greycoatgraycoatn.

Brit.

/ˈɡreɪkəʊt/, U.S.

/ˈɡreɪˌkoʊt/

Forms: see grey adj. and n. and coat n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., coat n.

Etymology: < grey adj. + coat n. Compare grey-coated adj.

Now chiefly historical.

1. A member of a military or police force whose uniform includes, or consists of, a grey coat; spec. (U.S.) a soldier of the Confederate army in the American Civil War (1861–5). Cf. greyback n. 2, grey n. 4d, blue coat n. 2d.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier wearing specific dress > [noun]

brigander1525

whitecoata1538

blue cap1598

green-coat1600

redcoatc1605

blue bonnet1637

greycoat1642

blackguard1745

red-jacket1828

busby-bag1868

red-clout1895

scarlet1896

khaki1899

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman

truncheon officer1708

runner1735

horny1753

nibbing-cull1775

nabbing-cull1780

police officer1784

police constable1787

policeman1788

scout1789

nabman1792

nabber1795

pig1811

Bow-street officer1812

nab1813

peeler1816

split1819

grunter1823

robin redbreast1824

bulky1828

raw (or unboiled) lobster1829

Johnny Darm1830

polis1833

crusher1835

constable1839

police1839

agent1841

johndarm1843

blue boy1844

bobby1844

bluebottle1845

copper1846

blue1848

polisman1850

blue coat1851

Johnny1851

PC1851

spot1851

Jack1854

truncheonist1854

fly1857

greycoat1857

cop1859

Cossack1859

slop1859

scuffer1860

nailerc1863

worm1864

Robert1870

reeler1879

minion of the law1882

ginger pop1887

rozzer1888

nark1890

bull1893

grasshopper1893

truncheon-bearer1896

John1898

finger1899

flatty1899

mug1903

John Dunn1904

John Hop1905

gendarme1906

Johnny Hop1908

pavement pounder1908

buttons1911

flat-foot1913

pounder1919

Hop1923

bogy1925

shamus1925

heat1928

fuzz1929

law1929

narker1932

roach1932

jonnop1938

grass1939

roller1940

Babylon1943

walloper1945

cozzer1950

Old Bill1958

cowboy1959

monaych1961

cozzpot1962

policeperson1965

woolly1965

Fed1966

wolly1970

plod1971

roz1971

Smokey Bear1974

bear1975

beast1978

woodentop1981

Five-O1983

dibble1990

Bow-street runner-

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific

Jersey blue1758

shirtman1775

Yorker1776

buckskin1783

Indian fighter1824

blue belly1827

greyback1854

Zouave1860

Zou-Zou1860

greycoat1861

grey1862

Johnny1862

Johnny Reb1862

blue1870

blue coat1885

dogface1932

1642 J. B. Speciall Newes Army at Warwicke sig. A2^v The Lord Sayes blew-Coats, together with part of Colonell Ballards gray-Coats, did good service.

1844 Hood's Mag. 2 481 I saw my father bleed beneath the pitiless muskets of the accursed grey-coats.

1857 Househ. Words 21 Feb. 78/2 The milliner signed a paper and paid certain monies to the aide-major of police, and Josephine was led away by two of the grey-coats.

1861 World (N.Y.) 29 Oct. 4/5 A few of the gray-coats got entangled with our own forces... The general..cried, ‘Who are those men?’ ‘Confederate troops, you d—d Yankees’ was the reply.

1865 J. D. Marwick High Constables iii. 130 On 12th May 1682, the twenty men of the town's guard called ‘Greycoats’ were disbanded.

1894 W. Le Queux Great War in Eng. 1897 153 Hundreds of the [Russian] grey-coats fell back.

1915 Fatherland 23 June 8/1 Just one ship sunk with lives and shell, And thousands of German graycoats—well!

1964 H. N. Monnett Action before Westport, 1864 i. iii. 31 The graycoats sighted a long column of Federal cavalry moving westward toward Lexington.

1985 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 9 Mar. There even might be a bigger platoon of Canadian greycoats in Geneva.

2010 R. Wright in H. D. Winkler Stealing Secrets viii. 135 In 1864, a thirty-three-year-old Union general and a twenty-something young woman would make an irascible Confederate general hightail it out of a city long held by the graycoats.

