flappern.¹

Brit.

/ˈflapə/, U.S.

/ˈflæpər/

Etymology: < flap v. + -er suffix¹.

One who or that which flaps, in senses of the verb.

1. One who flaps or strikes another. Hence (after Swift): A person who arouses the attention or jogs the memory; a remembrancer. Also, of a thing: A reminder.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > a reminder

monishment1483

rememberera1542

remembrancer1556

memorandum1583

minding1601

remembrance1606

rememorative1613

reminder1614

rememoration1654

monit1692

flapper1726

remembrancing1800

tickler1808

refresher1809

reminding1865

the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > one who reminds

remembrancer1523

flapper1726

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > attempt to attract attention > person engaged in

flapper1726

nudger1840

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 17 [The absent-minded philosophers of Laputa] always keep a Flapper..in their Family... And the Business of this Officer is..gently to strike with his Bladder the Mouth of him who is to speak, and the Right Ear of him..to whom the Speaker addresseth himself.

1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1050 I write to you..by way of flapper, to put you in mind of yourself.

1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 71 85 There is some advantage in having a flapper to remind us of our faults.

a. Something flat to strike with; a fly-flap.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > device for catching flies > device for driving off flies

werela1390

flapc1440

fly-flapc1440

flapper1570

flip-flap1600

cow-tail1672

fly-flapper1749

chauri1777

fly-brush1838

fly-whisk1838

fly-duster1860

scare-fly1862

fly-whipper1872

fly-fan1891

fly-flick1914

fly-swatter1917

swatter1917

fly-swish1922

swatting1925

fly-swat1937

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiii/1 A Flapper, flabellum.

1783 ‘P. Pindar’ More Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians ii. 9 For flies, most charming flappers.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Aug. 4/2 The captain sat..with a flapper specially made for the slaughter of the vermin at his right hand.

figurative.1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. v. 335 An effectuall flapper, to driue away the Flies of all worldly vanities.

b. Something broad and flat used for making a noise by striking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something flat > that which

flapc1440

flapper1825

1825 W. Scott Talisman xi, in Tales Crusaders III. 261 They..clanged their flappers in emulation of each other.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Flappers, clappers for frightening birds. The loose parts are generally called the flappers.

1889 Cent. Dict. Flapper..5. pl., very long shoes worn by negro minstrels.

3. A young wild duck or partridge.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Perdix (partridge) > young

stub-tail1686

flapper1747

yelper1802

cheeper1864

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > wild

mallard1314

wild duck1538

pond duck1678

flapper1747

paddler1882

wigeon1885

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 162 Wild Ducks, called Flappers or Moulters.

1773 G. White Let. 9 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 99 I saw young teals taken alive..along with flappers, or young wild-ducks.

1809 M. Edgeworth Manœuvring xii, in Tales Fashionable Life III. 290 Lightbody happened to be gone out to shoot flappers.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830)

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Vlapper, a young partridge just able to fly.

a. Something hanging flat and loose; spec. the striking part of a flail, a swingle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended > loosely

fag feathers1486

flapa1529

lappet1677

flapper1854

flop1900

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > flail > part of

flail-capc1440

flail-staffc1440

flail-swinglec1440

swinglec1440

swipplea1450

supple1556

flinging-tree1786

flail-stone1851

flapper1854

swindle1857

swingletree1858

1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 194 He lifts the heavy leathern flapper over the door.

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 5 Her hair is..surmounted by a cap with large flappers.

1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita I. ii. 37 Runham, flourishing his flail over his head, and throwing out the flapper in the direction of Drownlands.

b. A broad fin or flipper; the tail of a crustacean.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > limb > fin or flipper

pinna1688

pinnule1688

pinnula1734

pectoral fin1751

flipper1822

flapper1836

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > tail

flap1774

flapper1836

tail-flap1847

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. viii. 209 With hands as broad as the flappers of a turtle.

1876 A. B. Buckley Short Hist. Nat. Sci. xl. 421 The hand of a man, and the flapper of a porpoise.

1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish i. 20 These two plates on each side, with the telson in the middle, constitute the flapper of the crayfish.

c. slang. The hand. (Cf. flipper n.² 2).

