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goldilocks|ˈgəʊldɪlɒks|
Also 6–9 goldylocks, (6 goldilocx, 9 north. goudy-locks).
[f. goldy a. + lock n.]
†1. Golden hair; app. vaguely used for a woman's hair in general. Obs.
1566J. Studley Seneca's Agamemnon iii. F j, The soft and gentle goldilocks starte vp of her affright. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iv. 68 Their gay and gallant goldilockes Spred all about their necks so white. 1589Rider Eng.-Lat. Dict., Goldilockes, or womans haire, which lieth out before over their fore heades, capronæ. 1593B. Barnes Parthenophil Sonn. xix, She matcheth..In goldie-lockes bright Tytan. 1596Lodge Marg. Amer. G, Hauing her goldilocks tied vp with loose chaines of gold, and Diamondes.
2. One who has golden hair. Also as a person's name.
c1550Pryde & Abuse Wom. 117 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 239 Huffa! goldylocx, joly lusty goldylocx; A wanton tricker is come to towne. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 400 Pure goldy-locks, Sol, States'-friend, etc. 1615E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 49 To set out the picture like a Goldylocks, with Rebatoes, red Sattin Petticotes, and loose Gownes. a1687Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 55 My Goldy Locks (quoth she) my Joy, My pretty little tyny Boy. 1889M. Wright in A. Lang Blue Fairy Bk. 193 The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. 1930Observer 25 May 15 But why is Mr. Max Montesole in Cassio such a quaint goldilocks?
3. A name given to various plants, esp.a. Ranunculus auricomus, a species of the buttercup;
b. ‘A modern (translated) book-name for Chrysocoma Linosyris’ (Britten & Holland 1879);
c. Helichrysum Stœchas;
†d. (in Lyte) Polytrichum commune;
e. Trollius europæus.
1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxi. 414 We may cal it in English Goldylockes Polytrichon. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccvii. (1633) 647 Golden Floure gentle or goldilockes also called God's floure. 1625B. Jonson Pan's Anniv., Bring..Fair ox-eye, goldy-locks, and columbine. 1650W. How Phytologia Brit. 102 Ranunculus auricomus..Goldylocks. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 902 Others yet advise to sow Goldilocks near where they [bees] are. 1832J. Hodgson Northumbld. II. ii. 459 The plant which, as a boy, I was taught to call Locken Gowen, or Goudy Locks, is the Trolius europea of Botanists. 1880W. Leighton Shaks. Dream 52 Blue hyacinths..And goldilocks. |