2. British. A person distinguished by wearing a grey woollen coat; spec. (a) a yeoman in the former county of Cumberland (now part of Cumbria); (b) a clothier in Kent. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > yeoman

yeomana1387

goodman1389

estatesman1810

greycoat1866

1697 Hodge's Vision for Monument in Poems on Affairs of State 112 We'll part..The spruce brib'd monsieurs from the true grey coats.

1751 Universal Mag. Aug. 83/2 The..descendants of these clothiers, commonly called, the grey coats of Kent, still carry a great sway in all public elections.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 223/2 They..wore kelt cloth, which was of a grey colour..and hence the name of grey-coats which the Cumbrians received.

1866 Reader 20 Oct. 874 Many of the Cumberland yeomen still wear a plain home-spun grey cloth, hence their name of grey cootes.

1901 Northern Counties Mag. May 101 The old ‘Cumberland Grey Coats’, with breeches made from their own wool.

1984 N. Landau Justices of Peace, 1679–1760 iv. ix. 285 The ideal—the chairman acting at the behest of the greycoats of Kent.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and appositive.

ΚΠ

?c1679 T. Jordan Prodigals Resol. (single sheet) To Free-school, Cambridge, and Grays-Inn, my Grey-coat Grandsir put him.

1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iv. 157 Frequently there Loiters, a grey-coat pensioner.

a1849 H. Coleridge Poems (1851) II. 191 He whom they miss, he was not of this land, No grey-coat shepherd of the hill or plain.

1915 H. D. Rawnsley European War 85 Still down the road from wood and ridge Poured on the grey-coat Hun.

1974 A. Ehrlich Wounded Knee i. 8 Since he could not find any Graycoat soldiers, he began looking around for Indians to fight.

2000 P. T. Tucker Burnside's Bridge i. 3 Numbers of graycoat soldiers dropped out of the ranks and went home.

C2. British. Usually with capital initial(s). Designating any of a number of English schools founded as a charity and whose pupils wear a grey uniform; of, belonging to, or relating to such a school. Cf. blue coat n. Compounds 1b, green-coat n. Compounds.Perhaps the best known such school was the Grey Coat Hospital in Westminster, London, founded in 1698 and surviving as a Church of England comprehensive school for girls.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school

writing schoola1475

rectory1536

spelling school1704

greycoat1706

rural school1734

Charter School1763

home school1770

Philanthropine1797

British school1819

side school1826

prep school1829

trade school1829

Progymnasium1833

finishing-school1836

field schoola1840

field school1846

prairie school1851

graded school1852

model school1854

Philanthropinum1856

stagiary school1861

grade school1869

middle school1870

language school1878

correspondence school1889

day continuation school1889

prep1891

Sunday school1901

farm school1903

weekend school1907

Charter School1912

folk high school1914

pre-kindergarten1922

Rabfak1924

cram-shop1926

free school1926

crammer1931

composite school1943

outward-bound1943

blackboard jungle1954

pathshala1956

Vo-Tech1956

St. Trinian's1958

juku1962

cadre school1966

telecentre1967

academy2000

academy school2000

1706 W. Nicolson London Diaries 13 Jan. (1985) 351 I preached..at the Anniversary Collections for the poor Children of the Gray-Coat Hospital.

1719 J. Torr Hildyard's Antiq. York 143 On St. Simon and St. Jude's day following, the Charity School for 20 Grey Coat Girls was begun..by Subscriptions as the Boys.

1757 London Chron. 27 Dec. 623/1 Mr. Adams, Teacher of the Mathematicks in the Greycoat School in Tothil Fields, Westminster.

1831 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Eng. I. 343/1 The Grey-coat school [in Canterbury] is supported by the Dean and Chapter.

1907 W. M. Webb Heritage of Dress xvii. 168 We find that certain schools are called grey-coat or green-coat schools.

1922 F. Watson Encycl. & Dict. Educ. IV. 1778/2 The Grey Coat Governors succeeded in restricting free places..to children of the elementary schools of the district.

1980 S. Fletcher Feminists & Bureaucrats iv. 77 The struggle to reorganise the Greycoat Hospital shows what the Commissioners were up against.

