单词 | souveniring |
释义 | souveniringn. 1. The action of buying or shopping for souvenirs. rare.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΚΠ 1836 C. M. Sedgwick Let. 4 Feb. in M. E. Dewey Life & Lett. C. M. Sedgwick (1871) 252 To-day I have begun my souveniring campaign. I hope to get something from the English editions of the Linwoods. 1993 Jrnl. Sustainable Tourism 1 8 The most common of tourist activities, shopping, sightseeing and souveniring, can be the most invasive. 2. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. The action of taking or keeping something as a souvenir or memento; (euphemistic) pilfering, petty theft. Cf. souvenir v. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun] micherya1393 mitchinga1393 picking1402 purloining1417 pilferc1425 pickery1460 pilfering1548 filching1567 lurching1570 pilfery1573 petty larceny1578 filching-tradea1592 prigging1591 filchery1607 nimming1607 sneaking-budge1699 pilferage1732 cabbaging1774 weeding1819 pilferment1823 crib1855 filch1877 souveniring1919 1919 Cumberland Argus & Fruitgrowers' Advocate (Parramatta, New S. Wales) 29 Oct. 2/2 The souveniring of a few knives and forks is only petty larceny, but not the theft of white sugar. 1927 Auckland Star 29 Jan. 8/6 The ‘souveniring’ of cups and saucers on the New Zealand Railways. 1969 ‘M. Innes’ Family Affair xiii. 145 It had been lifted much as somebody might lift a china gnome..from a suburban garden. Souveniring, as they say. 1972 Guardian 15 May 1/4 The House of Commons is determined to end the ‘souveniring’ of cutlery... All crests will be removed from the cutlery in some of the visitors' cafeterias. 2006 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 30 Nov. 26 There was a lot of macabre souveniring of Kelly artefacts after his death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1836 |
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