ninetyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈnʌɪnti/, U.S.

/ˈnaɪn(t)i/

Forms:

α. Old English neogantig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English neogentig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English neogontig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English nigentig (in prefixed form), Old English nigonti (in prefixed form), Old English nigontig (in prefixed form), Old English niogontig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English niogontig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English nygantig (in prefixed form), Old English nygonti (in prefixed form), Old English nygontig (in prefixed form), Old English–early Middle English nigantig (in prefixed form), Old English–early Middle English nygenti (in prefixed form), late Old English nigantyg (in prefixed form), late Old English nigontih (in prefixed form), early Middle English negentig (in prefixed form), early Middle English nigenti, early Middle English nigeontig (in prefixed form), early Middle English nigneti (probably transmission error), early Middle English nygentig (in prefixed form), Middle English neneti, Middle English nenty, Middle English neynte, Middle English nihend (transmission error), Middle English nihende (transmission error), Middle English nineti, Middle English nyenty, Middle English nynte, Middle English nynti, Middle English nyynty, Middle English 1600s–1700s ninty, Middle English–1500s nynety, Middle English–1500s nynty, Middle English–1500s nyntye, 1500s ninetye, 1500s–1600s ninetie, 1500s– ninety; Scottish pre-1700 neynty, pre-1700 nynety, pre-1700 nynte, pre-1700 nyntee, pre-1700 nynthe, pre-1700 nynti, pre-1700 nyntie, pre-1700 nynty, pre-1700 nyntye, 1700s– ninety.

β. Old English neantig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English neantih (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English neontig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English niontig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form).

Also represented by the numerical symbols 90, xc, XC.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian niguntich (West Frisian njoggentich ), Middle Dutch neghentich , negentich , negenteg (Dutch negentig ), Old Saxon nigunta , niguntehan (Middle Low German negentich ), Old High German niunzug , niunzog (Middle High German niunzec , niunzic , German neunzig ), Old Icelandic níu tigir (Icelandic níutíu ), Old Swedish niotighi , niotio (Swedish nittio ), Old Danish nitigh (Danish niti ), Gothic niuntehund < the Germanic base of nine adj. + the Germanic base of -ty suffix².Icelandic níutíu , Old Swedish niotio (Swedish nittio ) show remodelling of the suffix after respective forms of ten adj. The usual word in modern Danish is halvfems (shortened < halvfemsindstyve , literally ‘fifth half times twenty’, i.e. four score plus half of the fifth score), although niti is still used in certain (especially commercial) contexts. With the β. forms compare the β. forms at nine adj. and n. In Old English the prefixed form hundnigontig , in the same sense (see hund n. 2), is more commonly attested; compare Middle Dutch tneghentich, tnegentich (Dutch regional tnegentig), Middle Low German tnegentich.

A cardinal number represented by 90 in arabic numerals, or by xc, XC in roman.

A. adj.

Nine times ten; one more than eighty-nine.Recorded earliest in nine and ninety (see Compounds 1a).In Old English frequently with noun in genitive plural.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > ninety

ninetyOE

OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 7 Ma þonne ofer nigon & nigontigum [c1200 Hatton nigen & nigentig] rihtwisra.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1027 Ghe was nigenti winter hold.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. v. 9 Enos forsoþ lyuide nynty ȝere.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 57 (MED) Auicen seiþ þat þer ben foure score oþer nyntye brawnes.

a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 28 (MED) The sees..duryd vndyr IX bysshoppes fulle nerr Nynty yere.

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 68 (MED) Sara was nynty ȝere bareyn.

1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye Gen. xvii. 27 And shall a Childe be born to him, that's olde an hundreth yere? Shal Sara eke, th'ats Nynety yere, be able for to beare?

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 36 These souldiours brings Duke Nestor he, the oldest for his yeares, With ninetie strong and warlike barkes wel armed he appeares.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Nonagenario Of ninety yeeres of age.

1651 S. Sheppard Mausolean Monument 212 Grim Death..contrary to Joves Decree, Rob'd him of his Mortalitie, When he had numbered ninetie yeares.

1677 Philos. Trans. 1676 (Royal Soc.) 11 793 Pliny saith, that Theophrastus affirms, that Callias found Vermillon ninety years before Praxibulus, Pretor of Athens.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 24 It was about Ninety Leagues distant, and our Voyage lasted four Days and an Half.

1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 67 602 These arcs were very exactly divided into nine large sections; each of which again into ten, making ninety lesser divisions or degrees.

