raw-headn.²

Brit.

/ˈrɔːhɛd/, U.S.

/ˈrɔˌ(h)ɛd/,

/ˈrɑˌ(h)ɛd/

Forms: see raw adj. and n.¹ and head n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: raw adj., head n.¹

Etymology: < raw adj. + head n.¹ Compare Bloody Bones n. and later raw-flesh n., raw neck n.The word probably originated in a story or legend, but the exact circumstances are unknown. See further A. Taylor 1956, in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 69 114, 175, and D. C. Simmons 1957, in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 70 378–9. It is also unclear whether early examples such as quot. ?c1570 show raw-head and bloody-bones as the name of a single bugbear, or the names of two separate bugbears; in later use this was certainly apprehended as the name of a single entity.

1. Frequently in form Raw-head. A bugbear or bogeyman, typically imagined as having a head in the form of a skull, or one whose flesh has been stripped of its skin, invoked to frighten children. Also occasionally: a skull. Frequently used in conjunction with bloody-bones (see Bloody Bones n.). Cf. raw-flesh n., raw neck n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary) > nursery bugbear

Bloody Bones?1548

raw-head1566

scare-babea1591

raw-flesh1598

Turk1598

scare-bairn1681

raw necka1774

1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel f. 9^v There is not that Discretion or Consideration, by which they may..put a difference betwene their Grandmothers tale of Bloudy bone, Raw head, Bloudelesse and Ware woulf, and the Churches Doctrine of Hell and the Deuill.

?c1570 Buggbears iii. iii. in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Italian (1911) 117 Hob Goblin, Rawhead, & bloudibone the ouglie hagges Bugbeares, & helhoundes, and hecate the nyght mare.

1573 R. Lever Arte of Reason i. x. 48 Wordes..signifie matters which are not in deede, but are fayned to bee, as Hobthrus, rawhed, purgatorie.

1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan iii. xxv. 170 Hee made Fairecloaths Innocent back, like the picture of Rawhead and blowdy bones.

1659 Leveller 4 Most People are agast at them, like children at Raw-head and Bloody-bones.

1760 tr. J. F. Bernard Praise of Hell I. xiii. 131 Unless they set it up merely to fright their children, as the mothers, maids and nurses do in our days, with the talk of giants and Raw-head and Bloody bones.

1773 Life N. Frowde 19 Already I thought that I beheld Raw-head and Bloody-Bones stalking about my Garret.

1819 L. Hunt Indicator 22 Dec. 81 He was the Raw-head-and-bloody-bones of ancient fable.

1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. i. 1 The lightning flinging its sulphurous glare across the skeletons of dead horses, and over the grizzly rawheads upon the tombstones.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 541 The corpsechewer! Raw head and bloody bones!

1941 Slave Narr. (Federal Writers' Project WPA) IV. i. 46 Don't talk 'bout no Raw Head and Bloody Bones or nothin' lak dat. Dey used to skeer us chillun at night a-shakin' lak us was havin' chills.

1994 Evening Standard (Nexis) 28 Jan. 7 Almost 59 varieties of strenuously eccentric fairy folk:..an ever-Green Lady, a Black Dog, the Rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones, a giant on stilts, [etc.].

2. In allusive or figurative use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary)

buga1425

buggart1440

gay horse1483

bogle?1507

chimera?1521

bog1527

terriculament1548

bugbear1552

bull-bear1561

hag1563

boggard1574

scare-bug1583

bull-beggar1584

kill-cow fray1589

poker1598

bug-boy1601

bogle-bo1603

mormo1605

mock-beggar1611

mormolukee1624

Tom Poker1673

raw-head1678

hobgoblin1709

bugaboo1733

Tom Po1744

spectre1774

bogy-man1862

bogy1865

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 133 For Zeal's a dreadful Termagant,..Turns meek, and sneaking Secret ones, To Raw-heads fierce, and Bloody Bones.

1712 Proposals for printing Treat. Art of Political Lying 15 Bringing out the Raw-head and Bloody-bones upon every trifling Occasion.

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 70 They will welcome the little strangers by making raw head and bloody bones of them.

