cockroachn.

Brit.

/ˈkɒkrəʊtʃ/, U.S.

/ˈkɑkˌroʊtʃ/

Forms:

α. 1600s cacarooch, 1600s cacarootch, 1600s cagaroche, 1600s kakaroch.

β. 1600s–1700s cockroch, 1600s–1700s cockroche, 1600s– cockroach, 1800s cockeroach.

Etymology: < Spanish cucaracha (a1565; 1535 as cucaraza ; perhaps 13th cent. as cocaraxo ), with (in β. forms) folk-etymological alteration after cock n.¹ The vowel of the final syllable in both α. and β. forms is not easily explained; folk-etymological alteration after roach n.¹ is possible; alternatively, association with (etymologically unrelated) Portuguese carocha, caroucha, denoting various different beetles, is also perhaps possible.Spanish cucaracha is perhaps an (expressive) extended form of cuca or cuco (both first attested in the 14th cent.) caterpillar, butterfly larva, bug, pest, (in Castilian dialects) cockroach, apparently ultimately of imitative or expressive origin.

a. Any of numerous scavenging insects resembling a beetle, which, together with termites, make up the order Blattodea, and are typically brownish in colour with a broad flattened body, hardened forewings, long antennae, and a small head. Also with distinguishing word. Cf. roach n.⁴ 1.American cockroach, German cockroach, Oriental cockroach: see the first element.Cockroaches can withstand a wide range of temperatures and occupy a variety of habitats; several species infest kitchens, warehouses, etc., and are considered household pests.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dictyoptera > member of genus Blatta (cockroach)

blatta1601

cockroach1616

mill moth1658

twitch-ballock1757

drummer1764

mill beetle1771

kakkerlak1813

roach1822

twitch-clock1843

twitch-cloga1876

cocky1931

1616 W. Eaton Let. 18 Dec. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 535 The mapes for the most parte weare all lickwise spoyled w'th the cagaroches.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 171 A certaine India Bug, called by the Spaniards a Cacarootch, the which creeping into Chests they eat and defile with their ill-sented dung.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 62 Next to these are Cockroches, a creature of the bignesse and shape of a Beetle.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 52 They..will not kill so much as a Louse..a Kakaroch.

1744 H. Baker in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 443 A Friend had sent me Three or Four Cock-Roches, or as Merian calls them, Kakkerlacæ, brought alive from the West-Indies.

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica III. 886 A scorpion, a house-spider, and a cockroach, were put all together for experiment into a well-corked phial.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 201 Hemipterous insects..have their upper wings half crustaceous, and half membranaceous..; as the Cock-roach, Locust, &c.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iii. 76 In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before it its great congener.

1930 A. M. Marshall et al. Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) x. 171 The common cockroach or ‘black beetle’ of our kitchens and bakehouses—Periplaneta (Blatta ) orientalis—is not a true beetle.

1962 R. L. Carson Silent Spring (1963) iii. 23 There were cockroaches in the house..and..a spray containing endrin was used.

2002 Independent 21 Aug. 11/1 The Madagascar giant hissing cockroach..grows to 10cm (4in), three times the length of the indigenous variety.

b. sea cockroach n. chiefly Caribbean any of various marine isopod crustaceans thought to resemble a cockroach in some way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > miscellaneous types > member of genus Remipes

sea cockroach1756

remipede1826

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 418 The Fish-Louse, or Sea Cock-Roach. This creature is..often found sticking to the palates of fishes, which it commonly kills or emaciates.

1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 77 The oniscus physodes, or sea-cockroach, is about two inches long; it has fourteen feet without nippers.

1966 J. B. Emtage Brown Sugar xiii. 100 Dillon showed her how to catch sea cockroaches and race them.

2008 J. S. Kenny Biol. Diversity Trinidad & Tobago ix. 86 Isopods are usually larger shrimp-like crustaceans found on rocks or beach litter on the coast: locally they are known as sea cockroaches.

2. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A person who acts in a base, cunning, or underhand manner; a contemptible or despicable person. Frequently as a form of address. Cf. roach n.⁴ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person

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wretchOE

thingOE

hinderlingc1175

harlot?c1225

mixa1300

villain1303

whelpc1330

wonnera1340

bismera1400

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beasta1425

creaturec1450

dog bolt1465

fouling?a1475

drivel1478

shit1508

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mammeta1529

pilgarlica1529

pode1528

slave1537

slim1548

skit-brains?1553

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scavenger1563

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shrub1566

ketterela1572

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fitchock1616

unworthy1616

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the son of a worm1633

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shab1637

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muckworm1649

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prig1679

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prigster1688

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hang-dog1693

bugger1694

reptile1697

squinny1716

snool1718

ramscallion1734

footer1748

jackass1756

hallion1789

skite1790

rattlesnake1791

snot1809

mudworm1814

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Oscar1918

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twerp1925

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roach1929

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slug1931

woodchuck1931

crud1932

dip1932

bohunkus1933

lint-head1933

Nimrod1933

warb1933

fuck-piga1935

owl-hoot1934

pissant1935

poot1935

shmegegge1937

motheree1938

motorcycle1938

squiff1939

pendejo1940

snotnose1941

jerkface1942

slag1943

yuck1943

fuckface?1945

fuckhead?1945

shit-head1945

shite-hawk1948

schlub1950

asswipe1953

mother1955

weenie1956

hard-on1958

rass hole1959

schmucko1959

bitch ass1961

effer1961

lamer1961

arsewipe1962

asshole1962

butthole1962

cock1962

dipshit1963

motherfuck1964

dork1965

bumhole1967

mofo1967

tosspot1967

crudball1968

dipstick1968

douche1968

frickface1968

schlong1968

fuckwit1969

rassclaat1969

ass1970

wank1970

fecker1971

wanker1971

butt-fucker1972

slimeball1972

bloodclaat1973

fuckwad1974

mutha1974

suck1974

cocksuck1977

tosser1977

plank1981

sleazebag1981

spastic1981

dweeb1982

bumboclaat1983

dickwad1983

scuzzbag1983

sleazeball1983

butt-face1984

dickweed1984

saddie1985

butt plug1986

jerkweed1988

dick-sucker1989

microcephalic1989

wankstain1990

sadster1992

buttmunch1993

fanny1995

jackhole1996

fassyhole1997

fannybaws2000

fassy2002

1856 Poisoners & Propagandists II. xii. 130 ‘It took every man..to carry away the big blocks of stones off the line,..but I couldn't show my nose to help them.’ ‘You cockroach,’ cried Father Tom, unable to suppress a smile.

1890 H. Lawson Possum in C. Roderick Coll. Verse (1967) I. 81 No, he wa'n't the kind er cockeroach that on'y kums ter shirk.

1955 B. Parks Mestizo ix. 95 The sheriff waited until he had his temper under control... ‘That damned cockroach. I ought to throw him in jail and start a rumor that he was seen in the act of shooting Slim.’

1998 Mountain Sports & Living Nov. 15/3 This guy is a cockroach... He threatens to develop wild land, puts a gun to the taxpayer's head and then gets what he wants.

2012 P. Blair Beggar's Opera lvi. 252 ‘You do know what happened to him, you cockroach’, Maria..slapped him hard again. ‘You and Nasim killed Arturo and you tried to frame Señor Ellis.’

Compounds

cockroach apple n. Jamaican (now rare) any of several tropical flowering plants of the genus Solanum, native to South America and the Caribbean, previously believed to repel cockroaches.

ΚΠ

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 174 Love Apple, and Cock-roch Apple... The smell of the apples is said to kill the Cock-roches.

1854 M. F. Wilkins Slave Son xii. 164 This gave place to a dense thicket of nux-vomica, palma-christi, the branched calaloo, poisonous shrubs of the cockroach-apple, and many other noxious bushes.