1834 R. M. Bird Calavar II. xiii. 103 I will, on mine own part, bestow upon thee this golden chain and crucifix, valued at ninety pesos.

1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xvii. 391 Of the ninety shells, no less than forty-seven are unknown elsewhere.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) x. 388 On one side of the Pit wheat sold at ninety cents, on the other at a dollar and a quarter.

1976 G. Gordon 100 Scenes from Married Life 66 The curious thing about these afternoons, that is the ninety minutes..between 3.30 and 5, was that the next morning Edward hardly ever remembered what he had done.

B. n.

1. Nine times ten or one more than eighty-nine as an abstract number; the figures or symbols representing this (90 in arabic numerals; xc, XC in roman).

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > ninety

ninetya1425

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 44 Nonaginta, nyenty.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 357 Nynety, Nonaginta.

a1525 G. Myll Spectakle of Luf 297/8 Nyntye.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Nonanta, ninetie, fowerscore and ten.

1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass ix. 203 Thirty times three makes ninety.

1933 Economica 42 382 It has nothing to do with the number ninety that it happens to be the number of my house.

1983 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 48 524 An object has the number ninety if it can be configured with eighty-nine objects or we can form a collection of ninety objects of which it is a member.

2. Ninety people or things identified contextually, as years of age, pounds, degrees (esp. Fahrenheit), etc. Cf. nineties n.

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a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) 1435 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 438 (MED) A thowsand yeer fro the Incarnacioun, Nynty ouer by accountis cleer, With addicioun fully off fyue yeer.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. F^v Yo' haue had, For th' Instruments, as bricks, and lome, and glasses, Already thirty pound; and, for Materialls, They say, some ninety more.

1662 J. Graunt Bills of Mortality ii In case a man of seventy five years old died of a cough (of which had he been free, he might have possibly lived to ninety) I esteem it little errour..if this person be..reckoned among the aged.

1673 H. N. Payne Fatal Jealousie i. i. 7 This Nurse of Ninety never stayes with me but I'de as live have been rid by a Night-Mare.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. x. 142 At Ninety they lose their Teeth and Hair, they have at that age no Distinction of Taste.

1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iii. 86 He lived to the age of ninety, and left behind him a fine estate and a numerous family.

1799 F. Reynolds Laugh when you Can iii. 36 May I buy in at ninety, and sell out at fifty, if I ever enter the bills of mortality again.

1858 G. H. Miles Senor Valente iv. ii. 39 I ordered him to close a thousand shares at ninety, to meet a fresh lot I take from Bear to-day at eighty.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. lxiv. 25 We might take a smaller house: Trumbull..has a very decent one to let at thirty pounds a-year, and this is ninety.

1878 W. C. Bennett Sea Songs 17 De Ferro's guns, a hundred, First hid us in their fog; From Gloria ninety thundered As in went brave Old Grog.

1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island xxx. 248 He's so contrary that he wears his fur coat when the thermometer's at ninety.

1971 R. Berry in Planet 6–7 94 Big Strapper and Rebecca were clocking ninety over the mountain road to Berw Vale.

2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 20 Aug. When things aren't running for you that can give you a bit of pessimism for the next ninety.

3. The ninetieth of a set or series with numbered members; the one designated ninety. Usually as number ninety, or with specification, as book ninety, chapter ninety, etc.

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1842 T. Hood Wks. (1862–63) 416 But from Number Thirty-Nine—since this electioneering job, Ay, as far as Number Ninety, there's an everlasting mob.

1858 E. P. Rogers Hist. Disc. Reformed Protestant Dutch Church 118 The proceedings of said Church, pursuant to the provisions of chapter ninety..are hereby confirmed.

1922 L. H. Wild Lit. Guide Bible 187 The solemn sadness of Psalm ninety is set in strong relief by the sunny brightness of happy, perfect trust in the Divine protection.

1954 J. S. Brushwood Romantic Novel in Mexico 84 In the street fight, Fortunata's father is wounded. This scene ends on page ninety.

Compounds

C1.

a. In combination with the numerals one to nine, to express numbers between ninety and one hundred; formerly as one and ninety (also ninety and one), etc., now usually ninety-one, etc. Also forming compound numerals with multiples of one hundred, as one hundred and ninety, (also one hundred ninety: now U.S.), etc.

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OENigon & nigontigum [see sense A.].

