ashcann.adj.

Brit.

/ˈaʃkan/, U.S.

/ˈæʃˌkæn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ash n.², can n.¹

Etymology: < ash n.² + can n.¹In use as adjective designating a style of art probably after Disappointments of the Ash Can (c1913), the title of an illustration by George Bellows (1882–1925) depicting a group of city vagrants examining food scraps from a rubbish bin, which was reproduced in the Sunday magazine section of the Philadelphia Record on 25 April 1915. The same drawing was earlier published in The Masses on 5 February 1914 with the title Real Tragedy.

A. n.

1. Originally and chiefly U.S.

a. A metal receptacle for ashes and other domestic refuse; a dustbin.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > receptacle for refuse > receptacle for ashes

ash-tub1620

ash-box1833

ash-barrel1846

ashcan1872

ash-bin1883

ashcan1899

1872 Burlington (Iowa) Daily Hawk-eye 21 Jan. (advt.) Iron-clad ash cans! Durable and safe.

1899 W. C. Morrow Bohemian Paris 103 The rows of heaped ash-cans that lined the way.

1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer i. ii. 39 Outside the lemoncolored dawn was drenching the empty streets, dripping from cornices, from the rails of fire escapes, from the rims of ashcans.

1941 E. Snow Battle for Asia iv. 88 I remember a tear-jerking letter from a correspondent appealing for people to boil their garbage and put it beside their ash cans for the hungry—dogs.

1969 G. Friel Glasgow Trilogy (1999) 202 They..made straight for the midden in the backgreen, and chucked Wee Annie's gift into the ashcan.

1996 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 16 June 29 A blue glove of the kind worn by paramedics already lay crumpled in an ashcan.

2004 P. Roth Plot against Amer. (2005) iv. 139 The wintertime responsibility would fall to me for..once a day carrying a pailful of cold ashes out to the ashcan in the back-yard.

b. figurative. to consign (etc.) to the ashcan: to dispose of, get rid of; to forget about. to go to the ashcan: to be discarded or forgotten about.Frequently in to consign (etc.) to the ashcan of history.

ΚΠ

1906 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 28 Oct. (Mag.) 24/1 (advt.) It is cheaper to consign some things to the ash can than to scatter dissatisfaction among people whose trade we have and hope to retain.

1942 G. J. Nathan Entertainm. Nation i. 24 The box-office happy-ending drama of an American theatre long since critically gone to the ashcan.

1964 Harvard Educ. Rev. 34 212 The less temperate disciples of Chomsky are now consigning to the ashcan all linguistic theory developed before 1956.

1977 E. Cornish et al. Stud. Future vii. 101 With the right ideas, the people of the world might soon throw war, poverty, famine, and disease into the ashcan of history.

1994 Denver Post 20 Nov. f1/5 They can toss his convictions into an ash can.

2014 P. C. Moskos & C. C. Moskos Greek Amer. (ed. 3) 157 The ‘greasy spoon’ restaurant..has been all but consigned to the ashcan of history.

2. Military slang.

a. A depth charge.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > depth charge

depth charge1917

water bomb1917

ashcan1918

depth bomb1918

1918 J. B. Connolly U-Boat Hunters 194 When our fellows first went over they had to learn a few things from the British. We had first to get rid of some childish ideas about depth charges... They showed us..a contraption looking so much like a galvanized iron ash-barrel with flattened sides that they call them ‘ash-cans’.

1959 G. Jenkins Twist of Sand iv. 68 ‘I give it five minutes before the ash-cans come.’.. Waiting for a depth-charge attack is probably as bad as the attack itself.

1984 G. Vanderhaeghe My Present Age (1986) xii. 174 The scenario owed a lot to the sub-hunting movies of my youth. I could remember the depth-charges, the ‘ashcans’ thrown high into the air..falling with a heavy splash into the sea.

2010 M. D. Kennedy Flowers of Edo xix. 274 ‘Pete,where is he?’ ‘Skipper, he's just left our last ashcan drop.’

b. In the First World War (1914–18): a large German artillery shell. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell

carcass1684

light ball1729

anchor ball1779

shrapnel1810

hollow shot1862

segment-shell1862

blind-shell1864

ring-shot1868

star shell1876

ring-shell1879

pipsqueak1900

Black Maria1914

coal box1914

crump1914

Jack Johnson1914

Archie1915

Little Willie1915

whizz-bang1915

woolly bear1915

fizzbang1916

five-ninea1918

ashcan1918

cream puff1918

sea-bag1918

pudding1919

G.I. can1929

flechette1961

1918 C. F. Minder Let. 6 Sept. in This Man's War (1931) 279 We were in one shell-hole and a great big ash-can exploded about fifteen feet behind us.

1920 W. A. Vollmer in Hist. 306th Field Artillery ii. 96/2 The uneven brrr-brrm, brrr-brrm, of Boche planes and the whizz and crashing explosion of the falling ‘ash-cans’.

1984 J. R. Elting et al. Dict. Soldier Talk (at cited word) Ash can (World War I), a large-caliber German artillery shell.

