单词 | napoo |
释义 | napoov. Now rare. transitive. To finish; spec. to kill, destroy. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence dilghec897 defacec1386 annul1395 anientec1400 refer?c1400 extinct1484 annihil1490 delete1495 out-terma1500 perspoil1523 extaintc1540 extinguish1555 blot1561 wipe1564 to cut the throat of1565 annihilate1567 dissipatea1575 annihilate1586 nullify1609 nullize1615 expunge1628 nothing1637 null1647 extramund1654 be-nothing1674 erase1728 obliterate1798 simoom1821 to tear to shreds1837 snuff1852 mop1859 to take out1900 napoo1915 naught1958 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand 302 Poor Bill got na-poohed by a rifle-grenade yesterday. 1919 J. B. Morton Barber of Putney xviii. 301 Even if they themselves were na-pooed, they'd hate to think of the lousy Boche living in their home. 1925 N. Venner Imperfect Impostor i. 6 If you haven't got a job to do, you're a washout. You might as well be napood right off. 1985 R. Coover Gerald's Party 232 Just defending a poker game down at city hall these days can get you napooed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). napooint.adj. colloquial (originally Army slang). Now historical and rare. A. int. Used to indicate that there is no more of something or that something or someone is gone; ‘finished!’ ‘goodbye!’ Cf. mafeesh int.In quot. 1989 used parodically. In quot. 2002 echoing quot. 1917. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [interjection] > done for napoo1915 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand 302 You say ‘Na pooh!’ when you push your plate away after dinner. 1915 Boston Sunday Globe 8 Aug. 48/2 Gained from the experience in France or Belgium, ‘napoo’, as used to express ‘no more’ or ‘nothing more’ or ‘I'm finished’, will live in the soldiers' memory, and may even be incorporated into use by certain classes of civilians. 1917 R. P. Weston & B. Lee Good-bye-ee (song) in T. Kendall Poetry of First World War (2013) 230 Bonsoir, old thing! cheerio! chin-chin! Nahpoo! Toodle-oo! Good-bye-ee! 1948 E. Gaitens Dance of Apprentices vi. 255 He..bent down to strike the match saying it would be napoo to their smoke if it didn't light. 1989 V. Scannell Soldiering On 54 Compree mon Kamerad? Jig-jig, parley-voo, Shufti zubrick, quois-kateer San fairy ann, napoo. 2002 Times 7 Nov. 2/7 Dogged, decent, perhaps doomed, he trudged on. Na-poo, toodle-oo, goodbyee. B. adj. Good-for-nothing; dead; finished. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [adjective] > unserviceable > by having ceased to function broken-down1816 napoo1915 spitchered1920 kaput1924 bent1957 1915 Christmas Garland (5th Canad. Battalion, 1st Canad. Division, B.E.F.) 87/2 Little scraps of ‘pidgin French’ might also be heard..‘Na poo runs’, they would say when the side was out. 1917 W. Lewis in Pound/Lewis: Lett. 75 That..Photo is napoo. 1917 Spectator 3 Feb. 126/1 The melancholy age when even Volunteers themselves half thought that they were a wash-out and a ‘nah poo’ force is ended. 1919 J. B. Morton Barber of Putney xv. 253 ‘Can't do nothing,’ said Curly, ‘'e's napoo.’ 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling vi. 52 All the boys about here..have looked for money in the gullies, and the only thing they ever come across was a rum-keg—empty—‘Napoo’, like the Diggers used to say! 1975 S. J. Perelman Vinegar Puss 175 It's kaput—finished—napoo. 2010 R. Wilby In Different Skies xi. 77 In the event of..the owner thereof being whooshed, crumped, whizz-banged, sniped, bombed, gassed or otherwise rendered napoo, please forward it to: 2nd-Lt. Hugh Crooke. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1915int.adj.1915 |
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