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9931 In þe ȝer of grace..Endleue hundred & ninty.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Paralip. (Douce 369(1)) ix. 6 Of þe sones..of Sarai, heuel & þe breþern of hem, sixe hundrid & nynti.

1393 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 27 Mccc nynety and thre.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2699 (MED) His fader nineti and nine þat day Þai vnder-fang þis neu lai.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 107 Tuelff hundreth ȝer tharto nynte and sewyn.

?1573 H. Cheke tr. F. Negri Freewyl v. iv. 176 And we angels also do reioyce more in one sinner, whiche by your meanes doth conuert vnto God, then in ninetie and nine such iust Pharisees.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 78 Saxthundereth nyntie and fyue.

1654 R. Aylett Divine & Moral Speculations ii. 127 Abram forsakes his Kindred, House, and Land..At ninety nine is circumcised, and His dear son Isaac offers at his Lords command.

1674 Hogan-Moganides 60 Of Brandy ninety-seaven Barrachos With Herring, Cod, besides Pottachoes.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 97 I pull'd it [sc. the money] out, and he was content to take it, giving me his Note, with Interest, for the whole Sum, which amounted to Ninety four Pounds.

1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 53 His subscription would be at ninety nine per cent. discount the very first day of its opening.

1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama viii. 74 Nine and ninety days are fled, Nine and ninety steeds have bled.

1890 J. S. Blackie Song of Heroes 132 Planted words of strong denial Boldly, in the public eye, On the church door, five-and-ninety. Truth is mighty, and it spread.

1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock ii. 38 I thought there was twelve hundred muckers in this raid—where's t' other eleven hundred and ninety-nine?

1990 E. Hart Dawn of Millennium (1991) ix. 138 Two hundred ninety civilian lives were lost.

b. ninety-nine times (cases, etc.) out of (also in, of) a hundred: the great majority of times, etc.; for the most part, almost always.

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1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 133 Taking the whole kingdom at an average, nineteen houses in twenty, or rather perhaps ninety-nine in a hundred, are not insured from fire.

1776 A. Smith Let. 16 June in Corr. (1977) clxi. 201 If it fails, which it does nine times in ten, the second is surely likely to fail ninety nine times in a hundred.

1799 H. Neuman Family Distress i. xi. 17 Blockhead that I was, not to recollect the important truth, that in ninety-nine cases of an hundred, the despised is more worthy than the man who despises him.

1831 J. K. Paulding Dutchman's Fireside I. xviii. 152 He becomes, ninety-nine times in a hundred, the worst, the most mischievous of mongrels.

1866 W. Collins Armadale II. iii. iv. 38 Allan did what ninety-nine men out of a hundred in his position would have done—he declined to take his lawyer's advice.

1894 E. Sullivan Woman 13 In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred she is better.

1934 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1993) I. 461 But in ninety-nine cases in a hundred prefer To forget them completely and in that do not err.

1938 Amer. Home Oct. 54/2 Probably in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the tarnish on silverware is caused by sulphur.

1993 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. 38/2 One teacher walked among us, occasionally leaning over..and offering such splendid encouragement as ‘Ninety-nine out of a hundred people can do those pushups’!

C2. In combination with the ordinals first to ninth to form a compound ordinal number, as ninety-first, ninety-second, etc.

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a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 16/2 (MED) And siþin efter þe nihend-ferþe salme wid þe antefen ouþir wid-vten.

1640 T. Carew Coelum Brittanicum 362 I found the tables of your Armes and Titles, in every Inne betwixt this and Olympus, where your present expedition is registred, your nine thousandth nine hundred ninety ninth Legation.

1695 in J. Robertson & C. Innes Munimenta Univ. Glasguensis (1854) II. 521 October nyntee sixth.

1735 J. Swift Wks. III. i. iii. 39 Given at our Palace at Belfaborac the Twelfth Day of the Ninety-first Moon of our Reign.

1798 S. Porter Lovers' Vows iii. ii. 57 God knows how soon a solemn marriage may give occasion for the three hundred and ninety-ninth.

1850 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art & Sci. Nov. 601 M. Chedanau..died a few days since, in the ninety-third year of his age.

1887 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 22 Its western boundary is cut by the ninety-seventh meridian.

1955 ‘Miss Read’ Village School xix. 181 Beside him..sat his mother, a lady in her ninety-third year.

1990 T. Robbins Skinny Legs & All 288 To get rid of your demon I have to read aloud the Ninety-first Psalm.

C3. In combination with other numbers to express multiples of ninety, as ninety thousand, ninety million, etc.

