locon.¹

Brit.

/ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈloʊkoʊ/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: locomotive n.

Etymology: Shortened < locomotive n.

A train engine, a locomotive.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive

locomotive engine1814

iron horse1825

locomotive1829

loco1833

railway engine1833

bullgine1848

bull1889

pig1931

locie1934

1833 S. Breck Note-bk. 4 May in Recoll. (1877) 274 With the loco..he may start from one city in the morning and return again in the evening.

1835 S. Breck Let. 22 July in M. C. Crawford Romantic Days in Old Boston (1922) 326 Five or six other cars were attached to the ‘loco’ and uglier boxes I do not wish to travel in.

1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 243 An eight-wheeled ‘American’ loco.

1929 Pop. Mech. Dec. 125/1 (advt.) These..are the most powerful model electric locos ever built.

1955 Times 28 May 10/2 The last named company received important contracts including one for 94 diesel electric locos for the Irish State Transport.

1974 A. MacLean Breakheart Pass iv. 63 To haul this heavy load with a single loco?.. Thirty hours, I'd say.

2007 Continental Modeller Aug. 513 It has recently..been reported that these locos are to be replaced on these workings.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive and objective.

ΚΠ

1878 Iron 11 May 586 (table) Schenectady Loco. Works.

1887 Notts. Guardian 6 Aug. 4/7 The doors giving admission to what is known as ‘the loco shed’.

1889 Bury & Norwich Post 10 Sept. 3/1 The Lucigen light recently placed in the Loco Yard.

1930 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Sept. 1/3 (heading) Engineer falls from loco cab and killed.

1946 V. N. Wood Metall. Materials x. 259 Arsenical copper..is..employed for loco fire-boxes, boiler tubes, bolts and rivets.

1965 L. A. Murray in L. A. Murray & G. Lehmann Ilex Tree 35 The loco horn beams out its admonition.

1993 C. MacDougall Lights Below 30 One or two men travelled to Springburn to work on the railway or in the loco building sheds.

2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales iii. 120 Visitors..on most days can have a look in the loco shed.

b. Instrumental, as loco-hauled adjective.

ΚΠ

1938 Ann. Rep. Govt. Mining Engineer 1937 68 Loco-drawn hoppers still provide their quota of fatal accidents.

1966 B. Collins Copper Crucible xix. 60 They crowded onto the loco driven trains.

1981 Times 26 Mar. 3/5 Loco-hauled coach availability down from 85 to 75 per cent.

2007 Continental Modeller Aug. 499 Diesel-powered passenger trains (loco-hauled and railcars).

C2.

loco-spot v. (a) intransitive = trainspot v.; (b) transitive to watch for and note the details of (a locomotive); (now somewhat dated).

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > spotting trains, watching birds, etc. > train-spot, bird-watch [verb (intransitive)]

birdwatch1938

bird1952

loco-spot1961

trainspot1968

twitch1977

1961 A. Buckeridge Just Like Jennings i. 21 As the power of speech returned he took a deep breath and said: ‘We were loco spotting, sir.’

1968 Listener 21 Mar. 368/2 I loco-spotted 45076..and 45254.

2006 R. Fisk Great War for Civilisation (2007) xi Robert loco-spotting French steam trains; and Bill and Peggy together by the car, slightly out of focus, a picture that must have been taken by me.

loco-spotter n. = trainspotter n. (now somewhat dated).

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > spotting trains, watching birds, etc. > [noun] > train-spotter

trainspotter1949

loco-spotter1959

gricer1969

1959 Junior Radio Times 25 Sept. 1/1 What is the locospotter looking for? Chiefly the engine number, which normally is painted on the cab side and also on the smoke-box door; secondly, the name if the engine has one; and thirdly, the code of the shed to which the engine is allocated.

1983 N. Humphrey Consciousness Regained (1984) xi. 144 Fifty identical stamps do not make a stamp-collection, and fifty sightings of the same railway engine bring no joy to the loco-spotter.

