单词 | buckeye |
释义 | buckeyen. U.S. 1. Botany. a. More fully buckeye tree. The American Horse-chestnut (Æsculus glabra). Also, a tree of this species. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > horse-chestnut tree and allies > [noun] horse chestnut1597 poison root1712 Pavia1731 buckeye1763 buckwood1787 Ohio buckeye1810 sweet buckeye1815 chestnut1842 1763 in R. T. Durrett Louisville (1893) 132 Beginning at a hoop-ashe and buckeye. 1784 J. Filson Discov. Kentucke 23 Here also is the buck-eye, an exceedingly soft wood, bearing a remarkable black fruit. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 404 There is the..buckeye, an exceedingly soft wood. 1841 J. W. Loudon 1st Bk. Botany i. 29 Called buck-eye..from the hilum of the fruit having the appearance of a stag's eye. 1872 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master 139 He didn't butt his brains out agin a buckeye-tree. 1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 109 Looking down upon me through the buckeye bushes. 1886 B. Harte Snow-bound 221 The trail was passable yesterday, for I went as far as the buckeyes. b. The nut or fruit of the buckeye; a chestnut from the buckeye. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > horse-chestnut tree and allies > [noun] > nut horse chestnut1611 buckeye1785 chestnut1842 conker1847 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > other nuts mani1604 nuciprune1682 breadnut?1740 buckeye1785 mockernut1804 breadnut1828 philopena1839 nutlet1848 Barcelona nut1851 buffalo-nut1857 urucuri1860 Queensland nut1870 1785 G. Washington Diaries II. 360 Sowed..the following things: Box No. 1, partition No. 1, six buck eye nuts. 1797 in Filson Club Hist. Q. (1928) II. 166 Buck eye..resembles the Chestnut, but is as large as a hickory nut of the largest Size. 1884 ‘C. E. Craddock’ In Tennessee Mts. I. x. 60 Buck-eyes were falling. 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 20 The negroes believe if one carries buckeyes in the pocket he will have no chills through the year. 1896 E. Higginson From Land of Snow-pearls (1897) 218 I kep' a buckeye in my pocket tell it wore a hole and fell out. 1948 Chicago Tribune 28 Mar. vii. 1/3 You carry a buckeye to ward off rheumatism. 2. a. A native of Ohio, the ‘Buckeye State’, in which the Æsculus glabra abounds. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > specific state > states Marylander1640 Rhode Islander1665 Jerseyman1679 Pennsylvanian1685 Carolinian1705 Georgian1732 Marylandian1750 Jersey blue1758 Californian1762 Louisianian1775 Mississippian1775 Acadian1776 Vermonteer1778 Kentuckian1779 Vermontese1783 Indianian1784 Cohee1786 Kentuck1789 Virginian1797 Michiganian1813 Michigan1814 Tennessean1815 Ohioan1818 Illinoian1819 Ohian1819 Missourian1820 buckeye1823 Vermonter1825 Hoosier1826 red horse1833 sucker1833 wolverine1833 puke1834 corn-cracker1835 Texian1835 Alaskan1836 Texan1837 Michigander1838 Oregonian1838 Rackensack1839 Arkansian1844 badger1844 Bay Stater1845 Lone Star Stater1845 Oregonese1845 tar-boiler1845 weasel1845 web foot1845 Alabaman1846 Iowanc1848 Arkansan1851 Minnesotian1851 Washingtonian1852 Minnesotan1854 Nebraskan1854 Kansian1855 Utahan1855 Floridan1856 fly-up-the-creek1857 Dakotian1861 Coloradan1862 Coloradian1862 Texican1863 Coloradoan1864 tarheel1864 Cajun1868 Kansan1868 Montanian1869 Floridian1870 mudcat1872 New Jerseyan1872 Arkansawyer1874 longhorn1876 Mainer1879 New Jerseyite1885 prune picker1892 Hawaiian1893 Oklahoman1894 Tex1909 blue hen's chicken1921 Tejano1925 Geechee1926 Arkie1927 sooner1930 wyomingite1930 New Mexican1940 Okie1948 1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 20 In allusion to this circumstance, the indigenous backwoodsman is sometimes called buck-eye. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase 45 We discovered on a bank, just about ‘sunup’ a full-grown male Buckeye..watching our progress. 