ballern.¹

Brit.

/ˈbɔːləː/, U.S.

/ˈbɔlər/,

/ˈbɑlər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ball n.¹, -er suffix¹; ball v.², -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < ball n.¹ + -er suffix¹, and partly (especially in later use) < ball v.² + -er suffix¹.Attested much earlier as a surname (chiefly from Somerset): Adam le Baller (1243), Henr. le Baller' (1333), Walt. le Ballere (1333), etc.; in all these examples probably originally with the meaning ‘person who lives at or near a rounded hill’ (see ball n.¹ 1).

a. Sport. A player of a ball game.

ΚΠ

a1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS lxx. 67 Sic balaris [sc.B. ballis] nakkattis, so mony tutivillaris.

1867 Ball Players' Chron. 17 Oct. 3/2 Certain it is that two-thirds of the ‘ballers’ of to-day carry these marks about their persons.

1932 V. Woolf Diary 2 June (1982) iv. 105 A little confabulation..about football. Sp[arrow] is a baller, a solid young man.

1975 Nation (Barbados) 10 Mar. 15/1 The local ballers beaten by Trinidad 1–0, appealed to the games judges.

1996 USA Today 15 Nov. d9/5 There are a lot of ballers in the 'hood, 8 to 9 years old, who can become a Michael Jordan.

2003 S. Alexie Ten Little Indians 202 Frank, a genetic freak at six feet six..had always been a truly supernatural baller, the kind of jumper and runner who ignored physics when he played.

b. slang (originally and chiefly in African-American usage). Also in form balla. [With reference to the perceived tendency of successful basketball players to spend ostentatiously.] A person, esp. a drug dealer, who spends money freely and ostentatiously.

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1990 ‘Cold 187um’ & ‘KM.G.’ Livin' Like Hustlers (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 1 The city of toners which is known as L.A. Where the hustlers hustle and the ballers play.

1993 K. Scott Monster 72 Back in 1980, unlike today, there were no ‘high rollers’, or ‘ballers’, substantially anchored in any particular 'hood.

1997 S. Combs et al. It's All about Benjamins (song) in Hip-hop & Rap (2003) 226 What y'all wanna do? Wanna be ballers? Shot callers? Brawlers who be dippin' in the Benz wit' the spoilers.

2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 27 Sept. (Green Guide section) 21 In the world of online poker, they're known as ballas (pronounced ballers). They party hard, spend big and live large.

2. A person who or thing which makes or forms anything into balls.

a. A worker who shapes clay into balls for making pottery. Now chiefly historical.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who shapes > specific shape

squarer1422

bower1579

baller1825

fluter1858

beveller?1881

rounder?1881

slabber1921

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 461 If china is to be made, the baller, previously to forming the clay into a ball, breaks it in two.

1865 E. Meteyard Life J. Wedgwood I. 232 The weighing of clay at the baller's scales.

1985 Feminist Rev. 21 92 [In early 19th cent. lists of employees in the pottery industry] a baller will have a different surname from the thrower.

1994 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 54 153 Before being formed, the paste would be wedged and beaten..to remove air bubbles. Then a baller would weigh out the correct amount, a thrower would form the rough shape, [etc.].

b. A person who makes yarn, etc., into balls, esp. one who attends to a balling machine; (also) = balling-machine at balling n.² Compounds 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > into ball > one who

baller1851

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > into ball > machine for

balling-machine1822

baller1884

1851 Census Return: England (P.R.O.: HO 107/2208) f. 496 [Sharples, Lancashire] Mary [Pilling]..Baller in a Cotton Mill.

1875 E. Young Labour in Europe & Amer. 340 (table) Wool-sorters..Wool-washers..Preparers..Ballers.

1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 216 The balling head and creel motion ranks along with Blamire's as the best... The sliver before going into the baller can be drawn off the doffer in two ways.

1913 2nd Rep. Factory Investigating Comm. (N.Y. State.) II. 445 Spinners, fourteen cents per hour; ballers, fourteen cents per hour (all women).

2000 Farmers Guardian (Nexis) 17 Nov. 46 We buy via the Wool Board... It goes to the spinner, the dyer, the baller and finally arrives here.

c. A worker who loads puddled bars into a balling or reheating furnace. Now rare.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > ironworker or blacksmith > other types of ironworker

lorimerc1230

ironfounder1492

iron man1610

brightsmith1734

shingler1832

baller?1881

bulldog-burner1881

?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 104 Baller (Tin Plate).

