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单词 ally sloper
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Ally Slopern.

Brit. /ˌalɪ ˈsləʊpə/, U.S. /ˌæli ˈsloʊpər/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Ally Sloper.
Etymology: < Ally Sloper, the name of a character in a series of humorous publications, having a prominent nose and receding forehead and noted for his dishonest or bungling practices.The character was created by Charles H. Ross, British artist, and his wife ‘Marie Duval’ (Isabelle Emilie de Tessier), for the magazine Judy. Quot. 1867 is the first appearance of the character.
Now historical.
Used attributively to designate a person or thing resembling, characteristic of, or relating to Ally Sloper, esp. in appearance or behaviour. Also (occasionally): a person resembling Ally Sloper.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose > having
cammed?c1350
camoised1393
nosed?1440
hook-nosed1519
snat-nosed1519
flat-nosed1530
bottle-nosed1566
chamoy-nosed1598
saddle-nosed1598
swine-snouted1600
camois-nosed1601
round-nosed1611
nosy1620
flat-nose1636
simous1656
sharp-nosed1675
tutty-nosed1681
Roman-nosed1688
snut-nosed1706
snub-nosed1725
camois1745
blunt-nosed1772
pug-nosed1788
snipy1825
button-nosed1830
nip-nosed1831
leptorrhinian1878
leptorrhine1880
snub1883
knob-nosed1886
long-nose1896
Tartar-nosed1897
Ally Sloper1901
beaky-nosed1923
1867 Judy 14 Aug. 199 (caption) As Iky Mo and Ally Sloper could raise no more Money on their own account, what was more natural than that they should start a Loan Office, and lend Money to Others.]
1890 Times 27 Dec. 4/3 In the circus portion..there are a score or more of items, embracing acts of horsemanship, serious and comic (for Ally Sloper figures among the cavaliers).
1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 88 His Ally Sloper-like head and neck had not a feather to them.
1901 Ann. Brit. Sch. Athens 6 126 The young man [in the carnival] contents himself with..a roughly-made domino, or, thanks to the steadily increasing influx of Western culture..an ‘Ally Sloper’ mask.
1915 A. C. Benson Father Payne xxx. 160 I am a wretched old opportunist, of course; a sort of Ally Sloper—not fit company for strong and concise young men.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 476 Prognatic [sic] with receding forehead and Ally Sloper nose.
1985 Times (Nexis) 10 July On his return to England, he was again feted, this time by his peers, who presented him with the Ally Sloper Award as the best British strip artist, at the first ever British comics convention, Comics 101.
2002 C. Breward in R. Koshar Hist. Leisure xiii. 267 An encouragement to emulate was aided by the ubiquity of the Ally Sloper figure beyond the pages of the comic.

Compounds

Ally Sloper's cavalry n. Military slang the Army Service Corps.
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1917 F. T. Nettleingham Tommy's Tunes 44 We are the Mechanical Transport, The M.T., A.S.C.,..What a blooming rotten lot Ally Sloper's Cavalree.
1926 ‘Sapper’ Jim Brent xi. 238 On any subject he was an artist; on pumps and the deficiencies of Ally Sloper's Cavalry—as the A.S.C. is vulgarly known—he was a genius.
2006 Wipers Times: Compl. Series Gloss. 358 A.S.C., Army Service Corps. Also known at ‘Ally Sloper's Cavalry’, after a children's comic character, and as the Army Safety Corps.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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