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单词 happing
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happingn.1

Brit. /ˈhapɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhæpɪŋ/
Forms: see hap v.2 and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hap v.2, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < hap v.2 + -ing suffix1.
1. Something that covers a person, as a wrap, shawl, coat, etc., or a coverlet or bed-covering. Also: a rug. Occasionally figurative (see quot. ?c1400). Now chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > outer cover
coverture?c1225
chalon1301
coverlet1382
coverlida1400
quiltpointc1400
pane1405
counterpointa1475
liggera1483
happing1503
counterpane1626
palampore1676
spread1750
duvet1759
mata1894
suggan1907
eiderdown1950
?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) Or. Ab. 20 (MED) Þou nackend hym to þe necke, þat is, þou reft hym alle þe happyng þat he had of þi chosen menne.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 257 (MED) Hendely hille on me happing.
1503 in N. H. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta (1826) 454 Stuffe of bedding..a quilt happing..a square happing, white and black... A chike happing.
1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. ii. 375 Manie haue accustomed to lay of a rammes skinne aloft, & to charge the head with manie happings.
1629 J. Gaule Distractions 134 How fraile a Carkasse..is shrouded under so gorgeous Happings.
1674 S. Fell Househ. Acct. Bk. 20 Feb. (1920) 45 Pd him more, for workeing a happin Mothers acct.
1746 M. A. Cathcart Lett. to Sir John Houstoune 4 July 2 I was once wet through all my Hoods and Happings.
1826 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 303/1 She insisted on my pitting on a better happing to screen me from the cauld.
1893 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 23/2 Her head smothered in the bed-happings.
1908 W. S. Sparrow Eng. House 181 In the sixteenth century ox-houses in Yorkshire still contained beds, blankets, sheets, mattresses, pillows, bolsters, and happings, or coarse coverlets.
1957 W. Mayne Grass Rope xiii. 120 ‘Where were you when you blew the horn?’ ‘In bed... Under the happings.’
2. The action of hap v.2; covering up or over. Obsolete. rare.
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 515 Wappynge, happynge, or hyllynge, coopertura, coopericio.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

happingn.2

Forms: Middle English happynge.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hap v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < hap v.1 + -ing suffix1.
Obsolete. rare.
Good fortune, success.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun]
speedc725
speedinga1300
exploitc1300
happingc1440
succeedingc1450
proof1574
successa1586
joy1945
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 3958 (MED) Here es þe hope of my hele, my happynge of armes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

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happing
happing adj. Obsolete that occurs by chance, fortuitous; occasional.
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1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ (P.R.O.: SP 12/289) i. pr. vi. f. 22v Thinkes thou that this world is wheeled by rash & happing chaunce [L. fortuitisque casibus]?
a1625 (a1598) A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Harl.) in Poems (1910) 171 With..happing hairs blowin withershines Aback.
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