groaningn.

/ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/

Etymology: < groan v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of groan v.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > moaning or groaning > [noun]

woningc950

groaningc1000

yomeringc1000

i-mone1297

bemoaningc1300

groanc1325

moan1599

moaning1724

granking1807

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > moan or groan

groaningc1000

groanc1325

grank1513

moan1599

moaning1724

whoo1891

c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 68 Wununga..on ðam ne ablinþ granung.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8880 Þer wes muchel waning heortne graning.

c1275 Serving Christ 28 in Old Eng. Misc. 91 Þer is gronynge and grure.

1340 Ayenb. 264 Þer is groniynge wyþ-oute ende.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. vii. 417 A culuoure hath gronynge in stede of songe.

c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Douce) 620 Ho gretes one Gaynour, with gronyng grylle.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxvii[i]. 9 Lorde, thou knowest all my desyre, & my gronynge is not hyd from the.

1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. 194 Our most secret thoughts and inward groanings are not hid from Him.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Groaning, in Heraldry, a Term used for the Cry or Noise of a Buck.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ix, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 217 I heard a groaning as of one in extreme pain.

1877 L. J. Jennings Field Paths 39 The groaning and creaking of its branches..was a distressing sound to hear.

2. A lying-in. Now only dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun]

childbeda1200

bend1297

gesinea1400

lying-inc1440

labour1472

down-lying1561

groaning1579

groaning-time1579

partion1656

crying out1692

accouchement1730

inlying1734

confinement1774

accubation1853

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 237 It would cost you a groning to take them off.]

1579 [see groaning-time n. at Compounds 1a].

1724 S. Sewall Diary 9 Jan. (1973) II. 1011 She came from a Groaning very cheerfull.

1744 Trial in Ejectment between Campbell Craig & Earl of Anglesey 5 Was you ever at a Groaning before? I never was.

1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 234 At groanings there are always a little boy and a rattle-snake's skin, the latter of which prevents numbness and the cramp.

1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Groaning, a lying-in.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

groaning-time n. (sense 2.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun]

childbeda1200

bend1297

gesinea1400

lying-inc1440

labour1472

down-lying1561

groaning1579

groaning-time1579

partion1656

crying out1692

accouchement1730

inlying1734

confinement1774

accubation1853

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 11 When her groninge time was come..she [Ariadne] dyed..in labour.

1881 I. of W. Gloss. Groanin time, the time of a woman's accouchment.

b. Esp. of food and drink provided for attendants and vistors at a lying-in.

groaning-beer n.

ΚΠ

1677 S. Sewall Diary 16 Feb. (1973) I. 36 Brewed my Wives Groaning Beer.

groaning-bread n.

ΚΠ

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Groanin-breed..is the cake provided on the occasion.

groaning-cake n.

ΚΠ

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 71 Caudle and groaning-cake were handed round.

1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms 103 Groaning-cake, [cake] given to the assisting women, after the good woman is brought to bed.

groaning-cheese n.

ΚΠ

1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker iv. 1 H Bring the groaning cheece and all requisites.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iii. 63 To taste a glass of anniseed, and a bit of the groaning cheese.

groaning-drink n.

ΚΠ

1743 Annesley Ejectm. Trial in Howell St. Trials (1813) XVII. 1153 Lord Altham said, deponent must dine with him, and come to drink some groaning-drink, for that his wife was in labour.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Groaning-drink, ale brewed in anticipation of childbirth.

groaning-malt n.

ΚΠ

1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 286 Who will buy my groanin mawt.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 45 Meg Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her share of the ‘groaning malt’.

groaning-pie n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [adjective] > for lying-in attendants

groaning-piec1626

c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 1355 Midwives travell at night & are weary w^th eating groaning pyes, & yet sleepe not.

a1668 W. Davenant News from Plimouth iv, in Wks. (1673) 23/2 No matter whose the Father, so I have work, And eate the Groaning Pie.

C2.

groaning-chair n. (see quots. 1888, 1893).

ΚΠ

1664 J. Wilson Cheats v. i. 63 Enter Boy, with a Glass, and groaning Chair.

1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 6 The Groaning Chair began to crawl, Like a huge Snail, along the Wall.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Groaning-Chair. The large chair often found by bedsides.

