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单词 newgate
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Newgaten.

Brit. /ˈnjuːɡeɪt/, /ˈnjuːɡət/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uˌɡeɪt/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Newgate.
Etymology: < Newgate, the name of a famous prison in London (in use from at least the early 13th cent., rebuilt several times, and demolished in 1902–3), so called from its position near the city gate of the same name. Compare Ludgate n. N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (niū·gĕt) /ˈnjuːɡət/.
Any prison. Also: a situation likened to Newgate prison, as by being restrictive, confining, etc. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
quarternOE
prisona1200
jailc1275
lodgec1290
galleya1300
chartrea1325
ward1338
keepingc1384
prison-house1419
lying-house1423
javel1483
tollbooth1488
kidcotec1515
clinkc1530
warding-place1571
the hangman's budget1589
Newgate1592
gehenna1594
Lob's pound1597
caperdewsie1599
footman's inn1604
cappadochio1607
pena1640
marshalsea1652
log-house1662
bastille1663
naskin1673
state prison1684
tronk1693
stone-doublet1694
iron or stone doublet1698
college1699
nask1699
quod1699
shop1699
black hole1707
start1735
coop1785
blockhouse1796
stone jug1796
calaboose1797
factory1806
bull-pen1809
steel1811
jigger1812
jug1815
kitty1825
rock pile1830
bughouse1842
zindan1844
model1845
black house1846
tench1850
mill1851
stir1851
hoppet1855
booby hatch1859
caboose1865
cooler1872
skookum house1873
chokey1874
gib1877
nick1882
choker1884
logs1888
booby house1894
big house1905
hoosegow1911
can1912
detention camp1916
pokey1919
slammer1952
joint1953
slam1960
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. E3 Newgate, a common name for al prisons, as Homo is a common name for a man or woman.
1669 in H. Lawes Treasury of Mus. II. 61 My Newgate was my Want of Wit.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive. Used with reference to inmates of, or things associated with, Newgate prison, as Newgate fashion, Newgate man, Newgate term, etc.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > vulgar language > vulgar word or expression
Newgate term1598
vulgarism1746
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [adverb] > in manner of prisoners or in twos
Newgate fashion1598
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 90 Falst. Must we all march? Bar. Yea, two, and two, Newgate fashion. View more context for this quotation
1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. C1 When naught but Newgate tearmes can store ye tongue.
1671 H. Herbert Narrative in Camden Misc. (1990) XXX. 296 He raised 500 men, in his choise..taking up plow men, Newgatemen, and day labourers.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 195 Every Newgate Wretch..has here a fair Opportunity.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. iv She treated them with the same disdain with which one of those sages of the law, called Newgate solicitors, treats the qualms of conscience in a young witness. View more context for this quotation
1807 E. S. Barrett All Talents' Garland (ed. 3) 22 Now fare ye well, my Treasury Chums..And when your Dissolution comes, ‘Like Newgate cocks, die hard,’ Sirs!
1850 E. B. Browning Soul's Trav. 39 The brothel shriek, and the Newgate laugh.
1956 William & Mary Q. 13 476 It [sc. inoculation] was tested in much-publicized experiments on Newgate prisoners.
1978 P. O'Brian Desolation Island ii. 49 I shall stick to Ajax, the new seventy-four, a fine ship, with no flash Newgate cullies lurking in the hold.
b. Designating or relating to a kind of English fiction popular in the second quarter of the 19th cent., which took actual criminal cases as the basis for its narrative and was typically picaresque in form. Now historical.
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1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine xv, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 210 The taste for Newgate literature is on the wane.
1854 C. Knight Old Printer & Mod. Press vi. 281 The host of penny Newgate novels..may continue to be sold; but, as far as we can trace, there are no novelties in this once popular literature of the gallows.
1959 Brno Stud. in Eng. 1 104 The ‘Newgate novelists’ of the 'thirties (Edward Bulwer, W. H. Ainsworth, and Charles Whitehead) represent a literary school, which is generally called ‘the Newgate School’ or ‘Bulwer's school’.
1965 S. Marcus Dickens: from Pickwick to Dombey ii. 67 In Catherine..Thackeray..identified Dickens with the Newgate novelists.
1996 19th-cent. Lit. 50 430 The current vogue for Newgate Novels, which typically evoked sympathy, and even admiration, for the prisoner.
C2.
Newgate bird n. slang Obsolete a jailbird.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > one who has been long or often in jail
Newgate bird1580
bridewell bird1590
jail-bird1603
prison-birda1640
old hand1826
repeater1873
old lag1910
loser1912
in-and-out boy1937
1580 A. Munday Paine of Pleasure f. 21v The Cownter is a cruell Cage, but ware a Newgate Birde.
1607 T. Dekker & G. Wilkins Iests to make you Merie sig. H1v Our Newgate-Bird..spreading his Dragon-like wings..beheld a thousand Synnes.
1757 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IX. 233 What are they who steer by this rule better than a company of Newgate-birds?
1800 J. Wolcot Horrors Bribery 6 ‘A Newgate bird liv'th there,’ the voakes will cry..‘A jailbird!’
1899 W. Besant Orange Girl ii. xxvi. 432 A Newgate bird and a bird of the King's Bench.
Newgate Calendar n. now historical (originally) a list of those admitted to Newgate prison in the preceding month; (later) any of a series of publications containing biographical information about those detained in Newgate, or (in some cases) stories of crimes associated with the prison.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > other types of registers
Domesday Book1178
register1426
white bookc1432
town booka1547
christening book1558
muster1565
minute-book1566
Domes-booke1610
Newgate Calendar1686
time book1786
press book1808
provision book1840
visitors' book1846
