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nunn.1 Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch (rare) nunne , Middle Low German nunne , Old High German nunna (Middle High German nunne , nune , German (regional) Nunne , Nunn , Nune ), Old Icelandic nunna , Old Swedish nunna (Swedish nunna ) < post-classical Latin nonna nun, feminine form corresponding to nonnus monk (both attested from late 4th cent., also in senses wet nurse, foster father, respectively, recorded on inscriptions; compare Byzantine Greek νόννα , νόννος ), originally a term of reverence for the elderly, probably a children's word. Compare Anglo-Norman noune , Anglo-Norman and Old French nune (c1155), nunne (c1200), Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French nonne (13th cent.), Italian nonno grandfather (a1528), nonna grandmother (a1535; a1419 in sense ‘wet nurse’), Sardinian nonnu grandfather, nonna grandmother, mother-in-law, godmother. The β. forms probably partly show later reborrowing of, or remodelling after, the post-classical Latin word or its Anglo-Norman and Old French reflex (compare similarly Middle Dutch nonne (Dutch non), Middle Low German nonne, Middle High German nonne (German Nonne), Old Swedish nonna, Danish nonne), and partly result from disambiguation of a succession of minim strokes in manuscripts.With sense 3a compare post-classical Latin nonna (1544 in a British source); compare also nonett n. With sense 3b compare Dutch nonnetje, German Nonne, weiße Nonne; compare also French regional (Picardy) nonnette. 1. society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] α. eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) iv. xxiv. 340 Wæs in þæm seolfan mynstre sumu haligu nunne. OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 188) in B. Assmann (1889) 39 Synd swa þeah þa wudewan, ðe wuniað on clænnysse, to nunnan gehadode. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 963 He macode þær twa abbotrice, an of muneca oðer of nunna. c1230 (?a1200) (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 163 Ich am an ancre, A nunne. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 12119 Þer weoren nunnen wel idon, moni heh iboren wifmon. a1300 Sinners Beware (Jesus Oxf.) 169 in R. Morris (1872) 77 Mvnekes and Nunnen Þat heom wyte ne kunnen From sucche lecherye Heo schule to helle cume. ?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 151 in W. Heuser (1904) 146 (MED) Whan þe somer is dai is hote, Þe ȝung nunnes takiþ a bote. c1380 (1879) 62 Saue nunnes, sloȝ he sykerly, þe relygyous þat þar war. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 28390 Haue i tan bath aght and fe O þamþat had na propurte, Als munk, nunne, or spused wijf. (Harl. 221) 360 Nune, womann of relygione, monialis, monacha. c1460 My Fayr Lady in J. O. Halliwell (1840) 200 Rympled liche a nunnys veylle. a1538 T. Starkey (1989) 98 Monkys frerys..& nunnys, of the wych..ther ys no smal nombur. 1565 in J. Beveridge & G. Donaldson (1957) V. i. 657/1 To the said Jane ane nunnis portioun within the abbacie of Northberuik. 1597 W. Shakespeare iv. iv. 202 For my daughters..They shalbe praying nunnes not weeping Queenes. View more context for this quotation 1613 J. May iv. 19 Then do they punish the clothier for that fault as the Frier whipt the Nun with a Fox taile. 1662 in 22 220 Janet Paton, termed the nun, was a great one. 1669 A. Woodhead tr. (1671) ii. xxvi. 166 There was no perswading her to be a Quire-Nun, but a Lay-Sister. 1715 D. Defoe I. i. iv. 92 Does my Mother think to make a Nun of me? 1797 A. Radcliffe I. xi. 306 Vivaldi perceived a procession of nuns approaching from a distant aisle. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton iii You may well look surprised, when actresses turn nuns. 1880 ‘Ouida’ I. 107 It seems to me you are shut up like a nun. 1910 I. 11/1 Abbesses have a right to demand absolute obedience of their nuns. 1943 G. Greene i. iv. 47 Her face was talcumed and wrinkled and austere like a nun's. 1987 M. Collins vi. 106 The nuns gave first preference for places to the Catholic children. society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > female priest eOE tr. Orosius (BL Add.) (1980) iv. iv. 88 On ðære ilcan tide Caperronie wæs hatenu heora goda nunne [L. virgo Vestalis]. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 20111 (MED) To temple wit him hir he name..Omang þe nunnes a þat stedde, Godde for to serue þar hir did. a1500 (?a1400) (Trin. Dublin) 2179 Zacora hym sayd, a semlych Nonn, Þar was none oþer answer. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1957) iv. ix. 21 Ane haly nun [L. sacerdos], a ful gret prophetess. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil (1557) iv. sig. Eiiiv And whisketh through the town like Bachus nunne [L. concussam bacchatur Fama per urbem]. 