1948 Z. N. Hurston Seraph on Suwanee xvii. 154 Love to her meant..to be wrapped around and held in an embrace so warm and so tight that the Booger Man, the raw-head-and-bloody-bones of lonesomeness, could never come nigh her.

1991 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 22 219 Anderson County, often described as ‘the raw head and bloody bones’ of the rebellion in Texas.

Compounds

General attributive, in conjunction with bloody-bones, chiefly in sense ‘gruesome, gory’.

ΚΠ

1664 T. Killigrew 2nd Pt. Thomaso iv. i, in Comedies & Trag. 429 I did not think you could have spoke such a Raw-head and bloody-bones-speech.

1691 Search after Wit 9 Some raw Head and bloody Bones Tales of Amboyna.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. 161 Nothing..could have been added to the Humour of this Raw-Head and Bloody Bones Expedition, unless the ingenious Inventress of it had made them call at Rome in their Way.

1749 J. Cleland Case of Unfortunate B. Penlez 20 Had this first Act of the Rioters appear'd in that Raw-head and Bloody-bones Light which has since been industriously cast upon it..how obvious was it, for the Arm of the executive Power to have instantly aveng'd the Government.

1774 J. Burgh Polit. Disquis. II. iii. iv. 429 The rest are in Ireland..and are necessary there to keep the raw-head-and-bloody-bones-papists quiet.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. vi. 147 Tell a raw-head-and-bloody-bone story about a footpad.

1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 1 Apr. (1941) 216 They are very angry at the Review for telling a rawhead and bloody bones story.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. iii. 46 A raw-head-and-bloody-bones picture of the suspected murderer.

1918 W. J. Locke Rough Road xx. 245 ‘J. M. T. and I have looked Death in the face many a time—and really he's a poor raw-head and bloody-bones sort of Bogey; don't you think so, old chap?’ ‘It all depends on whether you've got a funk-hole handy.’

