Kentishadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈkɛntɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈkɛntɪʃ/

Forms: Also Old English Centisc, Middle English Kentisc, Kentiss, Middle English Kentissh(e.

Etymology: Old English Cęntisc , < Cęnt, < Latin Cantia Kent + isc , -ish suffix¹.

A. adj.

Of or belonging to Kent. Chiefly of the inhabitants or speech. Kentish man (see quot. 1887).

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adjective] > Kentish

Kentisha1100

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [adjective] > districts of England > specific counties

Kentisha1100

Norfolk1407

Northumbrian1602

Somersetian1612

Sussexian1612

Sussexan1614

East Anglian1622

Suffolkian1622

Yorkshire1683

Cumbrian1780

Cornubian1782

broad-acred1898

a1100 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 999 Com þa seo Centisce fyrde þær ongean.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3709 Kentisce [c1300 Otho Kentisse] leoden.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 355 Þis Ethelbertus regnede among Kentisshe men fyfe and fifty ȝere.

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iii. f. 71 At last also the kentish-men yeelded.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 346 The wives and daughters of the Kentish farmers.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Man of Kent, a title claimed by the inhabitants of the Weald as their peculiar designation: all others they regard as Kentish men.

B. n.

1. plural. The natives or inhabitants of Kent. rare.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > south of England > Kent

Kentishes905

long-tail1612

Wealding1767

905 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) ann. 905 Þa ætsæton ða Centiscan þær beæftan.

1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 233 Kentish long-tails..A note of disgrace on all English men, though it chanceth to stick onely on the Kentish at this day.

1735 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms 15 Thus the Kentish would have many particularities in their speech.

2. The dialect of Kent.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > English English

north country1698

west country1711

Yorkshire1717

Kenticism1735

English English1783

cockney1812

Cockneyese1823

East Angliana1825

Somersetian1825

Northumbrian1845

Norfolk1863

Kentish1866

Doric1870

Kensingtonian1911

Mummerset1915

Geordie1928

Hoxtoniana1935

scouse1963

mockney1967

Kensington1968

Liverpudlian1985

Jafaican2006

MLE2006

Multicultural London English2006

1866 R. Morris Ayenbite Introd. 6 In the Old Kentish of the Ayenbite an e takes the place of the Southern u.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Introd. 8 The specimens of Kentish in the Early and Middle English Periods.

Compounds

C1. Common in, or peculiar to, Kent.

Kentish ague n.

Kentish cherry n.

Kentish codlin n.

ΚΠ

1803 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 671/1 Apples,..Holland Pippin, Kentish pippin, Kentish codlin.

Kentish pippin n.

ΚΠ

1803 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 671/1 Apples,..Holland Pippin, Kentish pippin, Kentish codlin.

Kentish tracery n.

Kentish tree n.

ΚΠ

1720 J. Gay Poems Several Occasions II. 376 Thy trembling lip..Red as the cherry from the Kentish tree.

b. Made or manufactured in Kent.

Kentish brick n.

ΚΠ

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 3 Plain Work, is done with the Grey Kentish Bricks.

Kentish cloth n.

ΚΠ

1566 Act 8 Eliz. c. 6 §2 Anye Clothe commonly called Kentyshe Clothe or Suffolke Clothe.

C2.

Kentish balsam n. Dog's Mercury, Mercurialis perennis (Britten and Holland).

† Kentish cap n. Obsolete a species of paper (see quot.).

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper of specific size

paper royal1497

paper rial1501

sheet1510

demy1546

imperial1572

pot1579

lily-pot1593

grape1611

cap1620

crown paper1620

post1648

foolscap1660

bastard1711

copy1712

crown1712

Kentish cap1766

vessel of paper1790

antiquarian1815

quartern1819

quatrain1819

Albert note1846

cap-paper1854

sermon paper1855

Albert1859

columbier1875

Albert notepaper1881

cuatro1904

duchess1923

half-imperial-

1766 S. Clark Leadbetter's Royal Gauger (ed. 6) ii. xiv. 372 Names of Paper: Kentish Cap. Dimensions of each Sheet—Length 21½ Bread. 18.

Kentish cousins n. distant relatives.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] > distant relations

Kentish cousinsa1796

a1796 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms: Proverbs (E.D.S.) Kentish Cousins. The sense of this is much the same with that [of].. cousins germans quite remov'd.

