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单词 whippet
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whippetn.

Brit. /ˈwɪpɪt/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪpᵻt/
Forms: Also 1500s wepit, whippett, 1800s whippit, wippet.
Etymology: ? partly < whip n. or whip v. + -et suffix1, partly < whippet v.
1. ? Some light wine. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > other types of wine
myrrhed winec1429
tyre1429
rochec1440
rospeys1440
raspis?a1450
caprika1475
garnade?c1475
whippetc1500
rampion?1520
Ribadavia1542
romanisk1542
Mountrosec1560
raspis wine1562
whippincrusta1593
charneco1594
absinthites1601
pitch wine1601
myrrh wine1609
wine of astonishment1611
deal1613
Sherant1620
Sheranino1632
Grecoa1660
Langoon1674
generousa1717
Massic1751
rasped wine1823
straw wine1824
vin de paille1833
vin jaune1833
vino tierno1911
mistelle1924
rancio1939
boerwyn1947
c1500 Blowbols Test. 50 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 94 Good drynke he lovyd better than he did wepit.
c1500 Blowbols Test. 335 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 107 Malmasyes, Tires, and Rumneys,..Whippett and Pyngmedo.
2. A lively young woman; a light wench; now dialect a nimble, diminutive, or puny person.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman
queanOE
whorec1175
malkinc1275
wenchelc1300
ribalda1350
strumpeta1350
wench1362
filtha1375
parnelc1390
sinner14..
callet1415
slut?c1425
tickle-tailc1430
harlot?a1475
mignote1489
kittock?a1500
mulea1513
trulla1516
trully?1515
danta1529
miswoman1528
stewed whore1532
Tib1533
unchaghe1534
flag1535
Katy1535
jillet1541
yaud1545
housewife1546
trinkletc1550
whippet1550
Canace1551
filthy1553
Jezebel1558
kittyc1560
loonc1560
laced mutton1563
nymph1563
limmer1566
tomboy1566
Marian1567
mort1567
cockatrice1568
franion1571
blowze1573
rannell1573
rig1575
Kita1577
poplet1577
light-skirts1578
pucelle1578
harlotry1584
light o' lovea1586
driggle-draggle1588
wagtail1592
tub-tail1595
flirt-gill1597
minx1598
hilding1599
short-heels1599
bona-roba1600
flirt1600
Hiren1600
light-heels1602
roba1602
baggage1603
cousin1604
fricatrice1607
rumbelow1611
amorosa1615
jaya1616
open-taila1618
succubus1622
snaphancea1625
flap1631
buttered bun1638
puffkin1639
vizard1652
fallen woman1659
tomrigg1662
cunt1663
quaedama1670
jilt1672
crack1677
grass-girl1691
sporting girl1694
sportswoman1705
mobbed hood1707
brim1736
trollop1742
trub1746
demi-rep1749
gillyflower1757
lady of easy virtue1766
mot1773
chicken1782
gammerstang1788
buer1807
scarlet woman1816
blowen1819
fie-fie1820
shickster?1834
streel1842
charver1846
trolly1854
bad girl1855
amateur1862
anonyma1862
demi-virgin1864
pickup1871
chippy1885
wish-wife1886
tart1887
tartleta1890
flossy1893
fly girl1893
demi-mondaine1894
floozy1899
slattern1899
scrub1900
demi-vierge1908
cake1909
coozie1912
muff1914
tarty1918
yes-girl1920
radge1923
bike1945
puta1948
messer1951
cooze1955
jamette1965
skeezer1986
slutbag1987
chickenhead1988
ho1988
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dviiiv All modeste Matrons I truste wyll take my parte As for nice whippets wordes shall not come nye my hert.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q4 v Those worthlesse Whippets and Iack Strawes hee could get, he would seeme to enable and compare with the highest.
1597 N. Breton Wit's Trenchmour in Wks. (1879) II. 15/1 Why, quoth this Whippet, if I should tell you I loue you [etc.].
3. A sudden brisk movement. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > sudden > a sudden dart
startc1330
gird1545
whip1550
shoota1596
whippeta1603
snap1631
jet1647
flirt1666
whid1719
dart1721
spout1787
with a thrash1870
sprit1880
divea1897
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 431 As soone as ever [the dog] seeth [the rost] taken from the fire, he giveth a whippet from his wheele.
4.
a. A small breed of dog; now spec. a cross between a greyhound and a terrier or spaniel, used for coursing and racing, esp. in the north of England.With the earliest examples cf. whappet n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > whippet
whippeta1610
a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 75 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) If a little dog or whippet of his dye, ô hee makes him a tombe.
?1616 W. Goddard Mastif Whelp sig. G3 Too loude thou barkest Whelpe, I must haue whippetts now, that doe but yelpe.
1630 J. Taylor Dog of War in Wks. ii. 232 The little Curre, Whippet, or House-dogge.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 26 If a man cannot peaceably walk into the world, but must bee infested..with bauling whippets, and shin-barkers.
1665 Warrant in Sporting Mag. (1813) 42 10 To seize..all such greyhounds, beagles, or whipperts [sic].
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 614 Whippet, a dog bred betwixt a greyhound and a spaniel.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 18 Oct. 6/2 I found a man training a wiry racing-dog... The ‘whippet’ strode along with great earnestness.
attributive and in other combinations.1885 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 30 Mar. 1260/3 Fawn whippet bitch for sale.1894 F. Lloyd Whippet & Race-dog viii. 45 The National Whippet-racing Club.1894 F. Lloyd Whippet & Race-dog xi. 73 A most important personage on the Whippet-track is the clerk of the scales.
b. transferred. Military. The Medium Mark A ‘tank’, a light kind of ‘tank’ used in the war of 1914–18. Also called chaser. Usually attributive as whippet tank.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > armed or armoured > tank > types of
whippet1918
cruiser tank1940
Valentine1941
General Sherman (tank)1942
Valentine tank1943
buffalo1944
flail tank1944
1918 Times 15 Aug. 7/6 The..capture of Morlancourt, where light Tanks or whippets were used.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 664 Whippet tank, an English armored car equipped with caterpillar treads.
1920 J. F. C. Fuller Tanks in Great War 176 March 26 [1918] is an interesting date in the history of the Tank Corps, for, on the afternoon of this day, the Whippet Tanks made their debut.
1938 G. Greene in Spectator 22 July 139/2 Whippet tanks—camouflaged as in war.
1946 New Yorker 9 Mar. 83/1 Solid city blocks of whippet and giant tanks.
5. A little whip. Obsolete. rare.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip
wandc1400
rod?a1475
riding rod?a1549
switch1597
quirka1616
whippet1616
shambrier1667
horsewhipa1691
whip-stick1782
lash-whip1787
flogger1789
string1839
nagaika1842
whalebone1842
quirt1845
switcher1847
ash-plant1850
hunting-crop1857
dick1864
bow-whip1890
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) i. xxviii. 132 He shall not vse anie thing else to ride him [sc. horse] with, saue onely his whippet and trench.
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6. ‘A short light petticoat’ (Forby). dialect. Obsolete.

