单词 | bumbarrel |
释义 | bumbarreln.ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > other netOE sheepskinc1175 tail1297 panec1300 slipc1440 cukera1500 peak1509 waist1590 bumbarrel1609 winglet1611 armhole1731 fullness1792 stride1807 bottom1820 patte1835 buckling1861 ventilator1870 tie-back1880 shield1884 organ pleat1886 outer1904 flarea1910 uplift1929 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. B4v Ile haue no soping, no puffes, nor no Cobwebs: no busks nor burbarrels [read bumbarrels]. 1655 Gossips Braule 6 Bess. Not you goody draggle-tayl with the doggs-Skin muff at your breech. Doll. We shall have ye at Bum-barrell againe shortly in the Cellar with the Brewers Clarke. 2. colloquial (chiefly English regional (midlands)). The long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus. Now historical or in historical contexts.Named with reference to the shape of its nest, which is roughly spherical with a small entrance hole. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Aegithalidae > genus Aegithalos (long-tailed titmouse) poke bag1663 pudding-poke1684 bottle tom1802 bottle tit1817 bumbarrel1817 feather-poke1831 mufflin1837 jack-in-a-bottle1838 pettichaps1851 poke pudding1851 Long Tom1853 muffler1868 hedge-jug1881 ragamuffin1885 1817 T. Forster Observ. Nat. Hist. Swallows (ed. 6) 79 Parus caudatus. Longtailed Titmouse,..Bottletit, Bumbarrel,..or Barreldown Tomtit. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 64 Bom-barrel. The long-tailed titmouse. a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1984) II. 748 To feel in a bumbarrel's nest And to look on the hedgesparrow's eggs pearl blue. 1907 J. Prior Walking Gentleman x. 90 That were a bum-barrel as I just hulled at. 'Twere a fine miss an' all. 1962 Country Life 17 May 1189/4 In Rutland, 40 years ago, the local name for a long-tailed tit was a ‘bum-barrel’. 2009 Independent 26 May 29/5 I had spotted a party of long-tailed tits (which used to be called bumbarrels) flitting about in a nearby tree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1609 |
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