单词 | hick |
释义 | hickn.1 a. An ignorant countryman; a silly fellow, booby. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > ignorant chuffc1440 lob1533 lobcocka1556 hick1565 bumpkin1570 swad1572 hob-clunch1578 hoblob1582 clubhutchen1584 gran1591 bacon1598 boor1598 hobbinol1600 homespun1600 lob-coat1604 loblolly1604 hobnail1645 bacon-slicer1653 jobson1660 hob-thrush1682 country put1688 put1688 clodhopper1699 bumpkinet1714 joskin1811 yokel1819 whopstraw1821 chaw-bacon1822 lobeline1844 farmer1864 sheepshagger1958 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > lout, oaf, booby > [noun] lubber1362 looby1377 howfing?a1513 slouch?1518 bowberta1522 knuckylbonyarda1529 lob1533 lout1548 patch1549 hoballa1556 lilburnea1556 lobcocka1556 chub1558 hick1565 lourd1579 peasant1581 clown1583 lubbard1586 lumberer1593 lump1597 blooterc1600 boobyc1600 lob-coat1604 hoy1607 bacon-brainsa1635 alcatote1638 oaf1638 kelf1665 brute1670 dowf1722 gawky1724 chuckle1731 chuckle-head1731 John Trott1753 stega1823 lummoxa1825 gawk1837 country jakea1854 guffin1862 galoot1866 stot1877 lobster1896 mutt1900 palooka1920 schlub1950 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant chuffc1440 mobarda1450 lob1533 lobcocka1556 clown1565 hick1565 bumpkin1570 swad1572 peasant1576 hob-clunch1578 hoblob1582 clubhutchen1584 bacon1598 boor1598 hobbinol1600 homespun1600 loblolly lamb1600 lob-coat1604 loblolly1604 hobnail1645 champkina1652 bacon-slicer1653 jobson1660 hob-thrush1682 country put1688 put1688 country cousin1692 clodhopper1699 hawbuck1787 Johnny Raw1803 joskin1811 yokel1819 whopstraw1821 chaw-bacon1822 lobeline1844 country jake1845 Hoosier1846 hayseed1851 Reuben1855 scissorbill1876 agricole1882 country jay1888 rube1891 jasper1896 farmer1903 stump jumper1936 woop woop1936 potato head1948 no-neck1961 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > hiccupping > a hiccup yeskeOE hicket?1543 hickock?1548 hick1565 hiccup1580 hocket1601 hick-yex1628 1565 M. Harding in J. Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 529 Be it that Hicke, Hob, and Hans, of your Sects haue impudentlie accused him. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Hick, any Person of whom any Prey can be made..; also a silly Country Fellow. 1702 R. Steele Funeral iv. 60 Richard Bumpkin! Ha! a perfect Country Hick. 1713 Acad. Compl. 204 (N.) at Hycke-scorner That not one hick spares. 1713 Acad. Compl. 204 (N.) at Hycke-scorner That can bulk any hick. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap iii. 113 So I yelled out back to an old hick of a gardener..and he comes running. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean vi. 106 I come from a small town and that makes me a hick. My opinions aren't worth much. 1925 Glasgow Herald 16 Sept. 4 In the United States the ‘Hicks’ are still for the most part tenacious of that doctrine which assigns to speculations a ‘bearish’ or depressing influence on the markets. 1927 Observer 1 May 10/2 It is..much easier to write a good play about hicks, boobs, hayseeds, highbrows,..and sentimentalists than about decent English people. 1928 World's Work Apr. 628 Broadway humorists, only a few years ago, used to make fun of Long Islanders by calling them ‘hicks’. 1929 A. Conan Doyle Maracot Deep 18 He could not make these country hicks understand. 1970 W. S. Burroughs, Jr. Speed ii. 39 The proprietor was a knobby, obliging old hick and he watched us all real close to make sure we didn't try to lift any fertilizer. 1970 J. Hansen Fadeout (1972) ii. 10 He was killed... They just stopped playing him. As though we was such hicks we didn't know there's such a thing as tapes these days. b. attributive or as adj. Like a hick, unsophisticated, provincial. colloquial (chiefly North American). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] > rude or ignorant peasant bacon-fed1598 hobnailed1599 pezantic1613 municipal1619 hobnail1624 swainish1642 bumpkinly1656 puttish1738 bumpkinish1778 hobbish1823 yokel1823 small-town1824 clodhopping1828 yokelish1886 hick1920 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xiv. 164 He graduated from a hick college in Pennsylvania. 1920 S. Lewis in Sat. Evening Post 11 Dec. 92/2 Why the plates turned over? That's hick-town stuff. 1921 H. C. Witwer Leather Pushers ix. 216 His..features wasn't bad looking in a hick way. 1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 256 Tad was sitting there hanging his head, his hick hands dangling between his knees. 1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) xii. 243 He..nodded triumphantly at his friend,..who had been trying to persuade him that science fantasy was hick. 1958 Punch 27 Aug. 283/3 Why stick with some depressing Yank writer who takes a cool six hundred pages to chronicle the twenty-four-hour doings of a single character in a hick town? 1967 Listener 17 Aug. 218/3 Telly was still rather a hick affair back in 1951. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). hickn.2 rare. (a) A hiccup. (b) A hesitation in speech. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > stammer or stammering > sound or form used in hum1469 hick1607 ha1612 hack1660 haw-haw1838 hesitation-form1933 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xiv. 70 To pronounce them with their right accents..without either hicke or hem. 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 218 Hiccup.—The orthography of this word is very unsettled; some writing as here; others, Hiccough, Hick, Hichoc, and Hicket. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Hick, the act of hiccuping. 1843 J. Crawford in Whistle-Binkie 5th Ser. 117 Mony hicks an' hums, Ye've war'd owre puirtith's antrin dauds. CompoundsΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > hiccupping > a hiccup yeskeOE hicket?1543 hickock?1548 hick1565 hiccup1580 hocket1601 hick-yex1628 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 99 Most of them had all the hickeyexe which brought with it a strong convulsion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). hickv. rare. intransitive. To hiccup. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > have respiratory spasm [verb (intransitive)] > hiccup yeskc1350 yoke1527 hiccup1580 hicket1584 hickock1598 hick1825 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Hick, to hiccup. Derivatives ˈhickingly adv. in the manner of a hiccup; with short spasmodic efforts. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adverb] > spasmodically hickingly1607 spasmodically1839 galvanically1849 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 377 He would cough and cannot but hickingly, as though he had eaten small bones. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.11565n.21607v.1607 |
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