homeworkn.

Brit.

/ˈhəʊmwəːk/, U.S.

/ˈhoʊmˌwərk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home n.¹, work n.

Etymology: < home n.¹ + work n.

1. Work done at home, esp. as distinguished from work done in a factory.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > work done at home

homework1653

1653 E. Chillenden Nathans Parable To Rdr. sig. A3^v This heart-work, this home-work is the business that I have wanted, and I have more wandered abroad, then kept at home.

1669 J. Flavell Husb. Spiritualized Proem 9 The keepers of the vineyard have a private vineyard of their own to look after, they have much home-work when no out-work.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. viii. 85 Bonsall and Kane took the entire home-work on themselves today.

1861 G. Moore Lost Tribes xviii. 364 One [apartment] more open and larger is reserved for visitors, or..is used for spinning or other home-work.

1901 Act 1 Edw. VII c. 22 §110 Prohibition of home work in places where there is infectious disease.

1908 Franco-Brit. Exhib., Women's Section 64 Frame of Quilting and Embroidery, lent by Home Work Co-operative Society.

1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Dec. 882/1 The particularly mean swindlers who prey on the unemployed, either by ‘homework’ or by salaried jobs..are duly pilloried.

1996 TNT Mag. 8 July 162/3 (advt.) The Huge Homeworking Directory lists 516+ genuine firms offering real, paid homework.

2. Schoolwork assigned to a pupil to be done outside lesson time (typically at home). In extended use: an assignment or exercise to be completed in one's own time. Cf. classwork n. at class n. and adj. Compounds 1c, preparation n. 11.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > exercises or homework

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renderc1380

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1852 Eng. Jrnl. Educ. 10 482 An important feature in these schools is the home-work, by which is cultivated habits of independent study and industry.

1889 A. E. Fletcher Sonnenschein's Cycl. Educ. (ed. 2) 155/1 Written home-work.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 5/2 I think it is a wrong principle altogether to help a child with his homework.

1937 Manch. Guardian 19 July 11/6 He would ask Mr. Ashby to take the problem home as ‘a bit of homework’ and try to find a solution.

1970 C. Lacey Hightown Gram. viii. 168 I've just caught two boys in the quad, copying homework.

1986 M. A. Katzman et al. in D. Howard Dynamics of Feminist Therapy ii. 156 For homework clients are asked to write down what they like about their appearance, what others like about it, and what their ‘attractive behaviors’ are.

2006 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 July 12/1 Where the freak-a-leak is my Spanish homework?

3. U.S. slang. Sexual activity, esp. with one's partner; sexual intercourse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

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moneOE

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Venus act?1507

Venus exercise?1507

Venus play?1507

Venus work?1507

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occupying?1544

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shaking of the sheets?1577

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other1922

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pigmeat1926

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whoopee1928

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hump1931

jig-a-jig1932

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nasty1934

jig-jig1935

crumpet1936

pussy1937

Sir Berkeley1937

pom-pom1945

poon1947

charvering1954

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leg1967

rumpy-pumpy1968

shafting1971

home plate1972

pata-pata1977

bonking1985

legover1985

knobbing1986

rumpo1986

fanny1993

the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > sexual caressing

love playc1390

touching1489

yum-yum1885

petting1920

homework1933

1933 J. T. Farrell Gas-house McGinty vi. 186 My wife and I want a kid, and we do plenty homework, but..I just can't connect.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §847/3 ‘Petting’, ‘Necking’..homework.

1971 Black Scholar Nov. 7 You got to keep up your homework... If you don't, somebody else'll be doing it for you.

1974 M. Lefevre in S. Terkel Working p. xxxvi I'll read [pornography] at work and go home and do my homework. (Laughs.) That what the guys at the plant call it—homework.

Phrases

P1. to do one's homework: to prepare thoroughly for an event or situation; to brief oneself in preparation for a meeting or discussion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > make preparations or arrangements

purveyc1300

providec1425

ordain1487

disponea1500

devisec1500

to take (an) order1545

dress1596

pipe lay1844

to do one's homework1915

legislate1925

1915 N.Y. Tribune 28 Aug. 11 The Phillies have done their home work well, but it is the Braves who have again become most prominently mentioned as the final winners.

1927 N.Y. Times 29 Nov. 30/3 One who had come without doing his homework in advance might have thought that the whole thing was a plot to drive newspaper composing rooms crazy.

