单词 | newgate |
释义 | Newgaten. Any prison. Also: a situation likened to Newgate prison, as by being restrictive, confining, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To imprison in Newgate. ΚΠ 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). < n.1580v.a1734 |
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