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单词 hummel
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hummeln.

Etymology: = Middle Low German and modern German hummel wild bee, drone, Dutch hommel drone, = humble in humble-bee n.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A drone; a lazy fellow.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person
caynard1303
sluggard1398
luskc1420
slugc1425
truantc1449
dawa1500
hummel?a1513
rook?a1513
wallydraigle?a1513
sloven1523
dronea1529
draw latch1538
slim1548
slouk1570
do-nothing1579
bumbiea1585
do-little1586
lazybones1593
luskin1593
do-naught1594
loiter-sack1594
bed-presser1598
lazy lizard1600
lazy-back1611
fainéant1618
nothing-do1623
trivant1624
slothful1648
lolpoop1661
tool1699
haggis1822
lazy-boots1832
lazy-legs1838
poke1847
never-sweat1851
slob1876
bum1882
haggis bag1892
lollop1896
trouble-shirker1908
warb1933
fuck-off1948
poop-butt1967
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 67 Wyld haschbaldis, haggarbaldis and hummellis.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

hummelhumbleadj.

Brit. /ˈhʌml/, U.S. /ˈhəm(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈhʌml/ Brit. /ˈhʌmbl/, U.S. /ˈhəmb(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈhʌmbl/
Forms: α. Middle English hommyl, 1500s homill, hommil, 1700s– hummel, (1700s hummle). β. 1600s humbell, 1500s– humble.
Etymology: Corresponds to Low German hummel , hommel hornless beast (hence draught-ox); compare hummelbock , hummelgeisz a hornless goat, humlich , dialect hommlich hornless, Bavarian humlet hornless. The earlier history of the word has not been traced: there may be radical connection with hamble v. to mutilate.
Scottish and northern dialect.
1.
a. Of cattle: Hornless, ‘dodded’.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [adjective] > having particular type of horns > having no horns
hummelc1540
dodder1614
doddeda1642
hummelled1788
poley1827
muley1885
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. x. xii. f. 143v/2 Quhen vncouth ky fechtis amang thaym self, gif ane of thaym happenis to be slane, and vncertane quhat kow maid ye slauchter, the kow yat is homyll sall beir the wyte.
1584 J. Carmichael Let. in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) 438 When we got it, it was but a Dun humble kow.
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 186 Of their black cattle, some are without horns, called by the Scots, humble cows.
in extended use.1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 886 The lop-ear [in the zebu] is a decidedly ‘hummel’ characteristic.
b. Applied to a hornless stag. Also absol.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [adjective] > having antlers > without antlers
antlerless1876
hummel1907
1907 Spectator 5 Jan. 11/1 The ‘hummel’ stag—that ungainly beast with no horns at all—is a better fighter than the ‘switch-horn’.
1907 Spectator 5 Jan. 11/2 The supremacy of the ‘hummels’ and ‘switch-horns’ in battles with their own kind.
1925 J. Buchan John Macnab iv A hummel, a great fellow of fully twenty stone.
1964 G. K. Whitehead Deer Great Brit. & Ireland vii. 156 Some stags never grow any antlers at all and are known as hummels. These beasts would appear to be just as capable of breeding as their antlered brethren.
1972 Country Life 17 Feb. 424/3 The hummel or antlerless stag is not welcome on the purely sporting estate.
2. Of corn or grain: Awnless. hummel corn, ‘a term applied to the lighter grain of any kind, or that which falls from the rest when it is fanned’ (Jamieson); hence used attributively ‘mean, poor’.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > inferior grain
hummel corn1474
multure corn1546
tailings1764
tail1775
chicken corna1817
screening1824
pilkins1859
tail-end1859
1474 Acta Audit. (1839) 35/2 vii chalder of hommyll corne.
a1605 R. Birrel Diarey 36 in J. G. Dalyell Fragm. of Scotish Hist. (1798) The ait maill 10 lib: the boll, the humbell corne 7 lib: the boll.
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 386 The..hinds..receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two last articles are called hummel corn.
1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) 87 A hummelcorn discourse.
3. Broken, chapped, kibed. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > chapped or cracked
chipped1495
chappeda1500
chopped1549
hummelled1597
hummel1601
chapping1610
seamy1776
hacked1788
chappy1833
chippy1851
kinned1855
soda-chapped1922
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 128 In case of humble-heels he applied it sodden in oile.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hummelhumblev.

Forms: Also 1800s homil, humel.
Etymology: < hummel adj.
Scottish and northern dialect.
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1. transitive. To deprive of the horns: see hummelled adj.
2. To remove the awns from (barley). See also quot. 1893.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > beat barley
stump1787
hummel?a1800
awn1808
?a1800 MS. Poem (Jam.) Thair's bear tae hummil.
1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man II. 230 My heart dunt—duntit like a man humblin bear.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Homil, to humble or remove the awns from barley... In breaking stones for macadamised roads, to humel means to break the lumps into smaller sizes preparatory to their being made the requisite size by a smaller hammer.

Derivatives

ˈhummelling n. (also hummeling)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > beating barley
hummelling1835
1835 Penny Cycl. III. 465/2 Barley requires care in thrashing, to break off all the awns close to the grain... It is often necessary..to effect this by another operation..called hummeling.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 386 A barley aveller or hummelling machine..for the purpose of rubbing the horns or avels off barley..leaving the kernels clean.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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