单词 | green man |
释义 | green mann. 1. a. In outdoor shows, pageants, masques, etc.: a man dressed in greenery, representing a wild man of the woods or seasonal fertility. Cf. Jack o' (also of) the green n. at Jack n.2 Phrases 3.Quots. a1716 and 1931 refer to the tavern sign of ‘The Green Man and Still’. N.E.D. (1900) comments that the sign ‘seems to have been suggested by the arms of the Distillers' Company, the supporters of which are two Indians. The sign-painters represented the Indian by a ‘Green man’ (in this sense) and this figure was afterwards replaced by that of a man clothed in green, a forester, often Robin Hood.’ (See ‘J. Larwood’ J. C. Hotten Hist. Signboards (1866) 148.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > characters in May-day festivities May-lady1564 savage mana1577 green man1578 May Marian1582 May Queen1600 malkina1625 Jack o' the green1729 Jack-in-the-bush1792 Jack in the green1794 May Day sweep1832 green1836 Maid Marian1893 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. i. vi, sig. H.i, (stage direct.) Phallax, Two men, apparrelled, lyke greene men at the Mayors feast, with clubbes of fyre worke. 1594 R. Wilson Coblers Prophesie sig. C1v Comes there a Pageant by, Ile stand out of the greene mens way for burning my vestment. 1600 T. Nash Summers Last Will & Test. sig. B2v The rest of the greene men haue reasonable voyces, good to sing catches. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. vi. 19 The strange Feasts of the Greenmen, Whiflers, Marshals, and his Ministers. 1687 M. Taubman London's Triumph 7 Green-men, Swabs, Satyrs, and Attendants innumerable. a1716 Bagford in ‘J. Larwood’ & J. C. Hotten Hist. Signboards (1866) x. 367 They are called woudmen or wildmen, thou' at thes day we in ye signe call them Green Men, couered with grene boues. 1728 J. Smedley Gulliveriana 33 My Greenmen all, with Main and Might, Espouse Myself and Cause, And say, that all propos'd is right, By ancient Forest-Laws. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iii. 282 The actors..were called monstrous wilde men; others were frequently distinguished by the appellation of green men; and both of them were men whimsically attired and disguised with droll masks [etc.]. 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales 81 Up with your nimble spirits, ye morrice-dancers, green-men, and glee-maidens, bears and wolves, and horned gentlemen! 1851 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 154/2 In 1681 a company of 20 Green Men preceded the principal pageant. 1931 Rotarian July 5/2 ‘The Green Man’ remains, twenty generations after he came to his end, as a mute testimony to England's love of its traditional robber chief. 2006 Church Times 29 Dec. 24/1 The winter manifestation of the Green Man..will emerge from a boat on the River Thames. b. A supernatural being connected with nature and fertility, and often viewed as a personification of the woodland or forest. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > inhabiting woods or trees man in the oak1584 wood-spirit1845 green man1907 tree-people1954 1907 G. Massey Anc. Egypt I. iii. 143 The spirit in green (vegetation) remains the ‘green man’ as wood spirit in Europe. 1943 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 42 180 Chambers was naturally misled by the greenness of Bercilak into taking him for a ‘green man’, a vegetation spirit of the Mannhardt school. 1996 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 8 Feb. 9 Other backyard guardians include the Greek god Pan and the ancient pagan figure known as the ‘green man’. 2001 Folklore 112 220 The Green Man..was an invention, but a necessary one for a modern society which felt itself out of touch with nature. c. A representation of a man's face composed of, surrounded by, or sprouting foliage or branches, esp. used as an architectural ornament. Cf. foliate head n. at foliate adj. Additions.Such images have been interpreted variously as depicting the figure of sense 1a or the nature spirit of sense 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments pommela1300 crest1430 finial1448 balloon1592 brattishingc1593 knob1610 cartouche1611 ogive1611 fret1626 galace1663 acroterion1664 paternoster1728 semi-urn1742 patera1776 purfling1780 sailing course1807 vesica piscis (also piscium)1809 antefix1819 vesica1820 garland1823 stop1825 Aaron's rod1830 headwork1831 Vitruvian scroll1837 hip knob1838 stelea1840 ball-flower1840 notch-head1843 brandishing1846 buckle1848 cat's-head1848 bucrane1854 cresting1869 semi-ball1875 canephorus1880 crest-board1881 wave pattern1905 husk1934 foliate head1939 green man1939 1932 Folk-lore 43 360 There is also a couple of corbels carved with a face—in the mouth is a sprig of foliage on each side, moustache like. It is thought to be a ‘green man’.] 1939 Lady Raglan in Folklore 50 47 Seward, who has made a special study of the chapter-house at Southwell, where there is a number of ‘Green Men’, has found a great variety of foliage there. 1959 Times 7 Nov. 9 A famous pulpit..sharply and dramatically carved with angel, eagle,..and the sad heads of two Green Men with stems growing from their mouths and opening into stylized foliage. 1980 S. Heaney Preoccupations (1984) 186 The old religion kept budding out on the roofs of cathedrals all over Europe, in the shape of those roof-bosses which art historians call ‘green men’ or ‘foliate heads’, human faces growing out of and into leaves and acorns and branches. 