snowdropn.

Brit.

/ˈsnəʊdrɒp/, U.S.

/ˈsnoʊˌdrɑp/

Forms: Also snow-drop.

Etymology: < snow n.¹ Compare German schneetropfen, -tröpfchen, -tröpflein, Swedish snödroppe; also German schneeglocke, Dutch sneeuwklokje, Danish sneklokke, Swedish snöklocka ‘snow-bell’.

a. An early-flowering bulbous plant ( Galanthus nivalis), having a white pendent flower; also, a flower, bulb, or single plant of this.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > snowdrop

snowdrop1664

snow-flower1664

fair maid of February1754

1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours 264 Those purely White Flowers that appear about the end of Winter, and are commonly call'd Snow drops.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 81 in Sylva December... Flowers in Prime..Snow flowers or drops, Yucca, &c.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 27 Fair-handed Spring..Throws out the Snow-Drop, and the Crocus first.

1764 C. Churchill Gotham i. 12 The Snow-drop, who, in habit white and plain, Comes on the Herald of fair Flora's train.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 21 The Snow-drop, though not frequent in a wild state, is to be found in almost every Garden.

1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 158 The snow-drop, and then the violet, Arose from the ground with warm rain wet.

1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 42 There are single and double snowdrops.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 104 The snowdrop only, flowering thro' the year, Would make the world as blank as winter-tide.

attributive.1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 66 The snow-drop paths of innocence.1865 W. Allingham Vernal Voluntary in Fifty Mod. Poems Snowdrop-flow'r, and crocus.1894 Daily News 1 June 8/1 The cold and rather trying purity of snowdrop white.

b. transferred. Applied to a girl.

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the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun]

maiden-childeOE

maidenOE

maidc1275

maid-childc1275

wenchc1290

thernec1300

lassc1325

maidenkinc1330

child-womana1382

girlc1400

pucelle1439

maidkin1440

mawther1440

mop1466

woman-child?1515

bonnea1529

urchina1535

kinchin-mort1567

dandiprat1582

prill1587

sluta1592

little girl1603

maggie1603

tendril1603

squall1607

childa1616

filly1616

vriester1652

miss1668

gilpie1720

lassie1725

laddess1768

jeune fillea1777

bitch1785

girly?1786

gal1795

ladyling1807

missikin1815

colleen1828

girleen1833

snowdrop1833

pinafore1836

chica1843

fillette1847

charity-girl1848

urchiness1852

Mädchen1854

gel1857

pusill1884

backfisch1888

girly-girly1888

cliner1895

tittie1918

weeny1929

bobby-soxer1944

1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter I. vii. 146 Our little snow-drop, as I call her, is the cause.

1884 Milnor (Dakota Territory) Teller 27 June A photograph gallery where the boys will gather with their little Dakota snowdrops.

2. With distinctive premodifier, or attributive (see quots.).

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1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Narcisso-Leucojum Lesser Bulbous-violet or Snow-drop.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Narcisso-Leucojum Greater Snow-drop or Bulbous-violet.

1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 50 Anemone sylvestris, Large white flowered or Snow Drop Anemone.

1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. at Snow The placid snowdrop is the Galanthis plicatus, a native of the Crimea.

1891 Cent. Dict. at Royena R. lucida, known as African snowdrop, or African bladder-nut, is a pretty greenhouse species.

3. Used as a name for a variety of wheat or potato.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of wheat grain or plant

