Guinean.
/ˈɡɪni/, U.S. /ˈɡɪni/ I. The country, and related uses; a guinea fowl.† 2. Short for guinea fowl n., guinea hen n. Obsolete.
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a. The European name of a portion of the West Coast of Africa, extending from Sierra Leone to Benin, used attributively and in other combinations in Compounds 2. Also guinea-cock n., guinea hen n., etc.In several instances the name is used loosely for West Africa or for some far-off or unknown country.
b. A derogatory term for an immigrant of Italian or Spanish origin, or one of similar appearance. Also ginny, guinny. U.S. slang.
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1896 Dial. Notes 1 418 Guinea, an Italian.
1897 F. Moss Amer. Metropolis III. viii. 113 Boys and girls together, we would sing and waltz, While the ‘Ginnie’ played the organ on the sidewalks of New York.
1910 Sat. Evening Post 3 Sept. 18/1 Almost every Ginny..or Dutchman who lands in New York has..the address of some..cheap hotel.
1927 ‘J. Barbican’ Confessions Rum-runner iv. 54 Tell that squint-eyed guinea to throw the mud-hook overboard.
1932 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls x. 221 A bomb such as these Guineas like to chuck at people they do not like, especially Guineas from Chicago.
1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) ii. 53 Tony Murascho, who up to that time had been known only as a tough little guinny, was matched to fight a preliminary bout at McGovern's Hall.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Numididae > member of (guinea-fowl)
guinea-hen1599
Guinea1620
turkey1655
pintado1666
chequer-bird1745
tamis-bird1774
guinea fowl1788
Guinea bird1792
galeeny1796
come-back1811
tarentaal1827
tompot1891
1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 58 Ginnies; or Turkies.
1647 A. Ross Mystagogvs Poeticvs xiv. 209 Shee was called Penelope; from the gennies or turkie henns, named Meleagrides and Penelopes, for they fed her being an infant.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5 The Cock and hen, patavine, Turcick, Persick, Scottish, Indian and Ginnie.]
II. With lower-case initial. The coin so called, or its value.
3.
a. An English gold coin, not coined since 1813, first struck in 1663 with the nominal value of 20s., but from 1717 until its disappearance circulating as legal tender at the rate of 21s. double guinea: a coin equal in value to two guineas. spade guinea: a guinea of the pattern coined 1787–1800, so called from the form of the escutcheon on the reverse.In 1663 the Royal Mint was authorized to coin gold pieces of the value of 20s. ‘in the name and for the use of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading with Africa’; these pieces were to bear for distinction the figure of a little elephant, and 44½ of them were to contain 1 lb. troy of ‘our Crowne gold’. The 20s. pieces of the African company received the popular name of guineas almost as soon as they were issued, as being intended for use in the Guinea trade, and made of gold from Guinea; and the name was extended to later coins of the same intrinsic value. As silver was the sole standard till 1816, the value of the guinea was from the first subject to market fluctuations, according to the condition of the silver coin, which became so bad that the guinea rose as high as 30s. in 1695. In December 1717 it was fixed at 21s., after which it underwent no further alteration. The latest coinage of guineas took place in 1813; the sovereign, of the value of 20s., was first issued in 1817.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > guinea or twenty-one shillings
goldfinch1602
piece1631
yellow boy1654
Guinea1666
broad gold1688
meg1688
broad1710
George's guinea1721
yellow1722
canary bird1785
stranger1785
yellow George1785
Geordie1786
spade-guinea1853
George guinea1880
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > coin of two guineas
double guinea1666
1666 S. Pepys Diary 29 Oct. (1972) VII. 346 My goldsmith..tells me that Ginnys, which I bought 2000 of not long ago, and cost me but 18½d. change, will now cost me 22d, and but very few to be had at any price.
1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 19 The great little Animal was on a sudden turn'd so yellow, and grown withall so unwieldy that he might have past currant for the Elephant upon a Guinny.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1664 (1955) III. 370 Now it was the fine new Milled Coyne both of White-mony & Ginnies was established.
1686–7 in Wood Life (1848) 247 (note) I giue to my dearest child ye Lady Shuttleworth..a gilt box wth 30 gynnyes in it.
1700 A. Haig in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) xi. 336 Zerubabell got from me..a guinie, which is to be at 23 shillings starling and 6 penies.
1706 London Gaz. No. 4208/3 Lost,..a..Purse, with 3 Five-Guinea Pieces, 3 double Guineas.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §55 259 The Duke gave him twenty Guineys to hire him to kill the King.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough i. i Can you give me change for a guinea?
