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单词 hairpin
释义

hairpinn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhairpin.
1. A kind of pin used in dressing and fastening up the hair, fixing a head-dress, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > pin
bodkin1580
skewer1771
hairpin1818
barrette1901
prong pin1902
pin curler1921
kirby grip1926
bobby pin1936
grip1960
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. at Hairneedle The modern hairpin kept the hair in certain fanciful shapes.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xix. 174 Kate was dressed to the very last hair-pin.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times i. 23 Many of the latter articles found in the Swiss lakes appear..to have been hair-pins.
2. A jocular word for: a person. Also: a thin person. slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > people > person > [noun]
hadc900
lifesmaneOE
maneOE
world-maneOE
ghostOE
wyeOE
lifeOE
son of manOE
wightc1175
soulc1180
earthmanc1225
foodc1225
person?c1225
creaturec1300
bodyc1325
beera1382
poppetc1390
flippera1400
wat1399
corsec1400
mortal?a1425
deadly?c1450
hec1450
personagec1485
wretcha1500
human1509
mundane1509
member1525
worma1556
homo1561
piece of flesh1567
sconce1567
squirrel?1567
fellow creature1572
Adamite1581
bloat herringa1586
earthling1593
mother's child1594
stuff1598
a piece of flesh1600
wagtail1607
bosom1608
fragment1609
boots1623
tick1631
worthy1649
earthlies1651
snap1653
pippin1665
being1666
personal1678
personality1678
sooterkin1680
party1686
worldling1687
human being1694
water-wagtail1694
noddle1705
human subject1712
piece of work1713
somebody1724
terrestrial1726
anybody1733
individual1742
character1773
cuss1775
jig1781
thingy1787
bod1788
curse1790
his nabs1790
article1796
Earthite1814
critter1815
potato1815
personeityc1816
nibs1821
somebody1826
tellurian1828
case1832
tangata1840
prawn1845
nigger1848
nut1856
Snooks1860
mug1865
outfit1867
to deliver the goods1870
hairpin1879
baby1880
possum1894
hot tamale1895
babe1900
jobbie1902
virile1903
cup of tea1908
skin1914
pisser1918
number1919
job1927
apple1928
mush1936
face1944
jong1956
naked ape1965
oke1970
punter1975
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having
staffc1405
notomy1487
rakea1529
crag1542
scrag1542
sneakbill1546
starveling1546
slim1548
ghost1590
bald-rib1598
bare-bone1598
bow-case1599
atomy1600
sneaksbill1602
thin-gut1602
anatomya1616
sharg1623
skeleton1630
raw-bone1635
living skeleton1650
strammel1706
scarecrow1711
rickle of bones1729
shargar1754
squeeze-crab1785
rack of bones1804
thread-paper1824
bag of bones1838
dry-bones1845
skinnymalink1870
hairpin1879
slim jim1889
skinny1907
underweight1910
asthenic1925
ectomorph1940
skinny-malinky1957
matchstick1959
1879 R. Grant Little Tin Gods 8 That is the kind of a hairpin that he is!
1884 B. Nye Baled Hay 103 That's the kind of hair pin he is. He never works.
1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 214 Collins ain't that kind of a hairpin.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 168 The names [for thin people]..are merely descriptive, as..hairpin, [etc.].
3. In full hairpin bend, hairpin corner, etc. A sharp bend in a road or course likened to a hairpin in form.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > bend
jamb1567
right1735
bend1803
lacet1847
hairpin bend1906
Z-bend1958
right-hander1963
virage1963
left-hander1964
1906 Daily Chron. 15 June 6/5 The length and steepness of the rise complicated by a double-hairpin corner.
1906 Amer. Mag. 63 176/1 At hairpin turn, perhaps the worst of all, where the course doubles itself, were 500 machines and at least 10,000 people.
1912 Motor 23 Apr. (Suppl.) 2 As we dropped down the gentle ‘hairpins’ into Voreppe.
1912 G. B. Shaw Let. 9 Aug. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 33 A journey of 800 miles includes crawls up endless hairpin zigzags.
1912 G. B. Shaw Let. 17 Sept. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 148 Reversing at impossible hairpin corners.
1914 Auto-Motor Jrnl. 410/2 It is not unlike the higher part of Birdlip Hill, starting with a long and steep gradient and ending with a sharp hairpin bend just below the summit.
1923 Motor Cycle 13 Sept. 373/1 There is only one acute hair-pin bend, but there are several corners.
1923 Motor Cycle 13 Sept. 374/1 A rather tricky and loose-surfaced left-hand hairpin was the principal feature of Chinnor Hill.
1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble iii. 36 Its sudden ascents and declivities, its blind curves and hairpin bends flanked by unguarded precipices.
1971 D. O'Connor Eye of Eagle iii. 20 I..was driving up the hairpins that mark the beginning of the Simplon Pass.

Compounds

General attributive.
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1887 Viscount Bury & G. L. Hillier Cycling (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xiii. 344 In many tangent wheels very fine spokes are used, and their most delicate point is at the bend in the hub, where the double spoke is bent ‘hair-pin’ fashion.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 195 Fancy Chased Hairpin Box.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 15/2 Joined to the ninon with coarse hairpin stitch.
1917 W. Owen Let. 10 Jan. (1967) 426 Celluloid hair-pin box from Boots.
1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 104 (heading) Hairpin Work.
1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 104/1 Hairpin-work D'oyley.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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