单词 | jack pudding |
释义 | jack puddingn. Now archaic. Originally: a clown or jester who entertains people with antics and buffoonery; spec. one who assists a mountebank (mountebank n. 1a); cf. merry-andrew n. 1a. Later more generally: a foolish or stupid person; an idiot. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon sporter1531 Owlglassc1560 scogginist1593 scurr1596 hobby-horse1600 zany1606 buffoona1610 jack pudding?c1635 Owl-spieglea1637 droll1645 buffian1655 drollist1668 droller1676 merry-andrew1694 grotesque1864 harlequin1883 ?c1635 This Present Day shall bee showne Rare Dancing on Ropes (single sheet) And the merry conceites of Iacke Pudding. 1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge iii. iv. 37 Sir, in a word, he was Jack-pudding to a Mountebank. 1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 20 Apr. 1/1 Writers are not..to be considered as mere Jack-Puddings, whose Business it is only to excite Laughter. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. iv. 94 What make you in that fool's jacket, and playing the pranks of a jack-pudding? 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. x. 205 They were again jocund..the jester and Jack-pudding of the feast. 1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse viii. 320 I didn't tell him I was head bozo or that we jack-puddings passing for jack-tars had come 1,550 miles up the Missouri and 3,500 from the Atlantic. 2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. (Culture section) 22 Only a dolt or jack pudding would carp at this charming musical. Compounds attributive, with the sense ‘characteristic or reminiscent of a jack pudding’. ΚΠ 1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions i. 13 I was asking Michael Angelo here a while ago, why he drew the Devils in his Great Peice of the Last Judgment, with so many Monkey Faces, and Jack-Pudding Postures. 1668 T. Sydserff Tarugo's Wiles A iv Be gone with your Jack-Pudding Speech! 1700 D. Irish Levamen Infirmi 35 I cannot but stand in admiration at the Folly and Madness of such, who will let such strange Fopperies, foolish Pastimes, and Iack-Pudding Tricks, chouse them out of their Money, and of what's more precious, their Health too boot! 1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Knights ii. iv, in Comedies 217 You rascal, how you worry me With your jack-pudding nonsense! 1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 60/3 Such a jack-pudding trick would, one have thought, have existed as long as there had been acting at fairs. 2011 H. Ormsby-Lennon Hey Presto! viii. 212 In A Tale of a Tub, Swift combines two traditions of Restoration invective against popery and its quiddities (such as transubstantiation)—doctrinal argument and Jack Pudding burlesque. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon > characteristics of buffoonery1621 jack-puddinghood1749 zanyism1823 1749 H. Walpole Let. 3 May in Corr. (1960) XX. 52 Grossatesta, the Modenese minister, a very low fellow, with all the jack-puddinghood of an Italian. ΚΠ 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. ii. 29 So Iack-Pudding-like a Passage at the very Tayl of all thy merry matters. 1834 N. Wales Chron. 11 Mar. The Jack Pudding-like palaver of Sir W. Ingleby saved ministers from a defeat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1635 |
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