maypolen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmeɪpəʊl/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪˌpoʊl/

Forms: 1500s maye pole, 1500s May-polle, 1500s May poole, 1500s may-poole, 1500s meye poll, 1500s–1600s May pole, 1600s Maipole, 1600s May-powle, 1600s– May Pole, 1600s– May-pole, 1600s– Maypole, 1600s– maypole, 1700s May-Pole, 1700s– may-pole.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: May n.², pole n.¹

Etymology: < May n.² + pole n.¹

A. n.

a. A high pole traditionally decorated with flowers and greenery and often painted with spiral stripes, set up on a green or other open space for people to dance around during May-time celebrations (latterly spec. those held on May Day).In quot. 1597: a barber's pole (humorous). The tradition of dancers holding long ribbons attached to the top of the pole seems to have originated in England in the 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with May-day > maypole

maypole1529

shaft1598

summer-broach1619

1529 in C. Kerry Hist. St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 228 It. to the carpenter for ij dayes to make a laddar of the May poole & for hys mete & drynk xiiij d.

1552 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 20 The xxvj day of May came in to Fa[nchurch] parryche a goodly May-polle.

1554 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 176 That no..persones..cause to be..sett vpp eny maner of maye pole..in any opyn streat.

1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe in Wks. (1885) III. 25 My shoppe in the towne, the teeth that hange out of my Windowe, my painted may-poole.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 43 He had that whole bevie at command whether in morrice or at May pole.

1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 80 Endeavouring..to be as slender in the middle as the Strand-May-pole is tall in its height.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3783/4 The Wine-Cellar under the Flower-de-Luce against the May Pole in the Strand.

1768 G. White Jrnl. 23 July (1970) i. 5 Martins begin to congregate on the maypole.

1805 R. Heber Jrnl. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. iii. 100 The festivities of the May-pole are still kept up in Finland.

1863 R. Chambers Bk. of Days I. 572/2 The May Queen..was placed in a sort of bower or arbour, near the May-pole, there to sit in pretty state.

1880 E. Gosse in Ward's Eng. Poets II. 126 Ribbanding the may-pole as though it were the cone-tipped rod of Dionysus.

1922 ‘R. Crompton’ More William (1924) viii. 129 I hope you dance next me at the Maypole when Evangeline's Queen.

1936 G. M. Young Victorian Eng. xii. 77 The maypole had gone: the village feast and the club-walk were going.

1990 Wantage & Grove Herald 10 May 3/5 (caption) Glorious sunshine brought these schoolchildren out of their classrooms to celebrate May Day with a dance around the May-pole.

b. In extended use: a tall, thin person or object.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and thinness > person

lungis1572

gangrel1582

slangrel1592

maypole1600

slangam1611

mackerel-back1674

spider-catcher1699

gilly-gaupus?1719

tangle1778

beanpole1798

windlestraw1818

lankyc1863

narrowback1921

leptosome1931

string-bean1936

streak1941

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 297 How lowe am I, thou painted May-pole ?

1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 37 Such monstrous May-powles of hayre.

1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 201 This Place is much frequented by the Venetian walking May Poles, I meane the women.

1765 E. Thompson Meretriciad (ed. 6) 33 Maypoles love you because you're wonderous small.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 14 The daughter, a tall trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole.

1871 Mrs. H. Wood Dene Hollow I. i. 5 He was turned sixty; a lean may-pole of a man.

1920 G. K. Chesterton Uses of Diversity 135 Hermia the vixen and Helena the maypole are obviously only two excitable and quite modern girls.

†c. slang (euphemistic). An erect penis. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis > erect

Priapusc1487

Priap1561

Priapian1598

polec1600

Jack1604

maypole1607

stalk1609

rod1641

bone1654

stick1707

ramrod1768

horn1785

phallus1807

phallos1885

ithyphallus1889

boner1960

stiff1980

stonker1987

1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. sig. H^v Goz. Play you louzie Hungarians: see, looke the Maipole is set vp, weele dance about it: keepe this circle Maquerelle.

1655 Mercurius Fumigosus 25 Apr.–2 May 377 Wee'l Increase and Multiply, and may with any man. You may, indeed good Sir, you May, your May-pole stiff and strong.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 188 Disingag'd from the shirt, I saw..not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a may-pole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.

?1788 ‘R. Birch’ Venus School-mistress (1917) 39 He placed her upon her belly..and I saw him thrust his Maypole into the widow's backside up to the very hilt.

a. Caribbean (chiefly Barbados). Any of various kinds of century plant (genus Agave), which are remarkable for their very long, pole-shaped inflorescence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Amaryllidaceae > [noun] > types of

maguey1555

melt1605

pancratium1664

aloe1665

pita1698

mescal1709

maypole1750

agave1760

poison bulb1776

kukumakranka1793

furcraea1821

zephyranthes1821

century plant1827

mescal button1887

tequila plant1979

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 223 The May-Pole; Lat. Aloe Americana muricata.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 46 The American Aloes Tree, or May-Pole, is..usually planted in gardens and walks.

