单词 | tonguer |
释义 | tonguern. 1. An utterer, a speaker. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1822 |
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