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1719 ‘J. Gay’ Ovid in Masquerade 44 Nine Taylors, Antients do maintain, Do go to make a proper Man; But ninety dozen Fools 'an't fit, If joyn'd, to make a Man of Wit.

a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 221 The Persian 'saile the Empire, Christians slay: Destroy Jerusalem: give to the Jews There ninty thousand persons to abuse.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiv. 422 The whole force of Constantine consisted of ninety thousand foot and eight thousand horse.

1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage III. ii. 26 Come, tell me honestly now, would you really refuse to be Your Grace, with ninety thousand a year, and remain simple Mary Douglas, passing rich with perhaps forty?

1876 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146 Very well, my dear; if it [sc. the thermometer] says ninety-seven or ninety hundred and seven, I don't care.

1942 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 50 148 The report pointed quite clearly to a substantial inadequacy of capacity at annual income levels of ninety billion dollars and above.

1993 R. Rucker et al. Mondo 2000 (U.K. ed.) 276/2 The Internet worm..caused an estimated loss of forty to ninety million dollars.

C4. Combined with nouns to form adjectives.

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1851 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour in New Monthly Mag. Apr. lxx. 481 This was ninety-shilling sherry.

1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 188 The great ninety-inch steam-engine on the Consolidated Mines.

1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 162 Ninety-knot, see Knotgrass and Centinode.

1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap vii. 289 Once she'd tramped on the gas of a ninety-horsepower racer and socked him against a stone wall.

1992 R. Rudolph Boys from New Jersey ii. xviii. 198 Even sex was available—and not the usual jailhouse kind where Big Bubba decides to cornhole some unfortunate ninety-pound object of his affections.

C5.

ninety-nine n. (also 99) British an ice-cream cone made with soft ice cream with a stick of flaky chocolate inserted into it (as 99 a proprietary name in the United Kingdom); (formerly) an ice-cream wafer sandwich containing a similar stick of chocolate; a wafer cone or chocolate stick for an ice cream (disused). [The reason for the name is unknown. The original ice cream contained Cadbury's ‘99’ Flake (produced specially for the ice-cream trade) but the application to the chocolate may not precede its application to the ice cream. The suggestion that something really special or first class was known as ‘99’ in allusion to an elite guard of ninety-nine soldiers in the service of the King of Italy appears to be without foundation.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of

pistachio ice?1790

iced tea1827

tutti-frutti1834

brown-bread ice1846

vanilla ice1846

vanille ice1846

Neapolitan ice1867

Neapolitan ice cream1868

hokey-pokey1884

strawberry ice cream1890

choc chip1903

horn1908

Tortoni1911

slider1915

choc bar1919

cone1920

Eskimo pie1921

brick1922

brickette1922

Eskimo1922

choc ice1924

cornet1926

briquette1927

gelato1932

ninety-nine1935

wafer1936

fudgicle1938

ripple1939

tub1939

vanilla1955

double dip1965

1935 Price List Cadbury Bros. Ltd. Aug. ‘99’ C.D.M. Flake (For Ice Cream Trade)..1 gro[ss]..singles..6/6 One price only.

1936 in Advertising Album (Cadbury Arch. No. 003580) Try a ‘99’ ice cream with Cadbury's Dairy Milk Flake chocolate.

1938 Ice Cream Industry Jan. 1 (advt.) '99'. The only Cone in the world having these outstanding features–Dripless. Patented top. [etc.].

1951 Buyer's Guide to Dairy & Ice Cream Industries 317 (advt.) ‘Say 99’ Janette Scott, child film star, like millions of other children and grown-ups, knows that the best way to eat ice cream is in Askeys ‘99’ Cake Cones.

1977 Times 20 Oct. 6/5 What the [ice-cream] trade needs..is another 99 flake. That gimmick did great things for sales.

1996 R. Doyle Woman who walked into Doors iv. 12 We got Ninety-Nines or chips before we got the train home,..depending on the weather.

2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 18 Feb. (7 Days section) 2/1 Never having been at the epicentre of any kind of unpleasant incident in Troon, unless you include paying £1.20 for a 99 without raspberry sauce.

