anticn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈantɪk/, U.S.

/ˈæn(t)ɪk/

Forms: 1500s antyck, 1500s antyk, 1500s antyke, 1500s–1600s anticke, 1500s–1600s antike, 1500s–1600s antique, 1500s–1800s antick, 1500s– antic, 1600s antik, 1600s antycke; English regional (chiefly south-western) 1700s– hanteck, 1800s– hantic, 1800s– hantick; also Scottish pre-1700 1800s antik, pre-1700 1900s– antick.

Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: antique adj.; antique n.

Etymology: Probably originally a variant of antique adj. and antique n., subsequently distinguished in spelling (and later also in pronunciation) in the senses below (see further note at antique adj. and n.).It has been suggested that this word is a borrowing of either Italian antico old, old-fashioned, ancient or Middle French antique antique adj.; however, the semantic history of these words does not appear to support either suggestion.

A. n.

1. Architecture and Decorative Arts. A grotesque or fantastic ornamental representation of a person, animal, or thing; spec. a sculpted human figure represented in an unnatural posture and serving as a column; (also) a structure or tableau decorated with such representations. Also formerly as a mass noun: †decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage (obsolete). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > grotesque

antic1532

caricaturaa1682

caricaturing1758

caricature1827

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > gargoyles or grotesques

gargoyle13..

baboonc1400

antic1532

marmoset1687

mask1731

antefix1819

figurehead1874

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > a sculpture or carving > group or spec. subject

antic1532

Our Lady Piety1533

drapery1552

antiquary1573

urn1653

story1657

Pietàc1660

gigantomachy1820

set piece1846

terminal1865

wheatear1882

protome1886

protoma1894

koruru1897

blemya1915

Lincoln imp1926

1532 in J. W. Bayley Hist. & Antiq. Tower of London (1821) I. App. p. xxxi A mantell of waynscot wrought w^t antyk sett over the chymney there.

a1536 Building Acct. in E. Law Hist. Hampton Court (1885) App. C. 352 A trayle of antyk sett in the great Joull-pece in the Kynges new Hall.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxv Aboue the Arches were made many sondri Antikes & diuises.

1563 T. Wilson Rule of Reason (new ed.) f. 74 Antiques or gargilles are deuised by painters. Ergo, there are soche creatures in deede.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vi. §54, 374 Those crouching Anticks which seeme in great buildings to labour under the weight they beare.

1683 London Gaz. mdccclix/8 Three Gold Seals, one with an Old Man's Head, another with a Woman's Head, and the other with an Antick.

a1695 A. Wood Hist. & Antiq. Colleges & Halls Univ. Oxf. (1786) 350 Every buttress almost of the Cloister beareth an antick.

1830 ‘R. Stuart’ Dict. Archit. I. at Antics The villa Palagonia, in Sicily, is an antic, from entrance gate to chimney top.

1981 Antiquaries Jrnl. 61 i. 121 The buttresses, angels, and crests, and the antics—swags and strapwork, fruit and flowers, allegorical figures and pyramids—have been replaced.

†a. to dance antics and variants: to dance with grotesque or absurd movements; to cavort, to play the fool. Also in extended use. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)]

floxec1200

ragea1275

to dance antics1545

rig1570

to keep (also play) reaks1573

wanton1582

wantonize1592

frolic1593

wantonize1611

hoit1613

mird?c1625

to play about1638

freak1663

romp1665

rump1680

ramp1735

jinket1742

skylark1771

to cut up1775

rollick1786

hoity-toity1790

fun1802

lark1813

gammock1832

haze1848

marlock1863

train1877

horse1901

mollock1932

spadger1939

grab-ass1957

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 30^v Menne that shoulde daunce antiques.

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Cii Than cometh Silenus..treadyng the hornepipe, with Poliphemus boisteously stampyng,..The Satyres halfe gotes dauncyng the Antikes.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F2^v There was a parasite, & he with clapping his hands and thripping his fingers seemed to dance an antike to and fro.

1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I4 Yet must we Dance Antickes on your Paper.

