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单词 collyweston
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Collywestonadj.n.adv.

/ˌkɒlɪˈwɛstən/
Forms: Also Colleyweston, Collie weston, Colly Weston, (sense 2) coll(e)y-west.
Etymology: < the name of a village in Northamptonshire.
1. Used attributively or absol. to designate a kind of slate used for roofing.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [adjective] > covered with slate > type of slate
Collyweston1870
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > for roofing > types of
skaillie1496
Stonesfield slate1855
Welsh lay1891
Collyweston1949
1791 J. Bridges Hist. & Antiq. Northants. II. 433 In Colly Weston..great quantities of slates are raised for covering houses.]
1870 S. Sharp in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 26 371 The calcareous nature of these beds, and..of the Colleyweston Slate.
1906 B. Thompson Vict. County Hist. Northampton II. 303/1 Collyweston slate..is found and has been worked at other places besides Collyweston, such as Kirby and Easton, between Collyweston and Stamford.
1949 W. G. Hoskins Midland Eng. v. 70 Everyone with an eye for colour and form knows those mellow, lichened roofs of Colly Westons.
1958 Listener 14 Aug. 239/3 The roof of Nuffield College is covered with Collyweston stone slates.
2. Usually spelt coll(e)y-west.
a. adv. Awry, askew; in an opposite or wrong direction.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [adverb] > in adjustment
Collyweston1820
untruly1844
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vii. 168 The Morisco gowns, the Barbarian sleeves, the mandilion worne to Collie weston ward, and the short French breches, make such a comelie vesture.]
1820 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire 22 Colly west, adv., directly contrary.
1855 Trans. Philol. Soc. 229 When a Lancashire man is altogether unsuccessful in his schemes, he says that everything goes colley-west with him.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester I. 75 ‘Am I going right for such and such a place?’ ‘Nao, its collyweston.’
b. n. Nonsense.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
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foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
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pucky1970
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1867 P. Kennedy Banks of Boro xxxvii. 287 Oh that's all collywest... What is the good of being an ordained clergyman, if you have not the power of doing something for an unlucky disciple like myself?
c. adj. Contrary, contradictory. Cf. galley-west adv.
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the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [adjective] > having quality or character of
again-sayingc1475
contradictious1604
contradictory1605
contradictorious1608
contradictional1641
contradictive1641
contradictorial1644
abnutive1682
Collyweston1875
1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 87 Never mind him; he ne'er agrees wi' onybody; he's awhiz collywest.
1891 J. Baron Blegburn Dickshonary 17 Wot's th' odds, iv fooak y' took for friends Should turn eawt colly-west?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.adv.1820
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