sportsmann.

Brit.

/ˈspɔːtsmən/, U.S.

/ˈspɔrtsmən/

Inflections: Plural sportsmen.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sport n.¹, man n.¹

Etymology: < the genitive of sport n.¹ + man n.¹

a. A man who participates in field sports; a man who hunts, shoots, or fishes as a pastime. Also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1651 J. Harington Hist. Polindor & Flostella 98 Th' Fifth Horses, Hounds, (keen sports-man) keeps, playes ore His life just like a Game.

1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation iv. ix. 138/2 By an experenced Sports-man amongst divers ways to take Pheasnts, this following way is found most Effectual.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xi. 308 His nephew..presumed to dart his javelin before that of his uncle... As a monarch and as a sportsman, Odenathus was provoked.

1787 G. Keate Poet. Wks. I. 133 This Phoebus is a Sportsman bold, And hunts the Clouds throughout the Air As Men on Earth hunt Fox and Hare.

1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 59 The sportsman..will not pass a marsh without starting several wisps of snipe.

1814 Monthly Mag. 37 238 To allow the royal sportsman to bag more birds than himself.

1866 W. R. King Sportsman & Naturalist in Canada iii. 52 The caller..retires, with a reserve gun, to the rear of the sportsman.

1877 R. I. Dodge Hunting Grounds Great West vii. 105 The very best sight, and the one almost universally in use by sportsmen and professional hunters on the plains, is the plain ‘buckhorn’.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 82 The famous game-shot, sportsman, and man-about-town was a big, swarthy fellow.

1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 53 A miniature Dachshund should be a sturdy little sportsman.

2003 Nat. New Eng. Summer 4/1 The pursuit of the elusive trout by that most scholarly of sportsmen, the fly fishermen.

b. Chiefly depreciative. A man who engages in amusement, recreation, or pleasure, esp. of a wanton or excessive kind. In later use: (U.S. slang) a gambler, a betting man. Now rare.In early use frequently with play on sense 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun]

huntc1000

huntera1325

cacherec1340

pricasourc1387

waithmanc1425

chaser1470

huntsman1567

pricker1575

Nimrod1623

venator1656

fieldmana1683

sportsman1699

coureur de bois1700

sporting parson1757

chasseur1796

jäger1823

shikari1827

venerer1845

hunting-man1859

gamer1887

hunterman1891

veldman1895

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun]

playerOE

player1440

sporter1531

gamester1562

sporteer1654

sportsman1699

matchmakera1704

sporter1742

sporting parson1757

gamesman1812

sport1873

sportsman1886

sportswoman1900

hearty1915

jockstrap1956

jock1963

jockstrapper1967

1699 E. Ward Trip to New-Eng. 11 She that lives un-Married till she's Twenty Five, may let all the Young Sports-men in the Town give her Maiden-head chase without the Danger of a Timpany.

1703 F. Manning All for Better iv. 37 I have known as grave a Man as your Worship..have as eager an Appetite to the Flesh, and pursue it as close in the Dark, as any unwary Sportsman of us all.

1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 3 Aim. A Sportsman, I suppose. Bon. Yes, Sir, he's a Man of Pleasure, he plays at Whisk, and smoaks his Pipe Eight and forty Hours together sometimes.

1740 W. Stephens Jrnl. 27 June in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) II. 423 The Sportsmen, as Yesterday, took a plentiful Cup in the Evening.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 751 Jockeys, brothellers impure, Spendthrifts, and booted sportsmen.

1835 H. C. Todd Notes Canada & U.S. 40 The word Sportsman here denotes, not a foxhunter, but a gambler by profession.

1861 All Year Round 7 Sept. 569/1 ‘Sportsman’ in America means sharper, gambler, thief, swindler, gallows-bird!

1907 Oelwein (Iowa) Daily Reg. 16 Dec. Like the Chinese, the natives of India are greatly addicted to gambling... The sportsmen make wagers whether it will rain or not, and also how much rain will fall.

1954 W. G. Smith South Street iii. vii. 149 These boyfriends were, for the most part, ‘sportsmen’—gamblers and petty racketeers.

1985 L. Kennedy Airman & Carpenter (1986) III. vi. 93 A patron of speakeasies and gambling joints, in the jargon of the 1930s ‘a sportsman’.

2006 R. J. Smith Great Black Way viii. 152 Pimps were regarded with a slightly cosmic affection... ‘Overwork killed my father, and I promised it would never kill me. And it never has!’ bragged sportsman Artie Graves.

c. A man thought to practise or exemplify the ideals of a particular sport; (in extended use, colloquial) a generous, fair-minded, or resilient person of either sex; a ‘trouper’, a ‘good sport’. Frequently, esp. in early use, with modifying adjective.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > fairness or equity > fairness and generosity > person

sportswoman1724

sportsman1728

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. ii. 2 A good Sportsman always lets the Hen Partridges fly, because the breed of the Game depends upon them.