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun]

handeOE

cleche?c1225

fista1300

dallea1500

clutcha1529

gripea1555

famble1567

claw1577

golla1586

patte1586

manus1598

pickers and stealers1604

fore-foota1616

pud1654

daddle?1725

fin1785

mauley1789

feeler1825

maniple1829

flipper1832

flapper1834

grappler1852

duke1874

mitt1893

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 179 He thrust out a couple of broad arms or rather flappers.]

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. viii. 130 My dear Mr. Simple, extend your flapper to me.

1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 19 ‘Come, Frank, and extend the flapper of friendship’.

d. (See quot. 1856.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > attendant at hunt > other attendants

marker1486

stopper1848

flapper1856

picker-up1977

1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xviii Two well-mounted officials, termed..‘flappers’ by disrespectful sportsmen; but whose duty, it appears, is to keep the chase in view till it either beats them off for pace, or leaves them ‘planted’ at some large awkward impediment.

e. Horse Racing slang. = flapping n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing

steeple-hunting1772

quarter-racing1779

roading1787

pony racing1809

steeplechasing1816

steeple running1818

steeple racing1840

horse-trotting1857

plating1865

trotting1883

chasing1886

flat-racing1886

harness racing1901

flapping1911

flapper1928

point-to-pointing1952

pointing1976

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > greyhound racing > [noun] > type of

single-hander1877

flapping1911

flapper1928

1928 Weekly Disp. 24 June 2 No flapper meetings for me.

5. Something hanging or working by or as by a hinge. In plural = clap-net n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > trap for insects

flycatcher1708

bug trap?1765

flapper1796

fly-cage1838

flypaper1842

fly-trap1855

catch-'em-alive-oh1856

light trap1881

1796 J. Owen Trav. Europe I. 265 The stranger came up, claimed the flappers, and told us, they were ‘pour attraper les papillons’.

1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 958/1 The opercular bones, forming flappers which open and shut the openings of the branchiæ.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 110 The flappers or doors..fall to or close of themselves.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

flapper-shooting n. (Sense 3.)

ΚΠ

1865 Standard 13 July 5/4 Mr. Clutterbuck..proceeded..up the Brousa for the purpose of flapper shooting.

C2.

flapper-bag n. (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > burdock(s)

clotea700

bardanc1250

cletec1425

bur1480

clot-bur1548

burdock1597

clite1597

clithe1597

hardock1608

cuckold1698

hurr-burr1796

hare-bur1866

flapper-bag1871

1871 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 8 143/1 Flapper-bags, burdocks, or what is better known in Scotland as docken.

flapper-dock n. (a) = flap-dock n. at flap n. Compounds 2; (b) (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Suppl. Flapper Dock, the large leaves of the Colt's foot. Probably Petasites vulgaris.

flapper-skate n. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate)

skatec1340

flathec1440

maid1569

maid-fish1665

flair1668

maiden-skatea1795

skate maid1836

tinker1836

flapper-skate1839

roker1860

rajoid1890

1839 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes Suppl. ii. 66 Raia intermedia, Flapper Skate.

1886 Günther in Encycl. Brit. XX. 299/2 The Flapper Skate (R. macrorhynchus).

Derivatives

ˈflapper v. (intransitive) to move like a flapper, i.e. with a loose flapping motion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > flap loosely

wapc1400

flaffa1522

flap1529

flip-flap1599

flop1602

flasker1689

wamfle1808

wallop1822

flacket1823

flapper1835

swap1884

slat1889

faffle1951

1835 Hogg in Fraser's Mag. 11 359 The two serpents came flappering on.

1862 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands IV. i. 140 They hoisted..the three great flappering sails.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Flapper, to quiver, flutter.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

flappern.²

Brit.

/ˈflapə/, U.S.

