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单词 liverpool
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Liverpooln.

Brit. /ˈlɪvəpuːl/, U.S. /ˈlɪvərˌpul/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Liverpool.
Etymology: < Liverpool, the name of an English city on the River Mersey (see note at liver n.1). In Liverpool house n., Liverpool button n., Liverpool pennant n., Liverpool pantile n. with allusion to the seafaring tradition of the city; in Liverpool kiss n. with humorous allusion to the reputation for violence accorded to some parts of the city (compare later Glasgow kiss n.).
I. attributive and compound uses.
1. attributive.
a. Designating delftware and porcelain manufactured in Liverpool in the 18th cent. (see also quot. 1810).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > types of English pottery
Liverpool1750
Wedgwood1787
Mason1804
Plymouth1816
Rockingham1840
Leeds1863
Jackfield1866
Spode1869
Whieldon1869
Minton1871
Doulton1873
Toft1878
Lambeth1884
Wrotham1884
metropolitan1891
Astbury1904
Pratt1920
Malling1933
1750 G. G. Beekman Let. 27 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 115 You must mistake about Liverpool ware being 21/ Sterling otherwise it Must not be such yeallow Sort as Comes from Bristol.
1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 3 Above the salt is a bed of whitish clay, used in making the Liverpool earthen-ware.
1799 in Naval Docs. U.S. Wars with Barbary Powers (1939) I. 318 Articles, Requisite to be Sent to Algiers... Crates of Liverpool ware.
1810 B. Silliman Jrnl. Trav. I. 48 Most of those articles which are sold in America under the general name of Liverpool wares, are brought to this port from Staffordshire, and other interior countries.
1869 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 5 Nov. (1911) I. 60 A Liverpool printed mug of Gen. Wolfe.
1964 M. Drabble Garrick Year iv. 56 One of my Liverpool ware teapots was broken.
1972 Country Life 6 Jan. 21/3 Liverpool or Delft tiles decorate the fireplace surround.
1972 Collector's Guide Aug. 9/1 (advt.) An extremely rare Liverpool Vase, c. 1760 (William Ball's factory).
1994 Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide June 42/1 Garry Atkins shows a Liverpool delftware plate (c.1760/1770) decorated à la chinoise in Fazackerly colours.
b. Originally and chiefly U.S. Designating imported goods which arrive from the port of Liverpool, esp. in Liverpool coal, Liverpool salt. Now historical.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [adjective] > goods from specific place
Liverpool1758
1758 G. G. Beekman Let. 16 Jan. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 321 Liverpool Salt..is the Worst Can be Imported.
1780 F. Hopkinson Let. 11 Aug. in Pennsylvania State Trials (1795) 9 They have carefully examined the said cargo, being Liverpool salt.
1811 Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 16 Jan. The New-York papers speak of it as far superior to Liverpool coal.
1841 J. S. Buckngham Amer., Hist., Statist., & Descriptive I. xiii. 164 We preferred discontinuing the use of it [sc. anthracite] in our apartment altogether, and substituting English coal, called here Liverpool coal.
1872 W. W. Hunter Orissa I. iii. 99 Liverpool salt comes out at very low rates, often indeed as ballast, to Calcutta.
1909 Des Moines (Iowa) News 15 June 2/1 He bought the Liverpool goods and found that he could ship it clear around the world..for about two-thirds what he could ship it from Chicago to Spokane by rail.
1997 S. Bandyopadhyay Caste in Colonial India iii. 71 In areas with major Namasudra concentration, like Pirojpur, Liverpool salt was being freely sold.
2. Nautical (now chiefly historical).
a. Liverpool house n. = deck-house n. at deck n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure > deckhouse > types of
summercastle1345
summer-hutch1420
poop1551
roundhouse1611
caboose1747
hurricane-house1818
wheelhouse1835
storm-house1836
pilothouse1842
Texas1853
Liverpool house1869
monkey forecastle1870
1869 in C. N. Longridge Cutty Sark (1933) ii. 205 Liverpool house fitted on centre 30 feet long.
1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 422 Liverpool house, a superstructure extending from side to side and situated amidships in large (steel built) sailing vessels.
2004 R. Carter Windjammers ii. 38 The main distinguishing features are Garthpool's open railing around her Liverpool house.
b. Liverpool button n. slang a makeshift button or toggle used by sailors to replace one that has been lost.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > toggle
Liverpool button1883
toggle1903
1883 Sailors' Lang. Liverpool button—The name for a kind of toggle used by sailors when they lose a button off their coats.
1908 E. Noble Grain Carriers iii. i. 146 Shanghaied crews are usually persons dressed in a rag and a Liverpool button.
1993 O. Friz (title) Liverpool Buttons and Homeward-Bound Stitches: Portrait of a Master Mariner.
c. Liverpool pantile n. rare slang a (typically hard) ship's biscuit (see quot. 2007).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > ship's biscuit
ship bread1598
bread1625
ship's biscuit1634
pilot bread1788
midshipman's nuts1828
hardtack1830
pilot biscuit1836
pantile1874
Liverpool pantile1899
1899 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 22 Oct. 11/2 In a measure they were bad old days, when ‘salt horse’ and ‘Liverpool pantiles’, as the biscuits were appropriately named, were the staple food of the British Mercantile Marine.
1902 B. Lubbock Round Horn viii. 311 He handed me a regular bad-looking Liverpool pantile from the bread-barge.
1925 B. Hayes Hull Down iii. 28 The biscuits, commonly called ‘Liverpool pantiles’, were so hard you could break them only with a hammer.