1867 A. Trollope Claverings I. x. 126 The man who fires at a sitting bird is known to be no sportsman.

1894 Outing 24 476/1 Some have been true sportsmen—and as I take it, the phrase true sportsmen includes everything that is manly and gentlemanly.

1915 Times 27 Feb. 9/3 When praise is lavished on an enemy because he is ‘such a “good sportsman”’ the underlying motive is less generosity than self-approval.

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress x There's nobody I think a more corking sportsman than Maud, if you know what I mean.

1935 J. Buchan House of Four Winds xi. 234 She can't refuse that if she's anything of a sportsman.

1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. d12/3 He was a sportsman through and through, and in fact, suggested the memorial..which developed into the Bob Jones Award for distinguished sportsmanship.

2007 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 8 July (Sports section) 13 Ray's a true gentleman and a real sportsman.

d. A man (occasionally a woman) who participates in games or athletic activities, esp. professionally.Now a common use, but in sporting contexts secondary to sense 1a until the mid 20th cent.See note at sportswoman n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun]

playerOE

player1440

sporter1531

gamester1562

sporteer1654

sportsman1699

matchmakera1704

sporter1742

sporting parson1757

gamesman1812

sport1873

sportsman1886

sportswoman1900

hearty1915

jockstrap1956

jock1963

jockstrapper1967

1886 F. H. H. Guillemard Cruise Marchesa II. 193 The perspiring sportsman can now..recover his breath and shake the gravel out of his putties.

1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) Pref., in Too True to be Good 166 The training of the scholar and the sportsman may split and diverge..but they must start from a common training and a common morality as children.

1971 N. Stacey Who Cares? i. 19 I had been a useful school sportsman and got into the first eleven at most sports at Dartmouth.

a1985 M. Hinton in I. Gitler Swing to Bop (1987) ii. 58 He was a great sportsman—football and baseball—and he went around to jam sessions, of course, but he didn't call me in a corner, but Dizzy would say, ‘Hey, come on upstairs.’

1996 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 1/2 Sportsmen who wear tight neoprene shorts may risk blood clots because of restricted circulation.

2006 Yours 12 Sept. 75/2 But until recently it has been a well kept secret that Russian astronauts and sportsmen also took extracts from Schisandra berries to help combat physical and mental stress and maintain concentration.

2. More fully electrical sportsman. A toy comprising a Leyden jar and a metallic figure of a sportsman aiming a rifle, which can be brought close to the knob of the jar, so allowing it to discharge with a loud spark. Now historical.The jar is typically made with a second knob to which small pith figures of birds are attached. Charging the jar causes these to be mutually repelled and raised; on discharge, they lose their charge and fall as if shot.

ΚΠ

1829 Mechanics' Mag. 1 Aug. 389/2 Electrical sportsman. Spinning sealing-wax.

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts (at cited word) Electrical Sportsman, an amusing and ingenious instrument, to illustrate the fact that a charged electrical jar will discharge itself if the outer and inner coating approach too closely.

1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxix. §5598 Gas pistol, thunder house, sportsmen, and other instrument[s] for showing the proportion of frictional electricity.

2005 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 15 205 The list of apparatus includes a large box containing an electric battery composed of 18 Leyden jars, a mahogany Thunder House, an electric sportsman, [etc.].

Compounds

Compounds with sportsman's.

sportsman's knife n. a knife incorporating multiple blades and other tools.

ΚΠ

1797 J. Robinson Directory of Sheffield 62 Davison, Lemuel & Co. pen and sportsman knife cutlers, Sheffield-moor.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2288/1 Sportsman's Knife, one containing a number of tools, to be used in emergencies.

