yellow jacketn.

Brit.

/ˈjɛləʊ ˌdʒakɪt/, U.S.

/ˈjɛloʊ ˌdʒækət/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., jacket n.

Etymology: < yellow adj. + jacket n.In sense 2 after Chinese (now hist.) huáng mǎguà (early 19th cent. or earlier in this sense; < huáng yellow + mǎguà mandarin jacket, lit. ‘horse(-riding) jacket’), the yellow colour implying an imperial reward. With sense 3 compare slightly later yellow jack n.⁴

1. North American. Any of various North American predatory social wasps, esp. of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula. Also with distinguishing word.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > a wasp

waspc725

waspya1529

yellow jacket1796

jasper1967

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > superfamily Vespoidea (hornets) > vespa crabro (hornet)

hornetc725

scrabrouna1425

yellow jacket1796

ground-hornet1822

paper hornet1870

1796 B. H. Latrobe Jrnl. 18 July (1905) vi. 106 The yellow jacket..appears to be when on wing very like the common wasp.

1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 30 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 309 The hornet, the wasp and yellow wasp or yellow jacket as they are frequently called are not met with in this quarter.

1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 123 [Bears] also dig up ‘yellow-jackets’, wasp's-nests, for the larvæ.

1897 W. D. Howells Landlord Lion's Head 381 He remembered stumbling..into a nest of yellow-jackets.

1939 C. D. Duncan Contrib. Biol. N. Amer. Vespine Wasps 3 A detailed treatment of the skeletal and muscular morphology..of the Western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica.

1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World (1975) vii. 136 Soon after, yellowjackets were feeding on the liquids produced by the pig bodies.

2013 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 14 Sept. (Final ed.) (Weekend Review section) d4 B.C.'s unusually warm weather has spawned swarms of hungry, aggressive yellow jackets.

2. A yellow jacket worn as a sign of high military distinction in Qing dynasty China; the right to wear such a jacket. Now historical.Yellow was a colour typically reserved for the imperial family; the right to wear a yellow jacket was the highest honour conferred in recognition of military service.

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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders

Order of St Michael1530

Legion of Honour1802

clasp1813

Iron Cross1813

medal1813

star1844

Victoria Cross1856

V.C.1859

Medal of Honour1861

bar1864

yellow jacket1864

V.D.1901

Croix de Guerre1915

Military Cross1915

C.G.M.1916

Military Medal1916

pip1917

M.M.1918

purple heart1918

Maconochie Cross1919

Maconochie Medal1919

wound-stripe1919

T.D.1924

rooty gong1925

Silver Star1932

Ritterkreuz1940

Africa Star1943

ruptured duck1945

Spam medal1945

screaming eagle1946

1864 North-China Herald 18 June 99/2 [They] being each and all pre-eminent for bravery, contempt for death, and a generous emulation, are invested with the yellow jacket as a reward for their merits.

1918 H. B. Morse Internat. Relations Chinese Empire II. v. 104 On Li Hung-chang was conferred the military distinction of the Yellow Jacket.

1966 A. Nutting Gordon of Khartoum vi. 73 He had long coveted the distinction of the Yellow Jacket.

2004 S. Bieler ‘Patriots’ or ‘Traitors’? i. 31 The court blamed Li for the defeat to Japan, stripping him of..the yellow jacket that he had received for defeating the Taiping Rebellion in 1853.

3. Australian. Any of various eucalypts having yellowish bark; also called yellow jack.The trees for which this name is still used include Eucalyptus similis, E. lirata, Corymbia leichhardtii, and C. bloxsomei.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees

yellow box1662

gum tree1676

white gum tree1733

whip-stick1782

peppermint1790

red gum tree1790

red mahogany1798

white gum1798

box1801

blue gum1802

eucalyptus1809

box tree1819

black-butted gum1820

bloodwood1827

white ash1830

blackbutt1833

morrel1837

mountain ash1837

mallee scrub1845

apple gum1846

flooded gum1847

Moreton Bay ash1847

mallee1848

swamp gum1852

box-gum1855

manna gum1855

white top1856

river gum1860

grey box1861

woolly butt1862

marlock1863

fever tree1867

red ironbark1867

river white gum1867

karri1870

yellow jacket1876

eucalypt1877

yapunyah1878

coolibah1879

scribbly gum1883

forest mahogany1884

yellow jack1884

rose gum1885

Jimmy Low1887

nankeen gum1889

slaty gum1889

sugar-gum1889

apple box1890

Murray red gum1895

creek-gum1898

eucalyptian1901

forest red gum1904

river red gum1920

napunyah1921

whitewash gum1923

ghost gum1928

snow gum1928

Sydney blue gum1932

salmon gum1934

lapunyah1940

1876 Mt. Alexander Mail (Castlemaine, Austral.) 6 May Mr. Vincent picked a thin twig from a tree which he called a ‘yellow jacket’.

1909 J. H. Maiden Forest Flora New S. Wales I. 88 Its Queensland Aboriginal name is ‘Yapunyah’ but its common name in western New South Wales and Queensland is ‘Yellow Jacket’, owing to the colour of its bark.

1959 J. V. Marshall Children x. 62 The bush boy led the way unhesitatingly: across the salt-pans, through the scattered yellow-jackets—poor relations to the gums—around the outcrops of quartz and granite.

2016 E. Anderson Plants Central Queensland 93/1 Yellowjacket Corymbia leichhardtii [Eucalyptus leichhardtii] (Myrtaceae).

4. slang (originally U.S.). A capsule or tablet containing the sedative and hypnotic drug pentobarbital (Nembutal). Cf. yellow n. 9. [After the yellow colouring of capsules of Nembutal.]

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > capsule

Nembutal1930

yellow jacket1945

blue1966

1945 Hygeia June 432/1 The war has forced narcotic addicts to turn to barbiturates—also called ‘goof balls’, ‘yellow jackets’, and ‘red birds’—as a wartime substitute.

1953 R. Chandler Long Good-bye xxxvii. 223 Bluejays are sodium amytal. Redbirds are Seconal. Yellow jackets are Nembutal.