/ˈflæpər/

Etymology: Commonly supposed to be a figurative use of sense 3 (‘young wild duck or partridge’) of flapper n.¹ (compare the German equivalent backfisch perch, fish for frying); but the earlier use (‘immoral young girl’) apparently connects the word with modern northern dialect (Northumbrian and Durham) flap (‘an unsteady young woman’, Halliwell); see flap n. 9.

slang.

†1. (See quots.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute > young or inexperienced

punketto1601

punkettee1612

punklinga1640

flapper1889

mystery1937

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Flippers, flappers, very young girls trained to vice.

1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Flapper..(3) A very young prostitute.

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Flapper, a very immoral young girl in her early ‘teens’.

2. A girl in her late teens, originally one with her hair down in a pigtail; a young woman, esp. with an implication of flightiness or lack of decorum. slang or colloquial.

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the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun]

daughterOE

maidenOE

young womanOE

mayc1175

burdc1225

maidc1275

wenchc1290

file1303

virginc1330

girla1375

damselc1380

young ladya1393

jilla1425

juvenclec1430

young person1438

domicellea1464

quean1488

trull1525

pulleta1533

Tib1533

kittyc1560

dell1567

gillian1573

nymph1584

winklota1586

frotion1587

yuffrouw1589

pigeon1592

tit1599

nannicock1600

muggle1608

gixy1611

infanta1611

dilla1627

tittiea1628

whimsy1631

ladykin1632

stammel1639

moggie1648

zitellaa1660

baggagea1668

miss1668

baby1684

burdie1718

demoiselle1720

queanie?1800

intombi1809

muchacha1811

jilt1816

titter1819

ragazza1827

gouge1828

craft1829

meisie1838

sheila1839

sixteenc1840

chica1843

femme1846

muffin1854

gel1857

quail1859

kitten1870

bud1880

fräulein1883

sub-debutante1887

sweet-and-twenty1887

flapper1888

jelly1889

queen1894

chick1899

pusher1902

bit of fluff1903

chicklet1905

twist and twirl1905

twist1906

head1913

sub-deb1916

tabby1916

mouse1917

tittie1918

chickie1919

wren1920

bim1922

nifty1923

quiff1923

wimp1923

bride1924

job1927

junior miss1927

hag1932

tab1932

sort1933

palone1934

brush1941

knitting1943

teenybopper1966

weeny-bopper1972

Valley Girl1982

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Vlapper,..applied in joke to a girl of the bread-and-butter age.

1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Flapper. 2... A little girl.]

1903 D. Coke Sandford of Merton iii There's a stunning flapper.

1905 D. B. W. Sladen Playing the Game i. ix A red-faced flapper, with a lot of freckles and a pigtail.

1906 Varsity 18 Oct. 23/1 Here we were in tight uniforms stepping out to raucous bugles beneath the eyes of many ‘flappers’.

1909 Tatler 30 June 149 The first appearance of a ‘flapper’ at a ladies' golf championship was in 1895,..in these two long-haired, long-legged colleens were the two most famous lady golfers the world has yet produced.

1915 Home Chat 6 Nov. 237/1 She was the jolliest flapper I had seen, with her long plait of hair down her back.

1927 Punch 30 Nov. 591 ‘Flapper’ is the popular press catch~word for an adult woman worker, aged twenty-one to thirty, when it is a question of giving her the vote under the same conditions as men of the same age.

1928 Punch 30 May 605 Attention was called in the Upper House to the conspicuous absence of the Peer who had violently attacked what he was pleased to call the ‘Flappers' Vote’ in his Press.

1929 H. A. Vachell Virgin i. 22 She had behaved like a flapper.

1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling ix. 76 A modern flapper, wearing slacks and a beret, riding a man's bicycle, passed.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as flapper cousin, etc.

ΚΠ

1909 Tatler 30 June 149/2 The flapper brigade is a force [at golf] which grows every year.

1917 Church Q. Rev. July 317 Educated India..is still possibly at the flapper age, a little awkward..but full of the joy of life.

1921 S. Thompson Rough Crossing ii. §3 The..attention bestowed..by her ‘flapper’ cousins on these ordinary, pleasant-faced young men.