1974 A. D. Hawkes & B. C. Sutton Wild Flowers Jamaica 14 (margin) Solanum ciliatum Solanum Family Cockroach Poison, Cockroach Apple... Locally they are broken open and placed in closets, clothes presses, etc., where they supposedly either drive off or kill cockroaches.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cockroach
释义	cockroachn. Brit. /ˈkɒkrəʊtʃ/, U.S. /ˈkɑkˌroʊtʃ/ Forms: α. 1600s cacarooch, 1600s cacarootch, 1600s cagaroche, 1600s kakaroch. β. 1600s–1700s cockroch, 1600s–1700s cockroche, 1600s– cockroach, 1800s cockeroach. Etymology: < Spanish cucaracha (a1565; 1535 as cucaraza ; perhaps 13th cent. as cocaraxo ), with (in β. forms) folk-etymological alteration after cock n.¹ The vowel of the final syllable in both α. and β. forms is not easily explained; folk-etymological alteration after roach n.¹ is possible; alternatively, association with (etymologically unrelated) Portuguese carocha, caroucha, denoting various different beetles, is also perhaps possible.Spanish cucaracha is perhaps an (expressive) extended form of cuca or cuco (both first attested in the 14th cent.) caterpillar, butterfly larva, bug, pest, (in Castilian dialects) cockroach, apparently ultimately of imitative or expressive origin. 1. a. Any of numerous scavenging insects resembling a beetle, which, together with termites, make up the order Blattodea, and are typically brownish in colour with a broad flattened body, hardened forewings, long antennae, and a small head. Also with distinguishing word. Cf. roach n.⁴ 1.American cockroach, German cockroach, Oriental cockroach: see the first element.Cockroaches can withstand a wide range of temperatures and occupy a variety of habitats; several species infest kitchens, warehouses, etc., and are considered household pests. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dictyoptera > member of genus Blatta (cockroach) blatta1601 cockroach1616 mill moth1658 twitch-ballock1757 drummer1764 mill beetle1771 kakkerlak1813 roach1822 twitch-clock1843 twitch-cloga1876 cocky1931 1616 W. Eaton Let. 18 Dec. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 535 The mapes for the most parte weare all lickwise spoyled w'th the cagaroches. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 171 A certaine India Bug, called by the Spaniards a Cacarootch, the which creeping into Chests they eat and defile with their ill-sented dung. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 62 Next to these are Cockroches, a creature of the bignesse and shape of a Beetle. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 52 They..will not kill so much as a Louse..a Kakaroch. 1744 H. Baker in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 443 A Friend had sent me Three or Four Cock-Roches, or as Merian calls them, Kakkerlacæ, brought alive from the West-Indies. 1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica III. 886 A scorpion, a house-spider, and a cockroach, were put all together for experiment into a well-corked phial. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 201 Hemipterous insects..have their upper wings half crustaceous, and half membranaceous..; as the Cock-roach, Locust, &c. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iii. 76 In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before it its great congener. 1930 A. M. Marshall et al. Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) x. 171 The common cockroach or ‘black beetle’ of our kitchens and bakehouses—Periplaneta (Blatta ) orientalis—is not a true beetle. 1962 R. L. Carson Silent Spring (1963) iii. 23 There were cockroaches in the house..and..a spray containing endrin was used. 2002 Independent 21 Aug. 11/1 The Madagascar giant hissing cockroach..grows to 10cm (4in), three times the length of the indigenous variety. b. sea cockroach n. chiefly Caribbean any of various marine isopod crustaceans thought to resemble a cockroach in some way. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > miscellaneous types > member of genus Remipes sea cockroach1756 remipede1826 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 418 The Fish-Louse, or Sea Cock-Roach. This creature is..often found sticking to the palates of fishes, which it commonly kills or emaciates. 1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 77 The oniscus physodes, or sea-cockroach, is about two inches long; it has fourteen feet without nippers. 1966 J. B. Emtage Brown Sugar xiii. 100 Dillon showed her how to catch sea cockroaches and race them. 2008 J. S. Kenny Biol. Diversity Trinidad & Tobago ix. 86 Isopods are usually larger shrimp-like crustaceans found on rocks or beach litter on the coast: locally they are known as sea cockroaches. 2. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A person who acts in a base, cunning, or underhand manner; a contemptible or despicable person. Frequently as a form of address. Cf. roach n.