2008 R. Fisk Age of Warrior vi. 221 The Golden Arrow, in those pre-Eurostar days, was the joy of every loco-spotter.

loco-spotting n. = trainspotting n. (now somewhat dated).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > spotting trains, watching birds, etc. > [noun]

bird-spotting1926

trainspotting1951

loco-spotting1952

gricing1968

grice1971

twitching1977

1952 A. Buckeridge Jennings & Darbishire x. 153 This is no time to go loco-spotting.

1959 Junior Radio Times 25 Sept. 1/1 One of the objects of locospotting is to see—or ‘cop’—all the engines in a particular class, marking off the number of each engine as it is observed.

1960 E. W. Hildick Boy at Window xvii. 131 It was a train the boy remembered well from his loco-spotting days.

2004 D. St. J. Thomas Journey through Brit. (2005) xvii. 338 I noticed a photograph of a Great Western engine on the wall... I asked why it was there, adding: ‘Do you know where I did my loco spotting?’

loco-type n. and adj. (a) n. = locomotive-type adj. and n. (b) at locomotive adj. and n. Compounds 2 (now rare); (b) adj. = locomotive-type adj. and n. (a) at locomotive adj. and n. Compounds 2.

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1878 Eng. Mechanic 27 Sept. 80/2 I am about making a ‘boiler’, but should like a little information... It is a loco-type I require in iron, and how many brass tubes should I require?

1884 Electrician 5 Apr. 482/1 Two 16 horse power stationary coupled engines, with multitubular loco-type boiler, by Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, of Grantham.

1906 W. Norris Mod. Steam Road Wagons 21 A great objection to the loco type is the amount of space occupied.

1981 New Scientist 24 Dec. 900/1 The little Atlantic had a proper loco-type boiler with the normal tubes and firebox.

1996 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 30 Nov. 12 Its loco-type side-fired coal wetback boiler produces an ideal working pressure of 100 psi, delivering 3 hp from a compound steam engine.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

locon.²

Brit.

/ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈloʊkoʊ/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: loco-foco n.

Etymology: Short for loco-foco n.

U.S. Politics (now historical).

A member of supporter of the Loco-foco party; a Democrat.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Democratic Party > member or adherent of > of branch of

loco-foco1835

loco1838

O.K.1840

hard1843

softshell1845

barn-burner1848

hardshell1852

soft1853

softshell1853

Bourbon1859

short-hairs1867

New Dem1962

Blue Dog1995

1838 J. A. Quitman Let. 13 Dec. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. vi. 165 I thus claim to be a true Loco and Nullifier.

1841 H. Clay Let. 4 July in Private Corr. (1855) 454 The Locos are..opposed to the scheme.

1847 E. Dickinson Lett. (1894) I. 67 To say nothing of its falling into the merciless hands of a loco!

1888 M. A. Green Springfield (Mass.) xix. 480 The locos, the free-soilers, and the independents ran separate tickets.

1947 F. D. Downey Our Lusty Forefathers 253 Stuff and guff! Let the Locos read their history.

2008 C. E. Spann & M. E. Williams Presidential Praise 95 New York Democrats were popularly known as locos.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

locon.³

Brit.

/ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈloʊkoʊ/

Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: Spanish yerba loca.

Etymology: Probably shortened < American Spanish yerba loca, hierba loca (18th cent.) < yerba , hierba plant (see herb n.) + loca , feminine of loco insane, mad (see loco adj.), so called on account of its effect on livestock that eat it; the ending was probably altered after the Spanish masculine form loco . Compare later yerba loco n., and also later locoweed n., loco adj., locoed adj.

North American.

1. Any of several leguminous plants of either of the closely related genera Astragalus and Oxytropis (both of the subfamily Faboideae) found in the western and south-western United States (see sense 2). Also with distinguishing word.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > loco-weed

loco1844

yerba loco1859

locoweed1879

1844 St. Louis Reveille 8 Dec. 2/4 He was girt about he neck with a leather bridle, and his meat was locos and wild onions.

1874 Calif. Horticulturist & Floral Mag. 4 309/2 We gave some account of a poisonous plant, called loco, which grows in California.

1886 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 297 A weed called ‘loco’ has of late years largely increased in some of the cattle-ranges of Texas and the Indian territory.

1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny 365 Ever see a bronc that had been chewing on loco?

