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单词 marrowbone
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marrowbonen.

Brit. /ˈmarə(ʊ)bəʊn/, U.S. /ˈmɛroʊˌboʊn/
Forms: Middle English mari boon, Middle English marie boon, Middle English marw-bon, Middle English mary-boon, Middle English maryebone, Middle English–1600s marybone, late Middle English merybone, 1500s mariebone, 1500s–1600s maribone, 1500s– marrowbone, 1600s marribone, 1600s marro'bone.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: marrow n.1, bone n.1
Etymology: < marrow n.1 + bone n.1The word is recorded earlier in a Middle English surname:1288 Patent Roll, 16 Edward I (P.R.O.: C 66/107) m. 18 Roberto Maribon. The phrases marrowbone coach , marrowbone stage , marrowbone stager at Compounds 2 pun on the pronunciation /ˈmarɪbən/ of Marylebone, the name of a district of north central London (compare spelling Maryborne attested in the 15th cent.).
1.
a. A bone containing edible marrow.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > bones
boneeOE
marrowbonec1387
ice-bone1576
natch-bone1614
pin bone1640
sucking-bone1648
tasting-bone1850
ham-bone1855
c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 380 A cook they hadde with hem..To boille the chiknes with the marybones.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 5 Take beeff and merybonys, and boyle yt in fayre water.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 158 The bridegrome eateth to his supper..a litle of the maribone of a Chamel.
1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. vii. 87 For daintinesse of diet, they [sc. bass] excell the Marybones of Beefe.
1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man ii. 13 Chopping Herbs, and minc'd Meat, and breaking Marrowbones.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1805) VII. xxxvii. 591 There is no more reason..why the sight of a human skull and bones in a charnel house should shock us more than the sight of a calve's head or a pair of marrow bones in a dish.
1846 G. Warburton Hochelaga I. 155 The wretch sucked a couple more marrow bones, and became torpid.
1870 De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers 205 A dainty dish..is the marrow-bones of the buffalo.
1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 146 Taffy took a marrow-bone and sat mousy quiet.
1987 Sunday Express Mag. 20 Sept. 33/1 Add all the vegetables, herbs and seasoning... Put in the marrow bones and potatoes.
b. figurative. The centre, core, essential part, etc., of something; cf. marrow n.1 3.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > essence or essential constituent
substancec1480
basea1550
marrowbone1554
ground1580
subsistence1581
basis1601
essence1656
body1664
hardpan1842
1554 H. Latimer Wks. (1845) II. 483 Ye said upon Saturday last, that ye could not find the mass nor the marrow-bones thereof in your book.
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 37 Diuorced..both from the body and marrow bones of the Popish Masse, as also from the jimmers and trinkets thereof.
a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ee2/1 Was it not..as Clerk to the great Band Of maribones, that people call the Switzers? Men made of beufe, and sarcenet?
1634 Noble Souldier i. ii. sig. B2v What I knocke out now is the very Maribone of mirth.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis 471/1 This is the marrow bone of the difference, or matter.
a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 407 He said he never in the Word could finde The Masses Marrowbones at all definde.
1863 P. Davidson Pentateuch Vindic. ii. 33 Here was a stumbler for the priests and a marrowbone for the infidels.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 13 The scraps and marrow-bones of office.
1925 V. Lindsay Coll. Poems (rev. ed.) 41 The Dust of Ages holds a glint Of fire from the foundation-stones, Of spangles from the sun's bright face, Of sapphires from earth's marrow-bones.
1991 E. H. Spitz Image & Insight p. xi Seeks..to reinstate..the subjectivity (Yeats' marrow bone) of criticism.
c. In plural. Bones struck together as a rudimentary percussion instrument. Frequently used more generally (usually in collocation with cleavers) to designate any kind of primitive or makeshift musical instrument. Cf. marrowbone music n. at Compounds 2. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > bones
bone1600
snapper1605
knick-knack1650
marrowbones1714
rattle-bones1819
jawbone1844
knicky-knackers1876
1714 Spectator 5 Nov. The Mob drank the King's Health, on their Marrow-bones, in Mother Day's Double.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 18 Apr. (1965) I. 351 As if a Foreigner should take his Ideas of English Music from..the marrow bones and cleavers.
1765 B. Thornton (title) Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, adapted to the ancient British Musick; viz. the Salt-box, Jew's-Harp, the Marrow-bones and Cleavers, the Hum~strum or Hurdy-gurdy, etc.
