释义 |
ˈhazing, vbl. n. [f. haze v.1 + -ing1.] 1. A sound beating, a thrashing.
1825Gentl. Mag. XCV. i. 396, I gave him a hazing. 2. Naut. See haze v.1 2.
1893J. A. Barry S. Brown's Bunyip, etc. 285 The process is called ‘hazing’. The sufferer gets all the dirtiest and most disagreeable..jobs to be found on shipboard. 3. A species of brutal horseplay practised on freshmen at some American Colleges.
a1860Harvard Mag. I. 413 (Bartlett) The absurd and barbarous custom of hazing, which has long prevailed in the college. 1892Daily News 28 June 5/3 ‘Hazing’ at Yale has unhappily led to the death of an unfortunate young student named Rustin, and to a general denunciation of this custom as ‘stupid and brutal’. 1894Ibid. 16 Oct. 5/4 The freshman class of Princeton is smaller this autumn than last..due in part to the hazing outrages of recent years. |