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单词 coaly
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coalyn.

Brit. /ˈkəʊli/, U.S. /ˈkoʊli/
Forms: 1800s– coaley (now in sense 2), 1800s– coaly, 1900s– coalie, 1900s– coley (in sense 2).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: coal n., -y suffix6; coalfish n.; coalsey n.
Etymology: < coal n. + -y suffix6. In sense 2 perhaps short for coalfish n. or coalsey n.; compare -y suffix6.
1. colloquial. A coal-heaver, a coal porter. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who carry coal
coal carrier1596
coal-bearer1606
coal-heaver1654
coal porter1711
coaly1820
coal backer1834
1820 T. Hudson Comic Songs 30 The Coalheaver could boast of strength... Coaly's fist was near the size Of a decent leg of mutton.
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. III. 344 The coalies, not knowing who he was, thought they would give the bounce a turn, as they termed him, and, without any delay, commenced an attack.
1860 All Year Round 12 May 119 The coalies..touch their sou'westers to him as he glides about.
1873 Bradford Observer 2 Oct. 6/6 There was a lawlessness that distinguished ‘fillers’ and ‘backers’ on board the wharfside barges that is altogether foreign to the modern family of inland ‘coaleys’.
1911 Truth (Sydney) 5 Feb. 1/7 It is an ironical fact that houses built for wharf-lumpers and coalies should have a rent which only a middle-class semi-genteel city coin-counter..could look at.
1982 Access Mar. 21 On the coal wharves, which were called Siberia because the work was so hard, the ‘coalies’ even had to provide their own shovels!
2010 Express (Nexis) 14 Oct. 32 By 1911 the firm's capacity was such that it could deliver coal at the rate of 4,000 tons in 15 hours, a world record, though it meant back-breaking work for the poorly paid coalies.
2. Now chiefly in form coley. = coalfish n.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > pollachius virens (coal-fish)
lob-keelingc1325
coalfish1337
lob1357
pollack1427
gull-fish1583
saithe1632
colmey1654
billard1661
rawlin pollack1673
sey-pollack1698
blackmouth1703
billet1769
greenback1772
green cod1776
glossan1780
stenlock179.
harbin1806
coalsey1829
rock salmon1831
rauning pollack1835
green pollack1859
coaly1915
1915 Brit. Sea Anglers' Soc. Q. 8 127 A fine game coalfish... When almost within reach of Donald, the ‘coaly’ plunged dangerously.
1965 Times 11 Oct. 13/1 In this country coley is largely bought for the cat; yet it is as tasty, more juicy and cheaper than cod.
1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 210 Many Americans wouldn't know..that a coalfish or a coley fillet is black cod.
2004 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 24 Apr. (Sport Digest section) 3 But not a sizeable fish, not even a coaly, was taken.
2009 W. Sweetser Connoisseurs Guide Fish & Seafood 54 In Bergen, Norway..wildly flapping, live coley are a familiar sight in the market.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

coalyadj.

Brit. /ˈkəʊli/, U.S. /ˈkoʊli/
Forms: see coal n. and -y suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: coal n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < coal n. + -y suffix1. Compare colly adj.
1. Of the colour of coal; coal-black.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as coal
coal-blackc1275
as black (in early use also swart) as coala1400
coaly1565
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 8v A coly colour [L. nigrantis].
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxv. sig. Yy2v Vpon thy face let coaly Rauens swarme.
1803 Ainsworth's Mag. 4 133 It will be but a Pot and Kettle recrimination, and only discover the coaly complexion of each of us.
1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 217 The moveless coaly eye.
1934 J. Mitchell Wheels of Ind vi. 220 Stand on the edge..gaze down sheer into its coaly depths.
1990 N. Blei Chi Town 42 That three-minute, simulated electric train ride in the coaly darkness.
2. Covered with coal or coal-dust; grimy, dirty; (also) characterized by the presence of coal.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty or soiled with soot or coal-dust
sootya1250
culmya1300
bletchy1520
sootish1582
coaly1589
collowed1606
fuliginous1606
colly1619
coomy1823
sooted1892
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxx. 130 Vnto the Trough he hies, And skowres his coalie fists and face.
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 104 Black colie smith.
1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 68 Of utmost Tweed..Or Coaly Tine, or antient hollowed Dee.
1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 29 A rich country, watered by the coaly Tyne.
1856 Titan Mag. Dec. 526/2 Coal pits, coaly mounds, coaly people, coaly donkeys, carts, ponies, and other coaly things, that we can think, feel, see nothing beyond coal.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. iv. 187 The coaly..little steamboat.
1888 Young Mistley II. vi. 82 Around each pit was grouped its little coaly village.
1973 Economist 1 July 16 The damp and coaly plain has been transformed into the new town of Washington, and if anyone is contemplating building a factory that is where he is rightly tempted to go.
1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose iv. 28 Oop at first light and into stinkin coaly clothes.
3. Of the nature of coal; carbonaceous.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > coal
coaly1594
coaled1724
coal-bearing1813
anthracitous1823
anthraciferous1833
lignitiferous1859
carboniferous1865
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [adjective] > coal
coalish1540
coaly1594
carbonaceous1727
carbonose1811
carbonic1819
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 33 A blacke and hard colie crust upon it.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Charbonnesque, coalie, of coales.
1795 J. Hutton Theory Earth I. 575 We have the coaly matter intimately mixed with argillaceous and with calcareous strata.
1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 190 The ill-compacted cellular tissue of the algæ is but indifferently suited for preservation; and so it exists as a mere coaly film.
1933 New Phytologist 32 100 The use of a somewhat diluted acid solution..results in a considerable swelling of the seed coat but only partial solution of its coaly substance.
2010 F. J. Dahlkamp Uranium Deposits World: USA & Lat. Amer. i. 101/2 The truncated Cutler formation..consists of tan to reddish terrestrial sediments with only rare coaly substances.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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