1654 C. Hotham tr. J. Böhme Consolatory Treat. Four Complexions v. sig. D3 The earthy floating fumes of the drink which danc't those merry Anticks in his brain.

b. In plural. Grotesque, absurd, or amusing gestures or actions; silly, foolish, or outrageous behaviour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [noun] > grotesque behaviour

antics1570

Meg's diversion1807

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > antic

toy?1518

antics1570

murlimewes1583

monkey trick1653

dido1807

monkey work1830

monkeyshinec1832

monkey business1835

rannygazoo1896

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1156/2 In sothe it maketh me to laugh, to see the mery Antiques of M. More.

1572 Sir T. Smith in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) III. 20 Vaulting with notable supersaltes and through hoopes, and last of all the Antiques, of carrying of men one uppon an other which som men call labores Herculis.

1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iii. sig. H^v A pox vpon your outlandish feminine Antiks.

1720 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ VII. xvi. xi. 494 Provoking youthful Lusts by their theatrical Motions, their petulant Eyes, and unseemly Anticks and Fooleries.

1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor III. vii. 130 The man who so well perceives the stupidity and folly of the animals around him, laughs at their apish antics.

1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xxvii. 189 Performing more antics than Punch in a pantomime.

1898 Argosy Oct. 394 He joined in their mad antics with all the ardor of a schoolboy.

1938 R. Wright Lawd Today! viii, in Wks. (1991) I. 68 The noise emanating from the halfopened doorway told him that he was not in the mood for the antics of the old gang.

1990 Birder's World Aug. 51/1 The fascinating antics of chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, woodpeckers, and others.

2014 S. Dharmapala Saree (2015) 313 Sarojini..attempted to make small talk, discussing some light federal politics and the antics of film stars.

†c. A grotesque or comic piece of entertainment, spec. one intended to provide a counterpoint to a masque (cf. antimasque n.). Obsolete.With quot. 1724 cf. sense A. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other dramatic or variety performances > [noun]

antic1580

wayang1671

light entertainment1787

take-off1845

féerie1878

showboating1909

mirthquake1911

mirthquaker1921

icecapade1940

happening1959

stripagram1981

1580 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 37 To receive and glaid the Kyngis Maiestie with farceis, playeis, historeis, antikis, and..uther decoratioun.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 140 We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique .

1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iii. sig. G^v Perform'd by Knights and Ladies of his Court, In nature of an Anticke.

1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. iii. §26 How preposterous is it for an Old Woman to..be at Masks and Dancings, when she is fit only to act the Antics?

1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 214 The Gentleman..led me only a Courant, and then ask'd me, if I had a-mind to dance an Antick, that is to say, whether I wou'd dance the Antick as they had danc'd in Masquerade.

†3.

a. A performer who entertains others with buffoonery; a jester, a clown. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian

jugglerc1175

foolc1300

jangler1303

fool sagec1330

ribald1340

ape-ward1362

japer1377

sage fool1377

harlotc1390

disporter?a1475

jocular?a1475

joculatora1500

jester?1518

idiot1526

scoffer1530

sporter1531

dizzardc1540

vice1552

antic1564

bauble-bearer1568

scoggin1579

buffoon1584

pleasant1595

zany1596

baladine1599

clown1600

fiddle1600

mimic1601

ape-carrier1615

mime1616

mime-man1631

merry man1648

tomfool1650

pickle-herring1656

badine1670

puddingc1675

merry-andrew1677

mimical1688

Tom Tram1688

Monaghan1689

pickled herring1711

ethologist1727

court-foola1797

Tom1817

mimer1819

fun-maker1835

funny man1839

mimester1846

comic1857

comedian1860

jokesman1882

comique1886

Joey1896

tummler1938

alternative comedian1981

Andrew-

1564 Pleasaunt Dialogue Cap & Head sig. Aiii^v Thou wearest mee..sometime lyke a Royster, sometime like a Souldiour, and sometime lyke an Antique.

1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. F^v Those Anticks garnisht in our colours.

1618 Bp. J. Hall Righteovs Mammon 51 Are they Christians, or Antickes in some Carnevale?

1669 J. Fletcher Island Princess Prol. Wit is become an Antick, and puts on As many shapes of variation,To Court the times applause, as the times dare Change several fashion.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 21 Dancing and hallowing like an Antick.

1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies liv, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 28 How Puck, the antic..Had blithely jested with calamity.

1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies ix, in Last Ess. Elia 241 [A pun] is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but comes bounding into the presence.

b. A collective name for: a group of grotesque or ludicrous people. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated humorous use.

