hornetn.¹

/ˈhɔːnɪt/

Forms: α. Old English hyrnetu, hyrnet, Middle English hernet. β. Middle English harnette, 1500s harnet. γ. 1500s– hornet, (1500s hornette, 1600s hornett).

Etymology: Old English hyrnetu, hyrnet, earlier hurnitu, hirnitu, feminine corresponding to Middle Dutch hōrnete, hornte, Middle Low German hornte, Low German hörnt, hornke, East Frisian hörnetje, hörntje, Old High German hornuz, -oz, -az, masculine, Middle High German hornuz, -iz, etc., German hornisse (with many variants: see Grimm). These words have the appearance of being derivatives of horn, a presumption strengthened by the Old Saxon hornobero, and early modern Dutch horener (Kilian), which mean both ‘horner or horn-blower’ and ‘hornet’, also by Kilian's hornsel as a variant of horsel(e, modern Dutch horzel. Many scholars however incline to the opinion that the latter contains the original root, and that hornut- represents an original horz-nut-, formed, like Middle Dutch horsele, from a radical *hors- = pre-Germanic *kṛs-, found in Old Church Slavonic srŭša, Lithuanian szirszů wasp, and perhaps in Latin crābrōn- for *crāsrōn-. If this were so, the association with horn would be later and due to popular etymology. See Kluge s.v. Hornisse, Franck s.v. Horzel.

a. An insect of the wasp family, esp. the European Vespa crabro and the American V. maculata, much larger and stronger than other wasps, and inflicting a more serious sting.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > superfamily Vespoidea (hornets) > vespa crabro (hornet)

hornetc725

scrabrouna1425

yellow jacket1796

ground-hornet1822

paper hornet1870

c725 Corpus Gloss. 603 Crabro, waefs vel hurnitu.

a800 Erfurt Gloss. 275 Crabro, hirnitu.

a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 215/3 Crabro, hyrnetu.

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 121/11 Crabro, hyrnet.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 211 Of calues i-rooted comeþ bees, and of hors i-roted comeþ harnettes.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 619/7 Vespa, a waps (et est vespa major illa, an hernet).

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. vii. 20 The Lorde thy God also shal sende hornettes amonge them.

1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Crabro, a great waspe called an hornet.

?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 647 Thou huge and humminge humblebee, thou hornett.

1707 J. Swift Tritical Ess. in Misc. (1711) 257 Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through.

1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 261 It is chiefly in the hollow trunks of decayed trees that the Hornets form their nest.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xvii. 224 Words of anger and resentment, Hot and humming, like a hornet.

b. In early glosses and vocabularies (continental as well as English: see Verwijs and Verdam, Middelndl. Wbk.), there is some confusion between the hornet and hornet-fly or large gadfly, due apparently to uncertain use of Latin œstrus.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of genus Tabanus (gadfly or horse-fly) > large or ferocious

hornet1530

stout1903

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 121/12 Œstrum, beaw uel hyrnette.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/2 Hornet a flye.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words A Hornet, a kinde of Insect, called in Latin Crabro, which useth to infest horses and other creatures, and is ingendred of the carcases of dead horses.

2. transferred and figurative. An enemy that attacks persistently and with virulence; esp. in hornets' nest, nest of hornets. to bring a hornets' nest about one's ears, arouse a nest of hornets: to stir up a host of enemies around one; also, trouble, opposition. Also, to stir up a hornets' nest.

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the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun] > deadly enemy > enemy that attacks persistently or virulently

hornet1590

society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > cause a disturbance [verb (intransitive)]

to raise a dust1649

to stir up a hornets' nest1740

row1797

to kick up a shindy1829

to raise Cain1840

to raise the mischief1840

the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > be an enemy to [verb] > stir up a host of enemies around one

to bring a hornets' nest about one's ears1857

the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun]

contrariositya1340

adversitya1382

champertyc1386

contrariousness1398

thwartingc1430

contrariancec1450

contrariness?1530

withsitting1532

oppugning1535

opposition1548

oppugnation1563

thwartness1577

adverseness1580

crossing1580

breasting1594

antipathy1601

oppugnancy1609

affrontment1611

opposure1611

thortera1614

contrariancya1617

obstancy1616

oppositeness1619

contropposition1621

obstrigillation1623

opposing1624

hostility1632

opposal1638

crossness1641

affront1642

aversion1651

oppugnance1657

shock1664

opponency1727

counteraction1750

antagonism1797

throwing1816

oppositiveness1824

kick1839

variance1842

opposedness1853

againstness1909

hornet1921

adversariness1970

oppositionality1989

1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C2 They are no better then the Prophets, which dwelt as it were in a nest of Hornets.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxvi. 78 I rais'd a Hornet's Nest about my Ears, that..may have stung to Death my Reputation.