Kentish crow n. one of the many names of the hooded crow, Corvus cornix.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus cornix (hooded crow)

hooded crow?a1513

Royston crow1611

pied crow1648

scarecrow1676

grey crow1715

hoodie1789

Harry Denchman18..

hoodie-crow1816

bunting crow1831

Norway crow1848

saddleback1864

greyback1884

Kentish crow1893

sparrow-duck1895

1893 P. H. Emerson On Eng. Lagoons xxx. 156 We saw a hawk chasing a Kentish crow.

Kentish fire n. a prolonged and ordered salvo or volley of applause, or demonstration of impatience or dissent (said to have originated in reference to meetings held in Kent in 1828–9, in opposition to the Catholic Relief Bill: see Notes & Queries series 2, I. 182, 423; VIII. 278).

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > expression of disapproval > by sounds or exclamations

hootinga1225

hissingc1384

fie?1550

acclamation1602

hiss1602

hoot1612

catcall1749

catcallingc1781

scraping1785

sibilation1822

the big bird1825

boo hoo1825

booing1830

Kentish fire1834

boo-hooing1865

boo1884

slow handclap1904

tutting1929

slow handclapping1932

slow clap1937

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [noun] > an act or burst of

plaudite1573

plaudiat1584

plaudit1600

applaudit1606

salvoa1734

ovation1785

round1794

Kentish fire1834

rounder1881

bualadh bos1908

1834 Ld. Winchelsea Speech at Dublin, 15 Aug. in Reddall Fact, Fancy & Fable (1889) 301 Let it be given with Kentish Fire.

1883 J. Chamberlain Speech at Birmingham 30 Mar. The cheers..are your prompt reply to the Kentish-fire with which Birmingham Tories are wont to solace themselves.

Kentish glory n. a large beautiful moth, Endromis versicolor.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Endromididae > endromis versicolor (Kentish glory)

Kentish glory1775

1775 M. Harris Eng. Lepidoptera 27 (heading) Glory, Kentish.

1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 47 The Kentish Glory.—Fore wings of the male brown; hind wings orange-colour: all the wings of the female alike, pale smoky-brown.

1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. vi. 406 The ‘Kentish glory’, Endromis versicolor,..is a large and strong moth, and flies wildly in the daytime in birch-woods.

1971 Times 28 Jan. 12/6 The birch which provides the last English home of the Kentish glory moth.

† Kentish Knocker n. [ < Kentish Knock the sandbank before the mouth of the Thames] Obsolete a Kentish smuggler.

ΚΠ

1891 W. C. Sydney Eng. 18th Cent. I. 358 Gangs of forty or fifty ‘Kentish Knockers’, as these smugglers were called.

Kentish long-tails n. a phrase embodying the old belief that the natives of Kent had tails; also, the Bearded Wild Oat-grass, Avena fatua ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).

ΚΠ

1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 233 Kentish long-tails..A note of disgrace on all English men, though it chanceth to stick onely on the Kentish at this day.

Kentish nightingale n. the blackcap.

ΚΠ

1844 Zoologist 2 620 Blackcap... It is frequently called the ‘Kentish nightingale’, which epithet it deserves.

Kentish plover n. a British ring plover, Charadrius alexandrinus.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > member of (miscellaneous)

ring plover1797

wirebird1816

Kentish plover1828

piping plover1828

mountain plover1858

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 288 C. Cantianus... The Kentish Plover.

1837 J. Gould Birds Europe IV. Pl. 40 The habits of the Kentish Plover are similar to those of the Ring Dottrel.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 341 The Kentish Plover..has its breeding place in Britain limited to the pebbly beach between Sandwich and Hastings.

Kentish rag n. a hard compact limestone found in Kent, used for paving and building.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others

lias1404

stone marrow1681

stone marl1682

saint's head stone1763

Kentish rag1769

watericle1776

kankar1793

Cotham1816

mountain limestone1817

tosca1818

cornstone1819

burr1829

coral-limestone1831

scar-limestone1831

Wenlock limestone1834

bavin1839

curf1839

Solenhofen slate1841

Beer stone1871

miliolite limestone1872

Clipsham1877

reef limestone1884

Hopton wood1888

thermo-calcite1888

Kilkenny marble1930

micrite1959

1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) I. 158 From the Weald of Kent..they bring..A Kind of Paving Stone, called Kentish-rags.

1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks iii. 20 Some..as the Kentish rag, afford good building stones.

1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 46 A C15 tower of Kentish rag and Reigate dressings with diagonal buttresses and a NE turret.

Kentish tern n. the Sandwich tern, Sterna cantiaca.