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xiv. 122 The great step, that of abolishing the guinea, has already been taken without any inconvenience.
b. Proverbial phr. (Cf. guinea-gold n. at Compounds 2b.)
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1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. v. 7 A Wife's like a Guinea in Gold.
4. A sum of money equal to the value of this coin. In present use, a name for the sum of £1.05 (21s).The guinea is the ordinary unit for a professional fee and for a subscription to a society or institution; the prices obtained for works of art, racehorses, and sometimes landed property, are also stated in guineas. Otherwise the word is now only occasionally used.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a guinea
Guinea1688
scrieve1821
1688 in Ellis Corr. (1829) II. 186 The Royal African Company have lately a dividend of ten guineas per cent.
1699 G. Hickes in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 283 Its prime cost will at least be a guiney.
1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) iii. iii. 32 A Turkey..which..may be bought for a Guinea, or thereabouts.
1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 49 To regard a guinea raised by cultivation as materially different in value to us from a guinea raised by any other trade.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 190 I have been looking at this famous antique marble dog..valued at a thousand guineas.
1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 47 A..shawl..for five guineas.
1883 Whitaker's Almanack 362 Winners of Races 1863–82. Derby, Oaks, St. Leger, 2,000 Guineas, 1,000 Guineas.
1884 H. Smart From Post to Finish vii It's a guinea to a gooseberry on Sam.
1885 Act 48 Vict. c. 16 §16 Such substitutes..shall be paid at the rate of seven guineas per day.
5. quasi-adj. Priced at or amounting to a guinea.
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1742 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) I. 188 Twice a-week there are to be [in Ranelagh-gardens] ridottos, at guinea tickets, for which you are to have a supper and music.
1801 C. Lamb in C. K. Paul William Godwin (1876) II. 87 Leave him to take guinea-and-a-half lodgings with mama in Leghorn.
1897 Daily News 15 June 8/5 Most of the business has been in the guinea and two guinea seats.
Compounds
C1. (In sense I.)
a.
Guinea aloe n.
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1759 tr. M. Adanson Voy. Senegal 201 The Guinea aloe, of which the negroes..make very good ropes.
Guinea amomum n.
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1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Large-seeded Guinea amomum, the Amomum macrospermum.
Guinea cloth n.
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1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson Guinea cloths, Guinea stuffs. Apparently these were piece-goods bought in India to be used in the West African trade.
Guinea drill n.
Guinea hairworm n.
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1857 E. Lankester tr. G. F. Küchenmeister On Animal & Veg. Parasites Human Body I. 398 By the English, [it is known as] the Guinea hair-worm.
Guinea pea n.
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1589 W. Wren in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 148 Certaine peason like Guinie peason.
Guinea stuff n.
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1813 W. Milburn Oriental Commerce I. 289 Guinea stuffs, 4½ yards each [per ton] 1200 [pieces].
b. † Guinea duck n. Obsolete the Muscovy duck. † Guinea peacock n. Obsolete† Guinea piece n. Obsolete (see quot.). † Guinea wheat n. (also with small g) Obsolete an old name of Indian corn.† Guinea wood n. Obsolete = red-wood adj.1
Guinea bird n. (a) a guinea hen or guinea fowl (also figurative); (b) jocularly a native African.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > [noun]
AfricaneOE
Afera1398
Kaffir1588
Guinea bird1637
Afrocentrist1961
Afrikan1972
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Numididae > member of (guinea-fowl)
guinea-hen1599
Guinea1620
turkey1655
pintado1666
chequer-bird1745
tamis-bird1774
guinea fowl1788
Guinea bird1792
galeeny1796
come-back1811
tarentaal1827
tompot1891
1637 J. Pocklington Altare Christianum 52 It is a world to see, what pert Gynny Birds their Gossips are.
1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 60 The turkey, the African Guinea bird, and the quail, are found here.
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 263 ‘Ki’, retorted my Guinea bird.
Guinea corn n. (also with small g) durra n. or Indian millet, Sorghum vulgare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > millet > Indian millet > Indian millet plant or panicle
millc1450
millet1548
Saracen's corn1585
sorghum1597
Guinea corn1697
whisk1757
broom-straw1785
kaffir corn1785
jowari1800
jowar1801
chicken corna1817
broom corn1819
mabela1824
cholum1858
Texas millet1858
dura1882
pearl millet1887
kaoliang1904
proso1907
milo1920
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 48 The Indians are Husband-men, and plant Maiz and Guinea Corn.
1759 tr. M. Adanson Voy. Senegal 69 At that time they [sc. the fields] were covered with a large kind of millet, called guiar-natt, or Guinea corn.