1959 Listener 6 Aug. 200/2 The Soviet reporter had been ‘doing his homework’ to some effect.

1966 M. Catto Bird on Wing ii. 36 I have taken the trouble to do my homework on him. I know more about him than he thinks!

2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Feb. 38/2 Wescott has done his homework and refers knowledgeably to the whole vocabulary of falconry.

P2. the dog ate my homework and variants: (the type of) an unconvincing or far-fetched excuse for failing to hand in school homework, or (by extension) for any failure to do or produce what was expected. Frequently attributive.

ΚΠ

1929 Manch. Guardian 31 July 7/6 It is a long time since I have had the excuse about the dog tearing up the arithmetic homework.

1968 D. Schwab in R. Wisniewski New Teachers in Urban Schools iv. 127 Any teacher gullible enough to fall for the inevitable story, ‘my little sister ate my homework’, without demanding a new version of the same, deserves the reputation she will soon have to live with.

1976 E. C. Kennedy St. Patrick's Day with Mayor Daley vi. 87 As the third [Watergate] tape unwinds, he and the President are working on the greatest excuse since ‘The dog ate my homework’.

1990 Science 20 July 241/3 OSI [= Office of Scientific Integrity] must guard itself against variations of the old ‘the dog ate my homework’ excuse.

1995 New Yorker 4 Dec. 78/1 His version of his crimes have [sic] a decided my-dog-ate-my-homework quality.

2001 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 6 Sept. A schoolboy trying to explain that an alien ate his homework seemed quite plausible in comparison.

2005 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 2 July 28 Clark..expects his executives to produce, and he tells them so: ‘I don't want to hear the story about how the dog stole your homework.’

P3. British slang. a bit (also piece) of homework: an attractive woman.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart > specifically a female sweetheart or girlfriend

lief971

ladya1393

ladyshipa1393

speciala1400

amiec1400

womanc1400

amoreta1425

mistressc1425

paramoura1450

fair ladya1470

girl?a1513

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Tib1533

she1547

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best1904

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jane1906

kitten1908

patootie1918

meisie1919

bride1924

gf1925

jelly1931

sort1933

a bit (also piece) of homework1945

beast1946

queen1955

momma1964

mi'jita1970

her indoors1979

girlf1991

1945 L. Lane How to become Comedian vii. 75 Bert Errol [sc. a female impersonator], when on the stage, looks a ravishing and beautiful bit of home-work.

1953 E. Ambler Schirmer Inheritance 177 ‘And that little bit of homework you've got with you?’ ‘Miss Kolin, you mean? She's an interpreter.’

1968 J. Symons Man whose Dreams came True iii. v. 171 He produced a dog-eared snap of a girl in a bikini. ‘How's that for a piece of homework?’

1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 74 Some of Monica's chums are terrific pieces of homework.

Compounds

homework club n. (a) U.S. a society founded to facilitate or promote work done at home, esp. housework (now rare); (b) an after-school club which provides supervision, tutoring, etc., for pupils completing homework.

ΚΠ

1900 Good Housek. Feb. 70/1 Out of these ‘home-work clubs’ may spring some sort of plan for exchange of labor.

1939 Pop. Sci. May 162/1 Fraser, president of the Orchard Park Homework Club,..was given a surprise dinner recently in honor of the splendid work he has done in supervising the job-placement division of the club.

1953 Hawaii Educ. Rev. Sept. 18/3 There might be merit in the homework club, an idea being worked out in an Indianapolis school.

2008 T. Cahill & L. Gross Ms. Cahill for Congr. xiv. 145 I thought about Brent and Thomas, who had started coming to our homework club to get help after getting zeros for not doing their homework.

homework diary n. a diary used to record and monitor the homework given to and completed by a pupil.

ΚΠ

1973 Guardian 27 Mar. (Educ. section) 18/8 I shall expect a rigorous Grammar School approach so that I am particularly concerned to have your support in matters of school uniform and homework diaries.

1995 M. Nathan New Teacher's Survival Guide (1997) ix. 176 A common procedure in many schools is to use a homework diary, which parents see daily and have to sign daily or weekly.

