increased in cost, display and competitiveness. 1983 Guardian Weekly 13 Nov. 9/1 There is a dull chronicling of food, flats, and girl friends which suggests a Pooter armed but doggedly recording the long littleness of life on the run. 2001 J. Hamilton-Paterson Loving Monsters (2002) iii. 27 The Pooter par excellence, the nine-to-five man incarnate. Every morning, rain or shine, off to work in the City. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pooterv. intransitive. To depart in a hurry; to bustle or hurry off. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily fleec825 runOE swervea1225 biwevec1275 skip1338 streekc1380 warpa1400 yerna1400 smoltc1400 stepc1460 to flee (one's) touch?1515 skirr1548 rubc1550 to make awaya1566 lope1575 scuddle1577 scoura1592 to take the start1600 to walk off1604 to break awaya1616 to make off1652 to fly off1667 scuttle1681 whew1684 scamper1687 whistle off1689 brush1699 to buy a brush1699 to take (its, etc.) wing1704 decamp1751 to take (a) French leave1751 morris1765 to rush off1794 to hop the twig1797 to run along1803 scoot1805 to take off1815 speela1818 to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 absquatulize1829 mosey1829 absquatulate1830 put1834 streak1834 vamoose1834 to put out1835 cut1836 stump it1841 scratch1843 scarper1846 to vamoose the ranch1847 hook1851 shoo1851 slide1859 to cut and run1861 get1861 skedaddle1862 bolt1864 cheese it1866 to do a bunkc1870 to wake snakes1872 bunk1877 nit1882 to pull one's freight1884 fooster1892 to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892 smoke1893 mooch1899 to fly the coop1901 skyhoot1901 shemozzle1902 to light a shuck1905 to beat it1906 pooter1907 to take a run-out powder1909 blow1912 to buzz off1914 to hop it1914 skate1915 beetle1919 scram1928 amscray1931 boogie1940 skidoo1949 bug1950 do a flit1952 to do a scarper1958 to hit, split or take the breeze1959 to do a runner1980 to be (also get, go) ghost1986 1907 Dial. Notes 3 196 Pooter,..to depart speedily. ‘I told him to git, and he just pooter, I can tell you.’ 1966 Punch 6 July 32/3 The ex-bookseller, his fortune depleted, is left on the last page pootering off to his ex-girl-friend. 2001 Evening Standard (Nexis) 1 May 25 He gives his broadest cartoon-character grin, before pootering off to prepare the evening menus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11596n.21939n.31957v.1907 |
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