sticking plastern.

Brit.

/ˈstɪkɪŋ ˌplɑːstə/,

/ˈstɪkɪŋ ˌplastə/, U.S.

/ˈstɪkɪŋ ˌplæstər/

Forms: see sticking adj. and plaster n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sticking adj., sticking n.¹, plaster n.

Etymology: < sticking adj. (or in early use perhaps sticking n.¹) + plaster n. Compare later adhesive plaster n. at adhesive adj. and n. Compounds.

1. Originally: †a medicated paste containing one or more sticky ingredients, used as a poultice or to attach a dressing or bandage to the skin (obsolete). In later use: material used to dress superficial wounds of the skin, consisting of fabric or (later) plastic spread with an adhesive substance; a strip, patch, etc., of such material, now usually incorporating a small pad of gauze or similar material. Cf. plaster n. 1a.Until the 20th cent., the fabric used for sticking plaster was often black silk or sarcenet; this sticking plaster was also used to make patches for the face (see patch n.¹ 1c).

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > sticking-plaster

patch?c1425

sticking plaster1584

dry stitch1674

strap1749

sticking silk1766

court-plaster1773

adhesive bandage1797

strapping1818

adhesive1835

Band-Aid1924

Elastoplast1928

1584 T. Chaloner Shorte Disc. Nitre f. 19^v Mixe them according to Arte, and make a liquide sticking plaister spreade [printed syreade] on leather to put on, and to plucke of againe often times, after it cleueth.

1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. cxviii. 417 Assoone as your rolles, plegants, or tents, are put in, you shal clap a sticking plaister made of pitch, rosen, masticke, and turpentine melted together, as hath bene before taught, both to keepe in your salue, and to comfort the soare.

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. ii. 12 They heal up the wound with a sticking Plaister.

1749 T. Gataker tr. H. F. Le Dran Operations in Surg. 438 I secure them [sc. the flaps of the wound] in that situation with straps of sticking plaister.

1768 London Mag. Oct. 519/2 He cleansed the wound with a sponge.., brought the lips in opposition by sticking plaisters, laid a compress on it, and a roller.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxiii. 64 He was fixing a very small patch of sticking-plaster..near the corner of his mouth.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 184 Court or Black Sticking-plaster is made with a solution of isinglass and tincture of benzoin laid upon black sarsenet.

1882 J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne I. 169 In the reign of Charles I, when suns, moons, stars, and even coaches and four were cut out of sticking plaister, and stuck on the face.

1920 J. L. Werich Pioneer Hunters Kankakee 125 We had some linaments and salves, sticking plasters—as hunters always go prepared for accidents.

1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl iii. 67 Sometimes she was their foundling, sometimes their mother, the one who counted the money and knew where the anti-sting was, and the sticking-plaster for cut feet.

2000 A. L. Kennedy Everything you Need 192 He pressed experimentally at his raw digit through its layer of sticking plaster and was rewarded with a warming, jangling hurt.

2. figurative (originally and chiefly British). A temporary or inadequate solution; a palliative. Cf. Band-Aid adj.Frequently as part of an extended metaphor.

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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy > superficial

palliative1735

sticking plaster1877

1877 Manch. Weekly Times 24 Feb. 2/3 Either..Russia would act alone and engage in hostilities..or a peace would be made of that character which had elsewhere been described as merely putting sticking plaster on a festering sore.

1901 Literature 26. Jan. 76/1 Though sticking-plaster remedies are useless, the millionaire can but try to help his poorer brethren as best he may.

1929 Hansard Commons (Electronic ed.) 4 Nov. 725 State-aided schemes are really only a sticking plaster on a big open wound.

1958 D. V. Donnison & M. Stewart Child & Social Services 2 Socialists have been prone to view social work as at best a mere sticking plaster on the sores of society.

1983 Economist 22 Jan. 50/3 Their critics describe the new trade unions and Pron as nothing more than sticking plaster, where radical surgery is needed.

2009 D. Moyo Dead Aid x. 150 Aid was not originally designed or intended to be a sticking-plaster solution simply aimed at keeping people alive.

Compounds

† attributive. Designating a silhouette (silhouette n. 1a) made of black sticking plaster or of black paper resembling this. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > other visual arts > [noun] > cut silhouette

sticking plaster1843

scissor cut1926

1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing vii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 321/2 Little cracked sticking-plaster miniatures.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xiv. 56 A sticking-plaister portrait of Hugby.., in a cap and gown.

