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单词 sir-reverence
释义

sir-reverencen.

Forms: Also Sir-, and 1500s seve, save, 1600s sa-reverence.
Etymology: Alteration of save (abbreviated to sa' ) reverence : see save prep. 1 and reverence n. Phrases 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: sir-ˈreverence.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1.
a. sir-reverence of, with all respect for, with apologies to. (Cf. reverence n. Phrases 2.) Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > with respect
sir-reverence of1575
sir-reverence1592
save (a person's) reverence1596
with all (due, great, etc.) respect1614
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. ii. sig. Ei Sir reuerence of your masterdome, and you were out adoore [etc.].
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. B3 And sir, sirreuerence of your manhood and genterie, I haue brought home such mony as you lent me.
1614 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 14 His manners, that hauing to tell a sober tale to a Justice of peace, would still begin his speeches with ‘Sir reuerence of your worships honesty’.
a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman ii. iii. 235 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) The beastliest man..Sir-reverence of the company, a rank whoremaster.
b. Without const. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > with respect
sir-reverence of1575
sir-reverence1592
save (a person's) reverence1596
with all (due, great, etc.) respect1614
α.
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. in Wks. (1884) I. 171 And, sir reuerence, how lowsy he and the mother of Infortunatus were.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 91 A very reuerent body: I such a one, as a man may not speake of, without he say sir reuerence.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre Induct. sig. A4v in Wks. II Hee has (sirreuerence) kick'd me three, or foure times about the Tyring-house.
1654 J. Speed in E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot sig. **v And makes the Country Neighbourhood about Swallow, Sir reverence, what he voideth out.
1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance iv. i. 45 Plain Fulbank, me thinks you might have had a Sir-reverence under your Girdle Sir.
β. 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax Let. sig. Aijv A thing that I cannot name wel without saue-reuerence.a1600 T. Deloney Pleasant Hist. Iohn Winchcomb (1619) x. sig. Lij I was a woman, when she was se-reuerence a paltrie girle.a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 223 So great was his despite against him, meerly because he was Sacerdos Maritatus, which forsooth he cannot name without a Sa-Reverence.1681 Blount's Glossographia (ed. 5) Sa-reverence, salva reverentia, saving regard or respect; an usual word.
c. With punning allusion to sir n. 1. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 176 They neither feare Goodman Sathan,..nor Sir Reuerence, nor milord Gouernement himselfe.
2.
a. Human excrement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun]
gorec725
mixeOE
quedeeOE
turdeOE
dungOE
worthinga1225
dirta1300
drega1300
naturea1325
fen1340
ordurec1390
fimea1475
merd1486
stercory1496
avoidc1503
siegec1530
fex1540
excrement1541
hinder-fallings1561
gong1562
foil1565
voiding1577
pilgrim-salvec1580
egestion1583
shita1585
sir-reverence1592
purgament1597
filinga1622
faecesa1625
exclusion1646
faecality1653
tantadlin1654
surreverence1655
draught1659
excrementitiousness1660
jakes1701
old golda1704
dejection1728
dejecture1731
shitea1733
feculence1733
doll1825
crap1846
excreta1857
excretes1883
hockey1886
dejecta1887
job1899
number two1902
mess1903
ming1923
do1930
tomtit1930
pony1931
No. 21937
dog shit1944
Shinola1944
big job1945
biggie1953
doo-doo1954
doings1957
gick1959
pooh1960
pooh-pooh1962
dooky1965
poopy1970
whoopsie1973
pucky1980
jobbie1981
1592 R. Greene Blacke Bookes Messenger sig. D3 His face,..and his necke, were all besmeared with the soft sirreuerence, so as hee stunke.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lii For four..Days I hardly scumber'd one poor Butt of Sir~reverence.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxv. 372 'Twas a Bolus made of Sirreverence or Human Dung, begging the Reader's Pardon.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 103 As a plate of marmalade would improve a pan of sirreverence.
b. With a. A piece or lump of this.
ΚΠ
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. C4 As far as a hungry sow can smel a sir reuerence.
1683 J. Dryden Vindication 23 If I cry a Sirreverence, and you take it for Honey, make the best of your bargain.
1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus III. 174 To try an Important Experiment, whether it was possible for 'em to preserve a Sir Reverence.
1720–21 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 315 To pass by the Sir~reverence, and the good Dousing the Dragon met with.
1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Acharnians iv. vii, in Comedies 110 May Providence Send to the hand of this fine spark A newly-born sir-reverence.
a1840 J. H. Frere tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 1170 Let him grasp for his defence A ponderous sir reverence.

Derivatives

sir-ˈreverence v. Obsolete rare
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (intransitive)]
dritea1000
to do one's filthheadc1300
shit?c1335
to go to siegec1400
scumbera1425
cack1436
to do one's easementa1438
to ease nature, ease oneselfc1440
skite1449
to do of one's needingsc1475
fen1486
dung1508
spurge1530
to cover his feet1535
lask1540
stool1540
to exonerate nature1542
file1564
fiant1575
cucka1605
wray1620
exonerate1631
excrement1632
to do one's ease1645
sir-reverence1665
excrementizec1670
nest1679
poop1689
move1699
defecate1837
crap1874
mire1918
to make a mess1928
mess1937
to go poo-poo (also poo-poos)1960
potty1972
to do a whoopsie (or whoopsies)1973
pooh1975
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. sig. B8 Another time sirreverencing in a paper, and running to the window with it.
1697 C. Cibber Womans Wit iv. 52 O Lord Sir! I do Sir-reverence your Person.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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