Derivatives

ˈninetyism n. rare the spirit of the 1890s.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > specific centuries, decades, or years > fin de siècle > spirit of

fin-de-sièclism1890

ninetyism1941

ninetyishness1959

1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats iv. 66 How saturated with ‘Ninetyism’ he had been can be seen [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	ninety
释义	ninetyadj.n. Brit. /ˈnʌɪnti/, U.S. /ˈnaɪn(t)i/ Forms: α. Old English neogantig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English neogentig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English neogontig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English nigentig (in prefixed form), Old English nigonti (in prefixed form), Old English nigontig (in prefixed form), Old English niogontig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English niogontig (in prefixed form, rare), Old English nygantig (in prefixed form), Old English nygonti (in prefixed form), Old English nygontig (in prefixed form), Old English–early Middle English nigantig (in prefixed form), Old English–early Middle English nygenti (in prefixed form), late Old English nigantyg (in prefixed form), late Old English nigontih (in prefixed form), early Middle English negentig (in prefixed form), early Middle English nigenti, early Middle English nigeontig (in prefixed form), early Middle English nigneti (probably transmission error), early Middle English nygentig (in prefixed form), Middle English neneti, Middle English nenty, Middle English neynte, Middle English nihend (transmission error), Middle English nihende (transmission error), Middle English nineti, Middle English nyenty, Middle English nynte, Middle English nynti, Middle English nyynty, Middle English 1600s–1700s ninty, Middle English–1500s nynety, Middle English–1500s nynty, Middle English–1500s nyntye, 1500s ninetye, 1500s–1600s ninetie, 1500s– ninety; Scottish pre-1700 neynty, pre-1700 nynety, pre-1700 nynte, pre-1700 nyntee, pre-1700 nynthe, pre-1700 nynti, pre-1700 nyntie, pre-1700 nynty, pre-1700 nyntye, 1700s– ninety. β. Old English neantig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English neantih (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English neontig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English niontig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form). Also represented by the numerical symbols 90, xc, XC. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian niguntich (West Frisian njoggentich ), Middle Dutch neghentich , negentich , negenteg (Dutch negentig ), Old Saxon nigunta , niguntehan (Middle Low German negentich ), Old High German niunzug , niunzog (Middle High German niunzec , niunzic , German neunzig ), Old Icelandic níu tigir (Icelandic níutíu ), Old Swedish niotighi , niotio (Swedish nittio ), Old Danish nitigh (Danish niti ), Gothic niuntehund < the Germanic base of nine adj. + the Germanic base of -ty suffix².Icelandic níutíu , Old Swedish niotio (Swedish nittio ) show remodelling of the suffix after respective forms of ten adj. The usual word in modern Danish is halvfems (shortened < halvfemsindstyve , literally ‘fifth half times twenty’, i.e. four score plus half of the fifth score), although niti is still used in certain (especially commercial) contexts. With the β. forms compare the β. forms at nine adj. and n. In Old English the prefixed form hundnigontig , in the same sense (see hund n. 2), is more commonly attested; compare Middle Dutch tneghentich, tnegentich (Dutch regional tnegentig), Middle Low German tnegentich. A cardinal number represented by 90 in arabic numerals, or by xc, XC in roman. A. adj. Nine times ten; one more than eighty-nine.Recorded earliest in nine and ninety (see Compounds 1a).In Old English frequently with noun in genitive plural. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > ninety ninetyOE OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 7 Ma þonne ofer nigon & nigontigum [c1200 Hatton nigen & nigentig] rihtwisra. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1027 Ghe was nigenti winter hold. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. v. 9 Enos forsoþ lyuide nynty ȝere. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 57 (MED) Auicen seiþ þat þer ben foure score oþer nyntye brawnes. a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 28 (MED) The sees..duryd vndyr IX bysshoppes fulle nerr Nynty yere. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 68 (MED) Sara was nynty ȝere bareyn. 1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye Gen. xvii. 27 And shall a Childe be born to him, that's olde an hundreth yere? Shal Sara eke, th'ats Nynety yere, be able for to beare? 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 36 These souldiours brings Duke Nestor he, the oldest for his yeares, With ninetie strong and warlike barkes wel armed he appeares. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Nonagenario Of ninety yeeres of age. 1651 S. Sheppard Mausolean Monument 212 Grim Death..contrary to Joves Decree, Rob'd him of his Mortalitie, When he had numbered ninetie yeares. 