1993 Canad. Woman Stud. 13 (Nexis) 79 (heading) Mail order: the ultimate sportsman's knife.

† sportsman's companion n. Obsolete rare = sportsman's knife n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > other knives

bollock knifec1400

paring knife1415

spudc1440

pricking-knifec1500

shaving-knife1530–1

by-knifec1570

heading knife1574

stock knife1582

drawing knife1583

bung-knife1592

weeding knife1598

drawing knife1610

heading knife1615

draw knife1679

dressing knife1683

redishing knife1688

mocotaugan1716

skinning knife1767

paper knife1789

draw shave1824

leaf-cutter1828

piece-knife1833

nut-pick1851

relic knife1854

butch1859

straw-knife1862

sportsman's companion1863

ulu1864

skinner1872

hacker1875

over-shave1875

stripping-knife1875

Stanley knife1878

flat-back1888

gauge-knife1888

tine-knife1888

plough1899

band-knife1926

X-Acto1943

shank1953

box cutter1955

ratchet knife1966

ratchet1975

1863 Athenæum 19 Dec. 841/3 Mr. Baskcomb exhibited an ancient nut-cracker, and a sportsman's companion, found at Tutbury Castle.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sportsman
释义	sportsmann. Brit. /ˈspɔːtsmən/, U.S. /ˈspɔrtsmən/ Inflections: Plural sportsmen. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sport n.¹, man n.¹ Etymology: < the genitive of sport n.¹ + man n.¹ 1. a. A man who participates in field sports; a man who hunts, shoots, or fishes as a pastime. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1651 J. Harington Hist. Polindor & Flostella 98 Th' Fifth Horses, Hounds, (keen sports-man) keeps, playes ore His life just like a Game. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation iv. ix. 138/2 By an experenced Sports-man amongst divers ways to take Pheasnts, this following way is found most Effectual. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xi. 308 His nephew..presumed to dart his javelin before that of his uncle... As a monarch and as a sportsman, Odenathus was provoked. 1787 G. Keate Poet. Wks. I. 133 This Phoebus is a Sportsman bold, And hunts the Clouds throughout the Air As Men on Earth hunt Fox and Hare. 1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 59 The sportsman..will not pass a marsh without starting several wisps of snipe. 1814 Monthly Mag. 37 238 To allow the royal sportsman to bag more birds than himself. 1866 W. R. King Sportsman & Naturalist in Canada iii. 52 The caller..retires, with a reserve gun, to the rear of the sportsman. 1877 R. I. Dodge Hunting Grounds Great West vii. 105 The very best sight, and the one almost universally in use by sportsmen and professional hunters on the plains, is the plain ‘buckhorn’. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 82 The famous game-shot, sportsman, and man-about-town was a big, swarthy fellow. 1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 53 A miniature Dachshund should be a sturdy little sportsman. 2003 Nat. New Eng. Summer 4/1 The pursuit of the elusive trout by that most scholarly of sportsmen, the fly fishermen. b. Chiefly depreciative. A man who engages in amusement, recreation, or pleasure, esp. of a wanton or excessive kind. In later use: (U.S. slang) a gambler, a betting man. Now rare.In early use frequently with play on sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] huntc1000 huntera1325 cacherec1340 pricasourc1387 waithmanc1425 chaser1470 huntsman1567 pricker1575 Nimrod1623 venator1656 fieldmana1683 sportsman1699 coureur de bois1700 sporting parson1757 chasseur1796 jäger1823 shikari1827 venerer1845 hunting-man1859 gamer1887 hunterman1891 veldman1895 society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] playerOE player1440 sporter1531 gamester1562 sporteer1654 sportsman1699 matchmakera1704 sporter1742 sporting parson1757 gamesman1812 sport1873 sportsman1886 sportswoman1900 hearty1915 jockstrap1956 jock1963 jockstrapper1967 1699 E. Ward Trip to New-Eng. 11 She that lives un-Married till she's Twenty Five, may let all the Young Sports-men in the Town give her Maiden-head chase without the Danger of a Timpany. 1703 F. Manning All for Better iv. 37 I have known as grave a Man as your Worship..have as eager an Appetite to the Flesh, and pursue it as close in the Dark, as any unwary Sportsman of us all. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 3 Aim. A Sportsman, I suppose. Bon. Yes, Sir, he's a Man of Pleasure, he plays at Whisk, and smoaks his Pipe Eight and forty Hours together sometimes. 1740 W. Stephens Jrnl. 27 June in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) II. 423 The Sportsmen, as Yesterday, took a plentiful Cup in the Evening. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 751 Jockeys, brothellers impure, Spendthrifts, and booted sportsmen. 1835 H. C. Todd Notes Canada & U.S. 40 The word Sportsman here denotes, not a foxhunter, but a gambler by profession. 1861 All Year Round 7 Sept. 569/1 ‘Sportsman’ in America means sharper, gambler, thief, swindler, gallows-bird! 1907 Oelwein (Iowa) Daily Reg. 16 Dec. Like the Chinese, the natives of India are greatly addicted to gambling... The sportsmen make wagers whether it will rain or not, and also how much rain will fall. 1954 W. G. Smith South Street iii. vii. 149 These boyfriends were, for the most part, ‘sportsmen’—gamblers and petty racketeers. 