spelta1000

farc1420

ador?1440

flaxen wheat?1523

Peak-wheat?1523

red wheat?1523

white wheat?1523

duck-bill wheat1553

zea1562

alica1565

buck1577

amelcorn1578

horse-flower1578

tiphe1578

pollard1580

rivet1580

Saracen's corn1585

French wheat1593

Lammas-wheat1594

starch corn1597

St. Peter's corn1597

frumenty1600

secourgeon1600

polwheat1601

duck-wheat1611

kidneys of wheat1611

ograve wheat1616

soft wheat1640

cone-wheat1677

Lammas1677

Poland wheat1686

Saracen corn1687

pole rivet1707

Smyrna wheat1735

hard wheat1757

hen corn1765

velvet wheat1771

white straw1771

nonpareil1805

thick-set wheat1808

cone1826

farro1828

Polish wheat1832

velvet-ear wheat1837

sarrasin1840

mummy wheat1842

snowdrop1844

Red Fife1857

flint-wheat1859

dinkel1866

thick-set1875

spring1884

macaroni wheat1901

einkorn1904

marquis1906

durum1908

emmer1908

hedgehog wheat1909

speltoid1939

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of

baker1651

Irish potato1664

sprout1771

London lady1780

ox-noble1794

pink-eye1795

kidney1796

Suriname1796

round1800

yam potato1801

bluenose1803

yam1805

bead-potato1808

Murphy1811

lumper1840

blue1845

salmon1845

merino1846

regent1846

pink1850

redskin potato1851

fluke1868

snowflake1882

magnum1889

ware1894

snowdrop1900

King Edward1902

Majestic1917

red1926

fingerling1930

Pentland1959

chipper1961

Maris Peer1963

Maris Piper1963

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato

potato1629

Rough Red1771

sprout1771

London lady1780

russet1780

ox-noble1794

pink-eye1795

kidney1796

Suriname1796

silver-skin1797

yam potato1801

bluenose1803

yam1805

bead-potato1808

lumper1840

blue1845

merino1846

regent1846

pink1850

redskin potato1851

fluke1868

mangel-wurzel potato1875

snowflake1882

snowdrop1900

pomato1905

Idaho1911

Majestic1917

red1926

Pentland1959

1844 C. Hillyard Pract. Farm. & Grazing (ed. 4) 89 The Whittington, and my snowdrop white wheat.

1900 Daily News 23 July 2/5 Potatoes: Early Puritans,..Snowdrops.

4. slang. An American military policeman; hence, any military policeman.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > military policeman

Jack1854

military policeman1883

redcap1919

snowdrop1944

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > military police > military policeman

provost marshal1535

provost1590

field marshal1690

provost sergeant1825

Jack1854

military policeman1883

MP1889

redcap1919

shore patrolman1944

snowdrop1944

1944 N.Y. Times 9 Apr. iv. 1/7 ‘Snowdrops’—the London nickname for white-helmeted American military police—were patroling the sidewalks.

1946 H. Nicolson Diary 30 Apr. (1968) 59 Schacht sits in the witness box..flanked by two young Americans in white helmets. Every hour, two other snowdrops..take over from their comrades the white batons of office.

1967 ‘A. Cordell’ Bright Cantonese ix. 100 Where are you goin'?.. Running to the first Snowdrop you can find?

