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单词 bumbarrel
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bumbarreln.

Brit. /ˈbʌmbarəl/, /ˈbʌmbarl̩/, U.S. /ˈbəmˌbɛrəl/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bum n.1, barrel n.
Etymology: < bum n.1 + barrel n.
1. = bum roll n. at bum n.1 and int.2 Compounds 2 Obsolete.In quot. 1655 as one of a number of items of women's clothing mentioned with sexual innuendo.
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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.
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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).
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