1754 J. Jortin Remarks Eccl. Hist. III. 402 He dared not to speak out, and provoke the Hornets.

1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xiv But Proudie, ass as he is, knows the world too well to get such a hornets' nest about his ears.

1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. i. 21 An acid humour stirred in his Forsyte blood; a subtle pain divided by hair's-breadth from pleasure. If only June did not suddenly bring her hornets about his ears!

1921 H. Crane Let. 26 Nov. (1965) 71 But I also find that J stirred up a hornet's nest in me this summer with his words about getting away from current formulae.

1928 G. B. Shaw Intell. Woman's Guide Socialism lxxiv. 360 It is unlikely that a Proletarian House of Commons will suffer the nation's children to go on being taught Capitalist and Imperialist morality in the disguise of religion; and yet, the moment the subject is touched, what a hornet's nest is stirred up!

1966 Listener 4 Aug. 177/3 Judges have stirred up a hornets' nest in the sacred territory of ‘the right to strike’.

1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam xiii. 200 On the third landing zone we ran into a hornet's nest.

1973 W. Tute Resident iv. 67 The Ambassador wants you removed. You've got a hornet's nest buzzing round your head in Whitehall.

†3. The horned beetle or stag-beetle. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Lucanidae (stag-beetles) > member of genus Lucanus (stag-beetle)

bull-fly1585

hornet1585

stag-fly1634

hartshorn beetle1658

flying hart1676

stag-beetle1681

flying stag1765

pinching bug1850

pinch bug1856

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 72/2 Cerf volant, a horned beetle: a bullflie, or hornet.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Bucarone,..a beetle, a hornet.

4. An artificial fly for salmon-fishing.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > salmon flies

salmon fly1704

kingfisher?1758

tartan1837

goldfinch1845

parr-tail1847

baker1848

butcher1860

Jock Scott1866

claret1867

colonel1867

king1867

major1867

Shannon fly1867

wasp1867

chimney-sweep1872

Jack Scott1874

hornet1876

winesop black1876

mystery1880

1876 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 4) xii. 427 The Hornets..have fat bodies dressed after the fashion of the ‘bumble’ trout fly.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

hornet host n.

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1838 M. Howitt Birds & Flowers 116 The hornet-host is retreating to its den.

hornet sting n.

hornet-haunted adj.

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1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 43 I scrambled through the hedge, avoiding the hornet~haunted side.

C2.

hornet-clearwing n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Sesiidae > member of genus Sesia

hornet-hawk1832

hornet-clearwing1869

1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 16 The Hornet Clearwing of the Osier (Sesia Bembeciformis). The Hornet Clear~wing of the Poplar (Sesia Apiformis).

hornet-fly n. a dipterous insect of the family Asilidæ, a hawk-fly or robber-fly.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Asilidae > member of (hawk, hornet, or robber-fly)

Tenthredo1658

wolf-fly1658

hornet-fly1752

robber fly1869

hawk-fly1883

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 31 The Hornet Fly. This is one of the largest of the fly kind; it equals the hornet in size.

1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) II. 290 I have often been amused in my walks with the motions of the hornet fly (Asilus crabroniformis).

hornet-hawk n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Sesiidae > member of genus Sesia

hornet-hawk1832

hornet-clearwing1869

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 27 The Hornet Hawk (Tr[ochilium] Crabroniformis) appears in July.

hornet-moth n. names for certain moths of the genus Sesia (see quots.).

† hornet worm n. Obsolete ? the larva of the hornet.

