单词 | mountie |
释义 | Mountien. 1. A member of the Royal Canadian (formerly North West) Mounted Police.Although the term is informal, its use is now so widespread that it has more or less ceased to be regarded as a colloquialism. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > mobile > mounted > in Canada redcoat1876 yellow leg1901 Mountie1914 1914 Eye Opener (Calgary) 12 Dec. 3/4 Ketchen, the Mountie,..was easily placated. 1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold vi. 139 A sentence that is at once the badge and boast of the Mounted—‘the Mounties never come in without their man’. 1927 Sunday at Home 106/2 The Eskimo borrowed the Mounty's gun and shot him. 1959 F. Bodsworth Strange One (1960) iii. xvi. 111 The Mountie spoke to her in slow, faltering Cree. 1971 D. Heffron Nice Fire & Some Moonpennies i. 12 We all looked all around us as though there might be a Mountie skulking behind every tree. 1995 Times 9 June 39/1 Light-hearted drama series about a squeaky-clean Canadian Mountie working in wicked Chicago. 2. gen. A member of any mounted police or military force. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > mobile > mounted trooper1830 Rurales1896 Mountie1930 1930 J. Lait Big House i. 11 A motorcycle patrolman comes shrieking and screeching up. ‘P-pretty bad b-bump, I guess.’ The mountie doesn't answer. 1931 Skipper 25 Apr. 112 A detachment of the Camel Corps on the march outside Cairo. These desert ‘mounties’ keep law and order in Egypt. 1953 R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice 125 I wonder why such a smart man with a castle in England has to come out here [i.e. to S. Africa] and work as an ordinary Mountie. 1999 Bloomington (Indiana) Independent 21 Jan. 26/2 Across the intersection sat a Lawrence County police car, with two city squad cars behind it, Stevens said. The county mounty flashed his headlights. Compounds Mountie hat n. (also Mountie's hat) a type of hat with a broad, flat, encircling brim, of the kind worn by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. ΚΠ 1979 Shakespeare Q. 30 269/1 The rebels were turned into Cossacks by their long green coats, and Falstaff's red jacket and Mounty's hat transformed him into an outsize Baden Powell. 1992 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 Feb. g4 Six hundred styles. Anything from the classic Mountie hat to a chauffeur's cap. 2000 Edmonton Sun (Nexis) 7 Aug. sp8 Safin received thunderous applause from the capacity Centre Court gathering when he put on his Mountie hat and received the championship trophy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1914 |
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