Derivatives

whippeˈteer n. (also ˈwhippeter) a person who keeps a whippet (sense 4).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > keeping specific dog > keeper of specific dog
whippeteer1894
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life II. 337 The principal whippeteers are colliers in Lancashire.
1894 F. Lloyd Whippet & Race-dog xxiv. 174 Common names have been given by Whippeters to the dogs.
ˈwhippeting n. and adj. (a) n. the breeding, training, etc. of whippets; (b) adj. engaged in this.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > keeping specific dog
whippeting1894
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [adjective] > affinity with dogs > keeping specific dogs
whippeting1894
1894 F. Lloyd Whippet & Race-dog vii. 44 Everything connected with Whippeting.
1894 F. Lloyd Whippet & Race-dog ix. 58 Some Whippeting people.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

whippetv.

Forms: Also 1500s -yt.
Etymology: apparently the phrase whip it written as one word: see whip v. 1c.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To move briskly, bestir oneself, frisk.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active
wakec897
stir?c1225
whippet1540
to let the grass grow under one's feet (also heels)a1556
jetty1570
hum1884
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and briskly
fisk1393
trotc1416
whippet1540
skip1587
skice1591
trig1599
brisk1727
nip1825
june1869
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. i. sig. Niv Lest he a camell shulde not skyp or whippyt about.
c1550 C. Bansley Treat. Pryde & Abuse of Women sig. A.iv Wyth whyppet a whyle lyttle pretyone, prancke it and bragge it well.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iii. sig. B.iijv Nowe whippet apace for the maystrie.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 48 Whippet, turne to a new lesson, and strike wee vp Iohn for the King.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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