thread-papern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈthread-ˌpaper.

a. A strip of thin soft paper folded in creases so as to form separate divisions for different skeins of thread; the paper so folded forming a long and narrow strip.

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1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xli. 199 What is become of my wife's thread-paper?

1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iv. viii. 404 Desdemona had lost the thread-paper from which she was to mend her gown.

1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 57 It should be cut at each end of the skein and folded securely into a ‘thread paper’.

b. figurative. A person of slender or thin figure.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having

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ectomorph1940

skinny-malinky1957

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1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 153 So tall and so limp, bent in the middle—a thread-paper, six feet high!

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 155 If the common sailors were..such little thread-papers as you.

1881 Huxley in Life (1900) II. ii. 35 I was a thread paper of a boy myself.

c. attributive. Having the attributes of a thread-paper; long and narrow, slender, attenuated; limp, feeble, flimsy.

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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > slenderness > [adjective] > and weak or fragile

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tender1390

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spindling1858

the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective]

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1747 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 450 I expect soon to see the other extreme of thread-paper heads and no hoops, and from appearing like so many blown bladders, we shall look like so many bodkins stalking about.

1803 Naval Chron. 10 510 Bonaparte's thread paper flotilla.

1882 P. Fitzgerald Recreat. Lit. Man II. xiii. 31 [Landing from a Calais steamer] Singers, actresses, ladies of quality, princesses, queens, all reduced to the common thread-paper level.

1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 203 She was a thread-paper creature.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	thread-paper
释义	thread-papern. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈthread-ˌpaper. a. A strip of thin soft paper folded in creases so as to form separate divisions for different skeins of thread; the paper so folded forming a long and narrow strip. ΚΠ 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xli. 199 What is become of my wife's thread-paper? 1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iv. viii. 404 Desdemona had lost the thread-paper from which she was to mend her gown. 1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 57 It should be cut at each end of the skein and folded securely into a ‘thread paper’. b. figurative. A person of slender or thin figure. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having staffc1405 notomy1487 rakea1529 crag1542 scrag1542 sneakbill1546 starveling1546 slim1548 ghost1590 bald-rib1598 bare-bone1598 bow-case1599 atomy1600 sneaksbill1602 thin-gut1602 anatomya1616 sharg1623 skeleton1630 raw-bone1635 living skeleton1650 strammel1706 scarecrow1711 rickle of bones1729 shargar1754 squeeze-crab1785 rack of bones1804 thread-paper1824 bag of bones1838 dry-bones1845 skinnymalink1870 hairpin1879 slim jim1889 skinny1907 underweight1910 asthenic1925 ectomorph1940 skinny-malinky1957 matchstick1959 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 153 So tall and so limp, bent in the middle—a thread-paper, six feet high! 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 155 If the common sailors were..such little thread-papers as you. 1881 Huxley in Life (1900) II. ii. 35 I was a thread paper of a boy myself. c. attributive. Having the attributes of a thread-paper; long and narrow, slender, attenuated; limp, feeble, flimsy. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > slenderness > [adjective] > and weak or fragile feeble1340 tender1390 lean1578 thread-paper1747 toylike1818 spindly1827 spindling1858 the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] tender?c1225 feeble1340 infirmc1374 slight1393 weakc1400 sperec1440 silly1587 unsound1590 immaterial1609 paper1615 unsubstantiala1617 reedy1628 slighty1662 insufficient1700 flimsy1702 bandbox1727 unconfirmed1752 insubstantial1767 gossamery1790 thread-paper1803 gossamer1806 slimsy1845 unendurable1879 bandboxy1891 1747 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 450 I expect soon to see the other extreme of thread-paper heads and no hoops, and from appearing like so many blown bladders, we shall look like so many bodkins stalking about. 1803 Naval Chron. 10 510 Bonaparte's thread paper flotilla. 1882 P. Fitzgerald Recreat. Lit. Man II. xiii. 31 [Landing from a Calais steamer] Singers, actresses, ladies of quality, princesses, queens, all reduced to the common thread-paper level. 1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 203 She was a thread-paper creature. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1747
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