1957 Observer 8 Sept. 7/2 Mrs. Rosenthal, who launched the ‘Maiden-form’ brassiere thirty-three years ago at the height of the flapper era.., sent me over from New York the original sketch of this most modest, flattened bust~line.

C2.

flapper-seat n. (also flapper-bracket) a seat at the back of a bicycle to accommodate a young woman.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > other parts of cycles

saddle1819

saddle pin1836

rest1855

pillion1878

Arab spring1880

carrier1885

coaster1895

bicycle basket1896

pacemaker1896

steering lock1897

headset1898

flapper-seat1916

stand1918

kick-stand1947

sissy bar1959

stabilizers1960

1916 B. Ruck Girls at his Billet ii As long as [I] can persuade her to let me take her out on the flapper-bracket of my motor-bike.

1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter xiii She was thrown off the flapper-seat of a motor-cycle.

flapper vote n. a contemptuous expression for the parliamentary vote which was granted to women of 21 years and over by Act of Parliament in 1928; so flapper voter.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > aggregate of voters of a certain class > specific

silent vote1869

blanket vote1892

flapper vote1928

1928 Hansard Commons 29 Mar. 1414 As to all this talk about the flapper vote, I want to know whether the flapper vote is to keep off the register these 2,000,000 women who are merely excluded at the present moment by a technicality.

1928 John Blunt 11 Aug. 2/1 Ten thousand new flapper voters.

1933 O. Sitwell Miracle on Sinai 353 An old..opponent of—as it had been called—the Flapper Vote.

Derivatives

ˈflapperdom n. (a) = flapperhood n.; (b) flappers collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] > state or quality of being

sweet seventeen1791

young ladyhood1843

young-womanhood1852

young ladyship1856

young ladyishness1867

damselhood1880

flapperhood1905

flapperdom1907

flapperism1909

1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip i. vi. 157 She was in the last stages of what slangy young men call ‘flapperdom’, and her hair was gathered on the nape of her neck with a big black bow.

1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip ii. vii. 216 The flapper going so far as to ask her two admirers for a quotation of odds—in the current coin of flapperdom, chocolates.

1922 M. Sadleir Excurs. in Victorian Bibliogr. 5 Brought up on Jane Austen, Scott, and Dickens, I read, during my years of flapperdom, Marryat, Trollope, and Wilkie Collins.

ˈflapperhood n. the condition of being a flapper.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] > state or quality of being

sweet seventeen1791

young ladyhood1843

young-womanhood1852

young ladyship1856

young ladyishness1867

damselhood1880

flapperhood1905

flapperdom1907

flapperism1909

1905 D. B. W. Sladen Playing the Game ii. ix That was during her childish beauty, before she passed into red-faced flapperhood.

1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 June 377/2 The first full-grown, full-blown stories which their mothers considered suitable for their years of flapperhood.

ˈflapperism n. = flapperhood n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] > state or quality of being

sweet seventeen1791

young ladyhood1843

young-womanhood1852

young ladyship1856

young ladyishness1867

damselhood1880

flapperhood1905

flapperdom1907

flapperism1909

1909 Tatler 30 June 149/2 Whilst the elder [sister]..wears her hair on high, the younger..has still a year or more of flapperism.

1927 Sunday Express 14 Aug. 4 She represents the essence of youth and flapperism.

ˈflapperish adj. pertaining to or characteristic of a flapper or flappers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [adjective]

maidenly1530

maidenlike1548

maiden1594

young-ladylike1754

sweet sixteen1826

young ladyish1832

young-womanly1836

flapperish1920

teenybop1967

1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xvii Her inconsequence and flapperish immaturity.

1927 Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 Dec. Suppl. p. xiii/1 This array of flapperish literature, which makes our desk look younger than it has done for years.