ΚΠ

1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Piii^v Heards-men, Shepheardes, Plow-men, and Hyndes: thys Anticke of Groomes.

c. A grotesque or ludicrous person. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > person

mammet1461

scarecrow1590

antic1597

fright1751

figure1774

jigger1825

guy1836

flibbertigibbet1878

worricow1894

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > state or quality of being ridiculous > ridiculous person

didapper1589

antic1597

zany1606

balatron1623

figure of fun1811

sketch1917

Herbert1960

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 158 There the antique [sc. death] sits, Scofing his state and grinning at his pompe.

1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. f. 10^v There flocked a great throng of souldiers about him, wondering at this so mishapen an Anticke.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 172 A little crooked antic of a child.

1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. ii. 30 ‘That was to get the money,’ repeated the antic of a woman, and she danced and crowed with an intoxication of triumph.

B. adj.

1. Architecture and Decorative Arts. Designating a style of decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage; grotesque in composition, shape, or ornamentation. Frequently in antic work. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [adjective] > types of artistic treatment or style

antica1536

Moresque1611

barbaric1667

massive1723

popular1730

maniéré1743

regency1811

tedesco1814

massy1817

Barbaresque1831

sensualistic1838

broad1849

conventional1851

expressional1856

tight1891

stylized1898

distressed1940

pop1956

transgressive1969

a1536 Building Acct. in E. Law Hist. Hampton Court (1885) App. C. 352 To Robert Skyngke..moulder of Antyke-worke, for a trayle of antyk sett in the great Joull-pece in the Kynges new Hall.

1536 MS Accts. Masters of Wks. IV. f. 84, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Antik In flanderis roundis & squair antik peces..paintit glas in bordouris in antik faces.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxvii. 89 All voyde places..he filleth-vp with antike Boscage or Crotesko works.

1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xviii. 55 Like some anticke statue, in a posture of impotent indeuour.

1656 P. Heylyn Full Relation Two Journeys i. ii. vii. 91 Le pont de Nostre dame, which is all covered with two goodly ranks of houses: and those adorned with portly and antick imagery.

1703 City & Country Builder 5 Antick, or Antique-work..a confused Composure of Figures of different Natures, and Sexes, etc. As of Men, Beasts, Birds, Flowers, Fishes, etc. And such like Fancies as are not in Rerum Natura... This Work which we call Antick, the Italians call Grotesca..and the French Grotesque.

1958 J. Summerson Archit. Brit. 1530 to 1830 (ed. 3) xi. 102 The tower..to whose five storeys the five orders, heavily crusted with antic-work, are pedantically and precariously applied.

a. Esp. of a person, or a person's attributes or actions: grotesquely amusing or playful; absurd, fantastical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [adjective] > grotesque

antic1579

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > bizarre

remote1533

antic1579

outlandish1588

bizarrea1648

outré1722

freakish1805

weird1820

freaky1824

weirdish1863

ostrobogulous1951

ostrobogulatory1952

far-out1954

weirdo1962

flaky1972

zonky1972

gonzo1974

mondo bizarro1976

mondo1979

woo-woo1986

freakazoid1990

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 979 The house within was full of tomblers, anticke dauncers, iuglers, players, ieasters, and dronkards.

a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. A3 My men like Satyres..Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 173 How strange or odde soere I beare my selfe..To put an Anticke disposition on.

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness iii. ix. 77 Their religious Rites and Ceremonies being uncouth and antick.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 244 He came running to me..making a many antick Gestures.

1788 New London Mag. 17 Several antic figures in shapes of boys danced.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 215 Writhing his body into all possible antick shapes to avoid the balls which he conceived to be whistling around him.

1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 110 Performing the most antic homage.

1975 New Yorker 3 Feb. 77/2 Mr. Antonacci is both antic and affecting as the jumpy, craven nebbish Honey Boy.

2004 Time Out N.Y. 16 Sept. 172/1 The creepy antic, almost mocking cheerfulness we commonly associate with the genre.

b. Of a person's clothing or attire: grotesque, absurd; fantastically incongruous.

ΚΠ

1611 E. Aston tr. J. de Léry Certaine Things conc. Amer. in tr. J. Boemus Manners, Lawes, & Customes 492 He shall be disrobed of that ridiculous attire and anticke habite.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 42 It had no Rubrick to be sung in an antick Coape upon the Stage of a High Altar.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vii. 97 Two Rows of Guards..dressed after a very antick manner.