1848 R. H. Schomburgk Hist. Barbados 588 Amaryllidaceæ.—The Amaryllis Plants: Agave americana, Linn. May Pole, Hughes. The Great American Aloe. Bois de Mèche.

1961 F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk ii. xvi. 367 A man from Bull Savanna remarked: ‘Carito is the correct name [for the agave], but we call it maypole;’ and so it is also in the Kingston area.

1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants Barbados 19/2 Agave barbadensis Trel. Maypole... Clusters of deep yellow flowers borne on side branches..on a fleshy pole-like stalk.

b. An unbranched, evergreen tree, Spathelia simplex (family Rutaceae), of Jamaica. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > others

persea1601

mahoe1666

poison berry1672

white mangrove1683

maiden plum1696

angelin1704

garlic-pear1725

milkwood-tree1725

Jack-in-the-box1735

cherimoya1736

rattle bush1750

galapee1756

genip1756

lace bark1756

sunfruit1787

wild orange1802

hog-nut1814

mountain pride1814

savannah wattle1814

mora1825

rubber tree1826

mayflower1837

bastard manchineel1838

long john1838

seringa1847

sack tree1849

jumbie tree1860

jumbie bean1862

king-tree1863

gauze-tree1864

mountain green1864

snowdrop tree1864

strong bark1864

switch-sorrel1864

candle-tree1866

maypole1866

angelique1873

poisonwood1884

porkwood1884

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 726/2 Maypole of Jamaica, Spathelia simplex.

B. adj. (attributive).

Reminiscent of or befitting a maypole or a maypole dance; (of a person) tall and thin. rare.

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the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [adjective] > and thin

maypolea1635

gangrel1650

gangling1764

tanglec1817

lanky1818

langrel1847

weedy1849

spindled1855

tangly1855

rangy1857

lanikin1862

gangly1871

orming1903

spiderish1935

leptosomic1936

leptosomatic1937

a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse v. i. 86 in Poems (1638) Will Vertues dance?.. O vile, absurd, may pole maid-marrian vertue.

1647–8 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 140 I am none of those May-pole freshmen, that are tall cedars before they come to be planted in the academian garden.

1902 G. R. Lowndes Camping Sketches 85 We soon descried his maypole figure on the opposite side against the sky.

Compounds

General attributive.

maypole dance n.

ΚΠ

1717 Censor 26 Jan. 81 A Couple of Country Wenches, who, as they said, had lost their Maidenheads out of a Frolick, after a May-pole Dance.

1870 Appletons' Jrnl. 1 Oct. 415 When next a May-pole dance, that long since worn-out and always wearisome affair, is introduced in a drama, the exasperated audience will rise en masse..and exterminate the May-pole.

1992 Renaissance Q. 45 29 The ‘Satyrs,’ traditionally lecherous figures, are roused to perform a dance which evokes popular culture, i.e., the Maypole dance.

maypole dancer n.

ΚΠ

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 406 What a May pole Dauncer, was Iohn 12...who made the Lateran..a playne Stewes or Brothel house.

1990 Film Comment Jan.–Feb. 52/3 She's an imperturbable totem of good sense amid a gallery of lunatic maypole dancers.

maypole dancing n.

ΚΠ

1649 Ἕικων Ἀλήθινη 8 Commanding his holy day to be prophaned by sports unbeseeming a Christian people at any time, and such were ceremonies onely become the celebration of Floraes Feasts, once Romes so famous strumpet. [margin] May-pole dancing.

1863 Ladies' Compan. 23 319/2 I think the poor—the rural poor, especially—would prefer the maypole-dancing and all the other open-air amusements of their fathers' time.

1985 B. Jagger Song Twice Over (1986) 190 At Almsmead we have everything that a gentleman could possibly require, hunting and shooting and fishing and maypole dancing and cricket on the village green.

† maypole green n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1610 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 57/2 Acting a stage play..upon a Maypole green.

Derivatives

ˈmaypole-like adj.

