单词 | prancer |
释义 | prancern. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > one who has intercourse prancer?1560 fucker1598 poker1880 shag1971 shagger1971 ?1560 Playe Robyn Hode in Mery Geste Robyn Hoode sig. H.iiiiv She is a trul of trust to serve a frier at his lust a prycker a prauncer a terer of shetes a wagger of ballockes when other men slepes. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier horsemanc1275 chevalier1377 roiter1579 prancer1593 cavalier1596 trooper1640 cavalry soldier1852 plunger1854 cavalry man1860 1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica viii. 87 See you that fine horesman [sic] there? he is a Prauncer of Ferrara. 1828 C. D'Oyly Tom Raw, Griffin 34 Came you with these lancers, These silvered, gilded, scarlet cossacked prancers? a1863 W. M. Thackeray White Squall 120 A Prussian captain of Lancers (Those tight-laced, whiskered prancers). c. cant. A mounted robber; a highwayman; a horse thief. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > highwayman > mounted prancera1640 priggera1640 bridle cull1718 high toby gloak1811 toby-gill1811 tobyman1811 a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. C2v He wo'd be your prigger, your prancer, your high-lawyer. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 192 The fifteenth a Prancer, whose courage is small; If they catch him horse-coursing he's noozed for al. 1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee (1994) i. 29 It was agreed that we should leave our horses munching upon the grass (in the care of some hired men to ward off the priggers and prancers) and make our way by foot. 2. a. A spirited or prancing horse; a steed. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [noun] > spirited horse prancer?1566 skit1882 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for riding > swift steed blonkOE steedc1175 a stern steedc1300 prancer?1566 Pacoleta1586 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > leap > horse that leaps or prances prancer?1566 curvetter1678 leaper1774 jumper1886 ?1566 J. Phillips Pacient Grissill (1909) sig. Biv Postinge to and froe, my prauncer fell on his knees. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. Cv Where stands this prawncer, in what Inne or stable? c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 280 Then the Captaine..of the Castle of St. Angelo upon a brave prancer. 1730 A. Brice Freedom 9 The jocund Hours which from th'aetherial Stalls of East the harness'd Fiery Prauncers lead. 1788 W. Beckford Spanish Jrnl. 14 Jan. (1954) 315 Infantado and I went a-cavalcading with Ahmed Vassif, whose principal favourites were mounted on Spanish prancers almost hid by enormous Turkish trappings. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 151 Thus corporal's guard I've review'd on their prancers. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Queen Guinevere in Poems (new ed.) II. 208 She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. 1933 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 6 Sept. 6/2 Classes for harness ponies and horses brought high-stepping prancers into the ring. 1979 Policy Rev. (Nexis) Summer 85 If they qualify, the prancers are out of the starting gate on the Kiwanis and Rotary track across the land. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] horsec825 blonkOE brockc1000 mareOE stota1100 caplec1290 foala1300 rouncyc1300 scot1319 caballc1450 jade1553 chival1567 prancer1567 ball1570 pranker1591 roussin1602 wormly1606 cheval1609 sonipes1639 neigher1649 quadruped1660 keffel1699 prad1703 jig1706 hoss1815 cayuse1841 yarraman1848 quad1854 plug1860 bronco1869 gee-gee1869 quadrupedant1870 rabbit1882 gee1887 neddy1887 nanto1889 prod1891 goat1894 skin1918 bang-tail1921 horsy1923 steed- 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Ciiiv A Prigger of Prauncers be horse stealers, for to prigge signifieth in their language to steale, & a Prauncer is a horse. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm4/2 Higgen hath prig'd the prancers in his dayes. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Prancer I spoke with the cull on the cherry coloured prancer, I robbed the man on the black horse. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xi. 287 I would have thought little to have prigged a prancer from the next common. 3. A person who capers or dances; a dancer. Also: a person who swaggers about; a poseur. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > dancer generally > [noun] leapera1000 sailour?a1366 tripperc1380 dancerc1440 sallierc1440 hopperc1480 flinger?a1513 foot clapper1620 pranker1628 saltatorya1640 prancer1653 apache dancer1912 hoofer1923 rug-cutter1934 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 65. 516 With Ribbons why invellop'd? Why such Prancers? Such Types of Puppets, and of Morris-Dancers? With Hiacinths why deckt, as if they were May-poles to be adored all the year? 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxiv. 129 ‘And being moreover forbid’, says the prancer, ‘to enter into the cruel subject.’ 1787 Daily Universal Reg. 8 Jan. 2/4 A harlequin genius, cognomine prancer—A fencer, a fidler, a fop, and a dancer. 1876 J. Nicholson Kilwuddie (ed. 3) 131 My fegs, but he's a prancer..Ye ne'er saw sic a dancer. 1915 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 30 Jan. 6/3 A very black picture it was..that he painted of the prancers before the footlights. 1966 Salisbury (Maryland) Times 17 Sept. 8/3 The best prancer about the tables was a large woman in red. 2003 Express (Nexis) 1 Sept. 34 Svelte Candace..wed Charles Askegard, principal prancer for the New York City Ballet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1560 |
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