2009 J. Diski Sixties iv. 75 I had a grey cape that was really part of the uniform of the Greycoat School which I'd bought in a jumble sale.

C3.

† greycoat parson n. Obsolete a layman who acquired the right to receive the tithes usually due to a vicar or rector; cf. grey-coated parson n. at grey-coated adj. Compounds, grey parson n. at grey adj. and n. Compounds 1c(a).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe > collector of > specific

grey parson1784

grey-coated parson1791

greycoat parson1796

tutty men1893

1796 Crit. Rev. Apr. 375 Does he [sc. a farmer] not pay a consideration to the grey-coat parson?

1816 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 220/1 The greycoat parson..is universally found to be still more spunging and inexorable than the rector himself.

1888 J. M. Allan Lady's Four Perils xvi. 205 And 'ow can I show myself at church agin, or expeck the grey-coat parson to bow to me?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	greycoat
释义	greycoatgraycoatn. Brit. /ˈɡreɪkəʊt/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪˌkoʊt/ Forms: see grey adj. and n. and coat n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., coat n. Etymology: < grey adj. + coat n. Compare grey-coated adj. Now chiefly historical. 1. A member of a military or police force whose uniform includes, or consists of, a grey coat; spec. (U.S.) a soldier of the Confederate army in the American Civil War (1861–5). Cf. greyback n. 2, grey n. 4d, blue coat n. 2d. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier wearing specific dress > [noun] brigander1525 whitecoata1538 blue cap1598 green-coat1600 redcoatc1605 blue bonnet1637 greycoat1642 blackguard1745 red-jacket1828 busby-bag1868 red-clout1895 scarlet1896 khaki1899 society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific Jersey blue1758 shirtman1775 Yorker1776 buckskin1783 Indian fighter1824 blue belly1827 greyback1854 Zouave1860 Zou-Zou1860 greycoat1861 grey1862 Johnny1862 Johnny Reb1862 blue1870 blue coat1885 dogface1932 1642 J. B. Speciall Newes Army at Warwicke sig. A2^v The Lord Sayes blew-Coats, together with part of Colonell Ballards gray-Coats, did good service. 1844 Hood's Mag. 2 481 I saw my father bleed beneath the pitiless muskets of the accursed grey-coats. 1857 Househ. Words 21 Feb. 78/2 The milliner signed a paper and paid certain monies to the aide-major of police, and Josephine was led away by two of the grey-coats. 1861 World (N.Y.) 29 Oct. 4/5 A few of the gray-coats got entangled with our own forces... The general..cried, ‘Who are those men?’ ‘Confederate troops, you d—d Yankees’ was the reply. 1865 J. D. Marwick High Constables iii. 130 On 12th May 1682, the twenty men of the town's guard called ‘Greycoats’ were disbanded. 1894 W. Le Queux Great War in Eng. 1897 153 Hundreds of the [Russian] grey-coats fell back. 1915 Fatherland 23 June 8/1 Just one ship sunk with lives and shell, And thousands of German graycoats—well! 1964 H. N. Monnett Action before Westport, 1864 i. iii. 31 The graycoats sighted a long column of Federal cavalry moving westward toward Lexington. 1985 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 9 Mar. There even might be a bigger platoon of Canadian greycoats in Geneva. 2010 R. Wright in H. D. Winkler Stealing Secrets viii. 135 In 1864, a thirty-three-year-old Union general and a twenty-something young woman would make an irascible Confederate general hightail it out of a city long held by the graycoats. 2. British. A person distinguished by wearing a grey woollen coat; spec. (a) a yeoman in the former county of Cumberland (now part of Cumbria); (b) a clothier in Kent. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > yeoman yeomana1387 goodman1389 estatesman1810 greycoat1866 1697 Hodge's Vision for Monument in Poems on Affairs of State 112 We'll part..The spruce brib'd monsieurs from the true grey coats. 1751 Universal Mag. Aug. 83/2 The..descendants of these clothiers, commonly called, the grey coats of Kent, still carry a great sway in all public elections. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 223/2 They..wore kelt cloth, which was of a grey colour..and hence the name of grey-coats which the Cumbrians received. 1866 Reader 20 Oct. 874 Many of the Cumberland yeomen still wear a plain home-spun grey cloth, hence their name of grey cootes. 