B. adj. (attributive).

With capital initial. Art (originally somewhat derogatory). Designating a style of American art of the early 20th cent. in which urban scenes are depicted in a realist style; (also) designating an artist, or the group of artists, painting in this style. Frequently in Ashcan School.Despite its suggestion of prior use, quot. 1934 is considered the first appearance of the term Ashcan School. However, ashcans had previously been identified (see quot. 1916) as a recurrent motif in social realism: quot. 1930 appears to be such a reference, but may be unrelated.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > others

all'antica1605

neo-Gothic1878

Barbizon1890

chinoiserie1909

neoprimitive1922

omega1922

Suprematist1922

beaux arts1924

ashcan1934

vitalistic1937

Euston Road1941

precisionist1943

abstract impressionist1950

abstract-concrete1955

neo-expressionist1957

metaphysical1958

structurist1958

auto-destructive1959

Rayonist1968

post-minimal1971

assemblagist1977

Neo-Geo1987

1916 N.Y. Sun 8 Apr. 6/1 The dissenting five artists..want to run pictures of ash cans and girls hitching up their skirts in Horatio street.

1930 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 10 Mar. 1 Somebody has offered a prize for the most artistic design for an ash can. Ash-can art has already appeared, however.]

1934 H. Cahill in H. Cahill & A. H. Barr Art in Amer. in Mod. Times iv. 31/1 In retrospect their program seems moderate enough, but when they first showed as a group in New York in 1908 they were anathematized as ‘The Ashcan School’.

1964 Chicago Rev. 17 No. 1. 114 Like so many of their worthy predecessors in the American tradition—..the Hudson River painters, or members of the Ashcan group—these men are attempting to come to grips with their personal past and the environment in which they were raised.

1992 Mod. Painters Spring 82/1 Ashcan artists believed in the importance of recording the ‘American scene’, i.e., ordinary urban or small-town life and sights.