1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 155/2 An ass..with a fellow in an antick dress riding upon it.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 19 Feb. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) ii. 84 The papal guards (in the strangest, antique, and antic, costume that was ever seen).

1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 18 Aug. 18 Eclectic costumes, ranging from antic get-ups for the fairies to pretty picture frocks for the Athenian ladies.

3. Of the face or features: grotesquely distorted like a gargoyle; grinning or grimacing grotesquely.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > distorted

writhen?a1425

girning1447

mowinga1529

writhed1568

mumping1594

antic1595

frowned1598

screwed1609

sour1611

wreathed1645

fluish1674

working1717

screwed-up1728

frownful1771

grimacing1804

quirked1931

1595 A. Copley tr. R. de Cota Loves Owle sig. D^v, in Wits Fittes & Fancies To heare thy graue requestes Accompaned with deepe protestes And many an anticke countenance.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gargouille, The mouth of a Spowt, representing a Serpent, or the Anticke face of some other ouglie creature.

1704 Nat. Hist. ii, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 190 The Little Tame-Owl..making divers antick Faces.

1780 Town & Country Mag. Sept. 480/2 There will be old drawing of antick heads in charcoal upon white walls.

1832 S. L. Fairfield Last Night of Pompeii ii. 78 The priests of mirth With antic faces and wild steps leapt on.

1914 M. Monahan Nova Hibernia 203 The merry man dropping at the end of the play his humorous mask and showing us his own tristful face behind the antic visage of Harlequin?

2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Dec. m2 Hundreds of pictures of actors with antic faces and Coney Island bodies.

Compounds

antic-cutter n. rare (historical in later use) a carver of antics (see sense A. 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptor or carver > by subject

antic-cutter1601

mythographist1834

animalier1884

animalist1886

1601 I. T. in tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (title page) For the benefit of Free-Masons, Carpenters, Goldsmithes, Painters, Caruers, In-layers, Anticke-Cutters, and all other that delight to practice with the Compasse and Squire [sic.].

1985 A. Globe Peter Stent 24 The title-pages of various editions of Blum encouraged this tendency by pointing out how useful the book was for carpenters, joiners, carvers, painters, inlayers, antic-cutters and goldsmiths as well as masons and bricklayers.

† antic-faced adj. Obsolete rare having a grotesque or humorously distorted face (see sense B. 3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]

