geltn.¹

Brit.

/ɡɛlt/, U.S.

/ɡɛlt/, Irish English

/ɡeːlt/

Forms: Also 1800s geilt.

Etymology: < Irish geilt a mad or frenzied person. In the Chron. Scot. p. 122 the Irish gealta (plural) is explained by volatiles. According to the Old Norse work Konungs Skuggsjá ( Speculum Regale) c. 11, a gelt was one who went mad with fear in battle, and thenceforth lived in the woods like a wild beast. In Old Norse the phrase verða at gialti ‘to become frantic’, is in frequent use (in Cleasby-Vigfusson wrongly placed under gǫltr boar), and two instances of the madness itself are described in Eyrbyggja Saga, the persons being Celts.

rare.

A mad person, a ‘lunatic’.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person

woodman1297

madmanc1330

lunatic1377

franticc1380

madwomana1438

March harec1500

Bedlam beggar1525

fanaticc1525

bedlama1529

frenetic1528

Jack o' Bedlam1528

Tom o' Bedlam1569

crack-brain1570

madbrain1570

Tom1575

madcap1589

gelt1596

madhead1600

brainsick1605

madpash1611

non compos1628

madling1638

bedlam-man1658

bedlamerc1675

fan1682

bedlamite1691

cracka1701

lymphatic1708

shatter-brain1719

mad1729

maniaca1763

non compos mentis1765

shatter-pate1775

shatter-wit1775

insane1786

craze1831

dement1857

crazy1867

crackpot1883

loony1884

bug1885

psychopath1885

dingbat1887

psychopathic1890

ding-a-ling1899

meshuggener1900

détraqué1902

maddiea1903

nut1908

mental1913

ding1929

lakes1934

wack1938

fruitcake1942

nutty1942

barm-pot1951

nutcake1953

nutter1958

nutcase1959

nut job1959

meshuga1962

nutsy1964

headcase1965

nutball1968

headbanger1973

nutso1975

wacko1977

nut bar1978

mentalist1990

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vii. sig. G2^v Like a ghastly Gelt, whose wits are reaued.

1894 Q. Rev. Oct. 331 The vision of the long-haired, long-robed Geilt.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

geltn.²

Brit.

/ɡɛlt/, U.S.

/ɡɛlt/

Forms: Also 1600s ghelt, guelt.

Etymology: < German, Dutch geld money: see geld n.²

1. Money; in early use often with reference to the pay of a (German) army; now only slang. †bare gelt (= German baares geld, Dutch baar geld) ready money. †passage gelt: tr. of German fahrgeld passage money.

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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]

silverc825

feec870

pennieseOE

wortheOE

mintOE

scata1122

spense?c1225

spendinga1290

sumc1300

gooda1325

moneya1325

cattlec1330

muckc1330

reasona1382

pecunyc1400

gilt1497

argentc1500

gelta1529

Mammon1539

ale silver1541

scruff1559

the sinews of war1560

sterling1565

lour1567

will-do-all1583

shell1591

trasha1592

quinyie1596

brass1597

pecuniary1604

dust1607

nomisma1614

countera1616

cross and pilea1625

gingerbreada1625

rhinoa1628

cash1646

grig1657

spanker1663

cole1673

goree1699

mopus1699

quid1699

ribbin1699

bustle1763

necessary1772

stuff1775

needfula1777

iron1785

(the) Spanish1788

pecuniar1793

kelter1807

dibs1812

steven1812

pewter1814

brad1819

pogue1819

rent1823

stumpy1828

posh1830

L. S. D.1835

rivetc1835

tin1836

mint sauce1839

nobbins1846

ochre1846

dingbat1848

dough1848

cheese1850

California1851

mali1851

ducat1853

pay dirt1853

boodle?1856

dinero1856

scad1856

the shiny1856

spondulicks1857

rust1858

soap1860

sugar1862

coin1874

filthy1876

wampum1876

ooftish1877

shekel1883

oil1885

oof1885

mon1888

Jack1890

sploshc1890

bees and honey1892

spending-brass1896

stiff1897

mazuma1900

mazoom1901

cabbage1903

lettuce1903

Oscar Asche1905

jingle1906

doubloons1908

kale1912

scratch1914

green1917

oscar1917

snow1925

poke1926

oodle1930

potatos1931

bread1935

moolah1936

acker1939

moo1941

lolly1943

loot1943

poppy1943

mazoola1944

dosh1953

bickies1966

lovely jubbly1990

scrilla1994

a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 610 That nothynge had There of theyr awne Neyther gelt nor pawne.