2007 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 10 Mar. 30 The display also focuses on sailors' diet over the years. A ship's biscuit dates from about 1914. They were jokingly known as Liverpool Pantiles (roofing tiles) because of their shape and texture.
d. Liverpool weather n. colloquial windy and unpleasant weather.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun]
un-i-withereOE
weathera1122
judgement weather1796
muck1855
Liverpool weather1896
1848 Liverpool Mercury 18 Aug. 2/3 Merchants will see from this that Liverpool weather must not be taken as a standard by which to judge of the weather generally.]
1896 R. Kipling in Graphic Christmas 16/2 There was a sou'-wester brewin' when we made the mouth o' the Mersey, a bitter cold morn wi' a grey-green sea and a grey-green sky—Liverpool weather, as they say.
1934 G. H. Grant Consigned to Davy Jones (1935) xviii. 260 If we was on a windbag..it would be what we calls Liverpool weather.
e. Liverpool pennant n. slang = Liverpool button n. at sense 2b.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > other fastenings
crotcheta1685
skewer1771
back-string1785
guard-chain1832
patte1835
tie-up1896
press-button1908
press fastener1922
Liverpool pennant1933
Velcro1960
1933 J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 287 Liverpool pennants, rope yarns used instead of buttons.
3. Liverpool kiss n. slang (originally U.S. Nautical, now chiefly Australian and New Zealand) a blow delivered to the head or face, esp. a headbutt (cf. Glasgow kiss n.).
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the head
bushing1398
butting1598
butt1826
headbutt1925
Liverpool kiss1944
nutting1963
Glasgow kiss1982
1944 Amer. Speech 19 106 A Liverpool kiss is a kick in the chin.
1957 G. Kersh Fowler's End ii. 31 You know what it is, a Liverpool Kiss? Make a quick grab for the lapels o' the coat, an' pull somebody forward. At the same time bunt 'im in the face miv the top o' your 'ead an' kick 'im in the balls miv your knee.
1963 L. L'Amour Fallon vi. 105 He ducked inside another punch, drove his head against Maloon's chest, then ripped up with his skull in the vicious ‘Liverpool kiss’ known to rough-and-tumble fighters everywhere. Maloon's head was smashed back by the impact of the skull under the chin.
1983 Times 28 June 21/6 [In Christchurch, New Zealand] Bainbridge was twice discovered..in the act of indulging the Liverpool kiss.
1999 Australian (Nexis) 25 Jan. 25 He responded with a magnificent Liverpool kiss.
4. Liverpool sound n. the melodic popular music associated with the Beatles and other Liverpool bands, esp. of the 1960s. Cf. Mersey sound at Mersey n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music
a cappella1905
soundclash1925
marabi1933
doo-wop1958
filk1959
folk-rock1963
Liverpool sound1963
Mersey beat1963
Mersey sound1963
surf music1963
malombo1964
mbaqanga1964
easy listening1965
disco music1966
Motown1966
boogaloo1967
power pop1967
psychedelia1967
yé-yé1967
agitpop1968
bubblegum1968
Tamla Motown1968
Tex-Mex1968
downtempo1969
taarab1969
thrash1969
world music1969
funk1970
MOR1970
tropicalism1970
Afrobeat1971
electro-pop1971
post-rock1971
techno-pop1971
Tropicalia1971
tropicalismo1971
disco1972
Krautrock1972
schlager1973
Afropop1974
punk funk1974
disco funk1975
Europop1976
mgqashiyo1976
P-funk1976
funkadelia1977
karaoke music1977
alternative music1978
hardcore1978
psychobilly1978
punkabilly1978
R&B1978
cowpunk1979
dangdut1979
hip-hop1979
Northern Soul1979
rap1979
rapping1979
jit1980
trance1980
benga1981
New Romanticism1981
post-punk1981
rap music1981
scratch1982
scratch-music1982
synth-pop1982
electro1983
garage1983
Latin1983
Philly1983
New Age1984
New Age music1985
ambient1986
Britpop1986
gangster rap1986
house1986
house music1986
mbalax1986
rai1986
trot1986
zouk1986
bhangra1987
garage1987
hip-house1987
new school1987
old school1987
thrashcore1987
acid1988
acid house1988
acid jazz1988
ambience1988
Cantopop1988
dance1988
deep house1988
industrial1988
swingbeat1988
techno1988
dream pop1989
gangsta rap1989
multiculti1989
new jack swing1989
noise-pop1989
rave1989
Tejano1989
breakbeat1990
chill-out music1990
indie1990
new jack1990
new jill swing1990
noisecore1990
baggy1991
drum and bass1991
gangsta1991
handbag house1991
hip-pop1991
loungecore1991
psychedelic trance1991
shoegazing1991
slowcore1991
techno-house1991
gabba1992
jungle1992
sadcore1992
UK garage1992
darkcore1993
dark side1993
electronica1993
G-funk1993
sampladelia1994
trip hop1994
break1996
psy-trance1996
nu skool1997
folktronica1999
dubstep2002
Bongo Flava2003
grime2003
Bongo2004
singeli2015
1963 Daily Mail 20 Sept. 10/4 It's been boys, boys, boys from Merseyside who have dominated pop music since the ‘Liverpool sound’ started to carry all before it towards the end of last year.
1963 Daily Tel. 10 Dec. 13 A show by the Beatles, the ‘Liverpool sound’ group, was not typical of ‘pop’ concerts.
1981 Paris (Texas) News 18 Dec. 15/3 Each band has their own sound, it's not a Liverpool sound.
2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 Dec. 9 The distinctive Liverpool sound has spread across the world in the past five decades.
II. absol. uses.
5. Delftware or porcelain manufactured in Liverpool in the 18th cent.
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1957 C. W. Mankowitz & R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 131/2 Liverpool is at times difficult to distinguish from Bristol.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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