1962 J. C. Carr & W. Taplin Hist. Brit. Steel Industry vii. 76 Early in 1877 a general reduction of all wages was resolved upon, save for those of puddlers, ballers and shinglers.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

ballern.²

Brit.

/ˈbɔːləː/, U.S.

/ˈbɔlər/,

/ˈbɑlər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ball n.³, ball v.³, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < either ball n.³ or ball v.³ + -er suffix¹.

A person who takes part in a ball; spec. (in plural, usually with capital initial) the name given to a group of rakes of the Restoration Court, led by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and renowned for their dissolute behaviour.The group is known chiefly through Pepys's Diary: see quot. 1668.

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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > participant

baller1668

1668 S. Pepys Diary 30 May (1976) IX. 218 Here I first understood..the meaning of the company that lately were called ‘Ballers’; Harris telling how it was by a meeting of some young blades..and my Lady Bennet and her ladies; and there dancing naked, and all the roguish things in the world.

1671 H. Savile Let. 26 Jan. in Rochester-Savile Lett. (1941) 31 [Your Lordship] is chosen Generall in this warr betwixt the Ballers & ye farmers, nor shall peace by my consent ever bee made till they grant us our wine and Ds custome free.

1673 Coll. Poems Several Persons (rev. ed.) 108 The Ballers life... With dangerous Damsels we dally, [etc.].

1946 Rev. Eng. Stud. 22 341 [Frank Newport and Harry Killigrew] were members of the obscene company of ‘Ballers’, to which Savile, Sedley, Rochester, and others of the Court Wits also belonged.

1979 R. Thompson Unfit for Modest Ears 184 The ballum rankum, as this orgy was known, took place with whores as partners. The Ballers under Rochester's generalship held their balla ranka at Mrs Bennet's bawdy-house.