1591 H. Wotton Let. 10 Feb. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 616 It..amounts to not above 12000 Fr. Rhenish, yearly, in bare gelt.

1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 343 The Germans..being very greedy of Ghelt.

1648 Let. in Cromwelliana (1810) 48 Sufficient to make any soldiers in the world that fights only for gelt, to sheath, and be gone.

1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 299 His whole army cryed out for gelt, and he promised them pay.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gelt, money. There is no Gelt to be got.

a1712 W. King Ulysses & Tiresias 16 Lineage and virtue at this push, Without the gelt, 's not worth a rush.

1745 London Mag. 402 Both Natives and Foreigners are forced to pay passage Gelt.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 198 All the gelt was gone.

1875 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Gelt, profit.

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. (at cited word) I sniled a bird yesterday..and while I was doing it..over went my egg-basket; so there wern't much gelt out of that.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. i. xxii. 165 Fourteen Shtibbur's a lot of Gelt.

1960 Observer 24 Jan. 7/1 Had I ever heard the underworld saying: No grass ever grasses for gelt alone?

1968 C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies iv. 80 ‘The gelt?’ said Reed... ‘Four thousand dollars,’ said Miss Pocket.

2. Perhaps: a pseudo-archaism for gold.

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?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature v. sig. Fiij^v Myght I haue bene stopped, for syluer or for gelte.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 65 I wonne her with a gyrdle of gelt.

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Money or (now chiefly) chocolate coins, traditionally given to children at the Jewish festival of Hanukkah and used as a stake when playing dreidel (dreidel n. 2); = Hanukkah gelt n. at Hanukkah n. Compounds.Earliest as a count noun.

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1952 Herald-News (Passaic, New Jersey) 13 Dec. 4/5 Program will include skits, songs,..and the presentation by the temple's board of education of a dreidel (Chanukah spinning top) and a gelt (coin) to each child.

1996 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 5 Dec. 1 b The letter [on the dreidel] indicates whether the child spinning wins all, half or none of the gelt.

2015 @AdamHamburger21 12 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 6 May 2019) Eating gelt has always been one of my favorite parts of #Hanukkah.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

geltadj.

Brit.

/ɡɛlt/, U.S.

/ɡɛlt/

Etymology: past participle of geld v.¹

Gelded, castrated. literal and figurative.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > castrated or spayed

geldedc1225

spayeda1425

geltc1440

unpizzled1554

splayed?1611

libbed1616

spaded1648

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [adjective] > castrated

geldedc1225

cutted1438

geltc1440

chaste1526

evirate1606

castrated1609

memberless1611

unpaveda1616

libbed1616

cut1624

eunuched1627

caponed1630

untesticled1668

castrate1704

eunuch1817

emasculated1830

eunuchal1878

neuter1893

eunuchoid1894

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 190/1 Gelt, castratus.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 190/1 Gelt mann, spado.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. D^v By chaunce..Hath got the Farme of some gelt Vicary.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §852 Eunuchs and Gelt Creatures of all kindes.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. x. 219 A Horse or Mare-Filly that is cut, gelt, or spla.

1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 170 Those that have no beard like guelt men,..are of an ill nature.

1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 3 I remembred the Man who moved in Chancery for a Gelt Order which should beget no more.

1682 T. Shadwell Medal of John Bayes 3 An old gelt Mastiff has more mirth than thou.

1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 212 Gelt-stags and bucks.

1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 145/2 Unless the favour of the deity..were conciliated by the sacrifice of a gelt goat and a cock.

1810 Provinc. Voc. Devon in Monthly Mag. 29 466/2 Gelt bull, an ox, a bull-stag.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1596

