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单词 pooter
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pootern.1

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pote v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < pote v. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier putter n.1 4, poting stick n.
Obsolete. rare.
An instrument for crimping the folds of a ruff. Cf. putter n.1 4, poting stick n. 1.
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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

Brit. /ˈpuːtə/, U.S. /ˈpudər/
Origin: Apparently from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Poos , -er suffix1.
Etymology: Apparently < the name of F. W. Poos (1891–1987), U.S. entomologist who first used the device + -er suffix1, with insertion of -t-, apparently for euphony.
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.
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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

Brit. /ˈpuːtə/, U.S. /ˈpudər/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pooter.
Etymology: < the name of Charles Pooter, the ficticious author of George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody (1892).
A person resembling or reminiscent of the character Charles Pooter, esp. in displaying parochial self-importance, over-fastidiousness, or lack of imagination.
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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.

Brit. /ˈpuːtə/, U.S. /ˈpudər/
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare pother v.
intransitive. To depart in a hurry; to bustle or hurry off.
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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).
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