1871 P. T. Barnum Struggles & Triumphs 347 You may fool the New Orleans folks, but you can't come it over the Buckeyes. 1882 Congress. Rec. July 5811/1 The regenerated statesmanship of the modern Buckeye. b. figurative. Used attributively and absol. of an inferior person or thing, esp. one of no value, poor quality, or cheap (but often showy). colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun] poornessa1382 chaffc1386 cold roast?1406 arse-guta1413 short end1560 under-kind1571 inferior1589 canvas-back1605 underthing1620 under-sort1655 wasteling1750 slouch1767 shamea1771 neck beefa1777 rep1786 wastrel1790 wastera1800 shoddy1862 piece1884 tinhorn1887 robbo1897 cheapie1898 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1916 dog1917 stinkeroo1934 bodgie1964 cheapo1975 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective] salec1299 bastarda1348 sorry1372 slight1393 shrewd1426 singlec1449 backc1450 soberc1450 lesser1464 silly?a1500 starven1546 mockado1577 subaltern1578 bastardly1583 wooden1592 starved1604 perishing1605 starveling1611 minor1612 starvy1647 potsherd1655 low1727 la-la1800 waif1824 lathen1843 one-eyed1843 snide1859 bobbery1873 jerkwater1877 low-grade1878 shoddy1882 tinhorn1886 jerk1893 cheapie1898 shaganappi1900 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1907 pissy1922 crappy1928 cruddy1935 el cheapo1967 pound shop1989 1846 in C. Cist Cincinnati Misc. II. 97/1 The buckeye..stood very low in the estimation of early settlers, and by a figure of speech.., it was applied to lawyers and doctors whose capacity and attainment were of a low grade.] 1906 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 640 The despised ‘buckeye’ painter who paints for department stores and cheap picture shops. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xi. 137 The walls of Mrs. Cass's parlor were plastered with..‘buckeye’ pictures. 1947 New Yorker 15 Feb. 59 A buckeye is a small shop in which cigars are made by hand in a back room and sold across the counter out front. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 332/1 Buckeye painter—which means a painter of decorations on saloon mirrors. 1980 in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams 107 The place was called a buckeye, the name for a sleazy shop. 3. A variety of potato. ΚΠ 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 240 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Buck-eye. 4. A type of canoe or schooner (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > other types of canoe pirogue1666 dory1709 Montreal canoe1793 waka1807 tandem canoe1867 Rob Roy1868 canot du maître1872 Peterborough1882 snake-boat1882 shadow canoe1883 tandem1884 buckeye1885 Canader1893 vinta1900 bellum1901 spoon canoe1907 sponson canoe1911 ratting canoe1944 tarada1960 canot du nord1961 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > fore and aft rigged > schooner > schooner-rigged vessels schooner-frigate1799 mackinaw boat1812 ballahoo1815 schooner barge1819 Jack1845 schooner-yacht1876 bugeye1877 jackass schooner1879 buckeye1885 butterman1885 schooner yawl1889 ram1904 Tancook schooner1933 goelette1948 1885 C. P. Kunhardt Small Yachts 234 The Buckeyes..are an exaggeration of the dugout canoe... The primitive builder bored two holes, one on each side of the stem, through which to pay out his cables. These were simply two round holes, bored with a large auger, and, when the boat was coming head on, resembled to the fancy of the negroes, the eyes of a buck. 1889 Cent. Dict. Buckeye...A flat-bottomed centerboard schooner of small size..decked over, and with a cabin aft, used in oyster-fishing in Chesapeake Bay. Also called bugeye. 1923 Outing Jan. 187/1 The craft he suggests is one of ‘those Chesapeake Bay buckeyes’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1763 |
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