2006 Church Times 28 Apr. 18/1 He would Biro my name on to his year-nine homework diary.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	homework
释义	homeworkn. Brit. /ˈhəʊmwəːk/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌwərk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home n.¹, work n. Etymology: < home n.¹ + work n. 1. Work done at home, esp. as distinguished from work done in a factory. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > work done at home homework1653 1653 E. Chillenden Nathans Parable To Rdr. sig. A3^v This heart-work, this home-work is the business that I have wanted, and I have more wandered abroad, then kept at home. 1669 J. Flavell Husb. Spiritualized Proem 9 The keepers of the vineyard have a private vineyard of their own to look after, they have much home-work when no out-work. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. viii. 85 Bonsall and Kane took the entire home-work on themselves today. 1861 G. Moore Lost Tribes xviii. 364 One [apartment] more open and larger is reserved for visitors, or..is used for spinning or other home-work. 1901 Act 1 Edw. VII c. 22 §110 Prohibition of home work in places where there is infectious disease. 1908 Franco-Brit. Exhib., Women's Section 64 Frame of Quilting and Embroidery, lent by Home Work Co-operative Society. 1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Dec. 882/1 The particularly mean swindlers who prey on the unemployed, either by ‘homework’ or by salaried jobs..are duly pilloried. 1996 TNT Mag. 8 July 162/3 (advt.) The Huge Homeworking Directory lists 516+ genuine firms offering real, paid homework. 2. Schoolwork assigned to a pupil to be done outside lesson time (typically at home). In extended use: an assignment or exercise to be completed in one's own time. Cf. classwork n. at class n. and adj. Compounds 1c, preparation n. 11. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > exercises or homework lesson?c1225 renderc1380 vulgars1520 practicec1541 theme1545 example1562 tax1564 repetition1579 exercise1612 praxis1612 recreation1633 pensum1667 vacation-exercisea1668 version1711 task1737 thesisa1774 dictation1789 challenging1825 holiday task1827 devoir1849 homework1852 vulgus1857 cram-book1858 rep1858 banco1862 prep1866 classwork1867 preparation1875 work card1878 vacation-task1904 1852 Eng. Jrnl. Educ. 10 482 An important feature in these schools is the home-work, by which is cultivated habits of independent study and industry. 1889 A. E. Fletcher Sonnenschein's Cycl. Educ. (ed. 2) 155/1 Written home-work. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 5/2 I think it is a wrong principle altogether to help a child with his homework. 1937 Manch. Guardian 19 July 11/6 He would ask Mr. Ashby to take the problem home as ‘a bit of homework’ and try to find a solution. 1970 C. Lacey Hightown Gram. viii. 168 I've just caught two boys in the quad, copying homework. 1986 M. A. Katzman et al. in D. Howard Dynamics of Feminist Therapy ii. 156 For homework clients are asked to write down what they like about their appearance, what others like about it, and what their ‘attractive behaviors’ are. 2006 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 July 12/1 Where the freak-a-leak is my Spanish homework? 3. U.S. slang. Sexual activity, esp. with one's partner; sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > sexual caressing love playc1390 touching1489 yum-yum1885 petting1920 homework1933 1933 J. T. Farrell Gas-house McGinty vi. 186 My wife and I want a kid, and we do plenty homework, but..I just can't connect. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §847/3 ‘Petting’, ‘Necking’..homework. 1971 Black Scholar Nov. 7 You got to keep up your homework... If you don't, somebody else'll be doing it for you. 1974 M. Lefevre in S. Terkel Working p. xxxvi I'll read [pornography] at work and go home and do my homework. (Laughs.) That what the guys at the plant call it—homework. Phrases P1. to do one's homework: to prepare thoroughly for an event or situation; to brief oneself in preparation for a meeting or discussion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > make preparations or arrangements purveyc1300 providec1425 ordain1487 disponea1500 devisec1500 to take (an) order1545 dress1596 pipe lay1844 to do one's homework1915 legislate1925 1915 N.Y. Tribune 28 Aug. 11 The Phillies have done their home work well, but it is the Braves who have again become most prominently mentioned as the final winners. 1927 N.Y. Times 29 Nov. 30/3 One who had come without doing his homework in advance might have thought that the whole thing was a plot to drive newspaper composing rooms crazy. 1959 Listener 6 Aug. 200/2 The Soviet reporter had been ‘doing his homework’ to some effect. 