1794 Times 6 Dec. 3/1 in Hist. The Times (1935) I. iv. 67 The whole to conclude with a Solo on the Salt box; and the favourite Marseillais Hymn, with Marrowbones and Cleavers.
1845 C. Dickens Chimes iv. 172 A good-humoured comely woman..came running in,..closely followed by the marrow-bones and cleavers, and the bells.
1866 E. Waugh Robin Hood vii. 29 Daisy. I'll play on the ‘ole banjo’, Though the music it will prove a riddle. While—Sir L. and Sir B. We can come out strong with the marrow bones.
1990 Representations Winter 57 Many songs and caricatures referred to the ‘horns’ that traditionally bedecked the deceived husband and the marrow bones and cleavers that produced the rough music to ridicule him.
2005 J. Barlow Enraged Musician iii. 70 The association of marrowbones and cleavers with political clamour harks back at least to the burning of the rumps at Temple Bar in February 1660 shortly before the Restoration.
2.
a. Chiefly in plural. The shin bones; (also) the knees. Frequently used humorously in phrases referring to kneeling in supplication, prayer, etc. Also rarely in singular.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > knee > [noun]
kneec825
knop14..
marrowbone1506
gigot1687
knapper1767
prayer-bones1877
bender1925
knobblies1953
1506 tr. Kalender of Shepherdes sig. Kviiiv Frome the kne to the fote in eche legge ben two bones called cannes or mary bones.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 727/2 Down he fel vpon his maribones.
1620 J. Taylor Praise of Hemp-seed Preamb. sig. B2v And therefore Merchants, Mariners, people all Of all trades, on your marrow-bones downe fall.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all ii. 23 Down on your marribones and confess the truth.
1736 S. Wesley Poems 401 Strait down on his Marrow-bones falling, he cries, I'll ne'er call You Fool more.
1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Remonstrance 1 Bring on his marrow-bones th' Apostate down.
1812 Pancratia 212 He finished this round by putting in one of his round hits over his antagonist's eye, which he cut severely, and brought him on his marrow bones.
1870 C. Kingsley Legend La Brea 95 Magic brings some positivists Humbly on their marrowbone.
1888 G. MacDonald Elect Lady 108 I only want to bring them to their marrow-bones.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 603 They would all to a man have gone down on their marrowbones to him.
1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. ii. 34 I like my closets. I like..not having to get down on my marrow-bones and fumble in dark corners to find my shoes.
1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata v. 145 No, no, on y'r marrow-bones——though you hooked behemoth, you shall kneel!
b. In plural. slang. Fists as weapons; (hence) fist fighting. In quot. 1834: knuckles. Now rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > part of body as weapon
weapon1635
marrowbones1812
1812 Sporting Mag. 40 249 He was alike a stranger to fear in the field of either bayonets or marrowbones.
1818 Sporting Mag. New Ser. 2 165 The distance of twenty-four miles from Lunnun rather damped the ardour of the Marrow-bone fraternity.
1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 62 I did the slight o' hand work, as you may see by the skin that's gone off these four marrowbones.
1909 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. 169 You'll never see 'em Assail a street-car passenger with stones, Nor brain a woman with their marrow bones.
3. A type of children's game (perhaps involving the striking of two bones together to make music; cf. sense 1c). Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others
buckle-pit1532
marrowbone1533
put-pin?1577
primus secundus1584
fox in the hole1585
haltering of Hick's mare1585
muss1591
pushpin1598
Jack-in-the-box1600
a penny in the forehead1602
buckerels1649
bumdockdousse1653
peck-point1653
toro1660
wheelbarrow1740
thread-needle1751
thrush-a-thrush1766
runaway ring?1790
Gregory1801
pick-point1801
fighting cocks1807
runaway knock1813
tit-tat-toe1818
French and English1820
honeypots1821
roly-poly1821
tickle-tail1821
pottle1822
King of Cantland1825
tip-top-castle1834
tile1837
statue1839
chip stone1843
hen and chickens1843
king of the castle1843
King Caesar1849
rap-jacket1870
old witch1881
tick-tack-toe1884
twos and threes1896
last across (the road)1904
step1909
king of the hill1928
Pooh-sticks1928
trick or treat1928
stare-you-out1932
king of the mountain1933
dab cricket1938
Urkey1938
trick-or-treating1941
seven-up1950
squashed tomato1959
slot-racing1965
Pog1993
knights-
1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. ciii Suche prety playes of lykelyhed as chyldren be wont to playe, as chyrystone mary bone, bokyll pyt, spurne poynt, cobnutte or quaytyng.
