单词 | blood-tub |
释义 | blood-tubn. 1. A tub containing, or designed to contain blood; esp. a tub employed in a slaughterhouse to hold the blood of slaughtered animals. Now also in extended use. ΚΠ 1747 Proc. Old Bailey 4 June 186/1 His Face look'd as if it had been in a Blood Tub. ?1790 T. Nicholls Wreath 112 Now came the cook to take the turtle's life, Bearing in hand a well-whet carving knife. The massy dainty soon the altar graced, The blood-tub fix'd, and all in order placed. 1843 Standard 12 Sept. 1/3 The [injured] child, when picked up, looked as though it had just come out of a blood tub. 1878 6th Ann. Rep. Local Govt. Board 1876–77: Suppl. App. No. 6 146 On the uncleanly condition of blood tubs or other receptacles either kept in the slaughter-house or in the yard. 1989 B. Coley in S. K. Moore I remember Strawbwerries & Sewage 6 There was a blood tub and Barbara Bamford (nee Cox) who was a tiny schoolgirl would stand there and watch the killing. 1993 T. Dawe In Hardy Country 92 I was alone near the blood-tub. 2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Mar. 22 The deterioration of Iraq into a foaming blood-tub of crazed mullahs and hostage-pilfering nutters. 2. U.S. History. Chiefly with capital initial(s). Usually in plural. A member of a street gang based in Baltimore, Maryland, whose members made violent interventions in the elections of the 1850s and 1860s in support of the nativist (nativist adj. 1) cause; (also) a member of any of various similar gangs existing on the East Coast in the same period. Cf. plug-ugly n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > person tyrant1377 routera1500 termagant1508 ruffy?a1513 ruffiana1525 pander1593 thunderbolt1593 bully1604 ruffiano1611 tearer1633 violentoa1661 boy1662 violent1667 hardhead1774 Arab1788 ring-tailed roarer1828 blood-tub1853 tornado1863 stormer1886 hooligan1898 Apache1902 ned1910 rough-up1911 radge1923 goonda1926 pretty-boy1931 tough baby1932 bad-john1935 hoon1938 shit-kicker1954 tough boy1958 oafo1959 ass-kicker1962 droog1962 trog1983 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > raising outcry barratorc1440 brawlc1440 outcrier1535 breacher1697 rowdy1814 roughiea1819 roughneck1834 rough1837 blood-tub1853 1853 North Amer. & U.S. Gaz. (Philadelphia) 12 July On Sunday afternoon, a party of boys, calling themselves ‘Bloodtubs’, attacked a dram shop,..and broke the windows. 1861 J. De Mille in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. I. iii. 73/1 ‘Blood-tubs’ and ‘Plug-Uglies’, and others galore, Are sick for a thrashing in sweet Baltimore. 1872 D. R. Locke Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby clxiii. 527 I hev already received tenders of percessions ez terrible ez armies with banners. The Blood Tubs uv Baltimore, the Killers uv Philadelfy, and the Ded Rabbits uv Noo York, hev all expressed a desire to do me this honor. 1940 H. E. Wildes Delaware xxv. 293 Each gang possessed its territory... The sign of Schuylkill Ranger or Kensington Blood-tub..warned rivals against encroachment. 1983 Amer. Hist. Rev. 88 1197 Native-born workers joined the Plug Uglies, Rip Raps, Blood Tubs, and other nativist gangs to oust the immigrants. 2004 D. G. Richardson Others: Third Party Politics vii. 226 Among the myriad of nefarious and reprehensible acts employed by the Baltimore Blood Tubs, members routinely dunked German and Irish voters in tubs of bloody water and then chased them away from the city's polling places. 3. British. A familiar or colloquial name for: a theatre or cinema having a reputation for presenting violent or sensational material, esp. lurid melodramas. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre little theatre1569 private house1604 private playhouse1609 amphitheatre1611 private theatre1633 droll-house1705 summer theatre1761 show shop1772 national theatre1816 minor1821 legitimate1826 patent house1827 patent theatre1836 showboat1839 music theatre1849 penny-gaff1856 saloon theatre1864 leg shop1871 people's theatre1873 nickelodeon1888 repertory theatre1891 studio theatre1891 legit1897 blood-tub1906 rep1906 small-timer1910 grind house1923 theatrette1927 indie1928 vaude1933 straw hat1935 theatre-in-the-round1948 straw-hatter1949 bughouse1952 theatre-restaurant1958 dinner theatre1959 theatre club1961 black box1971 pub theatre1971 performance space1972 1906 Times 22 Mar. 3/4 What other name have you heard applied to a theatre?—The blood-tub, my Lord. 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger ii. xx. 301 She asked what the building was, and he explained. ‘They used to call it the Blood Tub,’ he said... ‘Melodrama and murder and gore—you know.’ 1983 Oral Hist. 11 i. 55 As a child in the early years of the century, Frank Marsden attended the ‘Blood Tub’ against his parents' will. 2004 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 3 Jan. (Features) 30 To the Brummies of yesteryear, a ‘blood tub’ was a cinema where bloodthirsty films were screened. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1747 |
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