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单词 shuttlecock
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shuttlecockn.

/ˈʃʌt(ə)lkɒk/
Etymology: < shuttle n.1 (see for forms) + cock n.1 and int. Compare shuttle-cork n.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
figurative.1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. 20 They were only playing at shuttlecock with words.
3. A Mexican malvaceous shrub, Periptera punica.
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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.
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1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 11 A Shittle-cock-maker.
C2. quasi-adj. Light, tossed hither and thither.
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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.

Etymology: < shuttlecock n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshuttlecock.
1. transitive. To throw, send backwards and forwards or to toss like a shuttlecock. Also figurative.
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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.
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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).
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