⁴ 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person wormc825 wretchOE thingOE hinderlingc1175 harlot?c1225 mixa1300 villain1303 whelpc1330 wonnera1340 bismera1400 vilec1400 beasta1425 creaturec1450 dog bolt1465 fouling?a1475 drivel1478 shit1508 marmoset1523 mammeta1529 pilgarlica1529 pode1528 slave1537 slim1548 skit-brains?1553 grasshopper1556 scavenger1563 old boss1566 rag1566 shrub1566 ketterela1572 shake-rag1571 skybala1572 mumpsimus1573 smatchetc1582 squib1586 scabship1589 vassal1589 baboon1592 Gibraltar1593 polecat1593 mushroom1594 nodc1595 cittern-head1598 nit1598 stockfish1598 cum-twang1599 dish-wash1599 pettitoe1599 mustard-token1600 viliaco1600 cargo1602 stump1602 snotty-nose1604 sprat1605 wormling1605 brock1607 dogfly?1611 shag-rag1611 shack-rag1612 thrum1612 rabbita1616 fitchock1616 unworthy1616 baseling1618 shag1620 glow-worm1624 snip1633 the son of a worm1633 grousea1637 shab1637 wormship1648 muckworm1649 whiffler1659 prig1679 rotten egg1686 prigster1688 begged fool1693 hang-dog1693 bugger1694 reptile1697 squinny1716 snool1718 ramscallion1734 footer1748 jackass1756 hallion1789 skite1790 rattlesnake1791 snot1809 mudworm1814 skunk1816 stirrah1816 spalpeen1817 nyaff1825 skin1825 weed1825 tiger1827 beggar1834 despicability1837 squirt1844 prawn1845 shake1846 white mouse1846 scurf1851 sweep1853 cockroach1856 bummer1857 medlar1859 cunt1860 shuck1862 missing link1863 schweinhund1871 creepa1876 bum1882 trashbag1886 tinhorn1887 snot-rag1888 rodent1889 whelpling1889 pie eatera1891 mess1891 schmuck1892 fucker1893 cheapskate1894 cocksucker1894 gutter-bird1896 perisher1896 skate1896 schmendrick1897 nyamps1900 ullage1901 fink1903 onion1904 punk1904 shitepoke1905 tinhorn sport1906 streeler1907 zob1911 stink1916 motherfucker1918 Oscar1918 shitass1918 shit-face1923 tripe-hound1923 gimp1924 garbage can1925 twerp1925 jughead1926 mong1926 fuck?1927 arsehole1928 dirty dog1928 gazook1928 muzzler1928 roach1929 shite1929 mook1930 lug1931 slug1931 woodchuck1931 crud1932 dip1932 bohunkus1933 lint-head1933 Nimrod1933 warb1933 fuck-piga1935 owl-hoot1934 pissant1935 poot1935 shmegegge1937 motheree1938 motorcycle1938 squiff1939 pendejo1940 snotnose1941 jerkface1942 slag1943 yuck1943 fuckface?1945 fuckhead?1945 shit-head1945 shite-hawk1948 schlub1950 asswipe1953 mother1955 weenie1956 hard-on1958 rass hole1959 schmucko1959 bitch ass1961 effer1961 lamer1961 arsewipe1962 asshole1962 butthole1962 cock1962 dipshit1963 motherfuck1964 dork1965 bumhole1967 mofo1967 tosspot1967 crudball1968 dipstick1968 douche1968 frickface1968 schlong1968 fuckwit1969 rassclaat1969 ass1970 wank1970 fecker1971 wanker1971 butt-fucker1972 slimeball1972 bloodclaat1973 fuckwad1974 mutha1974 suck1974 cocksuck1977 tosser1977 plank1981 sleazebag1981 spastic1981 dweeb1982 bumboclaat1983 dickwad1983 scuzzbag1983 sleazeball1983 butt-face1984 dickweed1984 saddie1985 butt plug1986 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 microcephalic1989 wankstain1990 sadster1992 buttmunch1993 fanny1995 jackhole1996 fassyhole1997 fannybaws2000 fassy2002 1856 Poisoners & Propagandists II. xii. 130 ‘It took every man..to carry away the big blocks of stones off the line,..but I couldn't show my nose to help them.’ ‘You cockroach,’ cried Father Tom, unable to suppress a smile. 1890 H. Lawson Possum in C. Roderick Coll. Verse (1967) I. 81 No, he wa'n't the kind er cockeroach that on'y kums ter shirk. 1955 B. Parks Mestizo ix. 95 The sheriff waited until he had his temper under control... ‘That damned cockroach. I ought to throw him in jail and start a rumor that he was seen in the act of shooting Slim.’ 1998 Mountain Sports & Living Nov. 15/3 This guy is a cockroach... He threatens to develop wild land, puts a gun to the taxpayer's head and then gets what he wants. 2012 P. Blair Beggar's Opera lvi. 252 ‘You do know what happened to him, you cockroach’, Maria..slapped him hard again. ‘You and Nasim killed Arturo and you tried to frame Señor Ellis.’ Compounds cockroach apple n. Jamaican (now rare) any of several tropical flowering plants of the genus Solanum, native to South America and the Caribbean, previously believed to repel cockroaches. ΚΠ 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 174 Love Apple, and Cock-roch Apple... The smell of the apples is said to kill the Cock-roches. 1854 M. F. Wilkins Slave Son xii. 164 This gave place to a dense thicket of nux-vomica, palma-christi, the branched calaloo, poisonous shrubs of the cockroach-apple, and many other noxious bushes. 1974 A. D. Hawkes & B. C. Sutton Wild Flowers Jamaica 14 (margin) Solanum ciliatum Solanum Family Cockroach Poison, Cockroach Apple... Locally they are broken open and placed in closets, clothes presses, etc., where they supposedly either drive off or kill cockroaches. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616
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