1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head xxvii. 235 ‘Oh, I do love you!’ She embraced me in a flapperish manner, lifting one high-heeled foot impetuously behind her.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	flapper
释义	flappern.¹ Brit. /ˈflapə/, U.S. /ˈflæpər/ Etymology: < flap v. + -er suffix¹. One who or that which flaps, in senses of the verb. 1. One who flaps or strikes another. Hence (after Swift): A person who arouses the attention or jogs the memory; a remembrancer. Also, of a thing: A reminder. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > a reminder monishment1483 rememberera1542 remembrancer1556 memorandum1583 minding1601 remembrance1606 rememorative1613 reminder1614 rememoration1654 monit1692 flapper1726 remembrancing1800 tickler1808 refresher1809 reminding1865 the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > one who reminds remembrancer1523 flapper1726 the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > attempt to attract attention > person engaged in flapper1726 nudger1840 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 17 [The absent-minded philosophers of Laputa] always keep a Flapper..in their Family... And the Business of this Officer is..gently to strike with his Bladder the Mouth of him who is to speak, and the Right Ear of him..to whom the Speaker addresseth himself. 1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1050 I write to you..by way of flapper, to put you in mind of yourself. 1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 71 85 There is some advantage in having a flapper to remind us of our faults. 2. a. Something flat to strike with; a fly-flap. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > device for catching flies > device for driving off flies werela1390 flapc1440 fly-flapc1440 flapper1570 flip-flap1600 cow-tail1672 fly-flapper1749 chauri1777 fly-brush1838 fly-whisk1838 fly-duster1860 scare-fly1862 fly-whipper1872 fly-fan1891 fly-flick1914 fly-swatter1917 swatter1917 fly-swish1922 swatting1925 fly-swat1937 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiii/1 A Flapper, flabellum. 1783 ‘P. Pindar’ More Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians ii. 9 For flies, most charming flappers. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Aug. 4/2 The captain sat..with a flapper specially made for the slaughter of the vermin at his right hand. figurative.1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. v. 335 An effectuall flapper, to driue away the Flies of all worldly vanities. b. Something broad and flat used for making a noise by striking. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something flat > that which flapc1440 flapper1825 1825 W. Scott Talisman xi, in Tales Crusaders III. 261 They..clanged their flappers in emulation of each other. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Flappers, clappers for frightening birds. The loose parts are generally called the flappers. 1889 Cent. Dict. Flapper..5. pl., very long shoes worn by negro minstrels. 3. A young wild duck or partridge. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Perdix (partridge) > young stub-tail1686 flapper1747 yelper1802 cheeper1864 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > wild mallard1314 wild duck1538 pond duck1678 flapper1747 paddler1882 wigeon1885 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 162 Wild Ducks, called Flappers or Moulters. 1773 G. White Let. 9 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 99 I saw young teals taken alive..along with flappers, or young wild-ducks. 1809 M. Edgeworth Manœuvring xii, in Tales Fashionable Life III. 290 Lightbody happened to be gone out to shoot flappers. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Vlapper, a young partridge just able to fly. 4. a. Something hanging flat and loose; spec. the striking part of a flail, a swingle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended > loosely fag feathers1486 flapa1529 lappet1677 flapper1854 flop1900 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > flail > part of flail-capc1440 flail-staffc1440 flail-swinglec1440 swinglec1440 swipplea1450 supple1556 flinging-tree1786 flail-stone1851 flapper1854 swindle1857 swingletree1858 1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 194 He lifts the heavy leathern flapper over the door. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 5 Her hair is..surmounted by a cap with large flappers. 1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita I. ii. 37 Runham, flourishing his flail over his head, and throwing out the flapper in the direction of Drownlands. b. A broad fin or flipper; the tail of a crustacean. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > limb > fin or flipper pinna1688 pinnule1688 pinnula1734 pectoral fin1751 flipper1822 flapper1836 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > tail flap1774 flapper1836 tail-flap1847 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. viii. 209 With hands as broad as the flappers of a turtle. 1876 A. B. Buckley Short Hist. Nat. Sci. xl. 421 The hand of a man, and the flapper of a porpoise. 1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish i. 20 These two plates on each side, with the telson in the middle, constitute the flapper of the crayfish. c. slang. The hand. (Cf. flipper n.² 2). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] handeOE cleche?c1225 fista1300 dallea1500 clutcha1529 gripea1555 famble1567 claw1577 golla1586 patte1586 manus1598 pickers and stealers1604 fore-foota1616 pud1654 daddle?1725 fin1785 mauley1789 feeler1825 maniple1829 flipper1832 flapper1834 grappler1852 duke1874 mitt1893 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 179 He thrust out a couple of broad arms or rather flappers.] 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. viii. 130 My dear Mr. Simple, extend your flapper to me. 1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 19 ‘Come, Frank, and extend the flapper of friendship’. d. (See quot. 1856.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > attendant at hunt > other attendants marker1486 stopper1848 flapper1856 picker-up1977 1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xviii Two well-mounted officials, termed..‘flappers’ by disrespectful sportsmen; but whose duty, it appears, is to keep the chase in view till it either beats them off for pace, or leaves them ‘planted’ at some large awkward impediment. e. Horse Racing slang. = flapping n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing steeple-hunting1772 quarter-racing1779 roading1787 pony racing1809 steeplechasing1816 steeple running1818 steeple racing1840 horse-trotting1857 plating1865 trotting1883 chasing1886 flat-racing1886 harness racing1901 flapping1911 flapper1928 point-to-pointing1952 pointing1976 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > greyhound racing > [noun] > type of single-hander1877 flapping1911 flapper1928 1928 Weekly Disp. 24 June 2 No flapper meetings for me. 5. Something hanging or working by or as by a hinge. In plural = clap-net n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > trap for insects flycatcher1708 bug trap?1765 flapper1796 fly-cage1838 flypaper1842 fly-trap1855 catch-'em-alive-oh1856 light trap1881 1796 J. Owen Trav. Europe I. 265 The stranger came up, claimed the flappers, and told us, they were ‘pour attraper les papillons’. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 958/1 The opercular bones, forming flappers which open and shut the openings of the branchiæ. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 110 The flappers or doors..fall to or close of themselves. Compounds C1. General attributive. flapper-shooting n. (Sense 3.) ΚΠ 1865 Standard 13 July 5/4 Mr. Clutterbuck..proceeded..up the Brousa for the purpose of flapper shooting. C2. flapper-bag n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > burdock(s) clotea700 bardanc1250 cletec1425 bur1480 clot-bur1548 burdock1597 clite1597 clithe1597 hardock1608 cuckold1698 hurr-burr1796 hare-bur1866 flapper-bag1871 1871 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 8 143/1 Flapper-bags, burdocks, or what is better known in Scotland as docken. flapper-dock n. (a) = flap-dock n. at flap n. Compounds 2; (b) (see quots.). ΚΠ 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Suppl. Flapper Dock, the large leaves of the Colt's foot. Probably Petasites vulgaris. flapper-skate n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate) skatec1340 flathec1440 maid1569 maid-fish1665 flair1668 maiden-skatea1795 skate maid1836 tinker1836 flapper-skate1839 roker1860 rajoid1890 1839 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes Suppl. ii. 66 Raia intermedia, Flapper Skate. 1886 Günther in Encycl. Brit. XX. 299/2 The Flapper Skate (R. macrorhynchus). Derivatives ˈflapper v. (intransitive) to move like a flapper, i.e. with a loose flapping motion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > flap loosely wapc1400 flaffa1522 flap1529 flip-flap1599 flop1602 flasker1689 wamfle1808 wallop1822 flacket1823 flapper1835 swap1884 slat1889 faffle1951 1835 Hogg in Fraser's Mag. 11 359 The two serpents came flappering on. 1862 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands IV. i. 140 They hoisted..the three great flappering sails. