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单词 conger
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congern.1

Brit. /ˈkɒŋɡə/, U.S. /ˈkɑŋɡər/
Forms: Middle English kunger, Middle English–1600s cunger, congre, (Middle English cungur, cungyre, cungger, congur(e, -ggyre, 1500s congar, coonger), 1500s– conger.
Etymology: < Old French congre < Latin congrum (conger), < Greek γόγγρος, all in same sense.
1. A large species of eel living in salt water and attaining a length of from six to ten feet; it is caught for food, being common on the coasts of Britain and other European countries, but rare along the American coast of the Atlantic; the sea-eel.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > member of family Congridae (conger)
sea-eelc1050
congerc1300
conger eel1602
eve-eel1813
haaf-eel1880
1213 Rot. Chart. (Rolls) 194 Habeant totam emptionem mulvellorum et congruorum..per totam Corn[ubiam].]
c1300 Sat. People Kildare ii, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 153 Mani grete kunger swimmeþ abute þi fete.
c1325 Coer de L. 3515 Fysch, flesch, salmoun and cungyr Off us non schal dye for hungyr.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xxvi. 462 The Congre hath many wyles and is wytte and wyly of getynge of meete.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 641/38 Hic congruus, a conggyre.
14.. Black Bk. of Admiralty II. 103 Also of purpais, samoun, cungger, and turbut.
1516 in E. Lodge Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1791) I. 13 I have sent by this berer..x pasties of congars.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 247 Eates cunger and fennel. View more context for this quotation
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. i. sig. C3v If..a Mermaid be halfe fish and halfe cunger.
1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) xiii. 270 The mightie Congre, taken often in Severne, about Glocester.
1791 J. Wolcot Rights of Kings in Wks. (1812) II. 426 And snatch a wriggling Conger from the flood.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 251 The conger is very sensible to atmospheric changes.
2. Applied in abuse to a man.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused > male
bitch-sonc1330
whoresonc1330
bitcha1475
haga1529
conger1600
scarab1602
whore1609
scarabee1615
conger-head1630
bugger1694
sod?1835
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 51 + 1 Hang your selfe, you muddie Cunger, hang your selfe. View more context for this quotation

Compounds

conger-doust n. (also conger-douce) [doust dust, powder] dialect conger dried and powdered for making fish soup.
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1808 R. Polwhele Cornish-Eng. Vocab. Conger-dousts.
1865 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 345.
1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 81 Conger doust,..Up to the beginning of the present century, a large trade existed between Cornwall and Catholic countries in Conger-douce.
conger-head n. a term of abuse.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused > male
bitch-sonc1330
whoresonc1330
bitcha1475
haga1529
conger1600
scarab1602
whore1609
scarabee1615
conger-head1630
bugger1694
sod?1835
1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iii. iii. 64 She nibbled, but wud not swallow the hooke, because the Cunger-head her husband was by.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Congern.2

Brit. /ˈkɒŋɡə/, U.S. /ˈkɑŋɡər/
Etymology: Of doubtful origin and form.
Obsolete.
See quots. To Kersey is due the statement (or suggestion) that the word was originally congress or French congrès, subsequently treated as a plural, with singular conger. But it is to be noted that in most of the quots. conger is applied to the association, not to a member of it. Bailey refers it tentatively to conger the fish, which may indicate a contemporary joke.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > association of
Conger1699
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Conger, a Set or Knot of Topping Book-sellers of London, who agree..that whoever of them Buys a good Copy, the rest are to take off such a particular number..in Quires, on easy Terms.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Congress or Congers, a particular Society of Booksellers, who put in Joynt Stocks for the Buying and Printing of Copies, and Trading for their common Advantage.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Congre, a Society of Booksellers, who have a Joint Stock in Trade, or agree to Print Books in Co-partnership.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (1731) vol. II. Conger, Congre, a society of booksellers..of 10 or more..so called, because as a large conger eel is said to devour the small fry, so this united body overpowers young and single traders.
1754 Connoisseur (1755) No. 1. 3 That book in the phrase of the Conger is best, which sells most.
1754 Connoisseur (1755) No. 1. 3 We must not however think the members of the Conger strangers to the deeper parts of literature.
1886 F. H. Rivington in Athenæum 9 Jan. 67 If the statement..were in the book of a member of one of the London Congers, or societies of booksellers, it would be a copy of the usual statement sent to each shareholder by the managing partner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

congercungern.3

/ˈkʌŋɡə/
A dialectal name of the cucumber in the Midland counties of England.
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1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 140 So general is this word that an eminent seedsman informs me that cottagers and market gardeners..usually ask for conger seed.
1891 It is now less common, though still in use from S. Lincolnshire to Warwickshire.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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