单词 | cooks tourist |
释义 | Cook's touristn. 1. A holidaymaker who travels on a tour organized by Thomas Cook or his travel agency (frequently in similative and allusive use). Also more generally: a holidaymaker; a tourist. In early use, often somewhat depreciative. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > tourist > specific Cook's tourist1863 conducted1907 grand tourer1926 1863 Macmillan's Mag. May 199/2 The passengers are admitted in small parties by a policeman, who treats them with almost as little courtesy as is shown to Cook's tourists by a Scotch railway official. 1874 Punch 25 Apr. 179/1 It is going round like a Cook's tourist. 1901 M. Lindsay Whirligig i. 10 No better than a Cook's tourist, synonym to our traveller of all that was blatant and intrusive. 1912 Independent 19 Dec. 1422/1 [He] was hard at work sharpening swords on an oil-stone. That made me curious, and with the banality of a Cook's tourist, I inquired if they were sharp. 1918 W. K. Vanderbilt Trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria, & Southern France 107 Hordes of Cook's tourists, who floated by in carriage, disregarding the rule of the road, and bumping into everyone as if they owned the earth. 1951 N.Y. Times 12 Aug. x1/3 This fall, Mary Martin will tour the inner districts of the British Isles, Scotland and Ireland in a manner to make a Cook's tourist green with envy. 1988 Financial Times 28 May (Weekend FT section) p. x/1 The exigencies of travel in Tibet will always discourage the average Cook's tourist. 2016 L. Brister in K. Hill Brit. & Narration of Trav. in 19th Cent. vii. 136 Cook's tourists were not as socially elite as the previous Grand Tourists. 2. A person who makes a brief but wide-ranging survey, review, or summary of a subject; someone with a broad but superficial knowledge of a field or topic. Now rare. ΚΠ 1895 W. D. Babington Fallacies of Race Theories ii. iii. 85 We, Cook's tourists of history,..make little personally conducted trips into the past. 1900 Sat. Rev. 20 Oct. 488/1 [When] the critics..scare us from our trance and to hustle us through all the schools, making us Cook's Tourists of art, they become mere poisoners of delight. 1910 J. Corbin Husband ii. 144 Every bit of your reading has been personally conducted. You think the thoughts of the last person who has talked to you. You are the Cook's tourist of culture! 1947 Collier's 15 Mar. 8/2 The tastes of this literary Cook's Tourist [sc. Irving Wallace] include Maugham, Tolstoy, California nights..and going away and going home. 3. Military slang (usually depreciative or derogatory). a. A member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps expeditionary force in the First World War (1914–18); (later) a soldier of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Second World War (1939–45). In later use historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun] spahi1562 legionnaire1595 strelitz1603 Croat1623 deli1667 Croatian1700 lancer1712 highlander1725 lambs1744 royals1762 light-bob1778 fly-slicer1785 Life Guardsman1785 royals?1795 Hottentot1796 yeoman1798 pandour1800 Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811 forty-two man1816 kilty1842 Zouave1848 bumblerc1850 Inniskilliner1853 blue cap1857 turco1860 Zou-Zou1860 mudlark1878 king's man1883 Johnny1888 Piffer1892 evzone1897 horse gunner1897 dink1906 army ranger1910 grognard1912 Jock1914 chocolate soldier1915 Cook's tourist1915 dinkum1916 Anzaca1918 choc1917 ranger1942 Chindit1943 Desert Rat1944 Green Beret1949 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Australian and New Zealand dink1906 Anzac1915 Cook's tourist1915 dinkum1916 kiwi1918 1915 Advertiser (Footscray, Melbourne) 10 July [With reference to the experience of ANZAC troops in Turkey during the Gallipoli campaign.] Well, I wonder how Johnny Norton and the rest are taking the news about the Australians. Cooks' tourists, ragtime army, etc. as they called us. 1941 W. D. Haydon N.Z. Soldiers in Eng. Introd. 4 These are the experiences of a soldier of the Second Echelon, Second N.Z.E.F. the ‘Cook's Tourists’. 1961 Parl. Deb. House of Representatives New Zealand 29 July 123/2 I went over as a volunteer for His Majesty. I went away with the ‘wife-beaters’ and ‘debt-dodgers’. The people who went in the Second Echelon were known as ‘Cook's tourists’. 1999 M. B. Tyquin Neville Howse v. 86 The accommodation and repatriation of these ‘Cook's Tourists’, as they were known, was an extravagant drain on Australia's finances. b. A visitor to the front lines in the First World War (1914–18), spec. an officer or non-commissioned officer inspecting a position to which their unit is due to be stationed. In later use historical and rare. ΚΠ 1916 F. C. Curry From St. Lawrence to Yser xxi. 155 ‘Cook's tourists’. These individuals were officers sent over..to receive practical instruction in trench warfare. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 63 Cook's tour, a colloquial phrase for the customary tour round the trenches by officers and N.C.O.'s of relieving..units.., the ‘Cook's Tourists’ being guided by the previous holders of the position. 1935 Pittsburgh Press 11 Oct. 31/5 The regular correspondents were gathered into one section.., and the transients—or Cook's tourists, as they were called—were put up in other accommodations. Compounds As modifier, with the sense ‘of, characteristic of, or resembling a Cook's tourist (sense 1)’. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [adjective] > touring > specific Cook's tourist1872 1872 Sat. Rev. 25 May 656/1 There are few people even of the Cook's Tourist class who have not felt the strange harmony of that rolling floor with the fortunes of the ‘Mistress of the Seas’. 1893 Harper's Weekly 28 Jan. 78/3 She has had the experience of a girl of her age in New York, which is too sudden to give much except self-reliance; it's a Cook's tourist view of life, after all. 1915 J. G. Nathan Another Bk. on Theatre 128 When he returns to his native soil, the voyager..winks his eye and smiles one of those condescending Cook's tourist smiles. 1921 Harper's Monthly Mag. Mar. 546 I have never seen a travel story of this kind, but..we can make ours of much greater value by telling it in an intimate way. And, best of all, we shall avoid leaving the reader with a sort of Cook's-tourist feeling at the close of the voyage. 1950 N.Y. Herald Tribune 10 Dec. 25/1 The ‘Cook's tourist breed’ who spent most of their stationary time planning their next journey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1863 |
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