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单词 coshering
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cosheringn.

Brit. /ˈkɒʃərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkɑʃərɪŋ/, /ˈkoʊʃərɪŋ/, Irish English /ˈkʌʃərɪŋ/
Forms: Also 1600s cochering.
Etymology: < cosher v.1 + -ing suffix1.
Ireland.
1. Feasting. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [noun]
womb-joyc1300
feastinga1325
messing1340
comessationa1425
cheeringc1443
mangerya1470
epulation1542
junketing1555
coshering1577
coshery1582
collationing1652
potlatching1865
tuck-in1886
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 28/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Their noble men, and noble mens tenauntes now and then make a set feast, which they call, coshering, whereto flocke all theyr retayners, whom they name followers... In their coshering they sit on straw, they are serued on straw.
2. The practice or custom, claimed as a right by Irish chiefs, of quartering themselves upon their dependants or tenants: see coshery n. 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [noun] > at another's expense
sorning1506
cosheringc1571
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > military exactions > [noun]
coynye1449
scutagec1460
spear silver1496
conduct-money1512
coat-money1557
bonaght1568
cessc1571
cosheringc1571
cessheryc1575
quartering-money1580
sessa1581
coshery1587
coatc1630
ship-money1636
shipping-money1640
ship-scot1640
conduct1644
trophy money1664
trophy tax1701
watch-mail1710
Saladine tax1728
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. viii. 111 The Irishe impositions of quinio and lyvery,..cocheringes, bonnaght, and sutche like.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 177 Irish exactions..namely, Cosherings, which were visitations and progresses made by the Lord and his followers, among his Tenants: wherein he did eate them..Out of house and home.
1620 T. Ryves Vicar's Plea 1 The lawes are executed in every place alike, cocherings are reduced to chiefe-rents.
1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland iv. 44 They were longer oppressed by a feudal government: which gave birth to a custom called coshering.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 130 Sometimes he contrived, in defiance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tenants of his family.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cosheringadj.

Etymology: < cosher v.1 + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcoshering.
That ‘coshers’ or lives upon the industry of others.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective] > parasitical or sponging
parasiticala1566
smell-feast1566
spongy1602
sharking1608
parasitic1630
sponging1699
coshering1727
scunging1843
freeloading1941
1727 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum C vij Dodder..quits the root, and like a coshering parasite lives upon another's trencher.
1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 180 A herd of squandering, coshering, wandering blackguards.
1882 Goldw. Smith in 19th Cent. July 6 Some hereditary despot, the representative of their old coshering chiefs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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