单词 | juicer |
释义 | juicern. 1. An electrician. slang. (Cf. juice n. 1d.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > utility service workers > [noun] > electrician electrician1869 spark1914 juicer1928 1928 Amer. Speech 3 366 ‘Juicers’ have a most juicy vocabulary of their own. Thanks to them Hollywood has ‘kliegs’ (klieg lights). 1934 Tit-bits 31 Mar. 12/2 Here are some more studio terms. ‘Juicers’ are electricians. 1950 B. Schulberg Disenchanted i. 5 Assistant directors, cutters, bit players, second cameramen, sound men, juicers, grips, special effects men, Hollywood's exclusive proletariat. 1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-up i. 18 He directs the..juicers to place the lights in the most effective positions. 2. An appliance used to extract juice from fruit and vegetables. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts nutcracker1481 nut-crack1570 nutcrackers1600 crackera1640 crack-nut1656 orange-strainer1688 apple scoop1696 orange-peel cutter1757 apple corer1778 lemon-squeezer1781 corer1789 orange squeezer1815 seeder1865 sweat-box1870 reamer1894 stemmer1898 juicer1938 zester1963 1938 Cooperative Distributors Catal. in Amer. Speech (1942) 17 272/1 A well constructed juicer for oranges. 1945 Archit. Rev. 97 152 (caption) The ‘Dazey’ super juicer..in aluminium. 1961 Listener 31 Aug. 331/2 Self-contained grinders, liquidizers, juicers and meat mincers are also made. 1972 New York 1 May 27/2 Juicers—used to extract the juice of fresh vegetables and fruits. 3. An alcoholic. U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker supper?1529 blow-bowl1530 drunkard1530 drunkera1538 blow-bottle1580 tippler1580 potman1589 red nose1591 sot1592 water rat1593 ply-pot1611 potter1632 pothead1639 pisspot1655 pitcher-man1665 whetter1709 inebriate1794 rummy1843 alcoholic1852 oenomaniac1857 dipsomaniac1858 alcoholizer1880 alcoholist1888 potationist1888 lush1890 rumdum1891 rumhound1895 blacklister1904 dipso1923 rumpot1929 alky1944 juice-head1955 alcohol abuser1965 juicer1967 substance abuser1967 jakey1988 1967 New Yorker 13 May 40 The difference between the juicers and the heads is that the juicers sometimes get a little obstreperous but the heads go sit quietly in a corner someplace. 1970 New Yorker 28 Feb. 31/1 ‘Forget him, he's catatonic.’ ‘Forget him, he's a juicer.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1928 |
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