单词 | stellenbosch |
释义 | Stellenboschv. Military slang. (See quot. 1913.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] outOE deposec1300 remuec1325 to put out1344 to set downc1369 deprivec1374 outputa1382 removea1382 to throw outa1382 to put downc1384 privea1387 to set adowna1387 to put out of ——?a1400 amovec1425 disappoint1434 unmakec1475 dismiss1477 dispoint1483 voidc1503 to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546 relieve1549 cass1550 displace1553 unauthorize1554 to wring out1560 seclude1572 eject1576 dispost1577 decass1579 overboard1585 cast1587 sequester1587 to put to grass1589 cashier1592 discompose1599 abdicate1610 unseat1611 dismount1612 disoffice1627 to take off1642 unchair1645 destitute1653 lift1659 resign1674 quietus1688 superannuate1692 derange1796 shelve1812 shelf1819 Stellenbosch1900 defenestrate1917 axe1922 retire1961 1900 R. Kipling in Daily Express 16 June 4/6 ‘After all’, said one cheerily..‘what does it matter, old man? You're bound to be Stellenbosched in three days’. 1900 Daily Tel. 2 Oct. 6/1 I heard..that he had been ‘Stellenbosched’... I must inform the uninitiated that Stellenbosch..was formerly the place selected for command by officers who had failed in Kaffir wars; and to be ‘Stellenbosched’ is the equivalent of being superseded without formal disgrace. 1900 Daily Tel. 20 Oct. 7/1 It is a gross injustice to Stellenbosch any doctor because some nurse does not get her own way, and has influence in high quarters. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 475 Stellenboshed [sic], To be, to be relegated, as the result of incompetence, to a position in which little harm can be done. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < v.1900 |
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