wait-a-bitn.

Brit.

/ˈweɪtəbɪt/, U.S.

/ˈweɪdəˌbɪt/

Etymology: translating Cape Dutch wacht-een-beetje.

Usually attributive with thorn, thorn-tree, etc.

a. A name given to various South African plants and shrubs with humorous reference to their hooked and clinging thorns; e.g. various species of mimosa.

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Hottentot fig1731

wait-a-bit1785

goat's foot1787

Strelitzia1789

aandblom1793

grapple-plant1822

tile-root1829

neb-neb1839

Cape tulip1850

bird-of-paradise flower1855

dimorphotheca1861

aandblommetjie1870

lithops1938

1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. 236 A new species of callophyllum, which from its catching..fast hold of the traveller with its hooked prickles..is commonly called here wakt een betje, or wait a bit.

1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. viii. 152 This variety of mimosa is waggishly termed by the Boers ‘vyacht um bige’, or wait-a-bit thorns, as they continually solicit the passing traveller not to be in a hurry.

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. iii. 61 The ‘wait-a-bit thorn’, or Acacia detinens.

1899 A. B. Miall tr. A. Bertrand Kingdom Barotsi 48 Various species of thorn, of which the most formidable is the ‘wacht-een-beetje’, appropriately interpreted as the ‘wait-a-bit’, a crooked, steely, regular fish~hook of a thorn, that stops and tears everything that comes in its way.

1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms at Wacht-en-beetje The familiar Zizyphus mucronata, W., is popularly known all through Kaffraria and the Eastern Districts as the ‘wait-a-bit thorn tree’.

b. Applied by travellers to different plants of similar character in other parts of the world.

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1865 H. B. Tristram Land of Israel 202 The principal tree was the zizyphus spina-Christi..with long pointed and rather reflex thorns, very strong,—a true wait-a-bit tree.

1894 N. B. Dennys Descr. Dict. Brit. Malaya 415 Wait-a-bit. A name conventionally applied to a species of rattan armed with powerful curved thorns.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	wait-a-bit
释义	wait-a-bitn. Brit. /ˈweɪtəbɪt/, U.S. /ˈweɪdəˌbɪt/ Etymology: translating Cape Dutch wacht-een-beetje. Usually attributive with thorn, thorn-tree, etc. a. A name given to various South African plants and shrubs with humorous reference to their hooked and clinging thorns; e.g. various species of mimosa. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > African plants > other African plants Hottentot fig1731 wait-a-bit1785 goat's foot1787 Strelitzia1789 aandblom1793 grapple-plant1822 tile-root1829 neb-neb1839 Cape tulip1850 bird-of-paradise flower1855 dimorphotheca1861 aandblommetjie1870 lithops1938 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. 236 A new species of callophyllum, which from its catching..fast hold of the traveller with its hooked prickles..is commonly called here wakt een betje, or wait a bit. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. viii. 152 This variety of mimosa is waggishly termed by the Boers ‘vyacht um bige’, or wait-a-bit thorns, as they continually solicit the passing traveller not to be in a hurry. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. iii. 61 The ‘wait-a-bit thorn’, or Acacia detinens. 1899 A. B. Miall tr. A. Bertrand Kingdom Barotsi 48 Various species of thorn, of which the most formidable is the ‘wacht-een-beetje’, appropriately interpreted as the ‘wait-a-bit’, a crooked, steely, regular fish~hook of a thorn, that stops and tears everything that comes in its way. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms at Wacht-en-beetje The familiar Zizyphus mucronata, W., is popularly known all through Kaffraria and the Eastern Districts as the ‘wait-a-bit thorn tree’. b. Applied by travellers to different plants of similar character in other parts of the world. ΚΠ 1865 H. B. Tristram Land of Israel 202 The principal tree was the zizyphus spina-Christi..with long pointed and rather reflex thorns, very strong,—a true wait-a-bit tree. 1894 N. B. Dennys Descr. Dict. Brit. Malaya 415 Wait-a-bit. A name conventionally applied to a species of rattan armed with powerful curved thorns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1785
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