1985 L. Kennedy Airman & Carpenter (1986) III. vi. 93 A patron of speakeasies and gambling joints, in the jargon of the 1930s ‘a sportsman’. 2006 R. J. Smith Great Black Way viii. 152 Pimps were regarded with a slightly cosmic affection... ‘Overwork killed my father, and I promised it would never kill me. And it never has!’ bragged sportsman Artie Graves. c. A man thought to practise or exemplify the ideals of a particular sport; (in extended use, colloquial) a generous, fair-minded, or resilient person of either sex; a ‘trouper’, a ‘good sport’. Frequently, esp. in early use, with modifying adjective. ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > fairness or equity > fairness and generosity > person sportswoman1724 sportsman1728 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. ii. 2 A good Sportsman always lets the Hen Partridges fly, because the breed of the Game depends upon them. 1867 A. Trollope Claverings I. x. 126 The man who fires at a sitting bird is known to be no sportsman. 1894 Outing 24 476/1 Some have been true sportsmen—and as I take it, the phrase true sportsmen includes everything that is manly and gentlemanly. 1915 Times 27 Feb. 9/3 When praise is lavished on an enemy because he is ‘such a “good sportsman”’ the underlying motive is less generosity than self-approval. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress x There's nobody I think a more corking sportsman than Maud, if you know what I mean. 1935 J. Buchan House of Four Winds xi. 234 She can't refuse that if she's anything of a sportsman. 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. d12/3 He was a sportsman through and through, and in fact, suggested the memorial..which developed into the Bob Jones Award for distinguished sportsmanship. 2007 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 8 July (Sports section) 13 Ray's a true gentleman and a real sportsman. d. A man (occasionally a woman) who participates in games or athletic activities, esp. professionally.Now a common use, but in sporting contexts secondary to sense 1a until the mid 20th cent.See note at sportswoman n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] playerOE player1440 sporter1531 gamester1562 sporteer1654 sportsman1699 matchmakera1704 sporter1742 sporting parson1757 gamesman1812 sport1873 sportsman1886 sportswoman1900 hearty1915 jockstrap1956 jock1963 jockstrapper1967 1886 F. H. H. Guillemard Cruise Marchesa II. 193 The perspiring sportsman can now..recover his breath and shake the gravel out of his putties. 1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) Pref., in Too True to be Good 166 The training of the scholar and the sportsman may split and diverge..but they must start from a common training and a common morality as children. 1971 N. Stacey Who Cares? i. 19 I had been a useful school sportsman and got into the first eleven at most sports at Dartmouth. a1985 M. Hinton in I. Gitler Swing to Bop (1987) ii. 58 He was a great sportsman—football and baseball—and he went around to jam sessions, of course, but he didn't call me in a corner, but Dizzy would say, ‘Hey, come on upstairs.’ 1996 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 1/2 Sportsmen who wear tight neoprene shorts may risk blood clots because of restricted circulation. 2006 Yours 12 Sept. 75/2 But until recently it has been a well kept secret that Russian astronauts and sportsmen also took extracts from Schisandra berries to help combat physical and mental stress and maintain concentration. 2. More fully electrical sportsman. A toy comprising a Leyden jar and a metallic figure of a sportsman aiming a rifle, which can be brought close to the knob of the jar, so allowing it to discharge with a loud spark. Now historical.The jar is typically made with a second knob to which small pith figures of birds are attached. Charging the jar causes these to be mutually repelled and raised; on discharge, they lose their charge and fall as if shot. ΚΠ 1829 Mechanics' Mag. 1 Aug. 389/2 Electrical sportsman. Spinning sealing-wax. 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts (at cited word) Electrical Sportsman, an amusing and ingenious instrument, to illustrate the fact that a charged electrical jar will discharge itself if the outer and inner coating approach too closely. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxix. §5598 Gas pistol, thunder house, sportsmen, and other instrument[s] for showing the proportion of frictional electricity. 2005 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 15 205 The list of apparatus includes a large box containing an electric battery composed of 18 Leyden jars, a mahogany Thunder House, an electric sportsman, [etc.]. Compounds Compounds with sportsman's. sportsman's knife n. a knife incorporating multiple blades and other tools. ΚΠ 1797 J. Robinson Directory of Sheffield 62 Davison, Lemuel & Co. pen and sportsman knife cutlers, Sheffield-moor. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2288/1 Sportsman's Knife, one containing a number of tools, to be used in emergencies. 1993 Canad. Woman Stud. 13 (Nexis) 79 (heading) Mail order: the ultimate sportsman's knife. † sportsman's companion n. Obsolete rare = sportsman's knife n. 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