单词 | secesh |
释义 | seceshn.adj. U.S. History colloquial. A. n. a. A secessionist. Also secessionists collectively. ΚΠ 1862 O. W. Holmes in Atlantic Monthly Dec. 746/2 ‘There are two wounded Secesh’, said my companion. 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand vi. 25 I was one of the original ‘Secesh’,—one of the immortal thirteen that voted for it in this county. b. Secession. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > the or an act of retiring1548 retreat1589 secession1604 decession1606 retirement1606 seclusion1623 recessa1639 secesh1863 1863 A. Trollope in Good Words Dec. 858/2 I won't talk secesh to you out here in the cold. 1868 J. R. Green Lett. (1901) ii. 203 A Limehouse grocer proclaims his secesh from Newton. B. adj. = secessionist n. (and adj.) c. ΚΠ 1861 Ohio Statesman 6 Nov. in A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (1892) II. 102 The following distinguished secesh prisoners have been sent. 1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. 199 He axed what was my principles? ‘Secesh!’ I ansered. 1871 Sir S. Northcote in Life (1890) II. 38 The whole town [Richmond, Va.] is still ‘Secesh’ to the heart's core. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.adj.1861 |
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