1948 E. N. Wentworth America's Sheep Trails 467/2 Six varieties are common, and ‘white loco’ and ‘sheep loco’ are the worst offenders.

1955 W. Foster-Harris Look of Old West ix. 260 The most famous of the lethal stuff is undoubtedly loco, or crazy, weed... Loco grows all over the West, and a locoed horse is easy to spot.

2008 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 24 Aug. d6/2 The woolly loco blooms in June, with violet flowers in dense spikes.

2. More fully loco disease. The disease of livestock caused by the ingestion of loco plants, typically characterized by neurological symptoms including incoordination, hypersensitivity to stimuli, and agitation, usually accompanied by weight loss.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > dietary disorders

surfeit1623

grass sickness1845

loco1876

1875 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 19 Jan. 1/4 Horses and cattle in the vicinity..act foolishly. Hence the Mexican name, loco, given it.]

1876 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 6 4 What is most remarkable with this, and the Colorado Loco, is the permanence of the impression, often lasting many months.

1887 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1885–6 10 65 Occasionally a person was met with who firmly asserted that the plant in question did not cause the so-called loco disease.

1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 15 Mar. 6/2 Loco threatens to be worse than last year.

1914 Farmers' Cycl. III. 615 In chronic cases of loco the animal gradually becomes more emaciated and crazy.

1983 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 56 267 In those species of Astragalus that cause ‘loco’ disease in livestock the toxic materials are thought to be alkaloids.

2001 L. H. Clarke They sang Horses (rev. ed.) 189 The loco disease is a serious chronic nervous disorder.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as loco intoxication, loco plant, etc. Cf. locoweed n. 1.

ΚΠ

1874 Calif. Horticulturalist Oct. 309/2 The description of the loco plant given in the monthly report was correct. It grows in abundance in several counties in lower California.

1876 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1875 6 3 Dr. Kellogg exhibited plants, and read a paper on California and Colorado Loco Poisons.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 June 5/1 A healthy horse refuses loco; but if he once by accident acquires the taste, it grows upon him..and at last he dies of loco-intoxication.

1914 Farmers' Cycl. III. 615 His stock was replaced with sheep that were free from the loco habit.

1948 E. N. Wentworth America's Sheep Trails 468/1 The great difficulty with attacks of loco poisoning has been that the animal refuses other forage.

1987 Raton (New Mexico) Range 13 May 2/1 (heading) Scientists find loco compound.

2009 M. Brownley Lady like Sarah xii. 99 Her brothers..stared at them as if they'd been nipping at a loco plant.

C2. Objective and objective genitive, as loco eater, loco eating, etc.

ΚΠ

1884 R. Aldridge Life on Ranch 185 When he has once taken to loco-eating, he rapidly loses flesh, no longer herds with other horses, but wanders about hunting for his favourite weed.

1886 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 297 The animal has become a confirmed ‘loco-eater’.

1922 Jrnl. Amer. Veter. Assoc. 61 54 A comparison of the curves of weights of two young cattle, one addicted to loco eating and the other not.

1968 Cornell Veterinarian 58 60 The effect of loco consumption on the fertility and libido of rams is unknown.

2004 P. Gahlinger in C. E. Hileman Cows 51 Just like a human addict, the loco eater wastes away.

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locoadj.

Brit.

/ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈloʊkoʊ/

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish loco.

Etymology: < Spanish loco mad, insane, crazy (13th cent.; implied earlier by locura madness (12th cent.)), related to Portuguese louco in the same meaning (13th cent.); further etymology uncertain and disputed. Compare locoed adj., and also loco n.³

colloquial. Originally U.S. regional (western).

Mad, insane, crazy; off one's head. Frequently in to go loco.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1852 V. S. Wortley Young Traveller's Jrnl. xx. 250 She said, she knew not what she did, but was ‘loco’ (mad) when we paid her a visit.

1887 Outing 10 7/1 You won't be able to do nuthin' with 'em, sir; they'll go plumb loco.

1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. vi. 37 He was old, ugly, learned—and a little ‘loco’—mad, if not a bit of a sorcerer.

1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 167/2 Some of them would be loco over it.

1929 G. Ade Let. 8 Feb. (1973) 139 We have gone a little loco on shopping, because..prices seem low.

1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad i. 13 The young people were, so far as anyone could judge, completely loco.