1999 S. K. Kent Gender & Power 29 The ‘Ballers’ he led in a series of ‘frollicks’—public displays of nudity, exposure of their own and women's genitals, and sexual assaults on women.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	baller
释义	ballern.¹ Brit. /ˈbɔːləː/, U.S. /ˈbɔlər/, /ˈbɑlər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ball n.¹, -er suffix¹; ball v.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < ball n.¹ + -er suffix¹, and partly (especially in later use) < ball v.² + -er suffix¹.Attested much earlier as a surname (chiefly from Somerset): Adam le Baller (1243), Henr. le Baller' (1333), Walt. le Ballere (1333), etc.; in all these examples probably originally with the meaning ‘person who lives at or near a rounded hill’ (see ball n.¹ 1). 1. a. Sport. A player of a ball game. ΚΠ a1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS lxx. 67 Sic balaris [sc.B. ballis] nakkattis, so mony tutivillaris. 1867 Ball Players' Chron. 17 Oct. 3/2 Certain it is that two-thirds of the ‘ballers’ of to-day carry these marks about their persons. 1932 V. Woolf Diary 2 June (1982) iv. 105 A little confabulation..about football. Sp[arrow] is a baller, a solid young man. 1975 Nation (Barbados) 10 Mar. 15/1 The local ballers beaten by Trinidad 1–0, appealed to the games judges. 1996 USA Today 15 Nov. d9/5 There are a lot of ballers in the 'hood, 8 to 9 years old, who can become a Michael Jordan. 2003 S. Alexie Ten Little Indians 202 Frank, a genetic freak at six feet six..had always been a truly supernatural baller, the kind of jumper and runner who ignored physics when he played. b. slang (originally and chiefly in African-American usage). Also in form balla. [With reference to the perceived tendency of successful basketball players to spend ostentatiously.] A person, esp. a drug dealer, who spends money freely and ostentatiously. ΚΠ 1990 ‘Cold 187um’ & ‘KM.G.’ Livin' Like Hustlers (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 1 The city of toners which is known as L.A. Where the hustlers hustle and the ballers play. 1993 K. Scott Monster 72 Back in 1980, unlike today, there were no ‘high rollers’, or ‘ballers’, substantially anchored in any particular 'hood. 1997 S. Combs et al. It's All about Benjamins (song) in Hip-hop & Rap (2003) 226 What y'all wanna do? Wanna be ballers? Shot callers? Brawlers who be dippin' in the Benz wit' the spoilers. 2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 27 Sept. (Green Guide section) 21 In the world of online poker, they're known as ballas (pronounced ballers). They party hard, spend big and live large. 2. A person who or thing which makes or forms anything into balls. a. A worker who shapes clay into balls for making pottery. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who shapes > specific shape squarer1422 bower1579 baller1825 fluter1858 beveller?1881 rounder?1881 slabber1921 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 461 If china is to be made, the baller, previously to forming the clay into a ball, breaks it in two. 1865 E. Meteyard Life J. Wedgwood I. 232 The weighing of clay at the baller's scales. 1985 Feminist Rev. 21 92 [In early 19th cent. lists of employees in the pottery industry] a baller will have a different surname from the thrower. 1994 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 54 153 Before being formed, the paste would be wedged and beaten..to remove air bubbles. Then a baller would weigh out the correct amount, a thrower would form the rough shape, [etc.]. b. A person who makes yarn, etc., into balls, esp. one who attends to a balling machine; (also) = balling-machine at balling n.² Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > into ball > one who baller1851 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > into ball > machine for balling-machine1822 baller1884 1851 Census Return: England (P.R.O.: HO 107/2208) f. 496 [Sharples, Lancashire] Mary [Pilling]..Baller in a Cotton Mill. 1875 E. Young Labour in Europe & Amer. 340 (table) Wool-sorters..Wool-washers..Preparers..Ballers. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 216 The balling head and creel motion ranks along with Blamire's as the best... The sliver before going into the baller can be drawn off the doffer in two ways. 1913 2nd Rep. Factory Investigating Comm. (N.Y. State.) II. 445 Spinners, fourteen cents per hour; ballers, fourteen cents per hour (all women). 2000 Farmers Guardian (Nexis) 17 Nov. 46 We buy via the Wool Board... It goes to the spinner, the dyer, the baller and finally arrives here. c. A worker who loads puddled bars into a balling or reheating furnace. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > ironworker or blacksmith > other types of ironworker lorimerc1230 ironfounder1492 iron man1610 brightsmith1734 shingler1832 baller?1881 bulldog-burner1881 ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 104 Baller (Tin Plate). 1962 J. C. Carr & W. Taplin Hist. Brit. Steel Industry vii. 76 Early in 1877 a general reduction of all wages was resolved upon, save for those of puddlers, ballers and shinglers. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). ballern.² Brit. /ˈbɔːləː/, U.S. /ˈbɔlər/, /ˈbɑlər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ball n.³, ball v.³, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < either ball n.³ or ball v.³ + -er suffix¹. A person who takes part in a ball; spec. (in plural, usually with capital initial) the name given to a group of rakes of the Restoration Court, led by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and renowned for their dissolute behaviour.The group is known chiefly through Pepys's Diary: see quot. 1668. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > participant baller1668 1668 S. Pepys Diary 30 May (1976) IX. 218 Here I first understood..the meaning of the company that lately were called ‘Ballers’; Harris telling how it was by a meeting of some young blades..and my Lady Bennet and her ladies; and there dancing naked, and all the roguish things in the world. 1671 H. Savile Let. 26 Jan. in Rochester-Savile Lett. (1941) 31 [Your Lordship] is chosen Generall in this warr betwixt the Ballers & ye farmers, nor shall peace by my consent ever bee made till they grant us our wine and Ds custome free. 1673 Coll. Poems Several Persons (rev. ed.) 108 The Ballers life... With dangerous Damsels we dally, [etc.]. 1946 Rev. Eng. Stud. 22 341 [Frank Newport and Harry Killigrew] were members of the obscene company of ‘Ballers’, to which Savile, Sedley, Rochester, and others of the Court Wits also belonged. 1979 R. Thompson Unfit for Modest Ears 184 The ballum rankum, as this orgy was known, took place with whores as partners. The Ballers under Rochester's generalship held their balla ranka at Mrs Bennet's bawdy-house. 1999 S. K. Kent Gender & Power 29 The ‘Ballers’ he led in a series of ‘frollicks’—public displays of nudity, exposure of their own and women's genitals, and sexual assaults on women. 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