单词 | shellac |
释义 | shellacn. 1. Lac melted and run into thin plates; formerly used esp. in the manufacture of gramophone records. ΘΚΠ 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. 2. A gramophone record made of shellac. ΘΚΠ 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. Originally and chiefly U.S. 1. transitive. To coat or varnish with shellac. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1713v.1876 |
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