2000 M. Karr Cherry 194 There are colored pills for any mood—methamphetamine,..nembutal (yellow jackets), seconal (red birds).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	yellow jacket
释义	yellow jacketn. Brit. /ˈjɛləʊ ˌdʒakɪt/, U.S. /ˈjɛloʊ ˌdʒækət/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., jacket n. Etymology: < yellow adj. + jacket n.In sense 2 after Chinese (now hist.) huáng mǎguà (early 19th cent. or earlier in this sense; < huáng yellow + mǎguà mandarin jacket, lit. ‘horse(-riding) jacket’), the yellow colour implying an imperial reward. With sense 3 compare slightly later yellow jack n.⁴ 1. North American. Any of various North American predatory social wasps, esp. of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula. Also with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > a wasp waspc725 waspya1529 yellow jacket1796 jasper1967 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > superfamily Vespoidea (hornets) > vespa crabro (hornet) hornetc725 scrabrouna1425 yellow jacket1796 ground-hornet1822 paper hornet1870 1796 B. H. Latrobe Jrnl. 18 July (1905) vi. 106 The yellow jacket..appears to be when on wing very like the common wasp. 1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 30 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 309 The hornet, the wasp and yellow wasp or yellow jacket as they are frequently called are not met with in this quarter. 1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 123 [Bears] also dig up ‘yellow-jackets’, wasp's-nests, for the larvæ. 1897 W. D. Howells Landlord Lion's Head 381 He remembered stumbling..into a nest of yellow-jackets. 1939 C. D. Duncan Contrib. Biol. N. Amer. Vespine Wasps 3 A detailed treatment of the skeletal and muscular morphology..of the Western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica. 1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World (1975) vii. 136 Soon after, yellowjackets were feeding on the liquids produced by the pig bodies. 2013 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 14 Sept. (Final ed.) (Weekend Review section) d4 B.C.'s unusually warm weather has spawned swarms of hungry, aggressive yellow jackets. 2. A yellow jacket worn as a sign of high military distinction in Qing dynasty China; the right to wear such a jacket. Now historical.Yellow was a colour typically reserved for the imperial family; the right to wear a yellow jacket was the highest honour conferred in recognition of military service. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders Order of St Michael1530 Legion of Honour1802 clasp1813 Iron Cross1813 medal1813 star1844 Victoria Cross1856 V.C.1859 Medal of Honour1861 bar1864 yellow jacket1864 V.D.1901 Croix de Guerre1915 Military Cross1915 C.G.M.1916 Military Medal1916 pip1917 M.M.1918 purple heart1918 Maconochie Cross1919 Maconochie Medal1919 wound-stripe1919 T.D.1924 rooty gong1925 Silver Star1932 Ritterkreuz1940 Africa Star1943 ruptured duck1945 Spam medal1945 screaming eagle1946 1864 North-China Herald 18 June 99/2 [They] being each and all pre-eminent for bravery, contempt for death, and a generous emulation, are invested with the yellow jacket as a reward for their merits. 1918 H. B. Morse Internat. Relations Chinese Empire II. v. 104 On Li Hung-chang was conferred the military distinction of the Yellow Jacket. 1966 A. Nutting Gordon of Khartoum vi. 73 He had long coveted the distinction of the Yellow Jacket. 2004 S. Bieler ‘Patriots’ or ‘Traitors’? i. 31 The court blamed Li for the defeat to Japan, stripping him of..the yellow jacket that he had received for defeating the Taiping Rebellion in 1853. 3. Australian. Any of various eucalypts having yellowish bark; also called yellow jack.The trees for which this name is still used include Eucalyptus similis, E. lirata, Corymbia leichhardtii, and C. bloxsomei. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees yellow box1662 gum tree1676 white gum tree1733 whip-stick1782 peppermint1790 red gum tree1790 red mahogany1798 white gum1798 box1801 blue gum1802 eucalyptus1809 box tree1819 black-butted gum1820 bloodwood1827 white ash1830 blackbutt1833 morrel1837 mountain ash1837 mallee scrub1845 apple gum1846 flooded gum1847 Moreton Bay ash1847 mallee1848 swamp gum1852 box-gum1855 manna gum1855 white top1856 river gum1860 grey box1861 woolly butt1862 marlock1863 fever tree1867 red ironbark1867 river white gum1867 karri1870 yellow jacket1876 eucalypt1877 yapunyah1878 coolibah1879 scribbly gum1883 forest mahogany1884 yellow jack1884 rose gum1885 Jimmy Low1887 nankeen gum1889 slaty gum1889 sugar-gum1889 apple box1890 Murray red gum1895 creek-gum1898 eucalyptian1901 forest red gum1904 river red gum1920 napunyah1921 whitewash gum1923 ghost gum1928 snow gum1928 Sydney blue gum1932 salmon gum1934 lapunyah1940 1876 Mt. Alexander Mail (Castlemaine, Austral.) 6 May Mr. Vincent picked a thin twig from a tree which he called a ‘yellow jacket’. 1909 J. H. Maiden Forest Flora New S. Wales I. 88 Its Queensland Aboriginal name is ‘Yapunyah’ but its common name in western New South Wales and Queensland is ‘Yellow Jacket’, owing to the colour of its bark. 1959 J. V. Marshall Children x. 62 The bush boy led the way unhesitatingly: across the salt-pans, through the scattered yellow-jackets—poor relations to the gums—around the outcrops of quartz and granite. 2016 E. Anderson Plants Central Queensland 93/1 Yellowjacket Corymbia leichhardtii [Eucalyptus leichhardtii] (Myrtaceae). 4. slang (originally U.S.). A capsule or tablet containing the sedative and hypnotic drug pentobarbital (Nembutal). Cf. yellow n. 9. [After the yellow colouring of capsules of Nembutal.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > capsule Nembutal1930 yellow jacket1945 blue1966 1945 Hygeia June 432/1 The war has forced narcotic addicts to turn to barbiturates—also called ‘goof balls’, ‘yellow jackets’, and ‘red birds’—as a wartime substitute. 1953 R. Chandler Long Good-bye xxxvii. 223 Bluejays are sodium amytal. Redbirds are Seconal. Yellow jackets are Nembutal. 2000 M. Karr Cherry 194 There are colored pills for any mood—methamphetamine,..nembutal (yellow jackets), seconal (red birds). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1796
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