1901 Northern Counties Mag. May 101 The old ‘Cumberland Grey Coats’, with breeches made from their own wool. 1984 N. Landau Justices of Peace, 1679–1760 iv. ix. 285 The ideal—the chairman acting at the behest of the greycoats of Kent. Compounds C1. General attributive and appositive. ΚΠ ?c1679 T. Jordan Prodigals Resol. (single sheet) To Free-school, Cambridge, and Grays-Inn, my Grey-coat Grandsir put him. 1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iv. 157 Frequently there Loiters, a grey-coat pensioner. a1849 H. Coleridge Poems (1851) II. 191 He whom they miss, he was not of this land, No grey-coat shepherd of the hill or plain. 1915 H. D. Rawnsley European War 85 Still down the road from wood and ridge Poured on the grey-coat Hun. 1974 A. Ehrlich Wounded Knee i. 8 Since he could not find any Graycoat soldiers, he began looking around for Indians to fight. 2000 P. T. Tucker Burnside's Bridge i. 3 Numbers of graycoat soldiers dropped out of the ranks and went home. C2. British. Usually with capital initial(s). Designating any of a number of English schools founded as a charity and whose pupils wear a grey uniform; of, belonging to, or relating to such a school. Cf. blue coat n. Compounds 1b, green-coat n. Compounds.Perhaps the best known such school was the Grey Coat Hospital in Westminster, London, founded in 1698 and surviving as a Church of England comprehensive school for girls. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school writing schoola1475 rectory1536 spelling school1704 greycoat1706 rural school1734 Charter School1763 home school1770 Philanthropine1797 British school1819 side school1826 prep school1829 trade school1829 Progymnasium1833 finishing-school1836 field schoola1840 field school1846 prairie school1851 graded school1852 model school1854 Philanthropinum1856 stagiary school1861 grade school1869 middle school1870 language school1878 correspondence school1889 day continuation school1889 prep1891 Sunday school1901 farm school1903 weekend school1907 Charter School1912 folk high school1914 pre-kindergarten1922 Rabfak1924 cram-shop1926 free school1926 crammer1931 composite school1943 outward-bound1943 blackboard jungle1954 pathshala1956 Vo-Tech1956 St. Trinian's1958 juku1962 cadre school1966 telecentre1967 academy2000 academy school2000 1706 W. Nicolson London Diaries 13 Jan. (1985) 351 I preached..at the Anniversary Collections for the poor Children of the Gray-Coat Hospital. 1719 J. Torr Hildyard's Antiq. York 143 On St. Simon and St. Jude's day following, the Charity School for 20 Grey Coat Girls was begun..by Subscriptions as the Boys. 1757 London Chron. 27 Dec. 623/1 Mr. Adams, Teacher of the Mathematicks in the Greycoat School in Tothil Fields, Westminster. 1831 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Eng. I. 343/1 The Grey-coat school [in Canterbury] is supported by the Dean and Chapter. 1907 W. M. Webb Heritage of Dress xvii. 168 We find that certain schools are called grey-coat or green-coat schools. 1922 F. Watson Encycl. & Dict. Educ. IV. 1778/2 The Grey Coat Governors succeeded in restricting free places..to children of the elementary schools of the district. 1980 S. Fletcher Feminists & Bureaucrats iv. 77 The struggle to reorganise the Greycoat Hospital shows what the Commissioners were up against. 2009 J. Diski Sixties iv. 75 I had a grey cape that was really part of the uniform of the Greycoat School which I'd bought in a jumble sale. C3. † greycoat parson n. Obsolete a layman who acquired the right to receive the tithes usually due to a vicar or rector; cf. grey-coated parson n. at grey-coated adj. Compounds, grey parson n. at grey adj. and n. Compounds 1c(a). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe > collector of > specific grey parson1784 grey-coated parson1791 greycoat parson1796 tutty men1893 1796 Crit. Rev. Apr. 375 Does he [sc. a farmer] not pay a consideration to the grey-coat parson? 1816 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 220/1 The greycoat parson..is universally found to be still more spunging and inexorable than the rector himself. 1888 J. M. Allan Lady's Four Perils xvi. 205 And 'ow can I show myself at church agin, or expeck the grey-coat parson to bow to me? 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