1891 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. 22 244 It is a curious satire on fads, crazes and fashions in art, that even these black sticking-plaster portraits have been held up..as preferable to the work of the legitimate portrait painter.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sticking plaster
释义	sticking plastern. Brit. /ˈstɪkɪŋ ˌplɑːstə/, /ˈstɪkɪŋ ˌplastə/, U.S. /ˈstɪkɪŋ ˌplæstər/ Forms: see sticking adj. and plaster n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sticking adj., sticking n.¹, plaster n. Etymology: < sticking adj. (or in early use perhaps sticking n.¹) + plaster n. Compare later adhesive plaster n. at adhesive adj. and n. Compounds. 1. Originally: †a medicated paste containing one or more sticky ingredients, used as a poultice or to attach a dressing or bandage to the skin (obsolete). In later use: material used to dress superficial wounds of the skin, consisting of fabric or (later) plastic spread with an adhesive substance; a strip, patch, etc., of such material, now usually incorporating a small pad of gauze or similar material. Cf. plaster n. 1a.Until the 20th cent., the fabric used for sticking plaster was often black silk or sarcenet; this sticking plaster was also used to make patches for the face (see patch n.¹ 1c). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > sticking-plaster patch?c1425 sticking plaster1584 dry stitch1674 strap1749 sticking silk1766 court-plaster1773 adhesive bandage1797 strapping1818 adhesive1835 Band-Aid1924 Elastoplast1928 1584 T. Chaloner Shorte Disc. Nitre f. 19^v Mixe them according to Arte, and make a liquide sticking plaister spreade [printed syreade] on leather to put on, and to plucke of againe often times, after it cleueth. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. cxviii. 417 Assoone as your rolles, plegants, or tents, are put in, you shal clap a sticking plaister made of pitch, rosen, masticke, and turpentine melted together, as hath bene before taught, both to keepe in your salue, and to comfort the soare. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. ii. 12 They heal up the wound with a sticking Plaister. 1749 T. Gataker tr. H. F. Le Dran Operations in Surg. 438 I secure them [sc. the flaps of the wound] in that situation with straps of sticking plaister. 1768 London Mag. Oct. 519/2 He cleansed the wound with a sponge.., brought the lips in opposition by sticking plaisters, laid a compress on it, and a roller. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxiii. 64 He was fixing a very small patch of sticking-plaster..near the corner of his mouth. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 184 Court or Black Sticking-plaster is made with a solution of isinglass and tincture of benzoin laid upon black sarsenet. 1882 J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne I. 169 In the reign of Charles I, when suns, moons, stars, and even coaches and four were cut out of sticking plaister, and stuck on the face. 1920 J. L. Werich Pioneer Hunters Kankakee 125 We had some linaments and salves, sticking plasters—as hunters always go prepared for accidents. 1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl iii. 67 Sometimes she was their foundling, sometimes their mother, the one who counted the money and knew where the anti-sting was, and the sticking-plaster for cut feet. 2000 A. L. Kennedy Everything you Need 192 He pressed experimentally at his raw digit through its layer of sticking plaster and was rewarded with a warming, jangling hurt. 2. figurative (originally and chiefly British). A temporary or inadequate solution; a palliative. Cf. Band-Aid adj.Frequently as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy > superficial palliative1735 sticking plaster1877 1877 Manch. Weekly Times 24 Feb. 2/3 Either..Russia would act alone and engage in hostilities..or a peace would be made of that character which had elsewhere been described as merely putting sticking plaster on a festering sore. 1901 Literature 26. Jan. 76/1 Though sticking-plaster remedies are useless, the millionaire can but try to help his poorer brethren as best he may. 1929 Hansard Commons (Electronic ed.) 4 Nov. 725 State-aided schemes are really only a sticking plaster on a big open wound. 1958 D. V. Donnison & M. Stewart Child & Social Services 2 Socialists have been prone to view social work as at best a mere sticking plaster on the sores of society. 1983 Economist 22 Jan. 50/3 Their critics describe the new trade unions and Pron as nothing more than sticking plaster, where radical surgery is needed. 2009 D. Moyo Dead Aid x. 150 Aid was not originally designed or intended to be a sticking-plaster solution simply aimed at keeping people alive. Compounds † attributive. Designating a silhouette (silhouette n. 1a) made of black sticking plaster or of black paper resembling this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > other visual arts > [noun] > cut silhouette sticking plaster1843 scissor cut1926 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing vii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 321/2 Little cracked sticking-plaster miniatures. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xiv. 56 A sticking-plaister portrait of Hugby.., in a cap and gown. 1891 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. 22 244 It is a curious satire on fads, crazes and fashions in art, that even these black sticking-plaster portraits have been held up..as preferable to the work of the legitimate portrait painter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1584
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