1677 Philos. Trans. 1676 (Royal Soc.) 11 793 Pliny saith, that Theophrastus affirms, that Callias found Vermillon ninety years before Praxibulus, Pretor of Athens. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 24 It was about Ninety Leagues distant, and our Voyage lasted four Days and an Half. 1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 67 602 These arcs were very exactly divided into nine large sections; each of which again into ten, making ninety lesser divisions or degrees. 1834 R. M. Bird Calavar II. xiii. 103 I will, on mine own part, bestow upon thee this golden chain and crucifix, valued at ninety pesos. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xvii. 391 Of the ninety shells, no less than forty-seven are unknown elsewhere. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) x. 388 On one side of the Pit wheat sold at ninety cents, on the other at a dollar and a quarter. 1976 G. Gordon 100 Scenes from Married Life 66 The curious thing about these afternoons, that is the ninety minutes..between 3.30 and 5, was that the next morning Edward hardly ever remembered what he had done. B. n. 1. Nine times ten or one more than eighty-nine as an abstract number; the figures or symbols representing this (90 in arabic numerals; xc, XC in roman). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > ninety ninetya1425 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 44 Nonaginta, nyenty. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 357 Nynety, Nonaginta. a1525 G. Myll Spectakle of Luf 297/8 Nyntye. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Nonanta, ninetie, fowerscore and ten. 1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass ix. 203 Thirty times three makes ninety. 1933 Economica 42 382 It has nothing to do with the number ninety that it happens to be the number of my house. 1983 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 48 524 An object has the number ninety if it can be configured with eighty-nine objects or we can form a collection of ninety objects of which it is a member. 2. Ninety people or things identified contextually, as years of age, pounds, degrees (esp. Fahrenheit), etc. Cf. nineties n. ΚΠ a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) 1435 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 438 (MED) A thowsand yeer fro the Incarnacioun, Nynty ouer by accountis cleer, With addicioun fully off fyue yeer. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. F^v Yo' haue had, For th' Instruments, as bricks, and lome, and glasses, Already thirty pound; and, for Materialls, They say, some ninety more. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Graunt Bills of Mortality ii In case a man of seventy five years old died of a cough (of which had he been free, he might have possibly lived to ninety) I esteem it little errour..if this person be..reckoned among the aged. 1673 H. N. Payne Fatal Jealousie i. i. 7 This Nurse of Ninety never stayes with me but I'de as live have been rid by a Night-Mare. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. x. 142 At Ninety they lose their Teeth and Hair, they have at that age no Distinction of Taste. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iii. 86 He lived to the age of ninety, and left behind him a fine estate and a numerous family. 1799 F. Reynolds Laugh when you Can iii. 36 May I buy in at ninety, and sell out at fifty, if I ever enter the bills of mortality again. 1858 G. H. Miles Senor Valente iv. ii. 39 I ordered him to close a thousand shares at ninety, to meet a fresh lot I take from Bear to-day at eighty. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. lxiv. 25 We might take a smaller house: Trumbull..has a very decent one to let at thirty pounds a-year, and this is ninety. 1878 W. C. Bennett Sea Songs 17 De Ferro's guns, a hundred, First hid us in their fog; From Gloria ninety thundered As in went brave Old Grog. 1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island xxx. 248 He's so contrary that he wears his fur coat when the thermometer's at ninety. 1971 R. Berry in Planet 6–7 94 Big Strapper and Rebecca were clocking ninety over the mountain road to Berw Vale. 2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 20 Aug. When things aren't running for you that can give you a bit of pessimism for the next ninety. 3. The ninetieth of a set or series with numbered members; the one designated ninety. Usually as number ninety, or with specification, as book ninety, chapter ninety, etc. ΚΠ 1842 T. Hood Wks. (1862–63) 416 But from Number Thirty-Nine—since this electioneering job, Ay, as far as Number Ninety, there's an everlasting mob. 1858 E. P. Rogers Hist. Disc. Reformed Protestant Dutch Church 118 The proceedings of said Church, pursuant to the provisions of chapter ninety..are hereby confirmed. 1922 L. H. Wild Lit. Guide Bible 187 The solemn sadness of Psalm ninety is set in strong relief by the sunny brightness of happy, perfect trust in the Divine protection. 