1965 D. Francis Odds Against 124 He'd been quietly going loco and making hopeless decisions.

2003 National Post (Canada) 3 June al2/4 It was at the MacKay party..where political animals actually went loco on the dance floor.

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locoadv.

Brit.

/ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈloʊkoʊ/

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian loco.

Etymology: < Italian loco, musical direction < classical Latin locō , ablative of locus locus n.¹The fuller form al loco does not appear to follow Italian usage (compare Italian al at the).

Music.

With a return to the written pitch, after playing an octave higher or lower; (in string playing) with a return of the left hand to a normal position after a shift. Also al loco.Chiefly found in scores; the phrase in loco in quot. 1851 is an adaptation reflecting this.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > directions > [adverb] > other directions

da capo1724

meno1724

più1724

poco1724

subito1724

tacet1724

tutti1724

V1724

volti subito1724

tasto solo1772

al segno?1775

loco1786

molto1786

bis1819

quasi parlando1872

allegro non tanto1876

dal segno1876

senza replica1883

M1900

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Loco, a word in opposition to 8va. Alta, and signifying that the notes over which it is placed are not to be played an octave higher, but just as they are written.

1806 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 2) Al loco. (Ital.) A term chiefly used in violin music, to signify that the hand (having been shifted) is to be used as before.

1851 F. A. Adams Octave Staff 10 The new staff admits the same resource as the common notation, whenever a passage runs too high or too low to be written in loco.

1920 Flutist May 112/2 Play the following bars loco, i.e., as written.

1970 Oxf. Compan. Music (ed. 10) 578/2 Loco.., ‘place’, used after some sign indicating performance an octave higher or lower than written and reminding the performer that the effect of that sign now terminates. Often the expression used is Al loco, ‘at the place’.

2005 K. Agócs in L. Damrosch Symphony in A major 196/2 In a few rare cases in the strings, 8va notation that occurs in MPS has been removed, and the passage written loco, since the 8va notation was evidently used to conserve space in MPS.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1833

