单词 | mock-man |
释义 | mock-mann. Now rare. 1. A person or thing resembling a man but without the qualities of a man; (contemptuous) a man considered unworthy of being called a man.In quot. a1640 the reference is perhaps to a stage dummy (see also etymological note). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man badlingeOE milksopc1390 cockneyc1405 malkina1425 molla1425 weakling1526 tenderling1541 softling1543 niceling1549 woman-man1567 cocknel1570 effeminate1583 androgyne1587 meacock1590 mammaday1593 hermaphrodite1594 midwife1596 nimfadoro1600 night-sneaker1611 mock-mana1625 nan1670 she-man1675 petit maître1711 old woman1717 master-miss1754 Miss Molly1754 molly1785 squaw1805 mollycoddle1823 Miss Nancy1824 mollycot1826 molly mop1829 poof1833 Margery?c1855 ladyboy1857 girl1862 Mary Ann1868 sissy1879 milk1881 pretty-boy1881 nancy1888 poofter1889 Nancy Dawson1890 softie1895 puff1902 pussy1904 Lizzie1905 nance1910 quean1910 maricon1921 pie-face1922 bitch1923 Jessie1923 lily1923 tapette1923 pansy1926 nancy boy1927 nelly1931 femme1932 ponce1932 queerie1933 palone1934 queenie1935 girlie-man1940 swish1941 puss1942 wonk1945 mother1947 candy-ass1953 twink1953 cream puff1958 pronk1959 swishy1959 limp wrist1960 pansy-ass1963 weeny1963 poofteroo1966 mo1968 shim1973 twinkie1977 woofter1977 cake boy1992 hermaphrodite- a1625 J. Fletcher Wife for Moneth i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffffff4v/2 I would first take to me, for my lust, a Moore, One of your Gally-slaves, that cold and hunger, Decrepid misery, had made a mock-man, Then be your Queene. a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover v. i. 140 in 3 New Playes (1655) What a Mock-man property in thy intent Wouldst thou have made me? 1864 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 501/2 There were agonies there which I have never trusted my tongue to tell. Yet I see, in my journal, in a boy's mock-man way, this is passed by, as almost nothing. 1942 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 6 362 In the kneading and cooking the sacrificial cake..acquires the animal qualities of hair, skin, flesh, bone and marrow, and ‘the Man whom they had offered up becomes a mock-man’ (kiṁpuruṣa). 1991 Man New Ser. 26 539 The wild, nonsacrificial, inedible counterpart of the man or puruṣa is the kimpuruṣa, which I have translated as the ‘pseudo-man’... Various translations have been offered.., ranging from ‘monkey’ and ‘ape’ to ‘dwarf’ and ‘mock-man’. 2. An ape; spec. a chimpanzee. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pan or chimpanzee pongo1625 mock-man1697 chimpanzee1738 mandrill1744 troglodyte1774 koolookamba1860 chimp1877 bonobo1955 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 17 Far were those Mock-men, the poor Apes, from being guilty of any thing that Resembled Reason. 1738 London Mag. Sept. 465 A most surprizing creature is brought over in the Speaker, just arrived from Carolina, that was taken in a wood at Guinea. She is the Female of the Creature which the Angolans call Chimpanze, or the Mockman. 1990 Times 13 Sept. 18/1 Men and ‘mockmen’, which is what chimps are called in Angola, belong to the same genus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1625 |
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