bone-pickern.

Brit.

/ˈbəʊnpɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈboʊnˌpɪkər/

Origin: Etymsum: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bone n.¹, picker n.¹

Etymology: < bone n.¹ + picker n.¹In sense 2 apparently not translating a Choctaw expression; the phrase cited in quot. 1899 is grammatically inaccurate and unlikely to be genuine.

†1. A servant or lackey; an underling or subordinate (frequently depreciative). Obsolete. Possibly with the implication that the person in question eats what meat remains on bones discarded by a superior; cf. bone-polisher n. (a) at bone n.¹ Compounds 6.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lackey

bone-pickera1627

lackey1692

stooge1937

agterryer1962

a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) iv. 90 O base bone-pickers, I set my hand to't! when did you ere see a Gentleman set his hand to any thing, unless it were to a sheep-skin, and receive a hundred pound for his pains.

1780 M. Minifie Count de Poland IV. xxxv. 279 Olivia, the bone-picker of Lady Morpeth, is the prodigious fine lady I saw presented under the most flattering distinctions.

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Bone picker, a footman.

1822 Brighton Mag. Aug. 128 Next came my bone-picker, without whom we could have done nothing, to report progress relating to the affairs of the steward's room.

1825 R. A. Armstrong Gaelic Dict. 503/2 Smeurachan, a kitchen-brat, a lick-plate; a bone-picker.

1877 C. A. Cuthbert Blot on Escutcheon I. iii. 66 ‘How the devil came you metamorphosed into a gentleman's bone picker?’ ‘Oh, don't sneer at it; I can assure you it's uncommon agreeable, well fed and clothed as you may see, very superior society in the servants' hall, and your choice of pretty girls among the maid-servants.’

2. U.S. In the traditional funeral practice of the Choctaw people: a person responsible for cleaning the flesh from the bones of the deceased. Now historical.After a period during which the body was left to decompose in the open air on a raised platform, the bones of the deceased were cleaned, placed in a coffin, and removed to a charnel house.

ΚΠ

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 183 They raise and bring out the corpse, and..a person whose office it is, and properly called the bone-picker, dissects it.

1814 L. Dow Hist. Cosmopolite vi. 234 We rode about forty miles through Six-town of the Choctaws, and, whilst we were passing it, I observed where they scaffold the dead; and also the spot where the flesh was, when the bone-picker had done his office.

1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Choctaw, Chickasaw & Natchez Indians 225 The Hattak fullih nipi foni, (Bone picker) the principal official in their funeral ceremonies and especially appointed for that duty.

1946 J. R. Swanton Indians Southeastern U.S. (Smithsonian Inst. Bureau Amer. Ethnology Bull. 137) 726 After the flesh was thought to be sufficiently decayed, the bone picker or ‘buzzard man’ of that particular canton appointed a day, and in the presence of the mourners..he removed the flesh from the bones and restored the latter to the family, who put them into a chest made of bones and splints or a hamper and took it in procession to the cantonal mortuary house.

1993 L. Howe in C. E. Trafzer Earth Song, Sky Spirit 455 When the Bone Picker ascended the scaffold, the host drum beat their cadence.

3. A person who scavenges for bones in order to sell them to be reused for making glue, fertilizer, etc.; also figurative (chiefly depreciative); cf. bone-grubber n. at bone n.¹ Compounds 6. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > very poor person

armeOE

goodlessa1350

pauper1516

bankrupt?1563

gnaw-bone1607

gnaw-crust1611

have-nothing1755

bone-grubber1817

bone-picker1825

lack-all1850

destitute1863

stiff1899

down and out1901

down-and-outer1906

1825 Morning Chron. 30 Aug. A common bone-picker and beggar.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 139/1 The bone-pickers and rag-gatherers are all early risers.

1974 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 43 258 Bonepickers scoured the plains to supply the manufacturers of glue and fertilizer.