1978 ‘D. Kyle’ Black Camelot xvii. 270 Special detachments of military police ‘snowdrops’ went from house to house.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	snowdrop
释义	snowdropn. Brit. /ˈsnəʊdrɒp/, U.S. /ˈsnoʊˌdrɑp/ Forms: Also snow-drop. Etymology: < snow n.¹ Compare German schneetropfen, -tröpfchen, -tröpflein, Swedish snödroppe; also German schneeglocke, Dutch sneeuwklokje, Danish sneklokke, Swedish snöklocka ‘snow-bell’. 1. a. An early-flowering bulbous plant ( Galanthus nivalis), having a white pendent flower; also, a flower, bulb, or single plant of this. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > snowdrop snowdrop1664 snow-flower1664 fair maid of February1754 1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours 264 Those purely White Flowers that appear about the end of Winter, and are commonly call'd Snow drops. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 81 in Sylva December... Flowers in Prime..Snow flowers or drops, Yucca, &c. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 27 Fair-handed Spring..Throws out the Snow-Drop, and the Crocus first. 1764 C. Churchill Gotham i. 12 The Snow-drop, who, in habit white and plain, Comes on the Herald of fair Flora's train. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 21 The Snow-drop, though not frequent in a wild state, is to be found in almost every Garden. 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 158 The snow-drop, and then the violet, Arose from the ground with warm rain wet. 1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 42 There are single and double snowdrops. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 104 The snowdrop only, flowering thro' the year, Would make the world as blank as winter-tide. attributive.1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 66 The snow-drop paths of innocence.1865 W. Allingham Vernal Voluntary in Fifty Mod. Poems Snowdrop-flow'r, and crocus.1894 Daily News 1 June 8/1 The cold and rather trying purity of snowdrop white. b. transferred. Applied to a girl. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] maiden-childeOE maidenOE maidc1275 maid-childc1275 wenchc1290 thernec1300 lassc1325 maidenkinc1330 child-womana1382 girlc1400 pucelle1439 maidkin1440 mawther1440 mop1466 woman-child?1515 bonnea1529 urchina1535 kinchin-mort1567 dandiprat1582 prill1587 sluta1592 little girl1603 maggie1603 tendril1603 squall1607 childa1616 filly1616 vriester1652 miss1668 gilpie1720 lassie1725 laddess1768 jeune fillea1777 bitch1785 girly?1786 gal1795 ladyling1807 missikin1815 colleen1828 girleen1833 snowdrop1833 pinafore1836 chica1843 fillette1847 charity-girl1848 urchiness1852 Mädchen1854 gel1857 pusill1884 backfisch1888 girly-girly1888 cliner1895 tittie1918 weeny1929 bobby-soxer1944 1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter I. vii. 146 Our little snow-drop, as I call her, is the cause. 1884 Milnor (Dakota Territory) Teller 27 June A photograph gallery where the boys will gather with their little Dakota snowdrops. 2. With distinctive premodifier, or attributive (see quots.). ΚΠ 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Narcisso-Leucojum Lesser Bulbous-violet or Snow-drop. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Narcisso-Leucojum Greater Snow-drop or Bulbous-violet. 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 50 Anemone sylvestris, Large white flowered or Snow Drop Anemone. 1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. at Snow The placid snowdrop is the Galanthis plicatus, a native of the Crimea. 1891 Cent. Dict. at Royena R. lucida, known as African snowdrop, or African bladder-nut, is a pretty greenhouse species. 3. Used as a name for a variety of wheat or potato. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of wheat grain or plant spelta1000 farc1420 ador?1440 flaxen wheat?1523 Peak-wheat?1523 red wheat?1523 white wheat?1523 duck-bill wheat1553 zea1562 alica1565 buck1577 amelcorn1578 horse-flower1578 tiphe1578 pollard1580 rivet1580 Saracen's corn1585 French wheat1593 Lammas-wheat1594 starch corn1597 St. Peter's corn1597 frumenty1600 secourgeon1600 polwheat1601 duck-wheat1611 kidneys of wheat1611 ograve wheat1616 soft wheat1640 cone-wheat1677 Lammas1677 Poland wheat1686 Saracen corn1687 pole rivet1707 Smyrna wheat1735 hard wheat1757 hen corn1765 velvet wheat1771 white straw1771 nonpareil1805 thick-set wheat1808 cone1826 farro1828 Polish wheat1832 velvet-ear wheat1837 sarrasin1840 mummy wheat1842 snowdrop1844 Red Fife1857 flint-wheat1859 dinkel1866 thick-set1875 spring1884 macaroni wheat1901 einkorn1904 marquis1906 durum1908 emmer1908 hedgehog wheat1909 speltoid1939 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of baker1651 Irish potato1664 sprout1771 London lady1780 ox-noble1794 pink-eye1795 kidney1796 Suriname1796 round1800 yam potato1801 bluenose1803 yam1805 bead-potato1808 Murphy1811 lumper1840 blue1845 salmon1845 merino1846 regent1846 pink1850 redskin potato1851 fluke1868 snowflake1882 magnum1889 ware1894 snowdrop1900 King Edward1902 Majestic1917 red1926 fingerling1930 Pentland1959 chipper1961 Maris Peer1963 Maris Piper1963 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato potato1629 Rough Red1771 sprout1771 London lady1780 russet1780 ox-noble1794 pink-eye1795 kidney1796 Suriname1796 silver-skin1797 yam potato1801 bluenose1803 yam1805 bead-potato1808 lumper1840 blue1845 merino1846 regent1846 pink1850 redskin potato1851 fluke1868 mangel-wurzel potato1875 snowflake1882 snowdrop1900 pomato1905 Idaho1911 Majestic1917 red1926 Pentland1959 1844 C. Hillyard Pract. Farm. & Grazing (ed. 4) 89 The Whittington, and my snowdrop white wheat. 1900 Daily News 23 July 2/5 Potatoes: Early Puritans,..Snowdrops. 4. slang. An American military policeman; hence, any military policeman. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > military policeman Jack1854 military policeman1883 redcap1919 snowdrop1944 society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > military police > military policeman provost marshal1535 provost1590 field marshal1690 provost sergeant1825 Jack1854 military policeman1883 MP1889 redcap1919 shore patrolman1944 snowdrop1944 1944 N.Y. Times 9 Apr. iv. 1/7 ‘Snowdrops’—the London nickname for white-helmeted American military police—were patroling the sidewalks. 1946 H. Nicolson Diary 30 Apr. (1968) 59 Schacht sits in the witness box..flanked by two young Americans in white helmets. Every hour, two other snowdrops..take over from their comrades the white batons of office. 1967 ‘A. Cordell’ Bright Cantonese ix. 100 Where are you goin'?.. Running to the first Snowdrop you can find? 1978 ‘D. Kyle’ Black Camelot xvii. 270 Special detachments of military police ‘snowdrops’ went from house to house. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1664
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