单词 | ally sloper |
释义 | Ally Slopern. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1890 |
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