单词 | gob stick |
释义 | gob stickn. 1. slang and English regional (chiefly northern). A spoon; spec. (a) a wooden spoon; (b) a silver spoon. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > spoon stickOE spoonc1340 gob stick1691 feeder1811 1691 J. Ray Glossarium Northanhymbricum in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 142 A Gobstick, cochleare. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 332 Gobstick, a wooden spoon. 1795 Potter's New Dict. Cant & Flash Lang. (ed. 2) Gob-stick, a silver table spoon. 1846 G. W. M. Reynolds Myst. London II. 87/2 Who knows that we shan't find some gob-sticks..or other things of the same kind. 1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 62 A gob-stick's a spiun, bigger an' better, neea matter whedder it's wood er iron. 1926 Amer. Speech 2 73/2 [Yorkshire.] A ‘gob-stick’ is a wooden spoon, because it is inserted into the mouth. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake ii. 242 Got a daarlingt babyboy bucktooth, the thick of a gobstick. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 122/2 Gob-stick, spoon. 2. Fishing (now chiefly New Zealand). A short, heavy stick or bat with a notch at one end, used to kill or stun fish and remove the hooks from their mouths. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > mallet or stick to kill fish priest1851 gob stick1883 nobby1887 nobbler1888 killer1890 muckle1897 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 195 Halibut-killer and gob-stick for killing the fish and disgorging the hook. 1906 Nebraska Advertiser 26 Jan. The skipper..thrusts the gob-stick down the ugly throat. 1945 T. H. Raddall Tambour & Other Stories 227 Dutchy took the gobstick, used for twisting the hooks out of fish. 1979 A. Curnow Incorrigible Music 11 Fingers and gobstick fail, The hook's fast in the gullet. 2011 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 7 Aug. If a fish has swallowed a hook, it is better to cut the line close to the mouth rather than tear out the hook or use a gob stick. 3. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Esp. among jazz and swing musicians: a clarinet. Now historical or disused. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > clarinet clarionet1785 clarinet1796 gob stick1914 liquorice-stick1935 1914 Idaho Daily Statesman 28 Sept. 6 What you gobsticks players need is a time table,..not notes. 1921 Racine (Wisconsin) Daily News 30 Apr. (Orpheum Fan) Frank Mertz with his funny old ‘Gob Stick’ will hold up the clarinet end. 1938 D. Thomas Let. 16 May in Sel. Lett. (1966) 195 The double-bed is a swing-band with coffin, oompah, slush-pump, gob-stick. 1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene 292 The player as such calls his instrument a clarinet..; qua hipster he may call it..the obs. gobstick. 2015 J. B. Murphy Becoming Beach Boys 46 He played clarinet, which he affectionately called his ‘gob stick’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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