单词 | shuttlecock |
释义 | shuttlecockn. 1. a. A small piece of cork, or similar light material, fitted with a crown or circle of feathers, used in the game of ‘battledore and shuttlecock’ (see 2) and also in the game of Badminton. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > battledore or badminton > [noun] > shuttlecock shuttlecocka1529 shuttlea1591 shuttle-corka1627 bird1890 birdie1926 a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 351 I trow all wyll be nought, Nat worth a shyttel cocke. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints sig. O3v A thousand wayes he them could entertaine,..With dice, with cards,..With shuttelcocks. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 74 This playing with a shettlecocke, or tossing empty bladders in the ayre. 1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. C3v His head was drest vp in white Feathers like a Shuttle-Cock. 1626 N. Breton Fantasticks sig. C4v The shuttel-Cocke with the Battel-doore is a pretty house-exercise. 1688 J. Bunyan Water of Life 116 They toss their Vanities about as the Boys toss their Shittle-Cocks in the Air. a1779 D. Garrick in R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough (1781) Prol. Made up, like shuttlecocks, of cork and feather. 1801 C. K. Sharpe Let. 12 Jan. Corr. 1888 I. 103 With long stiff feathers stuck round their heads like those of a shittle-cock. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. vi. i. 194 Vast interests, and solemn causes, are no longer tossed about like shuttlecocks on the battledores of empty tongues. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 70/2 [article Badminton] Shuttlecock, the missile employed, which consists of a cork crowned with feathers, from 3 to 5 inches in length. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. F2v What made these paire of Shittle-cockes heere? what doe they fumble for? 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iv. 42 Certain..Sollicitors and Barristers, make it their whole Business to keep the Shuttle-Cock [sc. Chancery suits] in motion. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 198 The shuttlecock of conversation may fall to the ground. 1858 Duke of Argyll Autobiogr. (1906) II. 124 This Reform question ought not to be made the shuttlecock of party. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Dec. 5/1 The best American securities are periodically the shuttlecock of unscrupulous speculators. 2. The game (more fully battledore and shuttlecock, now played only by children) in which the shuttlecock is hit with the battledore backwards and forwards between two players, or by one player into the air as many times as possible without dropping it. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > battledore or badminton > [noun] shuttlec1440 shuttlecock1601 battledore1719 badminton1863 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. iv. sig. E2 Shee can..play at Shittle-cock . View more context for this quotation 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) ii. ii. iv. 255 The ordinary recreations which we haue in Winter,..are Cardes,..shuttlecocke, balliardes,..&c. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 20 Sept. (1948) I. 364 And get somebody to play at shuttlecock with you, madam Stella. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xiv Pray Mr. F...are you fond of shuttlecock? 3. A Mexican malvaceous shrub, Periptera punica. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > hibiscus or mallow trees or shrubs and allies > [noun] mallowa1400 mallowa1425 shrubbed mallow1597 shrubby mallow1597 shrub mallow1640 mahoe1666 purau1769 Malabar rose1818 rose of Sharon1835 shuttlecock1836 hau1843 cotton tree1876 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 588 (table) Periptera..punicea... Shuttlecock. 1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. (at cited word) Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as shuttlecock-maker. ΚΠ 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 11 A Shittle-cock-maker. C2. quasi-adj. Light, tossed hither and thither. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective] twiredec888 orrathc1175 twofoldc1175 twifoldc1200 waveringc1315 uncertain1382 suspensec1440 mammeringa1450 flowing?1504 floghtering1521 vacillant1521 in a mammering1532 double-minded1552 unstaid1561 unresolute1570 unresolved?1571 staggeringa1577 frittle1579 irresolute1579 cheverel1583 off and on1583 halting1585 unsettleda1593 unresolving1599 demurring1607 waving1611 suspensive1614 hoveringa1616 startling1619 irresolved1621 hesitating1622 indetermined1628 variousa1643 branling1645 hesitant1647 non-sincere1656 hesitatious1657 humdrum1660 shuttlecock1660 yea-and-nay1672 swaying1688 interpendent1708 undetermined1718 Squadronec1720 hesitatorya1734 volanta1734 shilly-shally1734 dilly-dally1749 niffy-naffy1765 wiggle-waggle1778 undecided1779 undecisive1780 indecisive1787 conflicted1789 hesitative1795 undeciding1802 vacillating1814 yea-nay1827 demurrant1836 willy-nilly1839 shilly-shallying1842 oscillative1852 Hamletish1854 vacillatory1854 dilly-dallying1879 thistledown1897 weak-principled1913 not-quite1920 off-again on-again1923 dithery1931 havering1975 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > moving like a shuttlecock shuttlecock1660 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective] idlec825 giddyc1000 volage?a1366 apec1370 foolisha1382 vain1390 idleful1483 volageous1487 glaikit1488 cock-brained1530 apish1532 empty1550 sillyc1555 frivolous?1563 tickle-headed1583 light-braineda1593 frothy1593 owlish1596 bird-witted1605 empty-headed1614 idle-headed1614 empty-pateda1628 marmosetical1630 grollish1637 feather-headed1647 nonsense1647 whirl-crowned1648 feather-brained1649 swimmering1650 soft-pated1651 weather-headeda1652 shuttlecock1660 drum-headed1664 chicken-brained1678 halokit1724 desipient1727 shatter-pated1727 scattered-brained1747 light-thoughted1777 scatter-brained1804 shandy-pated1806 hellicat1815 feather-pated1819 inane1819 weather-brained1826 bubble-headed1827 tomfoolish1838 bird-brained1892 tottle1894 fluffy1898 scatty1911 wandery1912 scattery1924 twitterpated1943 1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον Ep. Ded. p. xvii He [sc. Cromwell] brought the Shuttlecock opprobrie upon the grave Counsell of the Land, and call'd them together only to kick them out. 1754 W.Stukeley in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1887) III. 191 Now our shittlecock heads think of nothing but France. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 83 Or any other shuttlecock pate, giddy with happiness and vanity. 1903 J. C. Smith in R. Wallace: Life & Last Leaves 137 Shuttlecock retort was a familiar game with him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shuttlecockv. 1. transitive. To throw, send backwards and forwards or to toss like a shuttlecock. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > move like a shuttlecock or tennis-ball shuttle1550 tennis1565 bandya1599 racket1599 shuttlecock1687 battledore1858 ping-pong1909 1687 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times I. 14 Transubstantiation, and Idolatry, the Bug-bear of the Times, has not been more Shittle-Cock'd, then this Argument. 1853 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 20 365 He is shuttle-cocked between London and Edinburgh. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxxvii ‘Yes, if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us,’ I answered hotly. 1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 402 [Certain Companies] shuttlecocked their assets and liabilities from one to the other for balance-sheet purposes. 1955 Times 10 Aug. 5/2 What Rostand lightly shuttlecocks to and fro across this barrier M. Anouilh might nowadays have said more sadly. 2. intransitive. To move or go backwards and forwards. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > move like shuttlecock or tennis-ball tennis1565 shuttlecock1790 battledore1858 1790 H. Walpole Let. to Misses Berry 8 Nov. A letter may have shuttle-cocked about. 1960 Times 23 Feb. 4/5 Miss Maxine Audley..played a part shuttle-cocking between lover, son, and husband. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1529v.1687 |
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