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单词 shellac
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shellacn.

Brit. /ʃəˈlak/, /ˈʃɛlak/, U.S. /ʃəˈlæk/
Forms: Also 1700s shellack, shel-lack, shell-lake, shell lack, 1700s–1800s shell-lac, shell lac.
Etymology: translating French laque en écailles lac (see lac n.1) in thin plates. (Compare German schalenlack, beside schellack from English.)
1. Lac melted and run into thin plates; formerly used esp. in the manufacture of gramophone records.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > processed resinous materials > [noun] > shellac
shellac1713
1713 Mercator No. 93/4. 1370 l. Shellack.
1716 Great Brit. Weekly Pacquet No. 17 Gum Shell Lack, Ditto Seed Lack, Ditto Stick Lack.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 177 Lacks, such as Shel-lack, Stick-lack, &c.
1736 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 20 A Cake of Shell-Lake.
1842 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. (ed. 3) xvii. 476 Varnished with a solution of shell lac in strong alcohol.
1873 Spon in Work-shop Rec. 1st Ser. 23/1 Shellac is the only cement used by jewellers for jet articles.
1913 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 176 192 These modern composition disk records are in reality seals of the human voice, because the substance they are made of is a modified sealing wax,..containing shellac as a basic substance.
1913 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 176 192 Shellac is much adulterated, and the mineral and fibrous substances which are added require careful selection.
1933 Amer. Speech 8 13/1 Professor Jones..has them [sc. cardinal vowels] recorded on shellac.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 266 Formerly, shellac was used for pressing records, and having much greater elasticity was suitable for record materials when only very heavy..pick-up heads were available.
attributive.1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Japanning The proper japan ground..is much the best formed of shell-lac varnish.1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 792 Shell-lac varnish is rather softer than seed-lac varnish.1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 12 Carbolised shellac plaster.
2. A gramophone record made of shellac.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1954 Billboard 21 Aug. 18/2 Unless a publisher could get hold of an acetate of his song, he had to wait until the shellacs were ready.
1977 G. V. Higgins Dreamland xvi. 180 I remember the phonograph playing... There was one tune... He played it all the time, scratchy and noisy as the old shellacs were.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

shellacv.

/ʃɛˈlak/
Forms: Also shellack; past participle shellacked.
Etymology: < shellac n.
Originally and chiefly U.S.
1. transitive. To coat or varnish with shellac.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with coating or covering materials > work with coating or covering materials [verb (transitive)] > varnish
varnish1398
revarnish1793
shellac1917
cellulose1928
polyurethane1977
1876 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 488/1 It is made of plain white pine, brought to a good surface and shellacked.
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 139 Book-shelves have been made of pine, painted in flat color or stained and shellacked.
1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 90 Wayne threatened to varnish or shellac the paper so that it would turn the rain.
1969 Sunday Times 9 Feb. 58/1 They tend to wear dark blue silken suits or little black dresses and look as if they had been shellacked or sprayed with fixative just before they left home.
2. slang. To beat, thrash, punish.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
to-beatc893
threshOE
bustc1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
berrya1250
to-bunea1250
touchc1330
arrayc1380
byfrapc1380
boxc1390
swinga1400
forbeatc1420
peal?a1425
routa1425
noddlea1450
forslinger1481
wipe1523
trima1529
baste1533
waulk1533
slip1535
peppera1550
bethwack1555
kembc1566
to beat (a person) black and blue1568
beswinge1568
paik1568
trounce1568
canvass1573
swaddle?1577
bebaste1582
besoop1589
bumfeage1589
dry-beat1589
feague1589
lamback1589
clapperclaw1590
thrash1593
belam1595
lam1595
beswaddle1598
bumfeagle1598
belabour1600
tew1600
flesh-baste1611
dust1612
feeze1612
mill1612
verberate1614
bethumpa1616
rebuke1619
bemaul1620
tabor1624
maula1627
batterfang1630
dry-baste1630
lambaste1637
thunder-thump1637
cullis1639
dry-banga1640
nuddle1640
sauce1651
feak1652
cotton1654
fustigate1656
brush1665
squab1668
raddle1677
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slam1691
bebump1694
to give (a person) his load1694
fag1699
towel1705
to kick a person's butt1741
fum1790
devel1807
bray1808
to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813
mug1818
to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821
welt1823
hidea1825
slate1825
targe1825
wallop1825
pounce1827
to lay into1838
flake1841
muzzle1843
paste1846
looder1850
frail1851
snake1859
fettle1863
to do over1866
jacket1875
to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877
to take apart1880
splatter1881
to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884
to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886
to do up1887
to —— (the) hell out of1887
to beat — bells out of a person1890
soak1892
to punch out1893
stoush1893
to work over1903
to beat up1907
to punch up1907
cream1929
shellac1930
to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931
duff1943
clobber1944
to fill in1948
to bash up1954
to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976
to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983
beast1990
becurry-
fan-
1930 C. F. Coe Gunman iv. 53 These two bums that Lefty shellacked were members of Red Karfola's gang.
1935 J. Hargan Gloss. Prison Lang. 7 Shellack, to punish or beat.
1977 Time 8 Aug. 28/2 Pitcher McArdle was shellacked for..six runs in the first inning.

Derivatives

sheˈllaced adj. (also she'llacked) (a) coated, varnished, or fastened with shellac; (b) U.S. slang, intoxicated, ‘plastered’.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk
drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350
to-drunka1382
as drunk as the devilc1400
sow-drunk1509
fish-drunk1591
swine-drunk1592
gone1603
far gone1616
reeling drunk1620
soda1625
souseda1625
blind1630
full1631
drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652
as full (or tight) as a tick1678
clear1688
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700
as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727
as drunk as a piper1728
blind-drunkc1775
bitch foua1796
blootered1820
whole-seas over1820
three sheets in the wind1821
as drunk as a loon1830
shellaced1881
as drunk as a boiled owl1886
stinking1887
steaming drunk1892
steaming with drink1897
footless1901
legless1903
plastered1912
legless drunk1926
stinko1927
drunk as a pissant1930
kaylied1937
langers1949
stoned1952
smashed1962
shit-faced1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
trashed1966
faced1968
stoned1968
steaming1973
langered1979
annihilated1980
obliterated1984
wankered1992
muntered1998
1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 130 A piece of sapphire which is..shellaced to a brass handle.
1882 Harper's Mag. Oct. 688 The bedrooms are shellacked and some are stained of a deep tint.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 419 The shellacked cotton, oil, and other materials with which the transformer circuits are insulated.
1922 Dial. Notes 5 148 Shellacked, stewed, bunned, etc.
1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day i. iv. 85 You know, when I first found out about how you'd get shellacked, I thought it was pretty terrible.
1941 W. Lewis Let. 17 Oct. (1963) 300 The silly ‘toughness’ of the Irish immigrant mass, shellacked into a sly, bluff, servility.
1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 644 When a novelty is obvious it seldom lasts very long, e.g., shellacked for drunk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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