Derivatives

ˈKentishly adv. in the Kentish manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [adverb] > Kent

Kentishly1588

1588 W. Kempe Educ. Children C iv Yea, in one house, we heare one speake Northernly, another Westernly, another Kentishly.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kentish
释义	Kentishadj.n. Brit. /ˈkɛntɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈkɛntɪʃ/ Forms: Also Old English Centisc, Middle English Kentisc, Kentiss, Middle English Kentissh(e. Etymology: Old English Cęntisc , < Cęnt, < Latin Cantia Kent + isc , -ish suffix¹. A. adj. Of or belonging to Kent. Chiefly of the inhabitants or speech. Kentish man (see quot. 1887). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adjective] > Kentish Kentisha1100 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [adjective] > districts of England > specific counties Kentisha1100 Norfolk1407 Northumbrian1602 Somersetian1612 Sussexian1612 Sussexan1614 East Anglian1622 Suffolkian1622 Yorkshire1683 Cumbrian1780 Cornubian1782 broad-acred1898 a1100 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 999 Com þa seo Centisce fyrde þær ongean. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3709 Kentisce [c1300 Otho Kentisse] leoden. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 355 Þis Ethelbertus regnede among Kentisshe men fyfe and fifty ȝere. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iii. f. 71 At last also the kentish-men yeelded. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 346 The wives and daughters of the Kentish farmers. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Man of Kent, a title claimed by the inhabitants of the Weald as their peculiar designation: all others they regard as Kentish men. B. n. 1. plural. The natives or inhabitants of Kent. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > south of England > Kent Kentishes905 long-tail1612 Wealding1767 905 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) ann. 905 Þa ætsæton ða Centiscan þær beæftan. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 233 Kentish long-tails..A note of disgrace on all English men, though it chanceth to stick onely on the Kentish at this day. 1735 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms 15 Thus the Kentish would have many particularities in their speech. 2. The dialect of Kent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > English English north country1698 west country1711 Yorkshire1717 Kenticism1735 English English1783 cockney1812 Cockneyese1823 East Angliana1825 Somersetian1825 Northumbrian1845 Norfolk1863 Kentish1866 Doric1870 Kensingtonian1911 Mummerset1915 Geordie1928 Hoxtoniana1935 scouse1963 mockney1967 Kensington1968 Liverpudlian1985 Jafaican2006 MLE2006 Multicultural London English2006 1866 R. Morris Ayenbite Introd. 6 In the Old Kentish of the Ayenbite an e takes the place of the Southern u. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Introd. 8 The specimens of Kentish in the Early and Middle English Periods. Compounds C1. Common in, or peculiar to, Kent. a. Kentish ague n. Kentish cherry n. Kentish codlin n. ΚΠ 1803 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 671/1 Apples,..Holland Pippin, Kentish pippin, Kentish codlin. Kentish pippin n. ΚΠ 1803 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 671/1 Apples,..Holland Pippin, Kentish pippin, Kentish codlin. Kentish tracery n. Kentish tree n. ΚΠ 1720 J. Gay Poems Several Occasions II. 376 Thy trembling lip..Red as the cherry from the Kentish tree. b. Made or manufactured in Kent. Kentish brick n. ΚΠ 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 3 Plain Work, is done with the Grey Kentish Bricks. Kentish cloth n. ΚΠ 1566 Act 8 Eliz. c. 6 §2 Anye Clothe commonly called Kentyshe Clothe or Suffolke Clothe. C2. Kentish balsam n. Dog's Mercury, Mercurialis perennis (Britten and Holland). † Kentish cap n. Obsolete a species of paper (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper of specific size paper royal1497 paper rial1501 sheet1510 demy1546 imperial1572 pot1579 lily-pot1593 grape1611 cap1620 crown paper1620 post1648 foolscap1660 bastard1711 copy1712 crown1712 Kentish cap1766 vessel of paper1790 antiquarian1815 quartern1819 quatrain1819 Albert note1846 cap-paper1854 sermon paper1855 Albert1859 columbier1875 Albert notepaper1881 cuatro1904 duchess1923 half-imperial- 1766 S. Clark Leadbetter's Royal Gauger (ed. 6) ii. xiv. 372 Names of Paper: Kentish Cap. Dimensions of each Sheet—Length 21½ Bread. 18. Kentish cousins n. distant relatives. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] > distant relations Kentish cousinsa1796 a1796 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms: Proverbs (E.D.S.) Kentish Cousins. The sense of this is much the same with that [of].. cousins germans quite remov'd. Kentish crow n. one of the many names of the hooded crow, Corvus cornix. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus cornix (hooded crow) hooded crow?a1513 Royston crow1611 pied crow1648 scarecrow1676 grey crow1715 hoodie1789 Harry Denchman18.. hoodie-crow1816 bunting crow1831 Norway crow1848 saddleback1864 greyback1884 Kentish crow1893 sparrow-duck1895 1893 P. H. Emerson On Eng. Lagoons xxx. 156 We saw a hawk chasing a Kentish crow. Kentish fire n. a prolonged and ordered salvo or volley of applause, or demonstration of impatience or dissent (said to have originated in reference to meetings held in Kent in 1828–9, in opposition to the Catholic Relief Bill: see Notes & Queries series 2, I. 182, 423; VIII. 278). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > expression of disapproval > by sounds or exclamations hootinga1225 hissingc1384 fie?1550 acclamation1602 hiss1602 hoot1612 catcall1749 catcallingc1781 scraping1785 sibilation1822 the big bird1825 boo hoo1825 booing1830 Kentish fire1834 boo-hooing1865 boo1884 slow handclap1904 tutting1929 slow handclapping1932 slow clap1937 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [noun] > an act or burst of plaudite1573 plaudiat1584 plaudit1600 applaudit1606 salvoa1734 ovation1785 round1794 Kentish fire1834 rounder1881 bualadh bos1908 1834 Ld. Winchelsea Speech at Dublin, 15 Aug. in Reddall Fact, Fancy & Fable (1889) 301 Let it be given with Kentish Fire. 1883 J. Chamberlain Speech at Birmingham 30 Mar. The cheers..are your prompt reply to the Kentish-fire with which Birmingham Tories are wont to solace themselves. Kentish glory n. a large beautiful moth, Endromis versicolor. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Endromididae > endromis versicolor (Kentish glory) Kentish glory1775 1775 M. Harris Eng. Lepidoptera 27 (heading) Glory, Kentish. 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 47 The Kentish Glory.—Fore wings of the male brown; hind wings orange-colour: all the wings of the female alike, pale smoky-brown. 1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. vi. 406 The ‘Kentish glory’, Endromis versicolor,..is a large and strong moth, and flies wildly in the daytime in birch-woods. 1971 Times 28 Jan. 12/6 The birch which provides the last English home of the Kentish glory moth. † Kentish Knocker n. [ < Kentish Knock the sandbank before the mouth of the Thames] Obsolete a Kentish smuggler. ΚΠ 1891 W. C. Sydney Eng. 18th Cent. I. 358 Gangs of forty or fifty ‘Kentish Knockers’, as these smugglers were called. Kentish long-tails n. a phrase embodying the old belief that the natives of Kent had tails; also, the Bearded Wild Oat-grass, Avena fatua ( Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΚΠ 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 233 Kentish long-tails..A note of disgrace on all English men, though it chanceth to stick onely on the Kentish at this day. Kentish nightingale n. the blackcap. ΚΠ 1844 Zoologist 2 620 Blackcap... It is frequently called the ‘Kentish nightingale’, which epithet it deserves. Kentish plover n. a British ring plover, Charadrius alexandrinus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > member of (miscellaneous) ring plover1797 wirebird1816 Kentish plover1828 piping plover1828 mountain plover1858 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 288 C. Cantianus... The Kentish Plover. 1837 J. Gould Birds Europe IV. Pl. 40 The habits of the Kentish Plover are similar to those of the Ring Dottrel. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 341 The Kentish Plover..has its breeding place in Britain limited to the pebbly beach between Sandwich and Hastings. Kentish rag n. a hard compact limestone found in Kent, used for paving and building. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others lias1404 stone marrow1681 stone marl1682 saint's head stone1763 Kentish rag1769 watericle1776 kankar1793 Cotham1816 mountain limestone1817 tosca1818 cornstone1819 burr1829 coral-limestone1831 scar-limestone1831 Wenlock limestone1834 bavin1839 curf1839 Solenhofen slate1841 Beer stone1871 miliolite limestone1872 Clipsham1877 reef limestone1884 Hopton wood1888 thermo-calcite1888 Kilkenny marble1930 micrite1959 1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) I. 158 From the Weald of Kent..they bring..A Kind of Paving Stone, called Kentish-rags. 1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks iii. 20 Some..as the Kentish rag, afford good building stones. 1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 46 A C15 tower of Kentish rag and Reigate dressings with diagonal buttresses and a NE turret. Kentish tern n. the Sandwich tern, Sterna cantiaca. Derivatives ˈKentishly adv. in the Kentish manner. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [adverb] > Kent Kentishly1588 1588 W. Kempe Educ. Children C iv Yea, in one house, we heare one speake Northernly, another Westernly, another Kentishly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.905
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