ΚΠ

1670 J. Smith England's Improvem. Reviv'd 74 So many May-pole-like-Trees.

1789 C. Smith Ethelinde II. x. 250 That maypole like figure.

1982 Shakespeare Q. 33 198/2 He abruptly dismantled the bunting and maypole-like lanterns erected by Aguecheek.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	maypole
释义	maypolen.adj. Brit. /ˈmeɪpəʊl/, U.S. /ˈmeɪˌpoʊl/ Forms: 1500s maye pole, 1500s May-polle, 1500s May poole, 1500s may-poole, 1500s meye poll, 1500s–1600s May pole, 1600s Maipole, 1600s May-powle, 1600s– May Pole, 1600s– May-pole, 1600s– Maypole, 1600s– maypole, 1700s May-Pole, 1700s– may-pole. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: May n.², pole n.¹ Etymology: < May n.² + pole n.¹ A. n. 1. a. A high pole traditionally decorated with flowers and greenery and often painted with spiral stripes, set up on a green or other open space for people to dance around during May-time celebrations (latterly spec. those held on May Day).In quot. 1597: a barber's pole (humorous). The tradition of dancers holding long ribbons attached to the top of the pole seems to have originated in England in the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with May-day > maypole maypole1529 shaft1598 summer-broach1619 1529 in C. Kerry Hist. St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 228 It. to the carpenter for ij dayes to make a laddar of the May poole & for hys mete & drynk xiiij d. 1552 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 20 The xxvj day of May came in to Fa[nchurch] parryche a goodly May-polle. 1554 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 176 That no..persones..cause to be..sett vpp eny maner of maye pole..in any opyn streat. 1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe in Wks. (1885) III. 25 My shoppe in the towne, the teeth that hange out of my Windowe, my painted may-poole. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 43 He had that whole bevie at command whether in morrice or at May pole. 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 80 Endeavouring..to be as slender in the middle as the Strand-May-pole is tall in its height. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3783/4 The Wine-Cellar under the Flower-de-Luce against the May Pole in the Strand. 1768 G. White Jrnl. 23 July (1970) i. 5 Martins begin to congregate on the maypole. 1805 R. Heber Jrnl. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. iii. 100 The festivities of the May-pole are still kept up in Finland. 1863 R. Chambers Bk. of Days I. 572/2 The May Queen..was placed in a sort of bower or arbour, near the May-pole, there to sit in pretty state. 1880 E. Gosse in Ward's Eng. Poets II. 126 Ribbanding the may-pole as though it were the cone-tipped rod of Dionysus. 1922 ‘R. Crompton’ More William (1924) viii. 129 I hope you dance next me at the Maypole when Evangeline's Queen. 1936 G. M. Young Victorian Eng. xii. 77 The maypole had gone: the village feast and the club-walk were going. 1990 Wantage & Grove Herald 10 May 3/5 (caption) Glorious sunshine brought these schoolchildren out of their classrooms to celebrate May Day with a dance around the May-pole. b. In extended use: a tall, thin person or object. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and thinness > person lungis1572 gangrel1582 slangrel1592 maypole1600 slangam1611 mackerel-back1674 spider-catcher1699 gilly-gaupus?1719 tangle1778 beanpole1798 windlestraw1818 lankyc1863 narrowback1921 leptosome1931 string-bean1936 streak1941 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 297 How lowe am I, thou painted May-pole ? View more context for this quotation 1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 37 Such monstrous May-powles of hayre. 1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 201 This Place is much frequented by the Venetian walking May Poles, I meane the women. 1765 E. Thompson Meretriciad (ed. 6) 33 Maypoles love you because you're wonderous small. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 14 The daughter, a tall trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole. 1871 Mrs. H. Wood Dene Hollow I. i. 5 He was turned sixty; a lean may-pole of a man. 1920 G. K. Chesterton Uses of Diversity 135 Hermia the vixen and Helena the maypole are obviously only two excitable and quite modern girls. †c. slang (euphemistic). An erect penis. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis > erect Priapusc1487 Priap1561 Priapian1598 polec1600 Jack1604 maypole1607 stalk1609 rod1641 bone1654 stick1707 ramrod1768 horn1785 phallus1807 phallos1885 ithyphallus1889 boner1960 stiff1980 stonker1987 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. sig. H^v Goz. Play you louzie Hungarians: see, looke the Maipole is set vp, weele dance about it: keepe this circle Maquerelle. 1655 Mercurius Fumigosus 25 Apr.–2 May 377 Wee'l Increase and Multiply, and may with any man. You may, indeed good Sir, you May, your May-pole stiff and strong. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 188 Disingag'd from the shirt, I saw..not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a may-pole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant. ?1788 ‘R. Birch’ Venus School-mistress (1917) 39 He placed her upon her belly..and I saw him thrust his Maypole into the widow's backside up to the very hilt. 2. a. Caribbean (chiefly Barbados). Any of various kinds of century plant (genus Agave), which are remarkable for their very long, pole-shaped inflorescence. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Amaryllidaceae > [noun] > types of maguey1555 melt1605 pancratium1664 aloe1665 pita1698 mescal1709 maypole1750 agave1760 poison bulb1776 kukumakranka1793 furcraea1821 zephyranthes1821 century plant1827 mescal button1887 tequila plant1979 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 223 The May-Pole; Lat. Aloe Americana muricata. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 46 The American Aloes Tree, or May-Pole, is..usually planted in gardens and walks. 1848 R. H. Schomburgk Hist. Barbados 588 Amaryllidaceæ.—The Amaryllis Plants: Agave americana, Linn. May Pole, Hughes. The Great American Aloe. Bois de Mèche. 1961 F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk ii. xvi. 367 A man from Bull Savanna remarked: ‘Carito is the correct name [for the agave], but we call it maypole;’ and so it is also in the Kingston area. 1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants Barbados 19/2 Agave barbadensis Trel. Maypole... Clusters of deep yellow flowers borne on side branches..on a fleshy pole-like stalk. b. An unbranched, evergreen tree, Spathelia simplex (family Rutaceae), of Jamaica. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > others persea1601 mahoe1666 poison berry1672 white mangrove1683 maiden plum1696 angelin1704 garlic-pear1725 milkwood-tree1725 Jack-in-the-box1735 cherimoya1736 rattle bush1750 galapee1756 genip1756 lace bark1756 sunfruit1787 wild orange1802 hog-nut1814 mountain pride1814 savannah wattle1814 mora1825 rubber tree1826 mayflower1837 bastard manchineel1838 long john1838 seringa1847 sack tree1849 jumbie tree1860 jumbie bean1862 king-tree1863 gauze-tree1864 mountain green1864 snowdrop tree1864 strong bark1864 switch-sorrel1864 candle-tree1866 maypole1866 angelique1873 poisonwood1884 porkwood1884 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 726/2 Maypole of Jamaica, Spathelia simplex. B. adj. (attributive). Reminiscent of or befitting a maypole or a maypole dance; (of a person) tall and thin. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [adjective] > and thin maypolea1635 gangrel1650 gangling1764 tanglec1817 lanky1818 langrel1847 weedy1849 spindled1855 tangly1855 rangy1857 lanikin1862 gangly1871 orming1903 spiderish1935 leptosomic1936 leptosomatic1937 a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse v. i. 86 in Poems (1638) Will Vertues dance?.. O vile, absurd, may pole maid-marrian vertue. 1647–8 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 140 I am none of those May-pole freshmen, that are tall cedars before they come to be planted in the academian garden. 1902 G. R. Lowndes Camping Sketches 85 We soon descried his maypole figure on the opposite side against the sky. Compounds General attributive. maypole dance n. ΚΠ 1717 Censor 26 Jan. 81 A Couple of Country Wenches, who, as they said, had lost their Maidenheads out of a Frolick, after a May-pole Dance. 1870 Appletons' Jrnl. 1 Oct. 415 When next a May-pole dance, that long since worn-out and always wearisome affair, is introduced in a drama, the exasperated audience will rise en masse..and exterminate the May-pole. 1992 Renaissance Q. 45 29 The ‘Satyrs,’ traditionally lecherous figures, are roused to perform a dance which evokes popular culture, i.e., the Maypole dance. maypole dancer n. ΚΠ 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 406 What a May pole Dauncer, was Iohn 12...who made the Lateran..a playne Stewes or Brothel house. 1990 Film Comment Jan.–Feb. 52/3 She's an imperturbable totem of good sense amid a gallery of lunatic maypole dancers. maypole dancing n. ΚΠ 1649 Ἕικων Ἀλήθινη 8 Commanding his holy day to be prophaned by sports unbeseeming a Christian people at any time, and such were ceremonies onely become the celebration of Floraes Feasts, once Romes so famous strumpet. [margin] May-pole dancing. 1863 Ladies' Compan. 23 319/2 I think the poor—the rural poor, especially—would prefer the maypole-dancing and all the other open-air amusements of their fathers' time. 1985 B. Jagger Song Twice Over (1986) 190 At Almsmead we have everything that a gentleman could possibly require, hunting and shooting and fishing and maypole dancing and cricket on the village green. † maypole green n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1610 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 57/2 Acting a stage play..upon a Maypole green. Derivatives ˈmaypole-like adj. ΚΠ 1670 J. Smith England's Improvem. Reviv'd 74 So many May-pole-like-Trees. 1789 C. Smith Ethelinde II. x. 250 That maypole like figure. 1982 Shakespeare Q. 33 198/2 He abruptly dismantled the bunting and maypole-like lanterns erected by Aguecheek. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1529
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