rocking chairn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrɒkɪŋ tʃɛː/, U.S.

/ˈrɑkɪŋ ˌtʃɛ(ə)r/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rocking adj., chair n.¹

Etymology: < rocking adj. + chair n.¹

Originally North American.

A. n.

A chair, typically a simple wooden one, mounted on rockers.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > rocking chair

rocking chair1766

swing-chair1833

rocker1836

1766 in Hobbies (1949) Sept. 50/2 1st Mo. 1766, to a rocking Chair for andrew hunter 3/.

1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) II. xxvi. 77 They..sit in a rocking-chair, and sew a great deal.

1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. i. 105 The rocking chair, introduced by the Americans,..is another mode of gaining pleasure from movement.

1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents xxx She was asleep in a rocking-chair, with a newspaper on her lap.

1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 15/2 Tra la! She flopped into the rocking chair, pulling a pink shawl that hung over the back around her shoulders.

1961 C. Vyvyan Arctic Adventure xi. 64 A tired little woman sits in a rocking chair with a peaky infant on her lap.

1978 L. Kramer Faggots 255 She lived in a Bath-owned house, furnished by Wife of Bath in summer-rent shades of warring colors. But Nancellen had chotchkied it up in Early American, with round hooked rugs and several rocking chairs and innumerable hurricane lamps.

2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 312 But something told him after this one a portion of damn hard work to put things straight would be required and he'd be as busy as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

B. adj. (attributive). Originally and chiefly U.S.

1. Chiefly depreciative. Lacking or not involving practical or direct experience of a particular subject or activity. Cf. armchair adj..

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > confirmation of hypothesis, theory > [adjective] > as opposed to practical

contemplative1563

paper1616

theoretic1617

considerative1677

theoretical1767

academic1812

moot1831

armchair1858

rocking chair1911

unempirical1934

1911 Nat. Mag. July 530/1 Those who are staying at home—why not be ‘rocking chair tourists’ and enjoy country, seashore or foreign lands in the ‘old side-arm rocker’?

1914 Expositor May 484/1 Don't be a Rocking-chair Christian... Don't be a Light-Weight Christian.

1933 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Feb. 6/3 A question which delights every sewing circle and rocking-chair parade in the country.

1962 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 10/2 A third U2 incident over Communist territory..will renew groans at the President's rocking-chair diplomacy.

1975 D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega xxiv. 234 Rocking-chair revolutionaries peddling nursery economics.

1999 M. Diedrich Love across Color Lines vi. 214 The blindness to the potential consequences of Brown's scheme which characterized her rocking chair radicalism.

2. Belonging to, appropriate for, or suggestive of old age or retirement.

ΚΠ

1939 Collier's 23 Sept. 11/3 One of the more callous young baseball writers had dubbed him ‘a rocking-chair first-sacker’.

1953 Life 22 June 79/1 (advt.) For your grandparents in the early 1900's, the rocking-chair years frequently began at forty.

1995 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Mar. j3 Shattering myths about the rocking-chair generation, eight women will be doing aerobics, singing and reciting poetry in hopes of becoming the 1995 Ms. Senior District of Columbia.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 Oct. c18/6 I actually thought the one year rocking-chair tour would be a good way to send him out and a good way for Joe to walk into the sunset.

Compounds

rocking-chair money n. North American (originally and chiefly U.S.) unemployment insurance; (broadly) any benefit paid to someone who is not working.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > state allowance > unemployment benefit

unemployment benefit1909

the dole1919

buroo1934

pineapple1937

rocking-chair money1938

susso1941

unemployment1976

1938 Bee (Danville, Virginia) 30 June 1/7 Unemployment insurance..has come to be known among the mill workers as ‘rocking chair’ money.

1959 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Apr. 7/1 The somewhat less sophisticated people of the Maritimes have a happier name for Unemployment Insurance... ‘Rockin' Chair Money’.

1964 J. Peacock To Drill & Die iii. 16 You're staying around for rockin'-chair money.

1970 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (at cited word) Rocking-chair (money),..social security, unemployment, disability insurance, pension, and similar payments.

2003 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 6 Apr. e2 Come the following spring, the big money was all gone. So was the ‘rocking-chair money’—unemployment checks—the men received over the winter.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

b. With various substantives or adjectives indicating the nature, material, purpose, etc., as bed-chair, bedroom chair, camp chair, cane chair, compass chair, folding chair, garden chair, hall chair, kitchen chair, leather chair, library chair, lobby chair, obstetrical chair, office chair, rocking chair, swinging chair, Turkey chair, wheelchair. Also armchair n., Bath-chair n. at Bath n.² Compounds 3, curule chair n. at curule adj. 1, easy chair n., elbow-chair n., great chair n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e.

ΚΠ

1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 286 A compasse chayre, halfe a circle. Hemicyclus.

1711 R. Steele Spectator 52 ⁋3 An easy chair..at the upper End of the Table.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 72. ¶4 The great Elbow-chair which stands at the upper End of the Table.

1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. V. 220 Easy Leather-Chairs made..with..Springs.

1790 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 2 477 I..found him..sitting in a great chair.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 539 Having requested the indulgence of an easy chair at the sittings of the French Academy..the King, instead of one easy chair, sent forty to the Academy.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd II. iv. i. 12 He sat in the swinging chair.

1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii A servant passes, pushing through the crowd a shabby wheel-chair.