1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 84 They cultivate for bread..two varieties of that species of Panicum vulgarly called guinea corn.
1834 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 343 The guinea-corn grows near fifteen feet high.
Guinea cubebs n. Piper Afzelii (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886).
Guinea current n. (see quot.).
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1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. iv. 86 The Guinea Current is a stream current, running to the Eastward, along that part of the African coast, comprised chiefly between Cape Roxo and the Bight of Biafra; extending Southward to the 3rd and 2nd parallels of North latitude.
Guinea deer n. the chevrotain n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > family Tragulidae (chevrotain)
musk-goat1601
musk deer1673
pelandok1701
hog deer1711
Guinea deer1752
chevrotain1774
mouse deer1778
kanchil1822
napoh1822
tragule1859
water chevrotain1866
traguline1872
deerlet1878
tragulid1889
traguloid1891
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia sig. Aiv The dumb Ginnie Drills.
1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) xxiii. 439 This Relation of Tulpius shews this Creature to have been a kind of Ginney Drill..which this Michaelmas Terme, 1652. I saw neare Charing Crosse..; which Drill is since dead, and I beleeve dissected.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 579 The Guinea-deer.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 240 The Chevrotain, or Guinea deer.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > cairina moschata (muscovy duck)
Guinea duck1602
Muscovy duck1657
musk duck1734
muggent1785
muff-coated duck1847
Muscovy1953
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 24v Of tame Birds, Cornwall hath Doues, Geese,..Ginney duckes.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 299/2 The Guinny Duck..is by some Authors called a Cairo-Duck; of others a Muscovy-Duck.
Guinea goose n. the Chinese goose or swan-goose, Anser (or Cygnopsis) cygnoides.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Anser > anser cygnoides (swan-goose)
China-goose1602
swan-goose1678
Guinea goose1879
1879 Newton in Encycl. Brit. X. 778/2 The largest living Goose is that called the Chinese, Guinea, or Swan-Goose, Cygnopsis cygnoides.
Guinea grains n. the aromatic, pungent seeds of the plant Amomum Meleguetta of West Africa; = grains of Paradise at grain n.1 4a.
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1713 Eng. Merchant 18–22 Sept. sig. B Foreign Goods... Elephants Teeth. Figs. Guinea Grains.
1855 J. Pereira Elem. Materia Medica (ed. 4) II. i. lxxiii. 248 Guinea grains from Acra.—These are somewhat larger, plumper, and more warty than the ordinary sort.
1904 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 3 374 The tooth is plugged with a pounded mixture of the root of the lime tree and Guinea grains.
2005 J. Seidemann World Spice Plants 10 Guinea grains, alligator pepper, grains of paradise, melegueta pepper.
Guinea grass n. (also with small g) a tall-growing fodder-grass of tropical Africa, Panicum maximum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture
windlestrawc1000
red grass1582
spring grass1643
sweet-grass1709
herd-grass1747
Guinea grass1756
vernal grass1762
vernal1771
Paspalum1772
buffalo grass1784
Rhode Island bent1790
red-top1792
finetop1824
kangaroo-grass1827
gamagrass1831
sweet vernal grass1839
yellow-top1839
grama1844
sesame grass1845
sacate1848
Para grass1850
Hungarian1859
alfilaria1860
sacaton1865
Mitchell grass1867
teosinte1877
Landsborough grass1883
turnip-grass1889
brown top1891
ichu1891
manna1897
Rhodes grass1903
Sudan1911
Kikuyu grass1913
never-fail1923
buffel grass1955
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 366 Guinea Grass..is frequently cultivated in Jamaica, to supply their stabled and working cattle with food.
1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. II. 9 (note) The accidental introduction of the Guinea-grass into Jamaica in 1744.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xx. 356 The faces of them [sc. hills] being covered with Guinea grass pieces.
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 262 Mixed with this vegetation in large quantities was Guinea-grass.
Guinea green n. same as acid-green, a bright greenish yellow ( Cent. Dict.).
Guinea hog n. the river-pig of Guinea, Potamochœrus pictus (by Marcgraf 1648 called Porcus guineensis).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Potamochoerus (African bush-pig)
wood-swine1785
Guinea hog1788
river hog1803
bosch-vark1834
bush-pig1840
bush-hog1854
red river hog1868
1788 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) (at cited word) Of this genus are the common hog, the Guinea hog or Porcus Guineensis, the Mexican musk hog or Tajacu, the hydrochæris or Capybara, and the Babyroussa.
