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单词 lingo
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lingon.1

Brit. /ˈlɪŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈlɪŋɡoʊ/
Forms: 1600s– lingo, 1700s–1800s linguo.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from a Romance language.
Etymology: Probably < one or more of the Romance descendants of classical Latin lingua lingua n. (compare Portuguese lingua , †lingoa , Italian lingua : for both, see the etymological note at language n.); compare -o suffix. Compare slightly later lingua n. 1, and perhaps also lingua franca n.
In early use frequently depreciative. Now usually colloquial and humorous.
A language, dialect, etc., that is strange or unintelligible to the person who hears it; spec. a foreign language. Later also: the vocabulary or jargon of a particular group of people, subject, or field of activity.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > a foreign language
foreign language1555
uplandish1586
Welsh1598
outlandisha1626
lingo1659
second language1875
the bat1887
target language1965
foreign1971
the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon
language1502
term of art1570
fustiana1593
jargoning1623
jargon1651
speciality1657
lingo1659
cant1684
linguaa1734
patois1790
slang1801
shibboleth1829
glim-glibber1844
argot1860
gammy1864
patter1875
stagese1876
vernacular1876
palaver1909
babble1930
buzzword1946
in word1964
rabbit1976
1659 New Haven Colonial Rec. (1858) 337 To wch the plant [= plaintiff] answered, that he was not acquainted with Duch lingo.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 55 Well, Well, I shall understand your Lingo one of these days, Cozen, in the mean while, I must answer in plain English.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. ii. 234 I have often warned you not to talk the Court Gibberish to me. I tell you, I don't understand the Lingo . View more context for this quotation
1758 J. Clubbe Hist. Wheatfield 30 When Men speak French, or any Outlandish Linguo.
1820 H. L. Porter Child of Providence ii. 15 I wonders what country she comes from... I em thinking, as my master has such a power of learning, he will be able to understand her lingo main well.
1839 E. W. Tucker Five Months in Labrador & Newfoundland i. 16 When I thought I had mastered sufficiently the lingo of the quarter-deck, to know the jib from the foresail, I determined one day to try my skill.
1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. xvii I should be half inclined to name the Yankee a lingo rather than a dialect.
1938 Life 14 Nov. 6/3 The word ‘Goon’ was first popularized by college students who used it to mean any stupid person. Labor union lingo has given it a second meaning: a tough or thug.
1974 W. Holt in R. M. Sherman & R. B. Sherman Over Here! (1979) i. 16 I was just given the old ho-heave and now I got no place to get my hat hung—if you get my lingo.
2008 C. Newkey-Burden in J. Burchill & C. Newkey-Burden Not in my Name App. 179 The best part is, pretty much everyone in France speaks English so you don't even have to learn the lingo to join in!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lingon.2

Brit. /ˈlɪŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈlɪŋɡoʊ/
Forms: 1700s lingol, 1700s– lingoe, 1800s– lingo.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: lingot n.; Latin lingua.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant (with specific semantic development) of lingot n., or perhaps (on account of the shape of the weight) ultimately < classical Latin lingua (compare later lingua n. 2 in the same meaning).The form lingol may show excrescent l.
Weaving. Now chiefly historical.
In various types of loom: a small weight, typically elongated in shape or made from a length of heavy wire, suspended from the loop or heddle through which each warp thread passes.
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1731 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 37 106 Every Thread of the Warp goes through a small Brass Ring called a Male, or through a Loop in the Leish, and hath a small long Weight or Lingoe hung below, to counter-balance the Packthreads.
1824 Repertory Arts, Manufactures, & Agric. 2nd Ser. 44 260 This motion may be given to either of the punch-projectors, by advancing that endless cord which passes through the eye formed upon it in the direction from I to J, while the lingoe F will return to its former position.
1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 254 The cords whereby the leaden weights, which are called lingos, are attached to the harness.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Lingo, a long, thin weight of wire used in Jacquard looms.
1905 New Internat. Encycl. XII. 448/2 To the lower end of each leash-string is attached the lingo.
1930 U.S. Patent 1,760,649 1/1 My invention..relates more particularly to the manner of connecting the lingo to the heddle whereby there is produced a composite article particularly adaptable for use in Jacquard looms and the like.
1979 E. Broudy Bk. Looms vii. 130/2 Each lingoe might weigh no more than an ounce, but for a simple silk pattern the drawboy might have to pull, including the friction of the cords, some thirty-six pounds.
2007 E. Talbert et al. Picturing Hist. Person County 130 The cords up on top of the machine were called lingo cords.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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