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Flapper, to quiver, flutter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). flappern.² Brit. /ˈflapə/, U.S. /ˈflæpər/ Etymology: Commonly supposed to be a figurative use of sense 3 (‘young wild duck or partridge’) of flapper n.¹ (compare the German equivalent backfisch perch, fish for frying); but the earlier use (‘immoral young girl’) apparently connects the word with modern northern dialect (Northumbrian and Durham) flap (‘an unsteady young woman’, Halliwell); see flap n. 9. slang. †1. (See quots.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute > young or inexperienced punketto1601 punkettee1612 punklinga1640 flapper1889 mystery1937 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Flippers, flappers, very young girls trained to vice. 1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Flapper..(3) A very young prostitute. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Flapper, a very immoral young girl in her early ‘teens’. 2. A girl in her late teens, originally one with her hair down in a pigtail; a young woman, esp. with an implication of flightiness or lack of decorum. slang or colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] daughterOE maidenOE young womanOE mayc1175 burdc1225 maidc1275 wenchc1290 file1303 virginc1330 girla1375 damselc1380 young ladya1393 jilla1425 juvenclec1430 young person1438 domicellea1464 quean1488 trull1525 pulleta1533 Tib1533 kittyc1560 dell1567 gillian1573 nymph1584 winklota1586 frotion1587 yuffrouw1589 pigeon1592 tit1599 nannicock1600 muggle1608 gixy1611 infanta1611 dilla1627 tittiea1628 whimsy1631 ladykin1632 stammel1639 moggie1648 zitellaa1660 baggagea1668 miss1668 baby1684 burdie1718 demoiselle1720 queanie?1800 intombi1809 muchacha1811 jilt1816 titter1819 ragazza1827 gouge1828 craft1829 meisie1838 sheila1839 sixteenc1840 chica1843 femme1846 muffin1854 gel1857 quail1859 kitten1870 bud1880 fräulein1883 sub-debutante1887 sweet-and-twenty1887 flapper1888 jelly1889 queen1894 chick1899 pusher1902 bit of fluff1903 chicklet1905 twist and twirl1905 twist1906 head1913 sub-deb1916 tabby1916 mouse1917 tittie1918 chickie1919 wren1920 bim1922 nifty1923 quiff1923 wimp1923 bride1924 job1927 junior miss1927 hag1932 tab1932 sort1933 palone1934 brush1941 knitting1943 teenybopper1966 weeny-bopper1972 Valley Girl1982 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Vlapper,..applied in joke to a girl of the bread-and-butter age. 1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Flapper. 2... A little girl.] 1903 D. Coke Sandford of Merton iii There's a stunning flapper. 1905 D. B. W. Sladen Playing the Game i. ix A red-faced flapper, with a lot of freckles and a pigtail. 1906 Varsity 18 Oct. 23/1 Here we were in tight uniforms stepping out to raucous bugles beneath the eyes of many ‘flappers’. 1909 Tatler 30 June 149 The first appearance of a ‘flapper’ at a ladies' golf championship was in 1895,..in these two long-haired, long-legged colleens were the two most famous lady golfers the world has yet produced. 1915 Home Chat 6 Nov. 237/1 She was the jolliest flapper I had seen, with her long plait of hair down her back. 1927 Punch 30 Nov. 591 ‘Flapper’ is the popular press catch~word for an adult woman worker, aged twenty-one to thirty, when it is a question of giving her the vote under the same conditions as men of the same age. 1928 Punch 30 May 605 Attention was called in the Upper House to the conspicuous absence of the Peer who had violently attacked what he was pleased to call the ‘Flappers' Vote’ in his Press. 1929 H. A. Vachell Virgin i. 22 She had behaved like a flapper. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling ix. 76 A modern flapper, wearing slacks and a beret, riding a man's bicycle, passed. Compounds C1. attributive, as flapper cousin, etc. ΚΠ 1909 Tatler 30 June 149/2 The flapper brigade is a force [at golf] which grows every year. 1917 Church Q. Rev. July 317 Educated India..is still possibly at the flapper age, a little awkward..but full of the joy of life. 1921 S. Thompson Rough Crossing ii. §3 The..attention bestowed..by her ‘flapper’ cousins on these ordinary, pleasant-faced young men. 1957 Observer 8 Sept. 7/2 Mrs. Rosenthal, who launched the ‘Maiden-form’ brassiere thirty-three years ago at the height of the flapper era.., sent me over from New York the original sketch of this most modest, flattened bust~line. C2. flapper-seat n. (also flapper-bracket) a seat at the back of a bicycle to accommodate a young woman. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > other parts of cycles saddle1819 saddle pin1836 rest1855 pillion1878 Arab spring1880 carrier1885 coaster1895 bicycle basket1896 pacemaker1896 steering lock1897 headset1898 flapper-seat1916 stand1918 kick-stand1947 sissy bar1959 stabilizers1960 1916 B. Ruck Girls at his Billet ii As long as [I] can persuade her to let me take her out on the flapper-bracket of my motor-bike. 1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter xiii She was thrown off the flapper-seat of a motor-cycle. flapper vote n. a contemptuous expression for the parliamentary vote which was granted to women of 21 years and over by Act of Parliament in 1928; so flapper voter. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > aggregate of voters of a certain class > specific silent vote1869 blanket vote1892 flapper vote1928 1928 Hansard Commons 29 Mar. 1414 As to all this talk about the flapper vote, I want to know whether the flapper vote is to keep off the register these 2,000,000 women who are merely excluded at the present moment by a technicality. 1928 John Blunt 11 Aug. 2/1 Ten thousand new flapper voters. 1933 O. Sitwell Miracle on Sinai 353 An old..opponent of—as it had been called—the Flapper Vote. Derivatives ˈflapperdom n. (a) = flapperhood n.; (b) flappers collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] > state or quality of being sweet seventeen1791 young ladyhood1843 young-womanhood1852 young ladyship1856 young ladyishness1867 damselhood1880 flapperhood1905 flapperdom1907 flapperism1909 1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip i. vi. 157 She was in the last stages of what slangy young men call ‘flapperdom’, and her hair was gathered on the nape of her neck with a big black bow. 1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip ii. vii. 216 The flapper going so far as to ask her two admirers for a quotation of odds—in the current coin of flapperdom, chocolates. 1922 M. Sadleir Excurs. in Victorian Bibliogr. 5 Brought up on Jane Austen, Scott, and Dickens, I read, during my years of flapperdom, Marryat, Trollope, and Wilkie Collins. ˈflapperhood n. the condition of being a flapper. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] > state or quality of being sweet seventeen1791 young ladyhood1843 young-womanhood1852 young ladyship1856 young ladyishness1867 damselhood1880 flapperhood1905 flapperdom1907 flapperism1909 1905 D. B. W. Sladen Playing the Game ii. ix That was during her childish beauty, before she passed into red-faced flapperhood. 1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 June 377/2 The first full-grown, full-blown stories which their mothers considered suitable for their years of flapperhood. ˈflapperism n. = flapperhood n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] > state or quality of being sweet seventeen1791 young ladyhood1843 young-womanhood1852 young ladyship1856 young ladyishness1867 damselhood1880 flapperhood1905 flapperdom1907 flapperism1909 1909 Tatler 30 June 149/2 Whilst the elder [sister]..wears her hair on high, the younger..has still a year or more of flapperism. 1927 Sunday Express 14 Aug. 4 She represents the essence of youth and flapperism. ˈflapperish adj. pertaining to or characteristic of a flapper or flappers. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [adjective] maidenly1530 maidenlike1548 maiden1594 young-ladylike1754 sweet sixteen1826 young ladyish1832 young-womanly1836 flapperish1920 teenybop1967 1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xvii Her inconsequence and flapperish immaturity. 1927 Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 Dec. Suppl. p. xiii/1 This array of flapperish literature, which makes our desk look younger than it has done for years. 1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head xxvii. 235 ‘Oh, I do love you!’ She embraced me in a flapperish manner, lifting one high-heeled foot impetuously behind her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1570n.²1888
随便看	to go to the bottom to go to the bottom of the harbour to go to the bow-wows to go to the bowwows to go to the bull to go to the country to go to the cow to go to the devil to go to the devil across lots to go to the dickens to go to the dogs to go to the etc to go to the fore to go to the gate to go to the greenwood to go to the ground to go to the horse to go to the lavatory to go to the law to go to the length of to go to the majority to go to the mat to go to the mischief to go to the mound to go to the pack

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