guestbook1849
poison book1870
poison register1894
war diary1917
sign-in1966
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > specific prisons > list of prisoners in Newgate
Newgate Calendar1686
1686 H. Higden Mod. Ess. 13th Satyr Juvenal 31 Examples of all Crimes appear In ev'ry Newgate-Calendar.
c1773 (title) The Newgate calendar or, Malefactors Bloody Register. Containing genuine and circumstantial narratives of the lives and transactions, various exploits and dying speeches of the most notorious criminals of both sexes.
1836 Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders II. 5/1 That extraordinary record of human vice and suffering, ‘The Newgate Calendar’.
1929 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 37 83 Place..declared..that he had been accused..of every crime in the Newgate Calendar except assassination.
1992 Hist. & Theory 31 159 When she read about them [sc. the Ratcliffe Highway murders] in the Newgate Calendar, it seemed to her that ‘there was a great deal of doubt about this whole crime.’
Newgate frill n. now rare = Newgate fringe n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of beard
goat's beard1440
bodkin-bearda1529
pique-devant1587
crates1592
peak1592
spade-peak1592
beard1598
Cads-beard1598
spade-beard1598
punto beard1633
cathedral beard1635
stiletto1638
T bearda1640
trencher-bearda1668
tile beard1816
imperial beard1832
Charley1833
imperial1835
royale1838
goatee1841
goat1849
Newgate frill1851
Newgate fringe1853
Vandyke beard1894
torpedo beard1899
Vandyke1909
pencil beard1966
1851 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour in New Monthly Mag. Feb. lxv. 227 Then he had a soldier's shave, off by the ear; which in turn was followed by a Newgate frill.
1885 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 259 Some of them beardless, others with a fringe of hair around their faces, such as the English call a Newgate frill.
1910 H. R. Haggard Queen Sheba's Ring xiii There he sat on the floor..his clothes torn and bloody, his beard ragged and stretching in a Newgate frill to his ears.
1949 A. Thirkell Old Bank House x. 244 Mr Nandy himself..affected the Newgate frill of an older generation.
Newgate fringe n. a fringe of beard growing from below the chin.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of beard
goat's beard1440
bodkin-bearda1529
pique-devant1587
crates1592
peak1592
spade-peak1592
beard1598
Cads-beard1598
spade-beard1598
punto beard1633
cathedral beard1635
stiletto1638
T bearda1640
trencher-bearda1668
tile beard1816
imperial beard1832
Charley1833
imperial1835
royale1838
goatee1841
goat1849
Newgate frill1851
Newgate fringe1853
Vandyke beard1894
torpedo beard1899
Vandyke1909
pencil beard1966
1853 C. Dickens Let. 25 Oct. (1993) VII. 175 I seized my best razor, and, as a great example, shaved off the whole of the Newgate fringe from under my chin!
1895 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (rev. ed.) 886/1 Newgate Fringe, the hair worn under the chin, or between the chin and the neck.
1896 G. M. Stisted True Life R. F. Burton xi. 266 A man with a Newgate fringe, clad in grey homespun garments.
1933 D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup i. 5 The gardener, Bellingham, a silent man rather like a mole but with a beard of a kind known as a Newgate Fringe, came too.
1992 M. Bence-Jones Catholic Families viii. 191 Rather bucolic features framed by the sort of whiskers known as a Newgate fringe.
Newgate hornpipe n. slang (now archaic) (the vigorous kicking of a person undergoing) death by hanging (cf. to dance the Tyburn jig at dance v. 4b).
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun]
hanginga1300
hangmentc1440
gallows1483
gibbet1502
Tyburn checka1529
Tyburn stretch1573
caudle of hempseed1588
hempen caudle1588
swinging1591
rope law1592
rope-leap1611
cording1619
turn1631
nubbing1673
cravatting1683
gibbetation1689
topping1699
Tyburn jig1699
noosing1819
scragging1819
Tyburn tie1828
Newgate hornpipe1829
dance upon nothing1841
drop1887
suspension1909
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > a hanging
Newgate hornpipe1829
necktie sociable1871
necktie party1882
necktie social1994
1829 W. Maginn tr. E. F. Vidocq in Blackwood's Mag. July 133 We shall caper a-heel and toeing..A Newgate hornpipe some fine day.
1970 G. M. Fraser Royal Flash 188 And then it would be the Newgate hornpipe for Flashy, with the whole damned crew of Sons of the Volsungs hauling on the rope.
Newgate knocker n. now historical a lock of hair hanging down the cheek, twisted back from the temple towards the ear.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > lock of hair worn in a specific style
sidelock1530
glib1537
cow-lick1598
soap-lock1840
Newgate knocker1851
quiff1890
comb-over1980
spike1981
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 36/2 As for the hair, they say it ought to be long in front, and done in ‘figure-six’ curls, or twisted back to the ear ‘Newgate-knocker style’.
1879 E. King Old Times Revisited in J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking (1984) 109/2 The so-called ‘Newgate-Knockers’, affected by the vulgar classes of London.
1984 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking (new ed.) 109/2 Newgate knockers, the diminished side locks of hair hanging down the cheeks in front of the ears. In the late 18th century, early 19th century worn by men.

Derivatives

Newgateer n. Obsolete rare a Newgate prisoner.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > in specific prison
Newgateer1678
1678 Narr. Proc. Old Bayly 4 An old Newgateer..was convicted for stealing Silver spoons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Newgatev.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Newgate.
Etymology: < the name of Newgate prison (see Newgate n.).
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To imprison in Newgate.
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a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iv. §53. 258 Soon after this, he was taken up and Newgated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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