n.²1838

n.³1844

adj.1852

adv.1786

单词	loco
释义	locon.¹ Brit. /ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈloʊkoʊ/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: locomotive n. Etymology: Shortened < locomotive n. A train engine, a locomotive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive locomotive engine1814 iron horse1825 locomotive1829 loco1833 railway engine1833 bullgine1848 bull1889 pig1931 locie1934 1833 S. Breck Note-bk. 4 May in Recoll. (1877) 274 With the loco..he may start from one city in the morning and return again in the evening. 1835 S. Breck Let. 22 July in M. C. Crawford Romantic Days in Old Boston (1922) 326 Five or six other cars were attached to the ‘loco’ and uglier boxes I do not wish to travel in. 1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 243 An eight-wheeled ‘American’ loco. 1929 Pop. Mech. Dec. 125/1 (advt.) These..are the most powerful model electric locos ever built. 1955 Times 28 May 10/2 The last named company received important contracts including one for 94 diesel electric locos for the Irish State Transport. 1974 A. MacLean Breakheart Pass iv. 63 To haul this heavy load with a single loco?.. Thirty hours, I'd say. 2007 Continental Modeller Aug. 513 It has recently..been reported that these locos are to be replaced on these workings. Compounds C1. a. General attributive and objective. ΚΠ 1878 Iron 11 May 586 (table) Schenectady Loco. Works. 1887 Notts. Guardian 6 Aug. 4/7 The doors giving admission to what is known as ‘the loco shed’. 1889 Bury & Norwich Post 10 Sept. 3/1 The Lucigen light recently placed in the Loco Yard. 1930 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Sept. 1/3 (heading) Engineer falls from loco cab and killed. 1946 V. N. Wood Metall. Materials x. 259 Arsenical copper..is..employed for loco fire-boxes, boiler tubes, bolts and rivets. 1965 L. A. Murray in L. A. Murray & G. Lehmann Ilex Tree 35 The loco horn beams out its admonition. 1993 C. MacDougall Lights Below 30 One or two men travelled to Springburn to work on the railway or in the loco building sheds. 2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales iii. 120 Visitors..on most days can have a look in the loco shed. b. Instrumental, as loco-hauled adjective. ΚΠ 1938 Ann. Rep. Govt. Mining Engineer 1937 68 Loco-drawn hoppers still provide their quota of fatal accidents. 1966 B. Collins Copper Crucible xix. 60 They crowded onto the loco driven trains. 1981 Times 26 Mar. 3/5 Loco-hauled coach availability down from 85 to 75 per cent. 2007 Continental Modeller Aug. 499 Diesel-powered passenger trains (loco-hauled and railcars). C2. loco-spot v. (a) intransitive = trainspot v.; (b) transitive to watch for and note the details of (a locomotive); (now somewhat dated). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > spotting trains, watching birds, etc. > train-spot, bird-watch [verb (intransitive)] birdwatch1938 bird1952 loco-spot1961 trainspot1968 twitch1977 1961 A. Buckeridge Just Like Jennings i. 21 As the power of speech returned he took a deep breath and said: ‘We were loco spotting, sir.’ 1968 Listener 21 Mar. 368/2 I loco-spotted 45076..and 45254. 2006 R. Fisk Great War for Civilisation (2007) xi Robert loco-spotting French steam trains; and Bill and Peggy together by the car, slightly out of focus, a picture that must have been taken by me. loco-spotter n. = trainspotter n. (now somewhat dated). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > spotting trains, watching birds, etc. > [noun] > train-spotter trainspotter1949 loco-spotter1959 gricer1969 1959 Junior Radio Times 25 Sept. 1/1 What is the locospotter looking for? Chiefly the engine number, which normally is painted on the cab side and also on the smoke-box door; secondly, the name if the engine has one; and thirdly, the code of the shed to which the engine is allocated. 1983 N. Humphrey Consciousness Regained (1984) xi. 144 Fifty identical stamps do not make a stamp-collection, and fifty sightings of the same railway engine bring no joy to the loco-spotter. 2008 R. Fisk Age of Warrior vi. 221 The Golden Arrow, in those pre-Eurostar days, was the joy of every loco-spotter. loco-spotting n. = trainspotting n. (now somewhat dated). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > spotting trains, watching birds, etc. > [noun] bird-spotting1926 trainspotting1951 loco-spotting1952 gricing1968 grice1971 twitching1977 1952 A. Buckeridge Jennings & Darbishire x. 153 This is no time to go loco-spotting. 1959 Junior Radio Times 25 Sept. 1/1 One of the objects of locospotting is to see—or ‘cop’—all the engines in a particular class, marking off the number of each engine as it is observed. 1960 E. W. Hildick Boy at Window xvii. 131 It was a train the boy remembered well from his loco-spotting days. 2004 D. St. J. Thomas Journey through Brit. (2005) xvii. 338 I noticed a photograph of a Great Western engine on the wall... I asked why it was there, adding: ‘Do you know where I did my loco spotting?’ loco-type n. and adj. (a) n. = locomotive-type adj. and n. (b) at locomotive adj. and n. Compounds 2 (now rare); (b) adj. = locomotive-type adj. and n. (a) at locomotive adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1878 Eng. Mechanic 27 Sept. 80/2 I am about making a ‘boiler’, but should like a little information... It is a loco-type I require in iron, and how many brass tubes should I require? 