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Groanin-chair, the chair on which the matron is set after a child-birth to receive her gossips and friends.

† groaning-stool n. Obsolete = groaning-chair n.

ΚΠ

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V3 Let him vnderstand, I more scorne it, than to haue so foule a iakes for my groaning stoole as hys mouth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

groaningadj.

/ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/

Etymology: < groan v. + -ing suffix².

a. That groans, in senses of the verb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [adjective] > making other type of sound

groaning1398

rouping1559

babbling1578

jugging1598

chucking1734

gallowing1830

a-crow1868

clanging1871

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > moaning or groaning > [adjective]

moaninga1450

moanful1567

groaning1597

gement1656

honing1802

moany1867

moansome1873

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [adjective] > moan or groan

moaninga1450

groaning1597

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective]

complainingc1430

plainful1598

dismala1616

querulous1628

groaning1697

plaintive1697

gaunt1814

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxxv. 434 The turture comyth in spryngynge time and warnyth of nouelte of tyme wyth gronynge voyce.

1597 R. Bruce Let. Jan. in Life 172 in Serm. (1843) A taste of a groaning and broken spirit.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 15 What shall be done Sir, with the groaning Iuliet? Shee's very neere her howre.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 105 The Courser..Inur'd the groaning Axle-tree to bear.

1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 56 Groaning Staddles bend beneath their Load.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. vii. 122 Ye cut-lugged graning carles.

1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 170 The sweet groaning thunder of the organ.

1898 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 417 The cattle ploughed or turned groaning waterwheels.

Proverb.1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Gii^v A gronyng hors, and a gronyng wyfe, Neuer fayle theyr maister.

†b. groaning-board n. (see quot. 1682).

ΚΠ

1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iii. ii. vii. 138 The Planks commonly called Groaning-Boards, lately exposed, as a kind of Prodigy..were of Elm. The Aer-Vessels of this Wood, being..more ample, than in any other Timber..upon the application of the Red-hot-Iron..every Vessel became, as it were a little Wind-Pipe... A great many of these Pipes playing together, might make a kind of big or groaning noyse.

