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单词 horse-jockey
释义

horse-jockeyn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: horse n., jockey n.
Etymology: < horse n. + jockey n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhorse-ˌjockey.
a. One hired to ride a horse in a race. (Now usually simply jockey.)
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider
skipjack1608
horse racerc1618
rider1632
stager1638
jockeya1684
horse-jockey1782
jock1826
equison1846
hoop1941
pilot1976
1782 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians i. 3 My Cousin Pindar, in his Odes, Applauded horsejockeys and gods.
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 66 The parties were both horse-jockeys.
1858 in Hughes Tom Brown Pref. to ed. 6 Horse-jockeys have learnt to be wiser.
attributive.1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiv. 588 His horse-jockey jokes and prize-ring slang.
b. U.S. One who traffics in horses.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in horses
romonger1222
horse-mongera1400
cosser14..
corser?c1430
horse-corser1552
jockey1640
horse-coper1681
horse-jockey1744
horse-dealer1761
macquignon1798
horse-trader1811
coper1825
horse-cadger1886
1744 A. Hamilton Itinerarium (1907) 3 I met one Matthew Baker, a horse-jockey.
1784 in Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. (1930) XXIII. 204 Ship Building is carried on with Vigor in this State, & the Horse Jockey business flourishes.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. ix. 144 Few [horses] live and die on the plantations where they are bred; some are exported..; but the most are continually shifted from one owner to another, by means of a set of contemptible wretches called horse-jockies.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 50 The Kanaka horse jockey is fertile in imagination and elastic in conscience.

Derivatives

ˈhorse-ˌjockeying n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in horses
horse tradec1760
horse-jockeying1783
horse-trading1826
horse-chanting1841
horse-coping1841
coping1864
1783 in S. E. Baldwin Simeon Baldwin (1919) 120 The conversation was upon News—horsejockeying—& other indifferent subjects.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 288 Brown bought a horse from a native at Waiohinu for twelve dollars, but happening to think of the horse-jockeying propensities of the race, he removed the saddle and found that..recent hard riding had polished most of the hide off his back.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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