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单词 blood-tub
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blood-tubn.

Brit. /ˈblʌdtʌb/, U.S. /ˈblədˌtəb/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., tub n.1
Etymology: < blood n. + tub n.1
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.
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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.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > person
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routera1500
termagant1508
ruffy?a1513
ruffiana1525
pander1593
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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
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outcrier1535
breacher1697
rowdy1814
roughiea1819
roughneck1834
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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. 73/1Blood-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.
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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).
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