gushern.

Brit.

/ˈɡʌʃə/, U.S.

/ˈɡəʃər/

Etymology: < gush v. + -er suffix¹.

One who or that which gushes.

1. One who is over-effusive or sentimental in the expression of opinion or feeling.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > outward exhibition > one who

gusher1864

breast-beater1885

1864 E. Yates Broken to Harness vi The enthusiastic gusher who flings his or herself upon our necks, and insists upon sharing our sorrow.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. viii. 234 ‘That is too lovely’, urged the gusher.

1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 May 292/1 You are no impulsive gusher.

2. Originally U.S. A gas-well or oil-well from which the material flows profusely without pumping. Also figurative and transferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well

well1652

spouting well1776

petroleum well1801

rock well1830

oil well1859

spouter1865

gusher1876

test well1877

wild cat1877

wildcat well1883

roarera1885

oiler1890

discovery1900

edge well1904

wild well1915

offset well1922

stripper1930

offset1933

production well1934

outstep1947

step-out well1948

1876 Warren (Pa.) Ledger 20 Apr. The Roy oil well is doing now fully eighteen barrels per day, and a steady gusher, and not a pumper, as the Titusville Courier has it.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Oct. 6/1 Tagieff's ‘gusher’ beats out and out every previous record in the oil regions of the two hemispheres.

1892 Harper's Mag. May 906/2 In South Dakota..there are already more than 50 high-pressure wells or ‘gushers’ as they call them there.

1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 July 608/2 Mr. Thomas Wolfe's novel..might be called a ‘gusher’; for Mr. Wolfe's words come spouting up with all the force of a subterranean flood..breaking through the overlying strata of repression.

1934 D. Thomas 18 Poems 30 Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky Spout to the rod.

1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxiv. 214 He dreamt of artesian bores. Out in the ‘dry belt’ a few both private and government ‘gushers’ had now been struck.

1959 C. Ogburn Marauders (1960) vii. 223 A PFC..awakened at first light by a gusher from a mule towering above him from which he was protected by the fortuitous interposition of a log.

1970 Times (Canada Suppl.) p. iv/3 Only a few weeks ago Imperial Oil of Canada said cautiously they had found a gusher with considerable promise, the first oil strike in the Canadian North-West Territories.

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

单词	gusher
释义	gushern. Brit. /ˈɡʌʃə/, U.S. /ˈɡəʃər/ Etymology: < gush v. + -er suffix¹. One who or that which gushes. 1. One who is over-effusive or sentimental in the expression of opinion or feeling. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > outward exhibition > one who gusher1864 breast-beater1885 1864 E. Yates Broken to Harness vi The enthusiastic gusher who flings his or herself upon our necks, and insists upon sharing our sorrow. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. viii. 234 ‘That is too lovely’, urged the gusher. 1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 May 292/1 You are no impulsive gusher. 2. Originally U.S. A gas-well or oil-well from which the material flows profusely without pumping. Also figurative and transferred. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well well1652 spouting well1776 petroleum well1801 rock well1830 oil well1859 spouter1865 gusher1876 test well1877 wild cat1877 wildcat well1883 roarera1885 oiler1890 discovery1900 edge well1904 wild well1915 offset well1922 stripper1930 offset1933 production well1934 outstep1947 step-out well1948 1876 Warren (Pa.) Ledger 20 Apr. The Roy oil well is doing now fully eighteen barrels per day, and a steady gusher, and not a pumper, as the Titusville Courier has it. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Oct. 6/1 Tagieff's ‘gusher’ beats out and out every previous record in the oil regions of the two hemispheres. 1892 Harper's Mag. May 906/2 In South Dakota..there are already more than 50 high-pressure wells or ‘gushers’ as they call them there. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 July 608/2 Mr. Thomas Wolfe's novel..might be called a ‘gusher’; for Mr. Wolfe's words come spouting up with all the force of a subterranean flood..breaking through the overlying strata of repression. 1934 D. Thomas 18 Poems 30 Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky Spout to the rod. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxiv. 214 He dreamt of artesian bores. Out in the ‘dry belt’ a few both private and government ‘gushers’ had now been struck. 1959 C. Ogburn Marauders (1960) vii. 223 A PFC..awakened at first light by a gusher from a mule towering above him from which he was protected by the fortuitous interposition of a log. 1970 Times (Canada Suppl.) p. iv/3 Only a few weeks ago Imperial Oil of Canada said cautiously they had found a gusher with considerable promise, the first oil strike in the Canadian North-West Territories. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864
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