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单词 gregory
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Gregoryn.

/ˈɡrɛɡəri/
Etymology: Uses of the proper name.
1. Apparently a ‘gallant’. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > brave warrior > a gallant
blade1597
Gregorya1627
stud horse1868
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 40 Faith and I've other weapons for the rest too, I have prepard for em, if ere I take My Gregories heere agen.
2. A hangman. Obsolete. (Cf. Gregorian adj. 4)Gregory Brandon, common hangman of London in the reign of James I. was succeeded in office by his son Richard (d. 1649) who was commonly called ‘Young Gregory’.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > hangman
boiec1320
hangman1393
hangerc1430
lockman1488
burrioc1540
bourreauc1550
burriourc1550
derrickc1600
passport-maker1602
topman1607
derrick-jastro?1609
verdugo1616
windpipe-stretcher1617
Gregorya1658
locksman1682
Ketch1685
Jack Ketch1696
finisher of the law1708
topsman1825
scrag-boy1843
scragger1897
1642 Mercurius Aulicus 553 This mighty gentlemans stollen Venison will not be sweet, when Gregory shall demand his fees.]
a1658 J. Cleveland To T. C. 10, in Wks. (1687) 262 Are Rocks and Halters grown so dear That there's no perishing but here? Do no Committee yet survive Those cheaper Gregories of Men alive?
3. The name of an old game. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others
buckle-pit1532
marrowbone1533
put-pin?1577
primus secundus1584
fox in the hole1585
haltering of Hick's mare1585
muss1591
pushpin1598
Jack-in-the-box1600
a penny in the forehead1602
buckerels1649
bumdockdousse1653
peck-point1653
toro1660
wheelbarrow1740
thread-needle1751
thrush-a-thrush1766
runaway ring?1790
Gregory1801
pick-point1801
fighting cocks1807
runaway knock1813
tit-tat-toe1818
French and English1820
honeypots1821
roly-poly1821
tickle-tail1821
pottle1822
King of Cantland1825
tip-top-castle1834
tile1837
statue1839
chip stone1843
hen and chickens1843
king of the castle1843
King Caesar1849
rap-jacket1870
old witch1881
tick-tack-toe1884
twos and threes1896
last across (the road)1904
step1909
king of the hill1928
Pooh-sticks1928
trick or treat1928
stare-you-out1932
king of the mountain1933
dab cricket1938
Urkey1938
trick-or-treating1941
seven-up1950
squashed tomato1959
slot-racing1965
Pog1993
knights-
1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes iv. iv. 298 Pick-point..and Gregory, occur in a description of the children's games in the sixteenth century.
4. Anglo-Irish. A feast held on St. Gregory's day (12 March). In quot. 1804 used for: An evening party.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > evening gathering
conversazione1740
evening party1742
sociable1750
evening1791
soirée1793
Gregory1804
veillée1825
tertulia1828
swarry1837
social evening1844
1804 Lady Hunter in M. Hunter Jrnl. (1894) 216 I have been at one or two gregorys—stupid card-parties, where you are crammed with tea, coffee and cakes, and then in an hour or two cold turkey, ham, and profusion of tarts, etc.
1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 204 To-morrow we will have our Gregory; a fine faste, plinty of poteen, and a fiddle.
1892 L. L. K. in Notes & Queries 20 Aug. 145/2Gregories’ were at one time common all over Europe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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