4. In plural = cross-bones n. Obsolete.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols
cross-bones1798
marrowbones1824
skull and crossbones1826
uroboros1940
corn dolly1952
1762 J. Hall-Stevenson Crazy Tales 152 And on his urn engrav'd there were..Death's head, and with Death's head a pair Of marrow-bones were lay'd across.]
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. i. 16 I..sailed under the black flag and marrow-bones.
1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 40 Here are the typical marrow-bones, skull, and sandglass.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
marrowbone holder n.
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1940 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Chron. I. v. 28 She unearthed from the depths of a chest of old-fashioned silver a marrow-bone holder. A marrow-bone was ordered and simmered for hours... Then, with it thrust firmly into the holder, she dug out spoonfuls of the smooth dark meat.
C2.
marrowbone coach n. colloquial rare = marrowbone stage n.
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1905 N.E.D. at Marrow sb. Marrow-bone coach.
marrowbone man n. Obsolete rare a person who kneels in prayer (in quot., a person going to morning prayer).
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1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iii. 4 in Wks. II None but a scatterd couey of Fidlers, or one of these Rag-rakers in dung-hills, or some Marrow-bone man at most, would haue beene vp, when thou wert gone abroad.
marrowbone music n. rudimentary music played on makeshift instruments; cf. sense 1c.
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1884 Graphic 13 Sept. 270/3 Making the most unearthly ‘marrow-bone’ music on frying pans, tin kettles and empty pails.
marrowbone pie n. Obsolete = marrow pie n. at marrow n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > meat-pie
rafiolea1425
shred-pie1573
Florentine1579
marrowbone pie1595
marrow pie1598
meat pie1607
mutton pie1607
olive pie1615
venison piea1616
flesh-pie1616
veal (and ham) piea1625
godiveau1653
lumber-pie1656
mermaid pie1661
umble-pie1663
humble piea1665
trotter-pie1693
stump pie1695
mugget pie1696
pot-pie1702
squab-pie1708
pork pie1723
steak pie1723
Perigord pie1751
pasticcio1772
fidget pie1790
muggety pie1800
numble pie1822
Florentine pie1823
pastilla1834
kidney-pie1836
beef-steak pie1841
stand pie1872
Melton Mowbray1875
timbale1880
pâté en croûte1929
tourtière1953
growler1989
1595 W. Warner tr. Plautus Menaecmi i. ii. sig. B2 Some oysters, a mary-bone pie or two, some artichockes, and potato rootes.
1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters i. sig. Bv All her wanton Pamphlets, as Hero and Leander, Venus and Adonis, oh two lushious mary-bone pies for a yong married wife.
1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty i. ii. 8/1 They'll rather feed on Rost-beef and Marrow-bone pyes.
marrowbone pudding n. Obsolete = marrow-pudding n. (a) at marrow n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > other puddings
alker1381
moile1381
tansyc1450
tansy-cakea1475
hasty pudding1598
hodge-puddinga1616
bread pudding1623
marrowbone pudding1623
marrow-pudding1631
turmeric puddinga1704
Indian pudding1722
Westminster fool1723
pease pudding1725
pone1725
bread and butter pudding1727
custard pudding1727
purry1751
tartan-purry1751
tansy-pudding1769
vermicelli pudding1769
skimmer-cake1795
dogsbody1818
kugel1823
stickjaw1827
kheer1832
pea pudding1844
dough1848
mousseline1876
mousse1885
goose-pudding1892
payasam1892
tartan1893
malva puddinga1981
1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case i. ii. B 4 b Let none of these come at her..Nor the woman with Maribone puddings.
marrowbone stage n. colloquial Obsolete one's own legs as a means of conveyance; cf. shank n. 1b.
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1820 G. Simpson Let. 28 Apr. in Brit. Columbia Hist. Q. (1937) 1 120 I..was compelled to have recourse to the Marrowbone stage the greater part of the Journey.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 85 The humbler conveyances known as ‘Shanks's mare’, and the ‘Marrowbone stage’—in more refined language, walking.
marrowbone stager n. colloquial Obsolete a person who journeys on foot.
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1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 396 Two miles and a half from Birmingham—an easy distance for the marrow-bone stagers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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