Guinea merchant n. one who trades with Guinea; hence, a slave-dealer.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in slaves
knave-seller1552
mango1602
Guinea merchant1719
slave-merchant1746
Guinea-man1756
Guinea trader1756
soul driver1774
Negro-dealer1799
slave-trader1813
nigger jockey1838
Negro-hunter1839
slaver1842
fleshmonger1845
man-dealer1860
blackbirder1876
1719 in T. Gordon Cordial Low-spirits (1750) 214 You may as well argue with a Guiney Merchant against the Selling of Slaves.
Guinea Negro n. now historical = Guinea-man n. 3; also elliptical.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of West Africa > [noun] > countries or regions
Guinean1589
Kongo1600
Gambian1744
Guinea Negro1748
Congoese1765
Sierra Leonean1791
Congolese1800
Liberian1826
Guinea-man1830
Nigerian1860
Lagosian1897
Basenji1906
Ghanaian1949
assimilado1953
Mali1960
Malian1960
Katangese1962
Biafran1967
Zairean1972
Ivorian1973
Zairois1973
Zairese1974
Upper Voltan1975
Voltaic1976
1748 in Amer. Speech (1952) 27 283 Run-Away, a likely well-made Guiney Negro Man, named Toney.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. xi. 153 One of them Guineas, down in the kitchen there.
1856 P. Cartwright Autobiogr. 192 (De Vere) If he don't get his soul converted God will damn him as quick as he would a Guinea Negro.
1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. 21 'Tain't quite hendy to pass off one o' your six-foot Guineas.
1912 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 484 One of a higher race often felt that a Guinea negro was fit only to serve him.
Guinea nigger n. now historical and offensive = Guinea-man n. 3.
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1789 S. Low Politician Outwitted iii. i He talks as crooked as a Guinea niger.
1896 J. G. Williams Ole Plantation Pref. I remember hearing the old plantation negroes before the war speak of one as a ‘Gullah nigger’ and another as a ‘Guinea nigger’.
1912 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 484 The ‘Guinea nigger’ was looked down on by members of superior tribes.
Guinea palm n. (also Guinea oil palm) Elais guineensis (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886).
Guinea peach n. a strong climbing shrub of western tropical Africa, Sarcocephalus esculentus (family Rubiaceæ), yielding a fruit resembling a peach.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > African fruit-plants
mammee apple1683
num-num1770
guarri1789
pigeon plum1826
gingerbread tree1829
Guinea peach1829
kaffir orange1852
marula1857
kei-apple1859
Natal plum1859
klapper1863
Sierra Leone peach1866
velvet tamarind1866
Dingaan's apricot1868
wild orange1932
1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants Guinea peach.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 854/2 Peach, Guinea, Sarcocephalus esculentus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > paro cristatus (peafowl) > types of
Guinea peacock1698
japanned peafowl1814
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 33 The Guinee Peacock, which others call the Imperial, or the Lady, is black, and almost of the bigness of a Turkey.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > calico > measure of
Guinea piece1804
1804 Ann. Rev. 2 29/1 The Moors are paid for their gum in pieces of calico dyed blue, called guinea-pieces; they are seven or eight ells long, and half an ell wide... The Moors instantly ascertain whether a guinea-piece is fabricated in France or India, by the smell.
Guinea plum n. the plum-like fruit of a large West African tree, Parinarium excelsum (Loudon 1829).
Guinea pods n. the fruit of Capsicum frutescens (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886).
Guinea ship n. (a) a ship trading to Guinea, a slave-ship; (b) a sailor's name for a floating medusa, Physalia pelagica (Cassell).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > involved in slave trade
Guinea-man1695
slave-ship1796
slave-ship1796
slaver1830
Guinea ship1855
slave-trader1874
blackbirder1880
picaroon1896
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > physalia pelagica
ship of Guinea1579
Guinea ship1855
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. vii. 161 They were crowded together like slaves in a Guinea ship.
Guinea sorrel n. Hibiscus sabdariffa (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886).
Guinea trader n. = Guinea merchant n.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in slaves
knave-seller1552
mango1602
Guinea merchant1719
slave-merchant1746
Guinea-man1756
Guinea trader1756
soul driver1774
Negro-dealer1799
slave-trader1813
nigger jockey1838
Negro-hunter1839
slaver1842
fleshmonger1845
man-dealer1860
blackbirder1876
1756 Spence Anecd. (1858) 281 Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. ‘Nephew, (said Sir Godfrey,) you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world’. ‘I don't know how great you may be, (said the Guinea-man), but I don't like your looks: I have often bought a man, much better than both of you together, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas’.