n.²a1529

adj.c1440

单词	gelt
释义	geltn.¹ Brit. /ɡɛlt/, U.S. /ɡɛlt/, Irish English /ɡeːlt/ Forms: Also 1800s geilt. Etymology: < Irish geilt a mad or frenzied person. In the Chron. Scot. p. 122 the Irish gealta (plural) is explained by volatiles. According to the Old Norse work Konungs Skuggsjá ( Speculum Regale) c. 11, a gelt was one who went mad with fear in battle, and thenceforth lived in the woods like a wild beast. In Old Norse the phrase verða at gialti ‘to become frantic’, is in frequent use (in Cleasby-Vigfusson wrongly placed under gǫltr boar), and two instances of the madness itself are described in Eyrbyggja Saga, the persons being Celts. rare. A mad person, a ‘lunatic’. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vii. sig. G2^v Like a ghastly Gelt, whose wits are reaued. View more context for this quotation 1894 Q. Rev. Oct. 331 The vision of the long-haired, long-robed Geilt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). geltn.² Brit. /ɡɛlt/, U.S. /ɡɛlt/ Forms: Also 1600s ghelt, guelt. Etymology: < German, Dutch geld money: see geld n.² 1. Money; in early use often with reference to the pay of a (German) army; now only slang. †bare gelt (= German baares geld, Dutch baar geld) ready money. †passage gelt: tr. of German fahrgeld passage money. 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D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 610 That nothynge had There of theyr awne Neyther gelt nor pawne. 1591 H. Wotton Let. 10 Feb. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 616 It..amounts to not above 12000 Fr. Rhenish, yearly, in bare gelt. 1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 343 The Germans..being very greedy of Ghelt. 1648 Let. in Cromwelliana (1810) 48 Sufficient to make any soldiers in the world that fights only for gelt, to sheath, and be gone. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 299 His whole army cryed out for gelt, and he promised them pay. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gelt, money. There is no Gelt to be got. a1712 W. King Ulysses & Tiresias 16 Lineage and virtue at this push, Without the gelt, 's not worth a rush. 1745 London Mag. 402 Both Natives and Foreigners are forced to pay passage Gelt. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 198 All the gelt was gone. 1875 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Gelt, profit. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. (at cited word) I sniled a bird yesterday..and while I was doing it..over went my egg-basket; so there wern't much gelt out of that. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. i. xxii. 165 Fourteen Shtibbur's a lot of Gelt. 1960 Observer 24 Jan. 7/1 Had I ever heard the underworld saying: No grass ever grasses for gelt alone? 1968 C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies iv. 80 ‘The gelt?’ said Reed... ‘Four thousand dollars,’ said Miss Pocket. 2. Perhaps: a pseudo-archaism for gold. ΚΠ ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature v. sig. Fiij^v Myght I haue bene stopped, for syluer or for gelte. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 65 I wonne her with a gyrdle of gelt. Draft additions December 2019 Money or (now chiefly) chocolate coins, traditionally given to children at the Jewish festival of Hanukkah and used as a stake when playing dreidel (dreidel n. 2); = Hanukkah gelt n. at Hanukkah n. Compounds.Earliest as a count noun. ΚΠ 1952 Herald-News (Passaic, New Jersey) 13 Dec. 4/5 Program will include skits, songs,..and the presentation by the temple's board of education of a dreidel (Chanukah spinning top) and a gelt (coin) to each child. 1996 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 5 Dec. 1 b The letter [on the dreidel] indicates whether the child spinning wins all, half or none of the gelt. 2015 @AdamHamburger21 12 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 6 May 2019) Eating gelt has always been one of my favorite parts of #Hanukkah. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). geltadj. Brit. /ɡɛlt/, U.S. /ɡɛlt/ Etymology: past participle of geld v.¹ Gelded, castrated. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > castrated or spayed geldedc1225 spayeda1425 geltc1440 unpizzled1554 splayed?1611 libbed1616 spaded1648 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [adjective] > castrated geldedc1225 cutted1438 geltc1440 chaste1526 evirate1606 castrated1609 memberless1611 unpaveda1616 libbed1616 cut1624 eunuched1627 caponed1630 untesticled1668 castrate1704 eunuch1817 emasculated1830 eunuchal1878 neuter1893 eunuchoid1894 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 190/1 Gelt, castratus. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 190/1 Gelt mann, spado. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. D^v By chaunce..Hath got the Farme of some gelt Vicary. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §852 Eunuchs and Gelt Creatures of all kindes. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. x. 219 A Horse or Mare-Filly that is cut, gelt, or spla. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 170 Those that have no beard like guelt men,..are of an ill nature. 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 3 I remembred the Man who moved in Chancery for a Gelt Order which should beget no more. 1682 T. Shadwell Medal of John Bayes 3 An old gelt Mastiff has more mirth than thou. 1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 212 Gelt-stags and bucks. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 145/2 Unless the favour of the deity..were conciliated by the sacrifice of a gelt goat and a cock. 1810 Provinc. Voc. Devon in Monthly Mag. 29 466/2 Gelt bull, an ox, a bull-stag. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1596n.²a1529adj.c1440
随便看	nought allthing nought availing nought for than nought for that nought for thi nought is never in danger nought one nought than nought the less nought thon less nought venture, nothing have nought venture, nought have nought worth nought-againstanding nought-fearing nought-worth noughtagainstanding noughter noughtest noughtfearing noughth noughth week noughties noughtihood noughtily

geltn.1

geltn.2

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geltadj.

geltn.¹

geltn.²