1884 Electrician 5 Apr. 482/1 Two 16 horse power stationary coupled engines, with multitubular loco-type boiler, by Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, of Grantham. 1906 W. Norris Mod. Steam Road Wagons 21 A great objection to the loco type is the amount of space occupied. 1981 New Scientist 24 Dec. 900/1 The little Atlantic had a proper loco-type boiler with the normal tubes and firebox. 1996 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 30 Nov. 12 Its loco-type side-fired coal wetback boiler produces an ideal working pressure of 100 psi, delivering 3 hp from a compound steam engine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). locon.² Brit. /ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈloʊkoʊ/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: loco-foco n. Etymology: Short for loco-foco n. U.S. Politics (now historical). A member of supporter of the Loco-foco party; a Democrat. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Democratic Party > member or adherent of > of branch of loco-foco1835 loco1838 O.K.1840 hard1843 softshell1845 barn-burner1848 hardshell1852 soft1853 softshell1853 Bourbon1859 short-hairs1867 New Dem1962 Blue Dog1995 1838 J. A. Quitman Let. 13 Dec. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. vi. 165 I thus claim to be a true Loco and Nullifier. 1841 H. Clay Let. 4 July in Private Corr. (1855) 454 The Locos are..opposed to the scheme. 1847 E. Dickinson Lett. (1894) I. 67 To say nothing of its falling into the merciless hands of a loco! 1888 M. A. Green Springfield (Mass.) xix. 480 The locos, the free-soilers, and the independents ran separate tickets. 1947 F. D. Downey Our Lusty Forefathers 253 Stuff and guff! Let the Locos read their history. 2008 C. E. Spann & M. E. Williams Presidential Praise 95 New York Democrats were popularly known as locos. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). locon.³ Brit. /ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈloʊkoʊ/ Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: Spanish yerba loca. Etymology: Probably shortened < American Spanish yerba loca, hierba loca (18th cent.) < yerba , hierba plant (see herb n.) + loca , feminine of loco insane, mad (see loco adj.), so called on account of its effect on livestock that eat it; the ending was probably altered after the Spanish masculine form loco . Compare later yerba loco n., and also later locoweed n., loco adj., locoed adj. North American. 1. Any of several leguminous plants of either of the closely related genera Astragalus and Oxytropis (both of the subfamily Faboideae) found in the western and south-western United States (see sense 2). Also with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > loco-weed loco1844 yerba loco1859 locoweed1879 1844 St. Louis Reveille 8 Dec. 2/4 He was girt about he neck with a leather bridle, and his meat was locos and wild onions. 1874 Calif. Horticulturist & Floral Mag. 4 309/2 We gave some account of a poisonous plant, called loco, which grows in California. 1886 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 297 A weed called ‘loco’ has of late years largely increased in some of the cattle-ranges of Texas and the Indian territory. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny 365 Ever see a bronc that had been chewing on loco? 1948 E. N. Wentworth America's Sheep Trails 467/2 Six varieties are common, and ‘white loco’ and ‘sheep loco’ are the worst offenders. 1955 W. Foster-Harris Look of Old West ix. 260 The most famous of the lethal stuff is undoubtedly loco, or crazy, weed... Loco grows all over the West, and a locoed horse is easy to spot. 2008 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 24 Aug. d6/2 The woolly loco blooms in June, with violet flowers in dense spikes. 2. More fully loco disease. The disease of livestock caused by the ingestion of loco plants, typically characterized by neurological symptoms including incoordination, hypersensitivity to stimuli, and agitation, usually accompanied by weight loss. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > dietary disorders surfeit1623 grass sickness1845 loco1876 1875 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 19 Jan. 1/4 Horses and cattle in the vicinity..act foolishly. Hence the Mexican name, loco, given it.] 1876 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 6 4 What is most remarkable with this, and the Colorado Loco, is the permanence of the impression, often lasting many months. 1887 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1885–6 10 65 Occasionally a person was met with who firmly asserted that the plant in question did not cause the so-called loco disease. 1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 15 Mar. 6/2 Loco threatens to be worse than last year. 1914 Farmers' Cycl. III. 615 In chronic cases of loco the animal gradually becomes more emaciated and crazy. 1983 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 56 267 In those species of Astragalus that cause ‘loco’ disease in livestock the toxic materials are thought to be alkaloids. 2001 L. H. Clarke They sang Horses (rev. ed.) 189 The loco disease is a serious chronic nervous disorder. Compounds C1. General attributive, as loco intoxication, loco plant, etc. Cf. locoweed n. 1. ΚΠ 1874 Calif. Horticulturalist Oct. 309/2 The description of the loco plant given in the monthly report was correct. It grows in abundance in several counties in lower California. 