junkingn.

Brit.

/ˈdʒʌŋkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈdʒəŋkɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: junk v., junk n.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly (i) < junk v. + -ing suffix¹, and partly (ii) (in sense 2) < junk n.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

slang.

1. North American regional (New England and south-eastern Canadian). The cutting or division (of something) into sections or chunks; esp. the cutting of felled trees into lengths that can be moved and stacked. Cf. junk v. 1. Now historical and rare.

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1802 S. Chase Diary 21 Apr. in W. B. Lapham Hist. Woodstock, Me. (1882) 277 Rainy in the morning—went to junking and piling.

1839 Boston Courier 21 Nov. 1/1 We found many of the settlers, with their boys busily engaged in junking and piling, and some were ploughing.

1868 Sci. Amer. 18 Jan. 37/3 The first operation is ‘junking,’ when the tusk is sawed into semi-circular blocks and again sawed either into the length of a comb or of a piano key, as may be required.

1886 New Eng. Mag. May 412 The process of ‘junking’ was a tedious one, as the burnt logs soon covered the axe-handle with smut.

1915 A. Cole & C. F. Whitman Hist. Buckfield, Oxf. County, Maine v. 51 What would we not give for a glimpse of any one of the clearings of these early settlers..—the father, busy at his labor of ‘junking,’ planting, or harvesting; the mother hard at work at the loom, and the children playing about the door?

2. U.S. The action of huntinɡ through junk for valuable or collectable items or materials.Originally with reference to salvaging scrap items or materials for resale (esp. without permission or while trespassing), now chiefly in the context of browsing for desirable second-hand decorative items as a leisure activity.

ΚΠ

1903 Commons (Chicago) June 5/2 Junking involves the most serious problem of any of the above means by which children earn money.

1938 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 18 Jan. 5/3 Two-thirds of the petty thievery committed in the environs of Washington could be eliminated if juvenile ‘junking’ were prohibited by law.

1976 Amer. Heritage Mag. Apr. 80 Most of our junking merely involved collecting junk..in the back alleys of Denver and reselling it to the rag-and-bottle dealers on Larimer Street.

2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 16 Nov. d5/1 Thanks to the popularity of TV shows like ‘American Pickers’ and ‘Storage Wars’, antiquing and junking among men is surging.

3. Originally U.S. The action of discarding or scrapping something; (also more generally) the action of abandoning or discontinuing something. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun]

everting1568

deposition1577

discarding1600

excussion1607

dispatch1608

reposition1617

absolution1655

depositing1667

discardment1713

discardurea1762

cashiering1826

dropping1859

discard1906

junking1911

shedding1945

load-shedding1947

1911 Factory Apr. 269/3 With this flaming red tag attached to each defective part, there can be no excuse for any junking of material before the causes for its junking have been found out.

1943 T. W. Lawson Thirty Seconds over Tokyo iv. 47 Now I was thinking about our gas, and the junking of so many of our long-discussed plans.

1964 Guardian 17 Feb. 8/6 It will prevent the total financial plunge into supersonics and the junking of subsonic jets before they have reached the end of their economic life.

1991 Washington Post 27 Sept. 11 Your attic is no doubt piled with items ready for junking.

2013 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 Dec. 15 The junking of the Gonski reforms has left school funding in chaos, says Bianca Hall.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	junking
释义	junkingn. Brit. /ˈdʒʌŋkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdʒəŋkɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: junk v., junk n.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly (i) < junk v. + -ing suffix¹, and partly (ii) (in sense 2) < junk n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. slang. 1. North American regional (New England and south-eastern Canadian). The cutting or division (of something) into sections or chunks; esp. the cutting of felled trees into lengths that can be moved and stacked. Cf. junk v. 1. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1802 S. Chase Diary 21 Apr. in W. B. Lapham Hist. Woodstock, Me. (1882) 277 Rainy in the morning—went to junking and piling. 1839 Boston Courier 21 Nov. 1/1 We found many of the settlers, with their boys busily engaged in junking and piling, and some were ploughing. 1868 Sci. Amer. 18 Jan. 37/3 The first operation is ‘junking,’ when the tusk is sawed into semi-circular blocks and again sawed either into the length of a comb or of a piano key, as may be required. 1886 New Eng. Mag. May 412 The process of ‘junking’ was a tedious one, as the burnt logs soon covered the axe-handle with smut. 1915 A. Cole & C. F. Whitman Hist. Buckfield, Oxf. County, Maine v. 51 What would we not give for a glimpse of any one of the clearings of these early settlers..—the father, busy at his labor of ‘junking,’ planting, or harvesting; the mother hard at work at the loom, and the children playing about the door? 2. U.S. The action of huntinɡ through junk for valuable or collectable items or materials.Originally with reference to salvaging scrap items or materials for resale (esp. without permission or while trespassing), now chiefly in the context of browsing for desirable second-hand decorative items as a leisure activity. ΚΠ 1903 Commons (Chicago) June 5/2 Junking involves the most serious problem of any of the above means by which children earn money. 1938 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 18 Jan. 5/3 Two-thirds of the petty thievery committed in the environs of Washington could be eliminated if juvenile ‘junking’ were prohibited by law. 1976 Amer. Heritage Mag. Apr. 80 Most of our junking merely involved collecting junk..in the back alleys of Denver and reselling it to the rag-and-bottle dealers on Larimer Street. 2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 16 Nov. d5/1 Thanks to the popularity of TV shows like ‘American Pickers’ and ‘Storage Wars’, antiquing and junking among men is surging. 3. Originally U.S. The action of discarding or scrapping something; (also more generally) the action of abandoning or discontinuing something. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun] everting1568 deposition1577 discarding1600 excussion1607 dispatch1608 reposition1617 absolution1655 depositing1667 discardment1713 discardurea1762 cashiering1826 dropping1859 discard1906 junking1911 shedding1945 load-shedding1947 1911 Factory Apr. 269/3 With this flaming red tag attached to each defective part, there can be no excuse for any junking of material before the causes for its junking have been found out. 1943 T. W. Lawson Thirty Seconds over Tokyo iv. 47 Now I was thinking about our gas, and the junking of so many of our long-discussed plans. 1964 Guardian 17 Feb. 8/6 It will prevent the total financial plunge into supersonics and the junking of subsonic jets before they have reached the end of their economic life. 1991 Washington Post 27 Sept. 11 Your attic is no doubt piled with items ready for junking. 2013 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 Dec. 15 The junking of the Gonski reforms has left school funding in chaos, says Bianca Hall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1802
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