boomerangn.

Brit.

/ˈbuːməraŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbuməˌræŋ/

Forms: Also 1700s–1800s bomarang, bomerang, boomering.

Etymology: < an Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales. Collins (Judge Advocate of the colony when founded in 1788) collected a short vocabulary of Port Jackson words, in which wo-mur-rāng occurs among ‘names of clubs’. (He has also wo-mer-ra the throwing stick, which some later writers erroneously identify with the boomerang.) In a short vocabulary of the extinct language of George's River, Botany Bay, printed by Ridley, Kámilarói 103, are womrā ‘throwing stick for spear’, būmarin ‘boomerang’. Boomerang was given as ‘the Port Jackson term’ by Capt. King in 1827; its exact relation to wo-mur-rāng and būmarin, and the relations of these to each other can perhaps not now be determined. A very graphic account of the use of the weapon (described as ‘a bent, edged waddy resembling slightly a Turkish scimitar’) is in the Sydney Gazette of 23 Dec. 1804: the name boomerang has not been found in that paper up to 1823.

An Australian Aboriginal missile weapon: a curved piece of hard wood from two to three feet long, with a sharp edge along the convexity of the curve. It is so made as to describe complex curves in its flight, and can be thrown so as to hit an object in a different direction from that of projection, or so as to return to or beyond the starting-point.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > boomerang

rabbit stick1788

boomerang1827

Collery-stick1830

throw-stick1837

kylie1839

comeback1864

trombash1867

throwing-stick1901

1798 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales Vocab. ‘names of Spears and other instruments’, Can-ni-cull, Car-ru-wāng, Wom~ur-rāng, names of clubs.]

1827 R. King Narr. Journey Arctic Ocean I. 355 Boomerang is the Port Jackson term for this weapon, and may be retained for want of a more descriptive name.

1830 Mechanics' Mag. 13 430 Captain Cook, when at Botany Bay, having seen the bomarang, concluded that it was a wooden sword.

1830 Proc. Royal Geog. Soc. 1 27 The curl or boomering is seldom used as a weapon [in W. Australia].

1834 L. E. Threlkeld Austral. Gram. Vocab. Hunter Riv. Tur-ru-ma, an instrument of war, called by Europeans Boomering of a half-moon shape, which, when thrown..returns forming a circle in its orbit from and to the thrower.

1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales I. 116 The males were armed with spears, clubs, and the ‘womera’ or ‘bomerang’.

1838 S. Ferguson in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. (1843) 19 Antiquities 22 (title) On the Antiquity of the Kiliee or Boomerang.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 60 The Australian boomerang has been claimed as derived from some hypothetical high culture.

figurative.1845 O. W. Holmes Modest Req. in Poems (1884) 42 Like the strange missile which the Australian throws, Your verbal boomerang slaps you on the nose.1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 219 The boomerang of argument, which one throws in the opposite direction of what he means to hit.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations; esp. figurative (with reference to its action in returning to the thrower).

ΚΠ

1892 Daily News 30 June 5/5 It is..quite a boomerang business. Tories built the fort in anticipation of the battle of 1880, and to-day the Liberals hold it.

1898 Daily News 21 Apr. 5/2 Rawson, the Australian boomerang thrower, will take part.

1949 C. Fry Lady's not for Burning ii. 58 Boomerang rages and lunacies.

1955 Times 20 May 10/6 The..agitation..may ultimately have a boomerang effect on the party itself.

1968 Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 1/8 Russia's unmanned Zond 5 and 6 made successful ‘boomerang’ flights round the moon.

Draft additions December 2021

As a modifier, designating or relating to young adults who return to live in the family home after a period of independence (often in higher education), typically as a result of difficulties in finding full-time employment or affordable accommodation; as in boomerang children, boomerang generation, etc.Cf. boomeranger n. 2.

ΚΠ

1986 N.Y. Times 13 July (New Jersey Weekly section) 24/5 What is most puzzling to the parents of this Boomerang Generation is the ambivalent feelings they have toward their grown, live-in children.

1998 E. Nicol Anything for Laugh xv. 190 I was back living with my parents again... As a boomerang kid, I was starting to lose some of my novelty value, especially for my father.

2006 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 2 Aug. a3 Living at home longer and the boomerang trend are the new norm.

2019 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 21 Feb. 26 A growing number of British families are resorting to adapting their homes to make room for the boomerang children who triumphantly flew the nest at 18, only to return..three years later.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

boomerangv.

Brit.

/ˈbuːməraŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbuməˌræŋ/

Etymology: < boomerang n.

intransitive. To throw a boomerang; to fly back to the starting-point, after the manner of a boomerang when thrown; also figurative. Also with adverbs off, on.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure

repaira1325

returna1325

rebounda1382

redounda1382

recovera1393

to go backc1425

revertc1475

renew1488

reverse1542

retire1567

revolve1587

reciprocate1623

retrovert1639

to get back1664

recur1719

hoicks1762

boomerang1900

1880 J. B. Stephens Misc. Poems 26 War shouts and universal boomeranging.

1900 H. Lawson On Track 59 The horse..boomeranged off again and broke away through the scrub.

1936 Discovery Apr. 125/2 It is easily possible for a deflecting wind to cause a shot to boomerang.

1943 H. Pearson Conan Doyle iii. 39 If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you.

1965 Listener 24 June 928/1 But the psychologically dangerous stratagem soon boomeranged.

Derivatives

ˈboomeranging n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > throwing of boomerangs