1983 E. F. Bleiler Guide Supernatural Fiction 468/2 Most of the stories are in the rawhead and bloody bones tradition, but the folkloristic snippets are sometimes interesting.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	raw-head
释义	raw-headn.² Brit. /ˈrɔːhɛd/, U.S. /ˈrɔˌ(h)ɛd/, /ˈrɑˌ(h)ɛd/ Forms: see raw adj. and n.¹ and head n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: raw adj., head n.¹ Etymology: < raw adj. + head n.¹ Compare Bloody Bones n. and later raw-flesh n., raw neck n.The word probably originated in a story or legend, but the exact circumstances are unknown. See further A. Taylor 1956, in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 69 114, 175, and D. C. Simmons 1957, in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 70 378–9. It is also unclear whether early examples such as quot. ?c1570 show raw-head and bloody-bones as the name of a single bugbear, or the names of two separate bugbears; in later use this was certainly apprehended as the name of a single entity. 1. Frequently in form Raw-head. A bugbear or bogeyman, typically imagined as having a head in the form of a skull, or one whose flesh has been stripped of its skin, invoked to frighten children. Also occasionally: a skull. Frequently used in conjunction with bloody-bones (see Bloody Bones n.). Cf. raw-flesh n., raw neck n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary) > nursery bugbear Bloody Bones?1548 raw-head1566 scare-babea1591 raw-flesh1598 Turk1598 scare-bairn1681 raw necka1774 1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel f. 9^v There is not that Discretion or Consideration, by which they may..put a difference betwene their Grandmothers tale of Bloudy bone, Raw head, Bloudelesse and Ware woulf, and the Churches Doctrine of Hell and the Deuill. ?c1570 Buggbears iii. iii. in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Italian (1911) 117 Hob Goblin, Rawhead, & bloudibone the ouglie hagges Bugbeares, & helhoundes, and hecate the nyght mare. 1573 R. Lever Arte of Reason i. x. 48 Wordes..signifie matters which are not in deede, but are fayned to bee, as Hobthrus, rawhed, purgatorie. 1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan iii. xxv. 170 Hee made Fairecloaths Innocent back, like the picture of Rawhead and blowdy bones. 1659 Leveller 4 Most People are agast at them, like children at Raw-head and Bloody-bones. 1760 tr. J. F. Bernard Praise of Hell I. xiii. 131 Unless they set it up merely to fright their children, as the mothers, maids and nurses do in our days, with the talk of giants and Raw-head and Bloody bones. 1773 Life N. Frowde 19 Already I thought that I beheld Raw-head and Bloody-Bones stalking about my Garret. 1819 L. Hunt Indicator 22 Dec. 81 He was the Raw-head-and-bloody-bones of ancient fable. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. i. 1 The lightning flinging its sulphurous glare across the skeletons of dead horses, and over the grizzly rawheads upon the tombstones. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 541 The corpsechewer! Raw head and bloody bones! 1941 Slave Narr. (Federal Writers' Project WPA) IV. i. 46 Don't talk 'bout no Raw Head and Bloody Bones or nothin' lak dat. Dey used to skeer us chillun at night a-shakin' lak us was havin' chills. 1994 Evening Standard (Nexis) 28 Jan. 7 Almost 59 varieties of strenuously eccentric fairy folk:..an ever-Green Lady, a Black Dog, the Rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones, a giant on stilts, [etc.]. 2. In allusive or figurative use. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary) buga1425 buggart1440 gay horse1483 bogle?1507 chimera?1521 bog1527 terriculament1548 bugbear1552 bull-bear1561 hag1563 boggard1574 scare-bug1583 bull-beggar1584 kill-cow fray1589 poker1598 bug-boy1601 bogle-bo1603 mormo1605 mock-beggar1611 mormolukee1624 Tom Poker1673 raw-head1678 hobgoblin1709 bugaboo1733 Tom Po1744 spectre1774 bogy-man1862 bogy1865 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 133 For Zeal's a dreadful Termagant,..Turns meek, and sneaking Secret ones, To Raw-heads fierce, and Bloody Bones. 1712 Proposals for printing Treat. Art of Political Lying 15 Bringing out the Raw-head and Bloody-bones upon every trifling Occasion. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 70 They will welcome the little strangers by making raw head and bloody bones of them. 1948 Z. N. Hurston Seraph on Suwanee xvii. 154 Love to her meant..to be wrapped around and held in an embrace so warm and so tight that the Booger Man, the raw-head-and-bloody-bones of lonesomeness, could never come nigh her. 1991 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 22 219 Anderson County, often described as ‘the raw head and bloody bones’ of the rebellion in Texas. Compounds General attributive, in conjunction with bloody-bones, chiefly in sense ‘gruesome, gory’. ΚΠ 1664 T. Killigrew 2nd Pt. Thomaso iv. i, in Comedies & Trag. 429 I did not think you could have spoke such a Raw-head and bloody-bones-speech. 1691 Search after Wit 9 Some raw Head and bloody Bones Tales of Amboyna. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. 161 Nothing..could have been added to the Humour of this Raw-Head and Bloody Bones Expedition, unless the ingenious Inventress of it had made them call at Rome in their Way. 1749 J. Cleland Case of Unfortunate B. Penlez 20 Had this first Act of the Rioters appear'd in that Raw-head and Bloody-bones Light which has since been industriously cast upon it..how obvious was it, for the Arm of the executive Power to have instantly aveng'd the Government. 1774 J. Burgh Polit. Disquis. II. iii. iv. 429 The rest are in Ireland..and are necessary there to keep the raw-head-and-bloody-bones-papists quiet. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. vi. 147 Tell a raw-head-and-bloody-bone story about a footpad. 1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 1 Apr. (1941) 216 They are very angry at the Review for telling a rawhead and bloody bones story. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. iii. 46 A raw-head-and-bloody-bones picture of the suspected murderer. 1918 W. J. Locke Rough Road xx. 245 ‘J. M. T. and I have looked Death in the face many a time—and really he's a poor raw-head and bloody-bones sort of Bogey; don't you think so, old chap?’ ‘It all depends on whether you've got a funk-hole handy.’ 1983 E. F. Bleiler Guide Supernatural Fiction 468/2 Most of the stories are in the rawhead and bloody bones tradition, but the folkloristic snippets are sometimes interesting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.²1566
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