1876 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1875 6 3 Dr. Kellogg exhibited plants, and read a paper on California and Colorado Loco Poisons. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 June 5/1 A healthy horse refuses loco; but if he once by accident acquires the taste, it grows upon him..and at last he dies of loco-intoxication. 1914 Farmers' Cycl. III. 615 His stock was replaced with sheep that were free from the loco habit. 1948 E. N. Wentworth America's Sheep Trails 468/1 The great difficulty with attacks of loco poisoning has been that the animal refuses other forage. 1987 Raton (New Mexico) Range 13 May 2/1 (heading) Scientists find loco compound. 2009 M. Brownley Lady like Sarah xii. 99 Her brothers..stared at them as if they'd been nipping at a loco plant. C2. Objective and objective genitive, as loco eater, loco eating, etc. ΚΠ 1884 R. Aldridge Life on Ranch 185 When he has once taken to loco-eating, he rapidly loses flesh, no longer herds with other horses, but wanders about hunting for his favourite weed. 1886 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 297 The animal has become a confirmed ‘loco-eater’. 1922 Jrnl. Amer. Veter. Assoc. 61 54 A comparison of the curves of weights of two young cattle, one addicted to loco eating and the other not. 1968 Cornell Veterinarian 58 60 The effect of loco consumption on the fertility and libido of rams is unknown. 2004 P. Gahlinger in C. E. Hileman Cows 51 Just like a human addict, the loco eater wastes away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). locoadj. Brit. /ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈloʊkoʊ/ Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish loco. Etymology: < Spanish loco mad, insane, crazy (13th cent.; implied earlier by locura madness (12th cent.)), related to Portuguese louco in the same meaning (13th cent.); further etymology uncertain and disputed. Compare locoed adj., and also loco n.³ colloquial. Originally U.S. regional (western). Mad, insane, crazy; off one's head. Frequently in to go loco. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1852 V. S. Wortley Young Traveller's Jrnl. xx. 250 She said, she knew not what she did, but was ‘loco’ (mad) when we paid her a visit. 1887 Outing 10 7/1 You won't be able to do nuthin' with 'em, sir; they'll go plumb loco. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. vi. 37 He was old, ugly, learned—and a little ‘loco’—mad, if not a bit of a sorcerer. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 167/2 Some of them would be loco over it. 1929 G. Ade Let. 8 Feb. (1973) 139 We have gone a little loco on shopping, because..prices seem low. 1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad i. 13 The young people were, so far as anyone could judge, completely loco. 1965 D. Francis Odds Against 124 He'd been quietly going loco and making hopeless decisions. 2003 National Post (Canada) 3 June al2/4 It was at the MacKay party..where political animals actually went loco on the dance floor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). locoadv. Brit. /ˈləʊkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈloʊkoʊ/ Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian loco. Etymology: < Italian loco, musical direction < classical Latin locō , ablative of locus locus n.¹The fuller form al loco does not appear to follow Italian usage (compare Italian al at the). Music. With a return to the written pitch, after playing an octave higher or lower; (in string playing) with a return of the left hand to a normal position after a shift. Also al loco.Chiefly found in scores; the phrase in loco in quot. 1851 is an adaptation reflecting this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > directions > [adverb] > other directions da capo1724 meno1724 più1724 poco1724 subito1724 tacet1724 tutti1724 V1724 volti subito1724 tasto solo1772 al segno?1775 loco1786 molto1786 bis1819 quasi parlando1872 allegro non tanto1876 dal segno1876 senza replica1883 M1900 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Loco, a word in opposition to 8va. Alta, and signifying that the notes over which it is placed are not to be played an octave higher, but just as they are written. 1806 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 2) Al loco. (Ital.) A term chiefly used in violin music, to signify that the hand (having been shifted) is to be used as before. 1851 F. A. Adams Octave Staff 10 The new staff admits the same resource as the common notation, whenever a passage runs too high or too low to be written in loco. 1920 Flutist May 112/2 Play the following bars loco, i.e., as written. 1970 Oxf. Compan. Music (ed. 10) 578/2 Loco.., ‘place’, used after some sign indicating performance an octave higher or lower than written and reminding the performer that the effect of that sign now terminates. Often the expression used is Al loco, ‘at the place’. 2005 K. Agócs in L. Damrosch Symphony in A major 196/2 In a few rare cases in the strings, 8va notation that occurs in MPS has been removed, and the passage written loco, since the 8va notation was evidently used to conserve space in MPS. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1833n.²1838n.³1844adj.1852adv.1786
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