1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 257. ⁋2 There was an Organ, a Bagpipe, a Groaning-Board.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	groaning
释义	groaningn. /ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/ Etymology: < groan v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of groan v. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > moaning or groaning > [noun] woningc950 groaningc1000 yomeringc1000 i-mone1297 bemoaningc1300 groanc1325 moan1599 moaning1724 granking1807 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > moan or groan groaningc1000 groanc1325 grank1513 moan1599 moaning1724 whoo1891 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 68 Wununga..on ðam ne ablinþ granung. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8880 Þer wes muchel waning heortne graning. c1275 Serving Christ 28 in Old Eng. Misc. 91 Þer is gronynge and grure. 1340 Ayenb. 264 Þer is groniynge wyþ-oute ende. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. vii. 417 A culuoure hath gronynge in stede of songe. c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Douce) 620 Ho gretes one Gaynour, with gronyng grylle. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxvii[i]. 9 Lorde, thou knowest all my desyre, & my gronynge is not hyd from the. 1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. 194 Our most secret thoughts and inward groanings are not hid from Him. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Groaning, in Heraldry, a Term used for the Cry or Noise of a Buck. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ix, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 217 I heard a groaning as of one in extreme pain. 1877 L. J. Jennings Field Paths 39 The groaning and creaking of its branches..was a distressing sound to hear. 2. A lying-in. Now only dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] childbeda1200 bend1297 gesinea1400 lying-inc1440 labour1472 down-lying1561 groaning1579 groaning-time1579 partion1656 crying out1692 accouchement1730 inlying1734 confinement1774 accubation1853 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 237 It would cost you a groning to take them off.] 1579 [see groaning-time n. at Compounds 1a]. 1724 S. Sewall Diary 9 Jan. (1973) II. 1011 She came from a Groaning very cheerfull. 1744 Trial in Ejectment between Campbell Craig & Earl of Anglesey 5 Was you ever at a Groaning before? I never was. 1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 234 At groanings there are always a little boy and a rattle-snake's skin, the latter of which prevents numbness and the cramp. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Groaning, a lying-in. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. groaning-time n. (sense 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] childbeda1200 bend1297 gesinea1400 lying-inc1440 labour1472 down-lying1561 groaning1579 groaning-time1579 partion1656 crying out1692 accouchement1730 inlying1734 confinement1774 accubation1853 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 11 When her groninge time was come..she [Ariadne] dyed..in labour. 1881 I. of W. Gloss. Groanin time, the time of a woman's accouchment. b. Esp. of food and drink provided for attendants and vistors at a lying-in. groaning-beer n. ΚΠ 1677 S. Sewall Diary 16 Feb. (1973) I. 36 Brewed my Wives Groaning Beer. groaning-bread n. ΚΠ 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Groanin-breed..is the cake provided on the occasion. groaning-cake n. ΚΠ 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 71 Caudle and groaning-cake were handed round. 1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms 103 Groaning-cake, [cake] given to the assisting women, after the good woman is brought to bed. groaning-cheese n. ΚΠ 1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker iv. 1 H Bring the groaning cheece and all requisites. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iii. 63 To taste a glass of anniseed, and a bit of the groaning cheese. groaning-drink n. ΚΠ 1743 Annesley Ejectm. Trial in Howell St. Trials (1813) XVII. 1153 Lord Altham said, deponent must dine with him, and come to drink some groaning-drink, for that his wife was in labour. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Groaning-drink, ale brewed in anticipation of childbirth. groaning-malt n. ΚΠ 1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 286 Who will buy my groanin mawt. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 45 Meg Merrilies descended to the kitchen to secure her share of the ‘groaning malt’. groaning-pie n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [adjective] > for lying-in attendants groaning-piec1626 c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 1355 Midwives travell at night & are weary w^th eating groaning pyes, & yet sleepe not. a1668 W. Davenant News from Plimouth iv, in Wks. (1673) 23/2 No matter whose the Father, so I have work, And eate the Groaning Pie. C2. groaning-chair n. (see quots. 1888, 1893). ΚΠ 1664 J. Wilson Cheats v. i. 63 Enter Boy, with a Glass, and groaning Chair. 1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 6 The Groaning Chair began to crawl, Like a huge Snail, along the Wall. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Groaning-Chair. The large chair often found by bedsides. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Groanin-chair, the chair on which the matron is set after a child-birth to receive her gossips and friends. † groaning-stool n. Obsolete = groaning-chair n. ΚΠ 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V3 Let him vnderstand, I more scorne it, than to haue so foule a iakes for my groaning stoole as hys mouth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). groaningadj. /ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/ Etymology: < groan v. + -ing suffix². a. That groans, in senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [adjective] > making other type of sound groaning1398 rouping1559 babbling1578 jugging1598 chucking1734 gallowing1830 a-crow1868 clanging1871 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > moaning or groaning > [adjective] moaninga1450 moanful1567 groaning1597 gement1656 honing1802 moany1867 moansome1873 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [adjective] > moan or groan moaninga1450 groaning1597 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective] complainingc1430 plainful1598 dismala1616 querulous1628 groaning1697 plaintive1697 gaunt1814 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxxv. 434 The turture comyth in spryngynge time and warnyth of nouelte of tyme wyth gronynge voyce. 1597 R. Bruce Let. Jan. in Life 172 in Serm. (1843) A taste of a groaning and broken spirit. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 15 What shall be done Sir, with the groaning Iuliet? Shee's very neere her howre. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 105 The Courser..Inur'd the groaning Axle-tree to bear. View more context for this quotation 1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 56 Groaning Staddles bend beneath their Load. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. vii. 122 Ye cut-lugged graning carles. View more context for this quotation 1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 170 The sweet groaning thunder of the organ. 1898 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 417 The cattle ploughed or turned groaning waterwheels. Proverb.1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Gii^v A gronyng hors, and a gronyng wyfe, Neuer fayle theyr maister. †b. groaning-board n. (see quot. 1682). ΚΠ 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iii. ii. vii. 138 The Planks commonly called Groaning-Boards, lately exposed, as a kind of Prodigy..were of Elm. The Aer-Vessels of this Wood, being..more ample, than in any other Timber..upon the application of the Red-hot-Iron..every Vessel became, as it were a little Wind-Pipe... A great many of these Pipes playing together, might make a kind of big or groaning noyse. 1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 257. ⁋2 There was an Organ, a Bagpipe, a Groaning-Board. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.c1000adj.1398
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