Guinea weed n. Petiveria alliacea ( Treasury Bot. 1866).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > maize > maize plants
maizea1544
Indian wheat1578
Guinea wheat1598
corn1608
sweet corn1646
Virginia wheat1651
soft corn1751
zea1760
popcorn1838
pod corn1884
pod maize1904
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Brena, a kind of ginnie or turkie wheate.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. ix. 112 He beareth Azure, three Eares of Ginny Wheate, Couped and Bladed Or.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 56/2 Ginny Wheat..is also termed Indian, or Turky Wheat.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > woods of specific colour or dye-woods
red sandalwood?c1510
redwooda1533
whitewood1562
red sanderswood1598
sapan wood1598
peach woodc1638
Campeachy wood1652
coral-wood1693
Nicaragua wood1696
cam-wood1699
Guinea wood1722
Nicaragua1756
barwood1788
ruby wood1843
sap pan1874
1722 Act in London Gaz. No. 6040/7 Red Wood or Guinea Wood the Hundred Weight,..one Pound ten Shillings.
C2. (In sense II.)
a. General attributive.
(a)
guinea-stamp n.
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1795 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 762 The rank is but the guinea's stamp [1800 guinea stamp], The Man's the gowd for a' that.
(b)
guinea-fed adj.
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1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 175 (note) Inconvenient to a guinea-fed juryman to attend oftener than the Act requires!
b.
guinea-boat n. (see quot.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > smuggling
runner1719
smuggler1799
free-trader1815
guinea-boat1867
smug-boat1867
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > other types of rowing boat
coblec950
row barge1466
bark1477
rowing barge1548
galley1570
caïque1625
catur1653
dory1726
skiff1793
dinghy1810
panga1811
dinghy1818
randan1838
dragon boat1846
guinea-boat1867
drive boat1879
pea pod1884
in-rigger1893
pointer1901
sandolo1928
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Guinea-boat, a fast-rowing galley, of former times, expressly built for smuggling gold across the Channel, in use at Deal.
guinea-corps n. (see quot. 1821 at Guinea trade n. 2).
guinea-dropper n. one who cheats by dropping counterfeit guineas.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster > types of
ring-chopper1575
ring-faller1575
guinea-dropper1710
gambler1735
money-dropper1737
ring-dropper?1780
pigeon dropper1858
bunco-steerer1875
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 209 'Tis astonishing that a young gentleman, bred five or six years in our own universities, shou'd, at his first coming to London, be drawn in by guinea-droppers.
1716 J. Gay Trivia iii. 69 Who now the Guinea-Dropper's Bait regards, Trick'd by the Sharper's Dice or Juggler's Cards?
guinea-edge n. (see quot.).
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools
plough1580
fillet1641
roll1656
paper-folder1781
stamp1811
backing-hammer1818
bookstamp1819
lettering tool1833
book cutter1850
roller1852
hand letter1862
pallet1875
wagon1875
stop1880
jigger1883
gouge1885
guinea-edge1890
marbler1890
panel stamp1893
saddle stitcher1944
1890 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding (ed. 2) 176 Guinea-edge, a roll with a pattern similar to the edge of an old guinea.
guinea-gold n. †(a) collective guineas; (b) gold of which guineas were coined, gold of 22 carats; (c) adj. of the colour of a gold guinea.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > guinea or twenty-one shillings > guineas collectively
yellow boy1654
guinea-gold1671
the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow
gildenOE
goldena1382
goldya1398
dory1398
goldc1400
goldisha1425
sunlyc1425
goldlya1450
aureatec1450
gildedc1450
giltenc1450
scorn-golda1586
Pactolian1586
aureal1587
gold colour1648
gold-coloured1674
spun gold1728
aurulent1731
aurelian1791
deaurated1818
Tuscan1830
corn-coloured1854
old gold1877
buttercup yellow1880
aureoline1881
sun gold1887
Tuscan-coloured1905
guinea-gold1938
spun-golden1978
1671 London Gaz. No. 599/4 On Wednesday the second of August, there went away from his Masters house..a young man by name John Kirke..with a considerable summ in Guiny-Gold.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xi. 110 The river shone in the late sunlight, Guinea-gold, like the bright flowers.
1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xiii. 220 They [sc. cobras] must just have sloughed their old skins, for they shone as if fresh minted. Often they are brown or yellow, sometimes a guinea-gold or this handsome red-gold.
guinea-table n. ? a gaming-table, where the stake is a guinea.
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1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude II. xxvi. 57 She will go to the guinea-table..rather than not play.
guinea-wedge n. ?
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1753 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 251 He has given me some very pretty guinea wedges.
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