单词 | rousting |
释义 | roustingn.1 New Zealand and Australian colloquial. A severe reprimand, a scolding; the action of berating someone. Cf. roust v.3, rousing n.3 ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of admonishingc1350 reproofc1400 fliting1435 rebuke?a1439 snibc1450 reprehensiona1500 redargution1514 remorda1529 piece of one's mind1536 check1541 snuba1556 rebuking1561 boba1566 sneap1600 snipping1601 reprimand1636 repriment1652 rubber1699 slap1736 twinkation1748 rap1777 throughgoing1817 dressing-down1823 downset1824 hazing1829 snubbing1841 downsetting1842 raking1852 calling1855 talking toc1875 rousting1900 strafe1915 strafing1915 raspberry1919 rousing1923 bottle1938 reaming1944 ticking-off1950 serve1967 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > scolding > instance of Kyrie15.. Kyrie eleison1528 chide1538 wormwood lecture1640 rant1663 scold1726 trimming1763 blowing up1772 set-to1774 set-down1780 ragging1788 scouting1794 hurl?a1800 hearing1816 heckling1832 twisting1834 downsetting1842 going-over1843 shrewing1847 call1862 tongue-lashing1881 tongue-walking1888 telling-off1893 rousting1900 lumps1935 fourpenny one1936 rucking1958 1900 Hawera & Normanby (N.Z.) Star 4 Aug. 2/6 He gave me a rousting for not challenging him. 1918 C. J. Dennis Digger Smith 82 All me roustin' leaves 'em both serene. 1935 N.Z. Railways Mag. 2 Dec. 77 A fine old rousting we got from the mill manager when he saw who brought his engine in. 1998 Sunday Mail (S. Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Dec. Mike thought his mother-in-law..sounded agitated when she gave him a bell. But he wasn't in for a rousting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). roustingn.2 Criminals' slang and Police slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). 1. The action of jostling a person in order to pick his or her pocket. Cf. roust n.2 1. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > [noun] > distracting victim stalling1908 roust1942 rousting1942 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §490/5 Rousting,..the act of causing a crush in a crowd or jostling the victim in order to pick his pockets. 2. Raiding or harassment by the police; an instance of this; a ‘bust’. Cf. roust n.2 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > police raid raid1892 bust1938 roust1951 rousting1957 take-down1988 1957 Ladder (Daughters of Bilitis) June 19 The ACLU has protested to Harold McKinnon, police commission president, about the ‘rousting of citizens’ by the police. 1960 Washington Post 25 Jan. 1 There's more vice on Pacific Heights and Nob Hill and there's no rousting (police raiding) up there. 1968 S. Ellin Valentine Estate ii. vi. 51 Rousting was the word for it. Keep pushing a man until he either left the territory or did something he could be nailed for. 1975 High Times Dec. 31/1 So far, however, the little hungo town has been spared the midnight roustings. 1980 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 28 Mar. 290/2 Doing the selfsame job he does day in, day out, as the rozzers are well aware, and it came round to his turn to get a rousting. 2009 Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 2 Feb. 42 Everything gnaws at his resolve, including the grueling cycle of drug collars, the rousting of crooks, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11900n.21942 |
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