1954 J. S. Brushwood Romantic Novel in Mexico 84 In the street fight, Fortunata's father is wounded. This scene ends on page ninety. Compounds C1. a. In combination with the numerals one to nine, to express numbers between ninety and one hundred; formerly as one and ninety (also ninety and one), etc., now usually ninety-one, etc. Also forming compound numerals with multiples of one hundred, as one hundred and ninety, (also one hundred ninety: now U.S.), etc. ΚΠ OENigon & nigontigum [see sense A.]. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9931 In þe ȝer of grace..Endleue hundred & ninty. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Paralip. (Douce 369(1)) ix. 6 Of þe sones..of Sarai, heuel & þe breþern of hem, sixe hundrid & nynti. 1393 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 27 Mccc nynety and thre. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2699 (MED) His fader nineti and nine þat day Þai vnder-fang þis neu lai. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 107 Tuelff hundreth ȝer tharto nynte and sewyn. ?1573 H. Cheke tr. F. Negri Freewyl v. iv. 176 And we angels also do reioyce more in one sinner, whiche by your meanes doth conuert vnto God, then in ninetie and nine such iust Pharisees. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 78 Saxthundereth nyntie and fyue. 1654 R. Aylett Divine & Moral Speculations ii. 127 Abram forsakes his Kindred, House, and Land..At ninety nine is circumcised, and His dear son Isaac offers at his Lords command. 1674 Hogan-Moganides 60 Of Brandy ninety-seaven Barrachos With Herring, Cod, besides Pottachoes. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 97 I pull'd it [sc. the money] out, and he was content to take it, giving me his Note, with Interest, for the whole Sum, which amounted to Ninety four Pounds. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 53 His subscription would be at ninety nine per cent. discount the very first day of its opening. 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama viii. 74 Nine and ninety days are fled, Nine and ninety steeds have bled. 1890 J. S. Blackie Song of Heroes 132 Planted words of strong denial Boldly, in the public eye, On the church door, five-and-ninety. Truth is mighty, and it spread. 1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock ii. 38 I thought there was twelve hundred muckers in this raid—where's t' other eleven hundred and ninety-nine? 1990 E. Hart Dawn of Millennium (1991) ix. 138 Two hundred ninety civilian lives were lost. b. ninety-nine times (cases, etc.) out of (also in, of) a hundred: the great majority of times, etc.; for the most part, almost always. ΚΠ 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 133 Taking the whole kingdom at an average, nineteen houses in twenty, or rather perhaps ninety-nine in a hundred, are not insured from fire. View more context for this quotation 1776 A. Smith Let. 16 June in Corr. (1977) clxi. 201 If it fails, which it does nine times in ten, the second is surely likely to fail ninety nine times in a hundred. 1799 H. Neuman Family Distress i. xi. 17 Blockhead that I was, not to recollect the important truth, that in ninety-nine cases of an hundred, the despised is more worthy than the man who despises him. 1831 J. K. Paulding Dutchman's Fireside I. xviii. 152 He becomes, ninety-nine times in a hundred, the worst, the most mischievous of mongrels. 1866 W. Collins Armadale II. iii. iv. 38 Allan did what ninety-nine men out of a hundred in his position would have done—he declined to take his lawyer's advice. 1894 E. Sullivan Woman 13 In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred she is better. 1934 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1993) I. 461 But in ninety-nine cases in a hundred prefer To forget them completely and in that do not err. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 54/2 Probably in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the tarnish on silverware is caused by sulphur. 1993 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. 38/2 One teacher walked among us, occasionally leaning over..and offering such splendid encouragement as ‘Ninety-nine out of a hundred people can do those pushups’! C2. In combination with the ordinals first to ninth to form a compound ordinal number, as ninety-first, ninety-second, etc. ΚΠ a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 16/2 (MED) And siþin efter þe nihend-ferþe salme wid þe antefen ouþir wid-vten. 1640 T. Carew Coelum Brittanicum 362 I found the tables of your Armes and Titles, in every Inne betwixt this and Olympus, where your present expedition is registred, your nine thousandth nine hundred ninety ninth Legation. 1695 in J. Robertson & C. Innes Munimenta Univ. Glasguensis (1854) II. 521 October nyntee sixth. 1735 J. Swift Wks. III. i. iii. 39 Given at our Palace at Belfaborac the Twelfth Day of the Ninety-first Moon of our Reign. 1798 S. Porter Lovers' Vows iii. ii. 57 God knows how soon a solemn marriage may give occasion for the three hundred and ninety-ninth. 1850 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art & Sci. Nov. 601 M. Chedanau..died a few days since, in the ninety-third year of his age. 1887 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 22 Its western boundary is cut by the ninety-seventh meridian. 