2010 Art Q. Winter 83/1 This exhibition places Hopper's achievements in the context of the Ashcan School of the 1920s.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	ashcan
释义	ashcann.adj. Brit. /ˈaʃkan/, U.S. /ˈæʃˌkæn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ash n.², can n.¹ Etymology: < ash n.² + can n.¹In use as adjective designating a style of art probably after Disappointments of the Ash Can (c1913), the title of an illustration by George Bellows (1882–1925) depicting a group of city vagrants examining food scraps from a rubbish bin, which was reproduced in the Sunday magazine section of the Philadelphia Record on 25 April 1915. The same drawing was earlier published in The Masses on 5 February 1914 with the title Real Tragedy. A. n. 1. Originally and chiefly U.S. a. A metal receptacle for ashes and other domestic refuse; a dustbin. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > receptacle for refuse > receptacle for ashes ash-tub1620 ash-box1833 ash-barrel1846 ashcan1872 ash-bin1883 ashcan1899 1872 Burlington (Iowa) Daily Hawk-eye 21 Jan. (advt.) Iron-clad ash cans! Durable and safe. 1899 W. C. Morrow Bohemian Paris 103 The rows of heaped ash-cans that lined the way. 1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer i. ii. 39 Outside the lemoncolored dawn was drenching the empty streets, dripping from cornices, from the rails of fire escapes, from the rims of ashcans. 1941 E. Snow Battle for Asia iv. 88 I remember a tear-jerking letter from a correspondent appealing for people to boil their garbage and put it beside their ash cans for the hungry—dogs. 1969 G. Friel Glasgow Trilogy (1999) 202 They..made straight for the midden in the backgreen, and chucked Wee Annie's gift into the ashcan. 1996 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 16 June 29 A blue glove of the kind worn by paramedics already lay crumpled in an ashcan. 2004 P. Roth Plot against Amer. (2005) iv. 139 The wintertime responsibility would fall to me for..once a day carrying a pailful of cold ashes out to the ashcan in the back-yard. b. figurative. to consign (etc.) to the ashcan: to dispose of, get rid of; to forget about. to go to the ashcan: to be discarded or forgotten about.Frequently in to consign (etc.) to the ashcan of history. ΚΠ 1906 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 28 Oct. (Mag.) 24/1 (advt.) It is cheaper to consign some things to the ash can than to scatter dissatisfaction among people whose trade we have and hope to retain. 1942 G. J. Nathan Entertainm. Nation i. 24 The box-office happy-ending drama of an American theatre long since critically gone to the ashcan. 1964 Harvard Educ. Rev. 34 212 The less temperate disciples of Chomsky are now consigning to the ashcan all linguistic theory developed before 1956. 1977 E. Cornish et al. Stud. Future vii. 101 With the right ideas, the people of the world might soon throw war, poverty, famine, and disease into the ashcan of history. 1994 Denver Post 20 Nov. f1/5 They can toss his convictions into an ash can. 2014 P. C. Moskos & C. C. Moskos Greek Amer. (ed. 3) 157 The ‘greasy spoon’ restaurant..has been all but consigned to the ashcan of history. 2. Military slang. a. A depth charge. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > depth charge depth charge1917 water bomb1917 ashcan1918 depth bomb1918 1918 J. B. Connolly U-Boat Hunters 194 When our fellows first went over they had to learn a few things from the British. We had first to get rid of some childish ideas about depth charges... They showed us..a contraption looking so much like a galvanized iron ash-barrel with flattened sides that they call them ‘ash-cans’. 1959 G. Jenkins Twist of Sand iv. 68 ‘I give it five minutes before the ash-cans come.’.. Waiting for a depth-charge attack is probably as bad as the attack itself. 1984 G. Vanderhaeghe My Present Age (1986) xii. 174 The scenario owed a lot to the sub-hunting movies of my youth. I could remember the depth-charges, the ‘ashcans’ thrown high into the air..falling with a heavy splash into the sea. 2010 M. D. Kennedy Flowers of Edo xix. 274 ‘Pete,where is he?’ ‘Skipper, he's just left our last ashcan drop.’ b. In the First World War (1914–18): a large German artillery shell. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell carcass1684 light ball1729 anchor ball1779 shrapnel1810 hollow shot1862 segment-shell1862 blind-shell1864 ring-shot1868 star shell1876 ring-shell1879 pipsqueak1900 Black Maria1914 coal box1914 crump1914 Jack Johnson1914 Archie1915 Little Willie1915 whizz-bang1915 woolly bear1915 fizzbang1916 five-ninea1918 ashcan1918 cream puff1918 sea-bag1918 pudding1919 G.I. can1929 flechette1961 1918 C. F. Minder Let. 6 Sept. in This Man's War (1931) 279 We were in one shell-hole and a great big ash-can exploded about fifteen feet behind us. 1920 W. A. Vollmer in Hist. 306th Field Artillery ii. 96/2 The uneven brrr-brrm, brrr-brrm, of Boche planes and the whizz and crashing explosion of the falling ‘ash-cans’. 1984 J. R. Elting et al. Dict. Soldier Talk (at cited word) Ash can (World War I), a large-caliber German artillery shell. B. adj. (attributive). With capital initial. Art (originally somewhat derogatory). Designating a style of American art of the early 20th cent. in which urban scenes are depicted in a realist style; (also) designating an artist, or the group of artists, painting in this style. Frequently in Ashcan School.Despite its suggestion of prior use, quot. 1934 is considered the first appearance of the term Ashcan School. However, ashcans had previously been identified (see quot. 1916) as a recurrent motif in social realism: quot. 1930 appears to be such a reference, but may be unrelated. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > others all'antica1605 neo-Gothic1878 Barbizon1890 chinoiserie1909 neoprimitive1922 omega1922 Suprematist1922 beaux arts1924 ashcan1934 vitalistic1937 Euston Road1941 precisionist1943 abstract impressionist1950 abstract-concrete1955 neo-expressionist1957 metaphysical1958 structurist1958 auto-destructive1959 Rayonist1968 post-minimal1971 assemblagist1977 Neo-Geo1987 1916 N.Y. Sun 8 Apr. 6/1 The dissenting five artists..want to run pictures of ash cans and girls hitching up their skirts in Horatio street. 1930 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 10 Mar. 1 Somebody has offered a prize for the most artistic design for an ash can. Ash-can art has already appeared, however.] 1934 H. Cahill in H. Cahill & A. H. Barr Art in Amer. in Mod. Times iv. 31/1 In retrospect their program seems moderate enough, but when they first showed as a group in New York in 1908 they were anathematized as ‘The Ashcan School’. 1964 Chicago Rev. 17 No. 1. 114 Like so many of their worthy predecessors in the American tradition—..the Hudson River painters, or members of the Ashcan group—these men are attempting to come to grips with their personal past and the environment in which they were raised. 1992 Mod. Painters Spring 82/1 Ashcan artists believed in the importance of recording the ‘American scene’, i.e., ordinary urban or small-town life and sights. 2010 Art Q. Winter 83/1 This exhibition places Hopper's achievements in the context of the Ashcan School of the 1920s. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas ashcan ashcan n. chiefly U.S. = ash-bin n.; also figurative; in U.S. Services' slang, a depth charge. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > receptacle for refuse > receptacle for ashes ash-tub1620 ash-box1833 ash-barrel1846 ashcan1872 ash-bin1883 ashcan1899 1899 W. C. Morrow Bohemian Paris 103 The rows of heaped ash-cans that lined the way. 1919 World's Work Oct. 604/2 The depth charge looked like the innocent domestic ash can, and that was the name by which it soon became popularly known. 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 151/2 One of them upsets the ash can. 1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being (1945) 71 In a wet vacancy among the ash cans. 1959 G. Jenkins Twist of Sand iv. 68 ‘I give it five minutes before the ash-cans come.’.. Waiting for a depth-charge attack is probably as bad as the attack itself. extracted from ashn.² < n.adj.1872 as lemmas
随便看	on the defensive on the diagonal on the district on the docket on the dodge on the dole on the doorstep on the dot on the dot of on the double on the down-low on the downgrade on the downlow on the downside on the drawing board on the drink on the ear on the east on the east of on the eat on the economy on the edge of on the edge of one's seat on the end on the eve of

ashcann.adj.

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