flatc1400

hardc1400

low-cheeredc1400

large?a1425

ruscledc1440

well-visagedc1440

platter-faced1533

well-faced1534

full-faced1543

fair-faced1553

bright-faceda1560

crab-faced1563

crab-snouted1563

crab-tree-faced1563

long-visaged1584

owlya1586

wainscot-faced1588

flaberkin1592

rough-hewn1593

angel-faced1594

round-faced1594

crab-favoured1596

rugged1596

weasel-faced1596

rough-faced1598

half-faced1600

chitty1601

lenten-faced1604

broad-faced1607

dog-faced1607

weaselled-faced1607

wry-faced1607

maid-faced1610

warp-faced1611

ill-faceda1616

lean-faceda1616

old-faceda1616

moon-faced1619

monkey-faced1620

chitty-face1622

chitty-faceda1627

lean-chapt1629

antic-faced1635

bloat-faced1638

bacon-facea1640

blue-faced1640

hatchet-faced1648

grave1650

lean-jawed1679

smock-faced1684

lean-visaged1686

flaber1687

baby-faced1692

splatter-faced1707

chubby1722

puggy1722

block-faced1751

haggard-looking1756

long-faced1762

haggardly1763

fresh-faced1766

dough-faced1773

pudding-faced1777

baby-featured1780

fat-faced1782

haggard1787

weazen-face1794

keen1798

ferret-like1801

lean-cheeked1812

mulberry-faced1812

open-faced1813

open-countenanced1819

chiselled1821

hatchety1821

misfeatured1822

terse1824

weazen-faced1824

mahogany-faced1825

clock-faced1827

sharp1832

sensual1833

beef-faced1838

weaselly1838

ferret-faced1840

sensuous1843

rat-faced1844

recedent1849

neat-faced1850

cherubimical1854

pinch-faced1859

cherubic1860

frownya1861

receding1866

weak1882

misfeaturing1885

platopic1885

platyopic1885

pro-opic1885

wind-splitting1890

falcon-face1891

blunt-featured1916

bun-faced1927

fish-faced1963

1635 J. Taylor Olde, Old Man sig. A4^v And (to cheere up the Old Man, and make him merry) there was an Antique-fac'd-fellow, called Jacke, or John the Foole.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	antic
释义	anticn.adj. Brit. /ˈantɪk/, U.S. /ˈæn(t)ɪk/ Forms: 1500s antyck, 1500s antyk, 1500s antyke, 1500s–1600s anticke, 1500s–1600s antike, 1500s–1600s antique, 1500s–1800s antick, 1500s– antic, 1600s antik, 1600s antycke; English regional (chiefly south-western) 1700s– hanteck, 1800s– hantic, 1800s– hantick; also Scottish pre-1700 1800s antik, pre-1700 1900s– antick. Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: antique adj.; antique n. Etymology: Probably originally a variant of antique adj. and antique n., subsequently distinguished in spelling (and later also in pronunciation) in the senses below (see further note at antique adj. and n.).It has been suggested that this word is a borrowing of either Italian antico old, old-fashioned, ancient or Middle French antique antique adj.; however, the semantic history of these words does not appear to support either suggestion. A. n. 1. Architecture and Decorative Arts. A grotesque or fantastic ornamental representation of a person, animal, or thing; spec. a sculpted human figure represented in an unnatural posture and serving as a column; (also) a structure or tableau decorated with such representations. Also formerly as a mass noun: †decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage (obsolete). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > grotesque antic1532 caricaturaa1682 caricaturing1758 caricature1827 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > gargoyles or grotesques gargoyle13.. baboonc1400 antic1532 marmoset1687 mask1731 antefix1819 figurehead1874 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > a sculpture or carving > group or spec. subject antic1532 Our Lady Piety1533 drapery1552 antiquary1573 urn1653 story1657 Pietàc1660 gigantomachy1820 set piece1846 terminal1865 wheatear1882 protome1886 protoma1894 koruru1897 blemya1915 Lincoln imp1926 1532 in J. W. Bayley Hist. & Antiq. Tower of London (1821) I. App. p. xxxi A mantell of waynscot wrought w^t antyk sett over the chymney there. a1536 Building Acct. in E. Law Hist. Hampton Court (1885) App. C. 352 A trayle of antyk sett in the great Joull-pece in the Kynges new Hall. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxv Aboue the Arches were made many sondri Antikes & diuises. 1563 T. Wilson Rule of Reason (new ed.) f. 74 Antiques or gargilles are deuised by painters. Ergo, there are soche creatures in deede. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vi. §54, 374 Those crouching Anticks which seeme in great buildings to labour under the weight they beare. 1683 London Gaz. mdccclix/8 Three Gold Seals, one with an Old Man's Head, another with a Woman's Head, and the other with an Antick. a1695 A. Wood Hist. & Antiq. Colleges & Halls Univ. Oxf. (1786) 350 Every buttress almost of the Cloister beareth an antick. 1830 ‘R. Stuart’ Dict. Archit. I. at Antics The villa Palagonia, in Sicily, is an antic, from entrance gate to chimney top. 1981 Antiquaries Jrnl. 61 i. 121 The buttresses, angels, and crests, and the antics—swags and strapwork, fruit and flowers, allegorical figures and pyramids—have been replaced. 2. †a. to dance antics and variants: to dance with grotesque or absurd movements; to cavort, to play the fool. Also in extended use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)] floxec1200 ragea1275 to dance antics1545 rig1570 to keep (also play) reaks1573 wanton1582 wantonize1592 frolic1593 wantonize1611 hoit1613 mird?c1625 to play about1638 freak1663 romp1665 rump1680 ramp1735 jinket1742 skylark1771 to cut up1775 rollick1786 hoity-toity1790 fun1802 lark1813 gammock1832 haze1848 marlock1863 train1877 horse1901 mollock1932 spadger1939 grab-ass1957 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 30^v Menne that shoulde daunce antiques. 