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单词 nubbing
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nubbingn.

Brit. /ˈnʌbɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnəbɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nub v.2, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < nub v.2 + -ing suffix1.The compound nubbing cheat also occurs in the form nubbling chit , perhaps influenced by nubble n.:1836 F. Mahony Songs of France in Reliques Father Prout 269 When he came to the nubbling chit, He was tucked up so neat and so pretty.1841 ‘Bon Gaultier’ in Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 223 The faking boy to the crap has gone, At the nubbling-chit you'll find him.
cant (now archaic or historical).
The action of hanging. Frequently attributive, esp. in nubbing cheat: the gallows.
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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] > gallows
gallowsOE
gallows-treea1000
warytre?a1200
gibbet?c1225
gallow-forka1250
forkc1275
juisec1320
forchesc1380
crossa1382
treec1425
patible1428
justice1484
potencec1500
haltera1533
turning-tree1548
potentc1550
three treesa1566
chates1567
mare1568
furel1587
bough1590
gibe1590
derrickc1600
hangrella1605
cross-tree1638
Gregorian tree1641
wooden horse1642
timber-marec1650
triple tree1651
furca1653
nubbing1673
a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678
nub1699
Tyburn tree1728
raven-stone1738
picture frame1785
crap1789
lamp-iron1790
Moll Blood1818
stifler1818
scragging-post1819
government signposta1828
leafless tree1830
shuggie-shue1836
doom-tree1837
stob1860–62
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 94 They are..sent to the Nubbing cheat.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nubbing, hanging.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nubbing-Cove, the Hangman. Nubbing-Ken, the Sessions-house.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xii. 260 ‘I will shew you a Way to empty the Pockets of a Queer Cull, without any Danger of the Nubbing Cheat.’ ‘Nubbing Cheat,’ cries Partridge, ‘Pray, Sir, what is that?’ ‘Why that, Sir,’ says the Stranger, ‘is a Cant Phrase for the Gallows.’
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. xii. 321 We trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 126/2 Nubbing Cove, the hangman... Nubbing Ken, the session house.
1902 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 704/2 They pay the last debt at the nubbing-cheat.
1911 S. Weyman Starvecrow Farm xxxiv. 320 ‘The gentry mort’, she said, in thieves' patter, ‘is not worth the nubbing-cheat.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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