英语词汇“tar and feather”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. To smear (a person's body) over with tar; esp. in to tar and feather, to smear with tar and then cover with feathers: a punishment sometimes inflicted by a mob (esp. in U.S.) on an unpopular or scandalous character. Also figurative.(The practice was imposed by an ordinance of Richard I in 1189 as a punishment in the navy for theft: see Rymer Foedera (1704) I. 65/2, Hakluyt Voy. (1599) II. 21, Holinshed Chron. (1807) II. 213; in Howell's Fam. Lett. (1650, I. iii. xxvii. 81) it is said to have been applied in 1623 by a bishop of Halverstade to a party of incontinent friars and nuns; but in neither case is the specific term used.)

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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (transitive)] > tar and feather

emplume1611

tar1769

feathera1777

1769 Boston (Mass.) Chron. 30 Oct. 3/2 A person..was stripped naked, put into a cart, where he was first tarred, then feathered.

1774 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 12 Pote..railed away at Boston mobs, drowning tea, and tarring Malcom.

1774 T. Hutchinson Diary 1 July K[ing George III].—I see they threatened to pitch and feather you. H[utchinson].—Tarr and feather, may it please your Majesty.

1774 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 127/2 Mr. John Malcomb, an officer of the customs at Boston, who was tarred and feathered, and led to the gallows with a rope about his neck.

1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 16 You must send the Ministers tarred and feathered to America.

1784 Duke of Rutland Corr. with Pitt (1890) 37 Persons are daily marked out for the operation of tarring and feathering.

1846 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter I. 62 [We] tar and feather our feelings with the dust and dirt of the earth.

1850 N. Hawthorne in Bridge Pers. Recoll. (1893) 114 If I escape from town without being tarred and feathered, I shall consider it good-luck.

1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves ii. iii. 113 Miss Carruthers, who has a short way with dissenters, would like to see them tarred and feathered—all except pacifists, who, like strikers, could do with a little shooting.

1960 N. Annan in Victorian Stud. June 331 The individualist, the eccentric, the man who offends against the trivial rules of the club, are tarred and feathered with gleeful brutality.

1977 Daily News (Perth, Austral.) 19 Jan. 6/5 The victims were stripped naked, tarred and shorn of their hair.

1981 A. Price Soldier no More 161 The Russians..wouldn't have cared less if we'd tarred and feathered Nasser and run him out of Suez on a rail.

单词	tar and feather
释义	> as lemmas to tar and feather b. externally: To coat with feathers; more fully, to tar and feather (see tar v.¹). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (transitive)] > tar and feather emplume1611 tar1769 feathera1777 a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) iii. ii. 88 You wanted to send me to be feathered abroad. 1829 W. H. Maxwell Stories Waterloo: F. Kennedy 205 The population were amusing themselves..in..feathering tithe proctors. extracted from featherv. to tar and feather b. To smear (a person's body) over with tar; esp. in to tar and feather, to smear with tar and then cover with feathers: a punishment sometimes inflicted by a mob (esp. in U.S.) on an unpopular or scandalous character. Also figurative.(The practice was imposed by an ordinance of Richard I in 1189 as a punishment in the navy for theft: see Rymer Foedera (1704) I. 65/2, Hakluyt Voy. (1599) II. 21, Holinshed Chron. (1807) II. 213; in Howell's Fam. Lett. (1650, I. iii. xxvii. 81) it is said to have been applied in 1623 by a bishop of Halverstade to a party of incontinent friars and nuns; but in neither case is the specific term used.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (transitive)] > tar and feather emplume1611 tar1769 feathera1777 1769 Boston (Mass.) Chron. 30 Oct. 3/2 A person..was stripped naked, put into a cart, where he was first tarred, then feathered. 1774 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 12 Pote..railed away at Boston mobs, drowning tea, and tarring Malcom. 1774 T. Hutchinson Diary 1 July K[ing George III].—I see they threatened to pitch and feather you. H[utchinson].—Tarr and feather, may it please your Majesty. 1774 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 127/2 Mr. John Malcomb, an officer of the customs at Boston, who was tarred and feathered, and led to the gallows with a rope about his neck. 1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 16 You must send the Ministers tarred and feathered to America. 1784 Duke of Rutland Corr. with Pitt (1890) 37 Persons are daily marked out for the operation of tarring and feathering. 1846 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter I. 62 [We] tar and feather our feelings with the dust and dirt of the earth. 1850 N. Hawthorne in Bridge Pers. Recoll. (1893) 114 If I escape from town without being tarred and feathered, I shall consider it good-luck. 1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves ii. iii. 113 Miss Carruthers, who has a short way with dissenters, would like to see them tarred and feathered—all except pacifists, who, like strikers, could do with a little shooting. 1960 N. Annan in Victorian Stud. June 331 The individualist, the eccentric, the man who offends against the trivial rules of the club, are tarred and feathered with gleeful brutality. 1977 Daily News (Perth, Austral.) 19 Jan. 6/5 The victims were stripped naked, tarred and shorn of their hair. 1981 A. Price Soldier no More 161 The Russians..wouldn't have cared less if we'd tarred and feathered Nasser and run him out of Suez on a rail. extracted from tarv.¹ < as lemmas
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