1966 M. Catto Bird on Wing ii. 36 I have taken the trouble to do my homework on him. I know more about him than he thinks! 2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Feb. 38/2 Wescott has done his homework and refers knowledgeably to the whole vocabulary of falconry. P2. the dog ate my homework and variants: (the type of) an unconvincing or far-fetched excuse for failing to hand in school homework, or (by extension) for any failure to do or produce what was expected. Frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1929 Manch. Guardian 31 July 7/6 It is a long time since I have had the excuse about the dog tearing up the arithmetic homework. 1968 D. Schwab in R. Wisniewski New Teachers in Urban Schools iv. 127 Any teacher gullible enough to fall for the inevitable story, ‘my little sister ate my homework’, without demanding a new version of the same, deserves the reputation she will soon have to live with. 1976 E. C. Kennedy St. Patrick's Day with Mayor Daley vi. 87 As the third [Watergate] tape unwinds, he and the President are working on the greatest excuse since ‘The dog ate my homework’. 1990 Science 20 July 241/3 OSI [= Office of Scientific Integrity] must guard itself against variations of the old ‘the dog ate my homework’ excuse. 1995 New Yorker 4 Dec. 78/1 His version of his crimes have [sic] a decided my-dog-ate-my-homework quality. 2001 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 6 Sept. A schoolboy trying to explain that an alien ate his homework seemed quite plausible in comparison. 2005 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 2 July 28 Clark..expects his executives to produce, and he tells them so: ‘I don't want to hear the story about how the dog stole your homework.’ P3. British slang. a bit (also piece) of homework: an attractive woman. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart > specifically a female sweetheart or girlfriend lief971 ladya1393 ladyshipa1393 speciala1400 amiec1400 womanc1400 amoreta1425 mistressc1425 paramoura1450 fair ladya1470 girl?a1513 sooterkin1530 Tib1533 she1547 lady-love1568 jug1569 young lady1584 pigeon1592 love-lass1594 lass1596 dowsabel1612 swainling1615 lucky1629 Dulcinea1638 Lindabrides1640 inamorata1651 baby1684 best girl1691 lady friend1733 young woman1822 moll1823 querida1834 sheila1839 bint1855 tart1864 babykins1870 Dona1874 novia1874 fancy-girl1892 girlfriend1892 cliner1895 tootsy1895 dinah1898 best1904 twist and twirl1905 jane1906 kitten1908 patootie1918 meisie1919 bride1924 gf1925 jelly1931 sort1933 a bit (also piece) of homework1945 beast1946 queen1955 momma1964 mi'jita1970 her indoors1979 girlf1991 1945 L. Lane How to become Comedian vii. 75 Bert Errol [sc. a female impersonator], when on the stage, looks a ravishing and beautiful bit of home-work. 1953 E. Ambler Schirmer Inheritance 177 ‘And that little bit of homework you've got with you?’ ‘Miss Kolin, you mean? She's an interpreter.’ 1968 J. Symons Man whose Dreams came True iii. v. 171 He produced a dog-eared snap of a girl in a bikini. ‘How's that for a piece of homework?’ 1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 74 Some of Monica's chums are terrific pieces of homework. Compounds homework club n. (a) U.S. a society founded to facilitate or promote work done at home, esp. housework (now rare); (b) an after-school club which provides supervision, tutoring, etc., for pupils completing homework. ΚΠ 1900 Good Housek. Feb. 70/1 Out of these ‘home-work clubs’ may spring some sort of plan for exchange of labor. 1939 Pop. Sci. May 162/1 Fraser, president of the Orchard Park Homework Club,..was given a surprise dinner recently in honor of the splendid work he has done in supervising the job-placement division of the club. 1953 Hawaii Educ. Rev. Sept. 18/3 There might be merit in the homework club, an idea being worked out in an Indianapolis school. 2008 T. Cahill & L. Gross Ms. Cahill for Congr. xiv. 145 I thought about Brent and Thomas, who had started coming to our homework club to get help after getting zeros for not doing their homework. homework diary n. a diary used to record and monitor the homework given to and completed by a pupil. ΚΠ 1973 Guardian 27 Mar. (Educ. section) 18/8 I shall expect a rigorous Grammar School approach so that I am particularly concerned to have your support in matters of school uniform and homework diaries. 1995 M. Nathan New Teacher's Survival Guide (1997) ix. 176 A common procedure in many schools is to use a homework diary, which parents see daily and have to sign daily or weekly. 2006 Church Times 28 Apr. 18/1 He would Biro my name on to his year-nine homework diary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1653
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