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Cii Than cometh Silenus..treadyng the hornepipe, with Poliphemus boisteously stampyng,..The Satyres halfe gotes dauncyng the Antikes. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F2^v There was a parasite, & he with clapping his hands and thripping his fingers seemed to dance an antike to and fro. 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I4 Yet must we Dance Antickes on your Paper. 1654 C. Hotham tr. J. Böhme Consolatory Treat. Four Complexions v. sig. D3 The earthy floating fumes of the drink which danc't those merry Anticks in his brain. b. In plural. Grotesque, absurd, or amusing gestures or actions; silly, foolish, or outrageous behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [noun] > grotesque behaviour antics1570 Meg's diversion1807 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > antic toy?1518 antics1570 murlimewes1583 monkey trick1653 dido1807 monkey work1830 monkeyshinec1832 monkey business1835 rannygazoo1896 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1156/2 In sothe it maketh me to laugh, to see the mery Antiques of M. More. 1572 Sir T. Smith in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) III. 20 Vaulting with notable supersaltes and through hoopes, and last of all the Antiques, of carrying of men one uppon an other which som men call labores Herculis. 1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iii. sig. H^v A pox vpon your outlandish feminine Antiks. 1720 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ VII. xvi. xi. 494 Provoking youthful Lusts by their theatrical Motions, their petulant Eyes, and unseemly Anticks and Fooleries. 1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor III. vii. 130 The man who so well perceives the stupidity and folly of the animals around him, laughs at their apish antics. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xxvii. 189 Performing more antics than Punch in a pantomime. 1898 Argosy Oct. 394 He joined in their mad antics with all the ardor of a schoolboy. 1938 R. Wright Lawd Today! viii, in Wks. (1991) I. 68 The noise emanating from the halfopened doorway told him that he was not in the mood for the antics of the old gang. 1990 Birder's World Aug. 51/1 The fascinating antics of chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, woodpeckers, and others. 2014 S. Dharmapala Saree (2015) 313 Sarojini..attempted to make small talk, discussing some light federal politics and the antics of film stars. †c. A grotesque or comic piece of entertainment, spec. one intended to provide a counterpoint to a masque (cf. antimasque n.). Obsolete.With quot. 1724 cf. sense A. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other dramatic or variety performances > [noun] antic1580 wayang1671 light entertainment1787 take-off1845 féerie1878 showboating1909 mirthquake1911 mirthquaker1921 icecapade1940 happening1959 stripagram1981 1580 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 37 To receive and glaid the Kyngis Maiestie with farceis, playeis, historeis, antikis, and..uther decoratioun. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 140 We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique . View more context for this quotation 1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iii. sig. G^v Perform'd by Knights and Ladies of his Court, In nature of an Anticke. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. iii. §26 How preposterous is it for an Old Woman to..be at Masks and Dancings, when she is fit only to act the Antics? 1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 214 The Gentleman..led me only a Courant, and then ask'd me, if I had a-mind to dance an Antick, that is to say, whether I wou'd dance the Antick as they had danc'd in Masquerade. †3. a. A performer who entertains others with buffoonery; a jester, a clown. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian jugglerc1175 foolc1300 jangler1303 fool sagec1330 ribald1340 ape-ward1362 japer1377 sage fool1377 harlotc1390 disporter?a1475 jocular?a1475 joculatora1500 jester?1518 idiot1526 scoffer1530 sporter1531 dizzardc1540 vice1552 antic1564 bauble-bearer1568 scoggin1579 buffoon1584 pleasant1595 zany1596 baladine1599 clown1600 fiddle1600 mimic1601 ape-carrier1615 mime1616 mime-man1631 merry man1648 tomfool1650 pickle-herring1656 badine1670 puddingc1675 merry-andrew1677 mimical1688 Tom Tram1688 Monaghan1689 pickled herring1711 ethologist1727 court-foola1797 Tom1817 mimer1819 fun-maker1835 funny man1839 mimester1846 comic1857 comedian1860 jokesman1882 comique1886 Joey1896 tummler1938 alternative comedian1981 Andrew- 1564 Pleasaunt Dialogue Cap & Head sig. Aiii^v Thou wearest mee..sometime lyke a Royster, sometime like a Souldiour, and sometime lyke an Antique. 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. F^v Those Anticks garnisht in our colours. 1618 Bp. J. Hall Righteovs Mammon 51 Are they Christians, or Antickes in some Carnevale? 1669 J. Fletcher Island Princess Prol. Wit is become an Antick, and puts on As many shapes of variation,To Court the times applause, as the times dare Change several fashion. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 21 Dancing and hallowing like an Antick. 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies liv, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 28 How Puck, the antic..Had blithely jested with calamity. 1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies ix, in Last Ess. Elia 241 [A pun] is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but comes bounding into the presence. b. A collective name for: a group of grotesque or ludicrous people. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated humorous use. ΚΠ 1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Piii^v Heards-men, Shepheardes, Plow-men, and Hyndes: thys Anticke of Groomes. c. A grotesque or ludicrous person. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > person mammet1461 scarecrow1590 antic1597 fright1751 figure1774 jigger1825 guy1836 flibbertigibbet1878 worricow1894 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > state or quality of being ridiculous > ridiculous person didapper1589 antic1597 zany1606 balatron1623 figure of fun1811 sketch1917 Herbert1960 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 158 There the antique [sc. death] sits, Scofing his state and grinning at his pompe. View more context for this quotation 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. f. 10^v There flocked a great throng of souldiers about him, wondering at this so mishapen an Anticke. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 172 A little crooked antic of a child. 1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. ii. 30 ‘That was to get the money,’ repeated the antic of a woman, and she danced and crowed with an intoxication of triumph. B. adj. 1. Architecture and Decorative Arts. Designating a style of decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage; grotesque in composition, shape, or ornamentation. Frequently in antic work. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [adjective] > types of artistic treatment or style antica1536 Moresque1611 barbaric1667 massive1723 popular1730 maniéré1743 regency1811 tedesco1814 massy1817 Barbaresque1831 sensualistic1838 broad1849 conventional1851 expressional1856 tight1891 stylized1898 distressed1940 pop1956 transgressive1969 a1536 Building Acct. in E. Law Hist. Hampton Court (1885) App. C. 352 To Robert Skyngke..moulder of Antyke-worke, for a trayle of antyk sett in the great Joull-pece in the Kynges new Hall. 1536 MS Accts. Masters of Wks. IV. f. 84, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Antik In flanderis roundis & squair antik peces..paintit glas in bordouris in antik faces. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxvii. 89 All voyde places..he filleth-vp with antike Boscage or Crotesko works. 1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xviii. 55 Like some anticke statue, in a posture of impotent indeuour. 1656 P. Heylyn Full Relation Two Journeys i. ii. vii. 91 Le pont de Nostre dame, which is all covered with two goodly ranks of houses: and those adorned with portly and antick imagery. 1703 City & Country Builder 5 Antick, or Antique-work..a confused Composure of Figures of different Natures, and Sexes, etc. As of Men, Beasts, Birds, Flowers, Fishes, etc. And such like Fancies as are not in Rerum Natura... This Work which we call Antick, the Italians call Grotesca..and the French Grotesque. 1958 J. Summerson Archit. Brit. 1530 to 1830 (ed. 3) xi. 102 The tower..to whose five storeys the five orders, heavily crusted with antic-work, are pedantically and precariously applied. 2. a. Esp. of a person, or a person's attributes or actions: grotesquely amusing or playful; absurd, fantastical. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [adjective] > grotesque antic1579 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > bizarre remote1533 antic1579 outlandish1588 bizarrea1648 outré1722 freakish1805 weird1820 freaky1824 weirdish1863 ostrobogulous1951 ostrobogulatory1952 far-out1954 weirdo1962 flaky1972 zonky1972 gonzo1974 mondo bizarro1976 mondo1979 woo-woo1986 freakazoid1990 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 979 The house within was full of tomblers, anticke dauncers, iuglers, players, ieasters, and dronkards. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. A3 My men like Satyres..Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 173 How strange or odde soere I beare my selfe..To put an Anticke disposition on. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness iii. ix. 77 Their religious Rites and Ceremonies being uncouth and antick. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 244 He came running to me..making a many antick Gestures. 1788 New London Mag. 17 Several antic figures in shapes of boys danced. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 215 Writhing his body into all possible antick shapes to avoid the balls which he conceived to be whistling around him. 1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 110 Performing the most antic homage. 1975 New Yorker 3 Feb. 77/2 Mr. Antonacci is both antic and affecting as the jumpy, craven nebbish Honey Boy. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 16 Sept. 172/1 The creepy antic, almost mocking cheerfulness we commonly associate with the genre. b. Of a person's clothing or attire: grotesque, absurd; fantastically incongruous. ΚΠ 1611 E. Aston tr. J. de Léry Certaine Things conc. Amer. in tr. J. Boemus Manners, Lawes, & Customes 492 He shall be disrobed of that ridiculous attire and anticke habite. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 42 It had no Rubrick to be sung in an antick Coape upon the Stage of a High Altar. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vii. 97 Two Rows of Guards..dressed after a very antick manner. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 155/2 An ass..with a fellow in an antick dress riding upon it. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 19 Feb. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) ii. 84 The papal guards (in the strangest, antique, and antic, costume that was ever seen). 1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 18 Aug. 18 Eclectic costumes, ranging from antic get-ups for the fairies to pretty picture frocks for the Athenian ladies. 3. Of the face or features: grotesquely distorted like a gargoyle; grinning or grimacing grotesquely. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > distorted writhen?a1425 girning1447 mowinga1529 writhed1568 mumping1594 antic1595 frowned1598 screwed1609 sour1611 wreathed1645 fluish1674 working1717 screwed-up1728 frownful1771 grimacing1804 quirked1931 1595 A. Copley tr. R. de Cota Loves Owle sig. D^v, in Wits Fittes & Fancies To heare thy graue requestes Accompaned with deepe protestes And many an anticke countenance. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gargouille, The mouth of a Spowt, representing a Serpent, or the Anticke face of some other ouglie creature. 1704 Nat. Hist. ii, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 190 The Little Tame-Owl..making divers antick Faces. 1780 Town & Country Mag. Sept. 480/2 There will be old drawing of antick heads in charcoal upon white walls. 1832 S. L. Fairfield Last Night of Pompeii ii. 78 The priests of mirth With antic faces and wild steps leapt on. 1914 M. Monahan Nova Hibernia 203 The merry man dropping at the end of the play his humorous mask and showing us his own tristful face behind the antic visage of Harlequin? 2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Dec. m2 Hundreds of pictures of actors with antic faces and Coney Island bodies. Compounds antic-cutter n. rare (historical in later use) a carver of antics (see sense A. 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptor or carver > by subject antic-cutter1601 mythographist1834 animalier1884 animalist1886 1601 I. T. in tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (title page) For the benefit of Free-Masons, Carpenters, Goldsmithes, Painters, Caruers, In-layers, Anticke-Cutters, and all other that delight to practice with the Compasse and Squire [sic.]. 1985 A. Globe Peter Stent 24 The title-pages of various editions of Blum encouraged this tendency by pointing out how useful the book was for carpenters, joiners, carvers, painters, inlayers, antic-cutters and goldsmiths as well as masons and bricklayers. † antic-faced adj. Obsolete rare having a grotesque or humorously distorted face (see sense B. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1635 J. Taylor Olde, Old Man sig. A4^v And (to cheere up the Old Man, and make him merry) there was an Antique-fac'd-fellow, called Jacke, or John the Foole. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). anticv. Brit. /ˈantɪk/, U.S. /ˈæn(t)ɪk/ Inflections: Present participle anticking; past tense and past participle anticked; Forms: see antic n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: antic n. Etymology: < antic n. 1. intransitive. To engage in antics; to behave in an absurd, foolish, or playful manner; to frolic, cavort. Also transitive with it. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [verb (intransitive)] > perform antics antic1589 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. A2^v They might haue antickt it..vp and downe the countrey with the King of Fairies. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. xci. 367 Now Pincht they him, antickt about, and on, and off him lept. 1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Flood of Thessaly ii. 353 So, ere it slumber'd in entire repose, Antick'd the Ocean. 1829 T. Hood Epping Hunt 20 Some roll'd about, And antick'd as they rode. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist Prel. 7 Until he begins insensibly to frolic and antic, unknown to himself. 1927 Amer. Mercury Jan. 124/1 Pigmies that antic on a platform for a couple of hours and leave. 1996 Interzone Oct. 39/1 The limitations of the book's narrative (basically seven characters anticking around in a single set). †2. transitive. To make (a person or thing) grotesque. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > make unattractive [verb (transitive)] > make grotesque antic1596 bemonster1608 1596 [implied in: W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvii. 220 Some By Arte, abusing Nature, heads of antick't hayre doe frame. (at anticked adj.)]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 122 The wilde disguise hath almost Antickt vs all. View more context for this quotation This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1532v.1589
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