单词	rocking chair
释义	rocking chairn.adj. Brit. /ˈrɒkɪŋ tʃɛː/, U.S. /ˈrɑkɪŋ ˌtʃɛ(ə)r/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rocking adj., chair n.¹ Etymology: < rocking adj. + chair n.¹ Originally North American. A. n. A chair, typically a simple wooden one, mounted on rockers. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > rocking chair rocking chair1766 swing-chair1833 rocker1836 1766 in Hobbies (1949) Sept. 50/2 1st Mo. 1766, to a rocking Chair for andrew hunter 3/. 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) II. xxvi. 77 They..sit in a rocking-chair, and sew a great deal. 1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. i. 105 The rocking chair, introduced by the Americans,..is another mode of gaining pleasure from movement. 1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents xxx She was asleep in a rocking-chair, with a newspaper on her lap. 1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 15/2 Tra la! She flopped into the rocking chair, pulling a pink shawl that hung over the back around her shoulders. 1961 C. Vyvyan Arctic Adventure xi. 64 A tired little woman sits in a rocking chair with a peaky infant on her lap. 1978 L. Kramer Faggots 255 She lived in a Bath-owned house, furnished by Wife of Bath in summer-rent shades of warring colors. But Nancellen had chotchkied it up in Early American, with round hooked rugs and several rocking chairs and innumerable hurricane lamps. 2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 312 But something told him after this one a portion of damn hard work to put things straight would be required and he'd be as busy as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. B. adj. (attributive). Originally and chiefly U.S. 1. Chiefly depreciative. Lacking or not involving practical or direct experience of a particular subject or activity. Cf. armchair adj.. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > confirmation of hypothesis, theory > [adjective] > as opposed to practical contemplative1563 paper1616 theoretic1617 considerative1677 theoretical1767 academic1812 moot1831 armchair1858 rocking chair1911 unempirical1934 1911 Nat. Mag. July 530/1 Those who are staying at home—why not be ‘rocking chair tourists’ and enjoy country, seashore or foreign lands in the ‘old side-arm rocker’? 1914 Expositor May 484/1 Don't be a Rocking-chair Christian... Don't be a Light-Weight Christian. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Feb. 6/3 A question which delights every sewing circle and rocking-chair parade in the country. 1962 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 10/2 A third U2 incident over Communist territory..will renew groans at the President's rocking-chair diplomacy. 1975 D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega xxiv. 234 Rocking-chair revolutionaries peddling nursery economics. 1999 M. Diedrich Love across Color Lines vi. 214 The blindness to the potential consequences of Brown's scheme which characterized her rocking chair radicalism. 2. Belonging to, appropriate for, or suggestive of old age or retirement. ΚΠ 1939 Collier's 23 Sept. 11/3 One of the more callous young baseball writers had dubbed him ‘a rocking-chair first-sacker’. 1953 Life 22 June 79/1 (advt.) For your grandparents in the early 1900's, the rocking-chair years frequently began at forty. 1995 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Mar. j3 Shattering myths about the rocking-chair generation, eight women will be doing aerobics, singing and reciting poetry in hopes of becoming the 1995 Ms. Senior District of Columbia. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 Oct. c18/6 I actually thought the one year rocking-chair tour would be a good way to send him out and a good way for Joe to walk into the sunset. Compounds rocking-chair money n. North American (originally and chiefly U.S.) unemployment insurance; (broadly) any benefit paid to someone who is not working. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > state allowance > unemployment benefit unemployment benefit1909 the dole1919 buroo1934 pineapple1937 rocking-chair money1938 susso1941 unemployment1976 1938 Bee (Danville, Virginia) 30 June 1/7 Unemployment insurance..has come to be known among the mill workers as ‘rocking chair’ money. 1959 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Apr. 7/1 The somewhat less sophisticated people of the Maritimes have a happier name for Unemployment Insurance... ‘Rockin' Chair Money’. 1964 J. Peacock To Drill & Die iii. 16 You're staying around for rockin'-chair money. 1970 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (at cited word) Rocking-chair (money),..social security, unemployment, disability insurance, pension, and similar payments. 2003 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 6 Apr. e2 Come the following spring, the big money was all gone. So was the ‘rocking-chair money’—unemployment checks—the men received over the winter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas rocking chair b. With various substantives or adjectives indicating the nature, material, purpose, etc., as bed-chair, bedroom chair, camp chair, cane chair, compass chair, folding chair, garden chair, hall chair, kitchen chair, leather chair, library chair, lobby chair, obstetrical chair, office chair, rocking chair, swinging chair, Turkey chair, wheelchair. Also armchair n., Bath-chair n. at Bath n.² Compounds 3, curule chair n. at curule adj. 1, easy chair n., elbow-chair n., great chair n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e. ΚΠ 1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 286 A compasse chayre, halfe a circle. Hemicyclus. 1711 R. Steele Spectator 52 ⁋3 An easy chair..at the upper End of the Table. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 72. ¶4 The great Elbow-chair which stands at the upper End of the Table. 1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. V. 220 Easy Leather-Chairs made..with..Springs. 1790 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 2 477 I..found him..sitting in a great chair. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 539 Having requested the indulgence of an easy chair at the sittings of the French Academy..the King, instead of one easy chair, sent forty to the Academy. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd II. iv. i. 12 He sat in the swinging chair. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii A servant passes, pushing through the crowd a shabby wheel-chair. extracted from chairn.¹ < n.adj.1766 as lemmas
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rocking chairn.adj.

Compounds

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