boomeranging1899

1899 Longman's Mag. 33 475 Boomeranging is dangerous for on-lookers, till the thrower is a perfect master of his weapon.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	boomerang
释义	boomerangn. Brit. /ˈbuːməraŋ/, U.S. /ˈbuməˌræŋ/ Forms: Also 1700s–1800s bomarang, bomerang, boomering. Etymology: < an Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales. Collins (Judge Advocate of the colony when founded in 1788) collected a short vocabulary of Port Jackson words, in which wo-mur-rāng occurs among ‘names of clubs’. (He has also wo-mer-ra the throwing stick, which some later writers erroneously identify with the boomerang.) In a short vocabulary of the extinct language of George's River, Botany Bay, printed by Ridley, Kámilarói 103, are womrā ‘throwing stick for spear’, būmarin ‘boomerang’. Boomerang was given as ‘the Port Jackson term’ by Capt. King in 1827; its exact relation to wo-mur-rāng and būmarin, and the relations of these to each other can perhaps not now be determined. A very graphic account of the use of the weapon (described as ‘a bent, edged waddy resembling slightly a Turkish scimitar’) is in the Sydney Gazette of 23 Dec. 1804: the name boomerang has not been found in that paper up to 1823. An Australian Aboriginal missile weapon: a curved piece of hard wood from two to three feet long, with a sharp edge along the convexity of the curve. It is so made as to describe complex curves in its flight, and can be thrown so as to hit an object in a different direction from that of projection, or so as to return to or beyond the starting-point. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > boomerang rabbit stick1788 boomerang1827 Collery-stick1830 throw-stick1837 kylie1839 comeback1864 trombash1867 throwing-stick1901 1798 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales Vocab. ‘names of Spears and other instruments’, Can-ni-cull, Car-ru-wāng, Wom~ur-rāng, names of clubs.] 1827 R. King Narr. Journey Arctic Ocean I. 355 Boomerang is the Port Jackson term for this weapon, and may be retained for want of a more descriptive name. 1830 Mechanics' Mag. 13 430 Captain Cook, when at Botany Bay, having seen the bomarang, concluded that it was a wooden sword. 1830 Proc. Royal Geog. Soc. 1 27 The curl or boomering is seldom used as a weapon [in W. Australia]. 1834 L. E. Threlkeld Austral. Gram. Vocab. Hunter Riv. Tur-ru-ma, an instrument of war, called by Europeans Boomering of a half-moon shape, which, when thrown..returns forming a circle in its orbit from and to the thrower. 1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales I. 116 The males were armed with spears, clubs, and the ‘womera’ or ‘bomerang’. 1838 S. Ferguson in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. (1843) 19 Antiquities 22 (title) On the Antiquity of the Kiliee or Boomerang. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 60 The Australian boomerang has been claimed as derived from some hypothetical high culture. figurative.1845 O. W. Holmes Modest Req. in Poems (1884) 42 Like the strange missile which the Australian throws, Your verbal boomerang slaps you on the nose.1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 219 The boomerang of argument, which one throws in the opposite direction of what he means to hit. Compounds attributive and in other combinations; esp. figurative (with reference to its action in returning to the thrower). ΚΠ 1892 Daily News 30 June 5/5 It is..quite a boomerang business. Tories built the fort in anticipation of the battle of 1880, and to-day the Liberals hold it. 1898 Daily News 21 Apr. 5/2 Rawson, the Australian boomerang thrower, will take part. 1949 C. Fry Lady's not for Burning ii. 58 Boomerang rages and lunacies. 1955 Times 20 May 10/6 The..agitation..may ultimately have a boomerang effect on the party itself. 1968 Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 1/8 Russia's unmanned Zond 5 and 6 made successful ‘boomerang’ flights round the moon. Draft additions December 2021 As a modifier, designating or relating to young adults who return to live in the family home after a period of independence (often in higher education), typically as a result of difficulties in finding full-time employment or affordable accommodation; as in boomerang children, boomerang generation, etc.Cf. boomeranger n. 2. ΚΠ 1986 N.Y. Times 13 July (New Jersey Weekly section) 24/5 What is most puzzling to the parents of this Boomerang Generation is the ambivalent feelings they have toward their grown, live-in children. 1998 E. Nicol Anything for Laugh xv. 190 I was back living with my parents again... As a boomerang kid, I was starting to lose some of my novelty value, especially for my father. 2006 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 2 Aug. a3 Living at home longer and the boomerang trend are the new norm. 2019 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 21 Feb. 26 A growing number of British families are resorting to adapting their homes to make room for the boomerang children who triumphantly flew the nest at 18, only to return..three years later. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). boomerangv. Brit. /ˈbuːməraŋ/, U.S. /ˈbuməˌræŋ/ Etymology: < boomerang n. intransitive. To throw a boomerang; to fly back to the starting-point, after the manner of a boomerang when thrown; also figurative. Also with adverbs off, on. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure repaira1325 returna1325 rebounda1382 redounda1382 recovera1393 to go backc1425 revertc1475 renew1488 reverse1542 retire1567 revolve1587 reciprocate1623 retrovert1639 to get back1664 recur1719 hoicks1762 boomerang1900 1880 J. B. Stephens Misc. Poems 26 War shouts and universal boomeranging. 1900 H. Lawson On Track 59 The horse..boomeranged off again and broke away through the scrub. 1936 Discovery Apr. 125/2 It is easily possible for a deflecting wind to cause a shot to boomerang. 1943 H. Pearson Conan Doyle iii. 39 If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you. 1965 Listener 24 June 928/1 But the psychologically dangerous stratagem soon boomeranged. Derivatives ˈboomeranging n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > throwing of boomerangs boomeranging1899 1899 Longman's Mag. 33 475 Boomeranging is dangerous for on-lookers, till the thrower is a perfect master of his weapon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1827v.1880
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