2006 S. Johnson Ghost Map 2 Above the river, in the streets of the city, the pure-finders eked out a living by collecting dog shit (colloquially called ‘pure’) while the bone-pickers foraged for carcasses of any stripe.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bone-picker
释义	bone-pickern. Brit. /ˈbəʊnpɪkə/, U.S. /ˈboʊnˌpɪkər/ Origin: Etymsum: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bone n.¹, picker n.¹ Etymology: < bone n.¹ + picker n.¹In sense 2 apparently not translating a Choctaw expression; the phrase cited in quot. 1899 is grammatically inaccurate and unlikely to be genuine. †1. A servant or lackey; an underling or subordinate (frequently depreciative). Obsolete. Possibly with the implication that the person in question eats what meat remains on bones discarded by a superior; cf. bone-polisher n. (a) at bone n.¹ Compounds 6. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lackey bone-pickera1627 lackey1692 stooge1937 agterryer1962 a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) iv. 90 O base bone-pickers, I set my hand to't! when did you ere see a Gentleman set his hand to any thing, unless it were to a sheep-skin, and receive a hundred pound for his pains. 1780 M. Minifie Count de Poland IV. xxxv. 279 Olivia, the bone-picker of Lady Morpeth, is the prodigious fine lady I saw presented under the most flattering distinctions. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Bone picker, a footman. 1822 Brighton Mag. Aug. 128 Next came my bone-picker, without whom we could have done nothing, to report progress relating to the affairs of the steward's room. 1825 R. A. Armstrong Gaelic Dict. 503/2 Smeurachan, a kitchen-brat, a lick-plate; a bone-picker. 1877 C. A. Cuthbert Blot on Escutcheon I. iii. 66 ‘How the devil came you metamorphosed into a gentleman's bone picker?’ ‘Oh, don't sneer at it; I can assure you it's uncommon agreeable, well fed and clothed as you may see, very superior society in the servants' hall, and your choice of pretty girls among the maid-servants.’ 2. U.S. In the traditional funeral practice of the Choctaw people: a person responsible for cleaning the flesh from the bones of the deceased. Now historical.After a period during which the body was left to decompose in the open air on a raised platform, the bones of the deceased were cleaned, placed in a coffin, and removed to a charnel house. ΚΠ 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 183 They raise and bring out the corpse, and..a person whose office it is, and properly called the bone-picker, dissects it. 1814 L. Dow Hist. Cosmopolite vi. 234 We rode about forty miles through Six-town of the Choctaws, and, whilst we were passing it, I observed where they scaffold the dead; and also the spot where the flesh was, when the bone-picker had done his office. 1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Choctaw, Chickasaw & Natchez Indians 225 The Hattak fullih nipi foni, (Bone picker) the principal official in their funeral ceremonies and especially appointed for that duty. 1946 J. R. Swanton Indians Southeastern U.S. (Smithsonian Inst. Bureau Amer. Ethnology Bull. 137) 726 After the flesh was thought to be sufficiently decayed, the bone picker or ‘buzzard man’ of that particular canton appointed a day, and in the presence of the mourners..he removed the flesh from the bones and restored the latter to the family, who put them into a chest made of bones and splints or a hamper and took it in procession to the cantonal mortuary house. 1993 L. Howe in C. E. Trafzer Earth Song, Sky Spirit 455 When the Bone Picker ascended the scaffold, the host drum beat their cadence. 3. A person who scavenges for bones in order to sell them to be reused for making glue, fertilizer, etc.; also figurative (chiefly depreciative); cf. bone-grubber n. at bone n.¹ Compounds 6. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > very poor person armeOE goodlessa1350 pauper1516 bankrupt?1563 gnaw-bone1607 gnaw-crust1611 have-nothing1755 bone-grubber1817 bone-picker1825 lack-all1850 destitute1863 stiff1899 down and out1901 down-and-outer1906 1825 Morning Chron. 30 Aug. A common bone-picker and beggar. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 139/1 The bone-pickers and rag-gatherers are all early risers. 1974 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 43 258 Bonepickers scoured the plains to supply the manufacturers of glue and fertilizer. 2006 S. Johnson Ghost Map 2 Above the river, in the streets of the city, the pure-finders eked out a living by collecting dog shit (colloquially called ‘pure’) while the bone-pickers foraged for carcasses of any stripe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1627
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