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hornet worma1450

a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 25 In Juyll..the water docke leyf worme & the hornet worme.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	hornet
释义	hornetn.¹ /ˈhɔːnɪt/ Forms: α. Old English hyrnetu, hyrnet, Middle English hernet. β. Middle English harnette, 1500s harnet. γ. 1500s– hornet, (1500s hornette, 1600s hornett). Etymology: Old English hyrnetu, hyrnet, earlier hurnitu, hirnitu, feminine corresponding to Middle Dutch hōrnete, hornte, Middle Low German hornte, Low German hörnt, hornke, East Frisian hörnetje, hörntje, Old High German hornuz, -oz, -az, masculine, Middle High German hornuz, -iz, etc., German hornisse (with many variants: see Grimm). These words have the appearance of being derivatives of horn, a presumption strengthened by the Old Saxon hornobero, and early modern Dutch horener (Kilian), which mean both ‘horner or horn-blower’ and ‘hornet’, also by Kilian's hornsel as a variant of horsel(e, modern Dutch horzel. Many scholars however incline to the opinion that the latter contains the original root, and that hornut- represents an original horz-nut-, formed, like Middle Dutch horsele, from a radical hors- = pre-Germanic kṛs-, found in Old Church Slavonic srŭša, Lithuanian szirszů wasp, and perhaps in Latin crābrōn- for crāsrōn-. If this were so, the association with horn* would be later and due to popular etymology. See Kluge s.v. Hornisse, Franck s.v. Horzel. 1. a. An insect of the wasp family, esp. the European Vespa crabro and the American V. maculata, much larger and stronger than other wasps, and inflicting a more serious sting. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > superfamily Vespoidea (hornets) > vespa crabro (hornet) hornetc725 scrabrouna1425 yellow jacket1796 ground-hornet1822 paper hornet1870 c725 Corpus Gloss. 603 Crabro, waefs vel hurnitu. a800 Erfurt Gloss. 275 Crabro, hirnitu. a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 215/3 Crabro, hyrnetu. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 121/11 Crabro, hyrnet. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 211 Of calues i-rooted comeþ bees, and of hors i-roted comeþ harnettes. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 619/7 Vespa, a waps (et est vespa major illa, an hernet). 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. vii. 20 The Lorde thy God also shal sende hornettes amonge them. 1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Crabro, a great waspe called an hornet. ?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 647 Thou huge and humminge humblebee, thou hornett. 1707 J. Swift Tritical Ess. in Misc. (1711) 257 Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 261 It is chiefly in the hollow trunks of decayed trees that the Hornets form their nest. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xvii. 224 Words of anger and resentment, Hot and humming, like a hornet. b. In early glosses and vocabularies (continental as well as English: see Verwijs and Verdam, Middelndl. Wbk.), there is some confusion between the hornet and hornet-fly or large gadfly, due apparently to uncertain use of Latin œstrus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of genus Tabanus (gadfly or horse-fly) > large or ferocious hornet1530 stout1903 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 121/12 Œstrum, beaw uel hyrnette. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/2 Hornet a flye. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words A Hornet, a kinde of Insect, called in Latin Crabro, which useth to infest horses and other creatures, and is ingendred of the carcases of dead horses. 2. transferred and figurative. An enemy that attacks persistently and with virulence; esp. in hornets' nest, nest of hornets. to bring a hornets' nest about one's ears, arouse a nest of hornets: to stir up a host of enemies around one; also, trouble, opposition. Also, to stir up a hornets' nest. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun] > deadly enemy > enemy that attacks persistently or virulently hornet1590 society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > cause a disturbance [verb (intransitive)] to raise a dust1649 to stir up a hornets' nest1740 row1797 to kick up a shindy1829 to raise Cain1840 to raise the mischief1840 the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > be an enemy to [verb] > stir up a host of enemies around one to bring a hornets' nest about one's ears1857 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] contrariositya1340 adversitya1382 champertyc1386 contrariousness1398 thwartingc1430 contrariancec1450 contrariness?1530 withsitting1532 oppugning1535 opposition1548 oppugnation1563 thwartness1577 adverseness1580 crossing1580 breasting1594 antipathy1601 oppugnancy1609 affrontment1611 opposure1611 thortera1614 contrariancya1617 obstancy1616 oppositeness1619 contropposition1621 obstrigillation1623 opposing1624 hostility1632 opposal1638 crossness1641 affront1642 aversion1651 oppugnance1657 shock1664 opponency1727 counteraction1750 antagonism1797 throwing1816 oppositiveness1824 kick1839 variance1842 opposedness1853 againstness1909 hornet1921 adversariness1970 oppositionality1989 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C2 They are no better then the Prophets, which dwelt as it were in a nest of Hornets. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxvi. 78 I rais'd a Hornet's Nest about my Ears, that..may have stung to Death my Reputation. 1754 J. Jortin Remarks Eccl. Hist. III. 402 He dared not to speak out, and provoke the Hornets. 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xiv But Proudie, ass as he is, knows the world too well to get such a hornets' nest about his ears. 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. i. 21 An acid humour stirred in his Forsyte blood; a subtle pain divided by hair's-breadth from pleasure. If only June did not suddenly bring her hornets about his ears! 1921 H. Crane Let. 26 Nov. (1965) 71 But I also find that J stirred up a hornet's nest in me this summer with his words about getting away from current formulae. 1928 G. B. Shaw Intell. Woman's Guide Socialism lxxiv. 360 It is unlikely that a Proletarian House of Commons will suffer the nation's children to go on being taught Capitalist and Imperialist morality in the disguise of religion; and yet, the moment the subject is touched, what a hornet's nest is stirred up! 1966 Listener 4 Aug. 177/3 Judges have stirred up a hornets' nest in the sacred territory of ‘the right to strike’. 1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam xiii. 200 On the third landing zone we ran into a hornet's nest. 1973 W. Tute Resident iv. 67 The Ambassador wants you removed. You've got a hornet's nest buzzing round your head in Whitehall. †3. The horned beetle or stag-beetle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Lucanidae (stag-beetles) > member of genus Lucanus (stag-beetle) bull-fly1585 hornet1585 stag-fly1634 hartshorn beetle1658 flying hart1676 stag-beetle1681 flying stag1765 pinching bug1850 pinch bug1856 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 72/2 Cerf volant, a horned beetle: a bullflie, or hornet. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Bucarone,..a beetle, a hornet. 4. An artificial fly for salmon-fishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > salmon flies salmon fly1704 kingfisher?1758 tartan1837 goldfinch1845 parr-tail1847 baker1848 butcher1860 Jock Scott1866 claret1867 colonel1867 king1867 major1867 Shannon fly1867 wasp1867 chimney-sweep1872 Jack Scott1874 hornet1876 winesop black1876 mystery1880 1876 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 4) xii. 427 The Hornets..have fat bodies dressed after the fashion of the ‘bumble’ trout fly. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. hornet host n. ΚΠ 1838 M. Howitt Birds & Flowers 116 The hornet-host is retreating to its den. hornet sting n. b. hornet-haunted adj. ΚΠ 1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 43 I scrambled through the hedge, avoiding the hornet~haunted side. C2. hornet-clearwing n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Sesiidae > member of genus Sesia hornet-hawk1832 hornet-clearwing1869 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 16 The Hornet Clearwing of the Osier (Sesia Bembeciformis). The Hornet Clear~wing of the Poplar (Sesia Apiformis). hornet-fly n. a dipterous insect of the family Asilidæ, a hawk-fly or robber-fly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Asilidae > member of (hawk, hornet, or robber-fly) Tenthredo1658 wolf-fly1658 hornet-fly1752 robber fly1869 hawk-fly1883 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 31 The Hornet Fly. This is one of the largest of the fly kind; it equals the hornet in size. 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) II. 290 I have often been amused in my walks with the motions of the hornet fly (Asilus crabroniformis). hornet-hawk n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Sesiidae > member of genus Sesia hornet-hawk1832 hornet-clearwing1869 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 27 The Hornet Hawk (Tr[ochilium] Crabroniformis) appears in July. hornet-moth n. names for certain moths of the genus Sesia (see quots.). † hornet worm n. Obsolete ? the larva of the hornet. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > superfamily Vespoidea (hornets) > larva of hornet worma1450 a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 25 In Juyll..the water docke leyf worme & the hornet worme. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). hornetn.² Etymology: < horn n. + -et suffix¹. A diminutive horn.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. Jan. 31 It was the least little hornet of a horn that could be framed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.¹c725n.²1825
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