2004 A. Derman Green Man in N.Y. City 9 The Green Man, as an architectural ornament on late 19th Century New York City buildings is not formulaic in the sense of being reproduced the same way time after time. 2. A raw recruit or inexperienced man; spec. (in fishing and whaling) a man who has not been to sea before. Cf. green hand n. at green adj. and n.1 Compounds 1d(a), and greenhorn n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people greenhead1576 unexperienced1622 green man1635 greenhorn1672 amateur1767 green1824 greeny1834 Hoosier1846 shavetail1846 Boy Scout1918 nig-nog1953 1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. Av Captaine Davis was..supplyed awayes (after some yeares of breathing) by Greene men, or those who (in that time) had forgot their experience. 1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 99 The third of the Men that go a Fishing being Green-Men, that never were at Sea before. 1699 Act 10 Will. III c. 25 §10 Every Master of any Fishing Ship going to Newfoundland..shall have in his Ship's Company every fifth Man a Green-man (that is to say) not a Seaman, or having been ever at Sea before. 1708 Royal Proclam. 26 June in London Gaz. No. 4452/2 The Masters of Fishing-Ships..do neglect to produce Certificates of their Compliments of Green Men or Fresh Men. 1786 Act 26 Geo. III c. 26 It shall and may be lawful for the Hirer or Employer of any such Green Men engaged in the said Fishery, to advance to any such Green Man, during the Time he shall be in his Service, a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham (ed. 2) III. xvi. 262 Dawson..spoke..words that made the hairs of our green men stand on end. ‘We must not suffer this,’ said Thornton..‘his ravings and humdurgeon will unman all our youngsters.’ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Green-men, the five supernumerary sea~men who had not been before in the Arctic Seas, whom vessels in the whale-fishery were obliged to bear, to get the tonnage bounty. 1890 Fourth Biennial Rep. Dept. Labor Statist. (State of Calif.) iii. i. 116 If they sent us a green man and we discharged him, we had no guarantee that another green man would not be sent in his place. Green men cause us a good deal of trouble, sometimes, to break them in. 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 100 Paddy Wester,..a notorious boarding-house keeper in Liverpool who shipped thousands of green men as A.B.'s for a consideration. 1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 67/2 He grunted in a peculiar way and muttered something about the fools in the office sending a green man to such a run as this. 2004 P. E. Pope Fish into Wine v. 173 The annual recruitment and training of green men, or ‘youngsters’, served the whole [fishing] industry..as an informal apprenticeship mechanism. 3. = man orchid n. Cf. green man orchis n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids satyrionOE bollockwort?a1300 sanicle14.. bollock?a1425 martagon1548 orchis1559 dogstones1562 hare's-ballocks1562 stone1562 bollock grass1578 dog's cods1578 dog's cullions1578 double-leaf1578 fly-orchis1578 goat's cullions1578 goat's orchis1578 priest's pintle1578 twayblade1578 bee-orchis1597 bifoil1597 bird's nest1597 bird's orchis1597 butterfly orchis1597 fenny-stones1597 gelded satyrion1597 gnat satyrion1597 humble-bee orchis1597 lady's slipper1597 sweet ballocks1597 two-blade1605 cullions1611 bee-flower1626 fly-flower1640 man orchis1670 musk orchis1670 moccasin flower1680 gnat-flower1688 faham tea1728 Ophrys1754 green man orchis1762 Arethusa1764 honey flower1771 cypripedium1775 rattlesnake plantain1778 Venus's slipper1785 Adam and Eve1789 lizard orchis179. epidendrum1791 Pogonia?1801 Vanda1801 cymbidium1815 Oncidium1822 putty-root1822 Noah's Ark1826 yellow moccasin1826 gongora1827 cattleya1828 green man1828 nervine1828 stanhopea1829 dove-flower1831 catasetum1836 Odontoglossum1836 Miltonia1837 letter plant1838 spread eagle1838 letter-leaf1839 swan-plant1841 orchid1843 disa1844 masdevallia1845 Phalaenopsis1846 faham1850 Indian crocus1850 moccasin plant1850 pleione1851 dove orchis1852 nerve root1854 Holy Ghost flower1862 basket-plant1865 lizard's tongue1866 mousetail1866 Sobralia1866 swan-neck1866 swanwort1866 Indian shoe1876 odontoglot1879 wreathewort1879 moth orchid1880 rattlesnake orchid1881 dendrobe1882 dove-plant1882 Madeira orchis1882 man orchis1882 swan-flower1884 slipper-orchid1885 slipper orchis1889 mayflower1894 scorpion orchid1897 moederkappie1910 dove orchid1918 monkey orchid1925 man orchid1927 1828 Gardener's Mag. 1 465 In April, I remove.., from their native habitation, the following interesting and peculiarly elegant species,—..Aceras anthropophora (green man), [etc.]. 1887 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 153 Four kinds of pinks grow on the dolomitic rocks, and many an orchis—among them the curious green man. 1929 E. J. Thompson Crusader's Coast i. 97 In the needle-strewn turf of the Lebanon pinewoods, orchises are blooming, the dwarf bee-orchis and the green man most abundantly. 1948 J. Brooke Military Orchid iii. iv. 133 Other orchids lurked in the copse, too— the Lady, the Green Man, the Late Spider; a gathering of notabilities. 4. Originally and chiefly British. The symbol of a walking figure illuminated in green on the traffic light at a pedestrian crossing, indicating that it is safe for pedestrians to cross with care. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > part where pedestrians can cross > symbol on lights green man1968 1968 Times 26 July 2/4 The flashing ‘green man’ appeared to give the pedestrians the impression that they had an unduly short time in which to cross. 1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 19 Sept. 5 Day and night, heavy traffic roars through the intersection of five roads as pedestrians wait for the green man before crossing. 2005 D. Daley-Clarke Lazy Eye 40 She was crossing to our side of the road, even though the green man wasn't flashing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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