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单词 tonguer
释义

tonguern.

Etymology: < tongue v. + -er suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtonguer.
1. An utterer, a speaker.
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the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun]
mathelereOE
mouthOE
speaker1303
sayer1340
outera1415
utterer1509
handler1534
trumpet1549
discourser1564
deliverer1580
linguist1612
vocalist1613
sermocinator1623
sermocinatrix1623
articulator1651
worder1654
voice1667
stringer1774
tonguer1822
vocalizer1830
locutor1858
outspeaker1858
speaker-hearer1965
speaker-listener1965
1822 New Monthly Mag. 4 297 Ceaseless tonguers of ‘words of no tone’, they lisp.
2. New Zealand. (See quots.) Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whale-hunter > [noun] > helper
tonguer1836
tub-oarsman1845
1836 in R. McNab Old Whaling Days (1913) 436 Some mention of what are called tonguers... When the whale is cut in they are entitled to the carcass and the tongue.
1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. I. ii. 51 [The tongue] is a monopoly of the ‘tonguer’ or ‘cutter-in’.
1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. xi. 323 The proper officers have been selected—such as cooper, carpenter, cooks, painter, and ‘tonguer’..[who] takes his name from having an exclusive right to the oil obtained from the tongue..in payment of his duty of ‘cutting-in’, or dissecting, the whale.
1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang ii. 13 A tonguer was a native or white living in New Zealand who assisted a whaling crew to cut up whales... These men earned their name..from the fact that they were given the whale's carcass and tongue to dispose of as they wished.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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