rodneyn.1adj.
/ˈrɒdni/, U.S. /ˈrɑdni/ A. n.1
1. Coal Mining (English regional (Staffordshire)). A roughly constructed platform or a brazier near the mouth of a pit, upon which a fire is lit at night. Now rare.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > portable receptacle for burning fuel
fire paneOE
heartheOE
fire vessela1382
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chafing-dish1483
coal pan1530
fire chauffer1558
brazeraine1623
brasero1652
brazier1690
firecage1770
fire-holder1789
fire basket1798
mangal1814
komfoor1841
rodney1848
Jack1849
chip pan1854
reredos1859
hibachi1863
scaldino1866
chafing-pan1867
salamander1873
1848 London Mining Jrnl. Gloss. in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 45 463 [S. Staffs.] Rodney, a roughly constructed platform, with old rails, near the pit's mouth, upon which a large fire is made during the winter nights, to light the bank.
a1904 J. Turner in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 140/2 Rodney, the iron brazier used on a pit-bank to light up the surroundings.
2. English regional (Yorkshire and west midlands) and Welsh English (southern). An idler, a loafer; a vagrant; a disreputable person. Chiefly derogatory.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun]
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trumpery1738
rap1742
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rip1781
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scamp1808
waffie1808
loose fish1809
ne'er-do-good1814
hard bargain1818
vaurien1829
sculpin1834
shicer1846
wastrel1847
scallywag1848
shack-bag1855
beat1865
rodney1877
git1939
no-hoper1944
piss artist1962
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person
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never-thrivinga1450
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unsel155.
pelf1551
shifterc1562
rag1566
wandrel?1567
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baggage1594
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bash-rag1603
arrant1605
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vauneant1621
knick-knacker1622
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slabberdegullion1653
thimble-maker1654
whiffler1659
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shack1682
vagabond1686
shabaroon1699
shag-bag1699
houndsfoot1710
ne'er-do-well1737
trumpery1738
rap1742
hallion1789
scamp1808
waffie1808
ne'er-do-good1814
vaurien1829
sculpin1834
shicer1846
good-for-nothing1847
wastrel1847
scallywag1848
shack-bag1855
beat1865
toe-rag1875
rodney1877
toe-ragger1896
low-lifer1902
punk1904
lowlife1909
ringtail1916
git1939
no-hoper1944
schlub1950
piss artist1962
dead leg1964
1877 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 7 168/1 To keep a boy from work until he is thirteen is to encourage idleness. In the expressive language of the [Wolverhampton iron- and brickmaking] district it makes ‘Rodneys’ of them.
1882 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 6 397/2 The Bench sent the defendant to prison for six weeks аs а vagrant, or a rodney according to the policeman's definition.
1892 Daily News 14 Mar. 6/1 The ‘Rodney’ has no home; he sleeps with his back against his coke oven, or in it when it is cleared out.
1965 G. Jones Island of Apples ii. viii. 146 We didn't want to have anything to do with rodneys like them, but they spread out across the road so that we couldn't pass.
1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. (Sport section) 7/1 And to think I knew them when they were a bunch of London rodneys.
3. Canadian (originally and chiefly Newfoundland). A small fishing boat, typically round-bottomed with a square stern; a small punt. Now chiefly historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > other types of fishing vessel
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cag1666
yawl1670
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hogboat1784
fishing-smack1785
hooker1801
hatch-boat1828
pinkie1840
fishing-bark1841
pookhaun1851
garookuh1855
jigger1860
fisher-bark1862
fisher-keel1870
Norwegian1872
scaf1877
mule coble1883
mule1884
Zulu1884
novy1885
tosher1885
skipjack1887
fleeter1888
fishing-float1893
rodney1895
mutton-ham boat1899
nobby1899
sinagot1927
sport fisherman1937
sport fisher1940
ski-boat1964
belly boat1976
1895 Christmas Rev. (Newfoundland) 18 Jim Leary, whose handiwork, whether displayed in the construction of baitskiff, smack, skiff, punt or rodney, was always superior to what any other man in the settlement could turn out.
1923 Sunday at Home Dec. 153/1 The punt..was one of the small, light type of boat called a ‘rodney’, and it was used mainly for shooting about the harbour, or on sealing trips.
1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 36 Sid, go over to Blanchard's and keep an eye on what they're doing. Take the rodney.
2003 Canad. Geographic Nov. 80/2 Like the rodney, the ‘double-ender’ had oakum caulking, two sets of oars and a take-down mast.
B. adj.
(attributive). English regional (chiefly west midlands and Gloucestershire). Rough, disreputable; idle. Chiefly derogatory. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined
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loutardly1658
unhewn1659
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ramgunshoch1721
tramontane1740
uncouth1740
no-nationa1756
unurbane1760
turnipy1792
rudas1802
common1804
cubbish1819
clodhopping1828
vulgarian1833
cloddish1844
unkempt1846
bush1851
vulgarish1860
rodney1866
crude1876
ignorant1886
yobby1910
nekulturny1932
oikish1959
yobbish1966
ocker1972
down and dirty1977
1866 Birmingham Daily Gaz. 12 Nov. in Notes & Queries (1867) 3rd Ser. 11 494/1 There was Devil Lees.., a great big rodney fellow, as hard as a grounsell toad.
1884 R. Lawson Upton-on-Severn Words & Phrases 26 A rodney sort of a chap.
1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. (at cited word) It were some o' they rodney Pershore chaps.
1968 in P. G. Hollowell Lorry Driver v. 120 You two, you'm rodney idle bastards and I'm tekin' yow to see the gaffer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Rodneyn.2
/ˈrɒdni/, U.S. /ˈrɑdni/ Chiefly attributive. A type of decanter designed with a wide base for use on board a ship. Cf. ship decanter n. at ship n.1 Compounds 3a.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [adjective] > descriptive of decanter
Rodney1853
Black Forest1886
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > decanter
decanter1712
imperial1858
ship decanter1929
Rodney1986
1853 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. 28 121 Finger tumblers, sham diamond cut dishes, and Rodney decanters.
1943 Apollo 38 140/1 There was the barrel-shaped ‘Rodney’ decanter with ringed neck from 1788 to 1795.
1986 ‘J. Gash’ Moonspender xxii. 175 He served brandy from a Rodney decanter... The name is Admiral Rodney's... True Rodneys are post 1782, the year of his great victory.
2001 J. Hayhurst Miller's Glass Buying Guide (2004) 71 (caption) An Irish Rodney decanter, the body engraved with vesica decoration, with three milled neck rings and a moulded target stopper.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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