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Guernsey|ˈgɜːnzɪ|
Also 6 Garnesie, Garnsey, 7 Gernsey.
The name of one of the Channel Islands.
1. Used attributively in the following: Guernsey coat, frock, shirt = sense 2 a; Guernsey eyestone (see quot.); † Guernsey flower, lily, a ? Japanese or S. African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lily-like flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey; Guernsey lizard (see quot.); Guernsey partridge, the red-legged partridge, Perdix or Caccabis rufa; Guernsey violet, the Matthiola incana (Britten & Holland Plant-n.).
1859Emerson Sp. Burns Cent. Boston Wks. 1884 XI. 367 The poet..of poor men, of gray hodden, and the *guernsey coat.
1886Syd. Soc. Lex., *Guernsey eyestone, the operculum of Turbo pullus.
1677Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 30 The scarlet *Gernsey flower is in great fame but they will not prosper scarce one in twenty of them.
1832Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. I. 307/2 Before any of his associates had entered the cabin, he had secreted his prize under his *Guernsey frock. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxxiii. 126 Our south-westers, thick boots, Guernsey frocks, and other accompaniments of bad weather. 1856[see frock n. 3 c].
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 201 The Narcissus of Japan (or *Guernsey Lilly). 1764Gray in Corr. w. N. Nicholls (1843) 57 Guernsey lilies bloom in every window. 1792M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 94 The lilia jacoboea, or Guernsey lily, is one of the most beautiful flowers indigenous in this island [Antigua]. 1838Penny Cycl. XI. 470/2 The Guernsey lily, a species of the amaryllis, is a native of Japan. 1895Amherst Garden. 282 The Guernsey lily (Nerine sarniensis) which was said to have grown in Guernsey from bulbs washed ashore from a wreck of a ship from Japan about 1659.
1769Pennant Zool. (1776) III. 21 Related to this species [Scaly lizard] is the *Guernsey lizard, which we are informed has been propagated in England from some originally brought from that island.
1802Montagu Ornith. Dict., Partridge-Guernsey..*Guernsey Partridge..Why this should be called Guernsey Partridge we cannot imagine..It is also..called..Red-legged Partridge.
1835Dickens Sk. Boz II. 184 Two or three fellows in great rough trousers and *Guernsey shirts. 1874M. C. Explorers 53 So you have come to make your fame With pick-axe, in a Guernsey-shirt.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. iv. 152 The greater sorte is called in English *Garnesie Violets, white Gillofer, and Stocke Gillofer. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxiv. §4. 373 The Stocke Gilloflower is called..in English..Garnsey Violet, and Castle Gilloflower.
2. In senses originally elliptical.
a. A thick, knitted, closely-fitting vest or shirt, generally made of blue wool, worn by seamen. Also Austral., a coloured shirt worn by Austral. Rules players; so to get (or draw) a guernsey, to be selected (for a team); transf., to be invited, to succeed.
1839Bell's Life 16 June 3/5 The Etonian crew were dressed in white guernseys, with pale blue facings; rosette, sky blue. 1845Ainsworth's Mag. VII. 499 An amateur boatman..in a Fez cap, striped Guernsey. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 66 The sailors in their striped guernseys. 1861Musgrave By-roads 170 Villers Bretonneaux [was] celebrated, from an early period, for its manufacture of..socks, caps, waistcoats, and jackets or Guernseys. 1887Hall Caine Deemster ix. 61 There was Dan in his guernsey on the deck of his boat. 1963Times 5 June 5/4 The flying gold guernsies of the Australians lit the gloomy arena with their explosive action. 1966Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) xix. 392 Get a guernsey (succeed or be selected, from football). Ibid. xxi. 428 Success: get (or draw) a guernsey. 1969Australian 24 May 17/3 Goold..wears either a hacking jacket or a football guernsey with easy grace.
b. One of a breed of cattle of the Channel Islands.
1834Youatt Cattle iii. 30 Mr. King recommends the addition of one Guernsey to every dozen country-cows. 1890Daily News 24 June 6/1 There are 169 Jerseys and 81 Guernseys in the show. |