1955 ‘Miss Read’ Village School xix. 181 Beside him..sat his mother, a lady in her ninety-third year. 1990 T. Robbins Skinny Legs & All 288 To get rid of your demon I have to read aloud the Ninety-first Psalm. C3. In combination with other numbers to express multiples of ninety, as ninety thousand, ninety million, etc. ΚΠ 1719 ‘J. Gay’ Ovid in Masquerade 44 Nine Taylors, Antients do maintain, Do go to make a proper Man; But ninety dozen Fools 'an't fit, If joyn'd, to make a Man of Wit. a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 221 The Persian 'saile the Empire, Christians slay: Destroy Jerusalem: give to the Jews There ninty thousand persons to abuse. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiv. 422 The whole force of Constantine consisted of ninety thousand foot and eight thousand horse. 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage III. ii. 26 Come, tell me honestly now, would you really refuse to be Your Grace, with ninety thousand a year, and remain simple Mary Douglas, passing rich with perhaps forty? 1876 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146 Very well, my dear; if it [sc. the thermometer] says ninety-seven or ninety hundred and seven, I don't care. 1942 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 50 148 The report pointed quite clearly to a substantial inadequacy of capacity at annual income levels of ninety billion dollars and above. 1993 R. Rucker et al. Mondo 2000 (U.K. ed.) 276/2 The Internet worm..caused an estimated loss of forty to ninety million dollars. C4. Combined with nouns to form adjectives. ΚΠ 1851 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour in New Monthly Mag. Apr. lxx. 481 This was ninety-shilling sherry. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 188 The great ninety-inch steam-engine on the Consolidated Mines. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 162 Ninety-knot, see Knotgrass and Centinode. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap vii. 289 Once she'd tramped on the gas of a ninety-horsepower racer and socked him against a stone wall. 1992 R. Rudolph Boys from New Jersey ii. xviii. 198 Even sex was available—and not the usual jailhouse kind where Big Bubba decides to cornhole some unfortunate ninety-pound object of his affections. C5. ninety-nine n. (also 99) British an ice-cream cone made with soft ice cream with a stick of flaky chocolate inserted into it (as 99 a proprietary name in the United Kingdom); (formerly) an ice-cream wafer sandwich containing a similar stick of chocolate; a wafer cone or chocolate stick for an ice cream (disused). [The reason for the name is unknown. The original ice cream contained Cadbury's ‘99’ Flake (produced specially for the ice-cream trade) but the application to the chocolate may not precede its application to the ice cream. The suggestion that something really special or first class was known as ‘99’ in allusion to an elite guard of ninety-nine soldiers in the service of the King of Italy appears to be without foundation.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of pistachio ice?1790 iced tea1827 tutti-frutti1834 brown-bread ice1846 vanilla ice1846 vanille ice1846 Neapolitan ice1867 Neapolitan ice cream1868 hokey-pokey1884 strawberry ice cream1890 choc chip1903 horn1908 Tortoni1911 slider1915 choc bar1919 cone1920 Eskimo pie1921 brick1922 brickette1922 Eskimo1922 choc ice1924 cornet1926 briquette1927 gelato1932 ninety-nine1935 wafer1936 fudgicle1938 ripple1939 tub1939 vanilla1955 double dip1965 1935 Price List Cadbury Bros. Ltd. Aug. ‘99’ C.D.M. Flake (For Ice Cream Trade)..1 gro[ss]..singles..6/6 One price only. 1936 in Advertising Album (Cadbury Arch. No. 003580) Try a ‘99’ ice cream with Cadbury's Dairy Milk Flake chocolate. 1938 Ice Cream Industry Jan. 1 (advt.) '99'. The only Cone in the world having these outstanding features–Dripless. Patented top. [etc.]. 1951 Buyer's Guide to Dairy & Ice Cream Industries 317 (advt.) ‘Say 99’ Janette Scott, child film star, like millions of other children and grown-ups, knows that the best way to eat ice cream is in Askeys ‘99’ Cake Cones. 1977 Times 20 Oct. 6/5 What the [ice-cream] trade needs..is another 99 flake. That gimmick did great things for sales. 1996 R. Doyle Woman who walked into Doors iv. 12 We got Ninety-Nines or chips before we got the train home,..depending on the weather. 2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 18 Feb. (7 Days section) 2/1 Never having been at the epicentre of any kind of unpleasant incident in Troon, unless you include paying £1.20 for a 99 without raspberry sauce. Derivatives ˈninetyism n. rare the spirit of the 1890s. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > specific centuries, decades, or years > fin de siècle > spirit of fin-de-sièclism1890 ninetyism1941 ninetyishness1959 1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats iv. 66 How saturated with ‘Ninetyism’ he had been can be seen [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.OE
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