1598 M. Drayton (new ed.) f. 53 v Like one of Bacchus raging franticke Nuns. 1608 E. Topsell 241 The Nuns that keepe the fire of vesta as their liues. 1683 I. Walton i. 66 Unto the Virgin Goddesses protection, And to that purpose gave her such direction, As fitted her to be a Vestal Nun. 1698 J. Houghton (1727) II. 365 The law of the twelve tables prohibited all but the Emperor and Vestal Nuns to be bury'd within the city [Rome]. 1703 II. vi. 18 How much more Christian was that Athenian Nun in Plutarch. 1719 J. Barker (ed. 2) II. ii. 72 Having lost her Lysander, she now resolv'd to become a Vestal Nun, if, by the Favour of the Gods, she arriv'd safe into her own Country. 1849–50 W. Wordsworth IV. ii. 86 There Venus sits disguisèd like a Nun, While Bacchus, clothed in semblance of a Friar, Pours out his choicest beverage. 1877 G. H. Boker (1929) 161 O be thy heart austere and chaste, a nun Haunting a solemn temple, far above All save the pure religion of thy love. 1800 S. Turner ii. x. 348 Though nuns, the admission of male visitors among them during the day, is not prohibited. 1894 (Bengal Govt. Secretariat) 258 Nuns are admitted to a few monasteries, but their number is extremely small, and individually they are illiterate, old, and decrepit. 1901 11 320 A canonical work consisting of poems by Buddhist nuns. 1933 6 579/1 This intrepid explorer..describes her successful pilgrimage in the disguise of a Buddhist nun to the citadel of the Dalai Lama. 1997 J. Bowker 50/1 Initiation as a Jain monk or nun involves acceptance of and conformity to the five ‘Great Vows’. society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute > courtesan ?1518 sig. C.iij Whyte nonnes with whyte vayles That was full wanton of theyr tayles. 1579 S. Gosson f. 19 Liue like Venus Nunnes in a Cloyster at Nuington,..or some such place. 1594 (1914) 12 Find a Choir of Nuns with burning Lamps, to chaunt Placebo to the Gentlemen of the Prince's Privy-Chamber. 1612 B. Jonson v. v. sig. M2v ‘The Captaine Pandar.’ ‘The Nun my Suster.’ a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize iv. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (1647) 117/2 Hire a peece of holy ground i' th Suburbs, And keepe a neast of Nuns. 1709 E. Ward xxvi. 302 A Gouty Courtier, or some rich over-grown Officer, to be Ready-money Chapmen for any of her Punchable Nuns. 1723 (ed. 3) 38 Here was a young Fornicator earnestly praying for a Bit of Nun's Flesh. 1770 S. Foote i. 12 An abbess, well known about town, with a smart little nun in her suite. 1825 C. M. Westmacott I. 167 The nuns of St. Clements. 1862 B. Hemyng in H. Mayhew (new ed.) Extra vol. 251/2 The habitué may miss the accustomed laugh and unabashed impudence of the ‘nun’, who always appeared so fascinating and piquante in her little ‘Jane Clarke’ bonnet. 3. Any of several birds with plumage suggestive of the traditional nun's habit. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus caeruleus (blue-tit) 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius 60/2 Parus minor,..a litle titmouse, called a Nunne, because his heade is filletted as it were Nunlike. 1611 R. Cotgrave at Mesange The little Titmouse, called the Nunne, because she seemes to weare (as a Nunne doth) a fillet about her head. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby 262 The blue Titmouse or Nun: Parus cæruleus. 1789 G. White Let. in 106 The blue titmouse, or nun, is a great frequenter of houses, and a general devourer. 1843 1 215 Looking cautiously through a crevice, I saw a nun actively engaged in ferreting out the small white grub. 1885 W. Swainson 34 Blue Titmouse... Nun. From the white fillet round its head. 1903 31 Jan. 11/1 During the winter you generally see the tomtit..in his character of ‘the nun’. the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) > mergus albellus (smew) 1666 C. Merrett 183 Nun est avis aquatica querquedula paulo minor, Rostrum ei rotundum [etc.]. 1673 J. Ray 95 This hath no English name known to me, unless it be that which Dr. Merret in his Pinax calls by the name of Nun: The Germans call it the White Nun. 1710 (Royal Soc.) 26 466 Mergus major cirratus, the Smew, or White Nun. 1766 T. Pennant ii. 148 The Smew..White Nun. 1817 T. Forster 34 Mergus albellus, Smew..White Nun, Lough Diver. 1859 S. G. Goodrich II. 326 The Smew or White Nun..is seventeen and a half inches long. 1885 W. Swainson 165 Smew... From its white crest and the band of black feathers on the back of the head, which give something of the appearance of a hood, come the names White Nun (Ireland). Cf. Nonette (Picardy). [etc.]. 1920 T. A. Coward 2nd Ser. 82 The ‘white Nun’, as it [sc. the adult drake] is called..has a drooping white crest. the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types 1725 R. Bradley at Pigeon There are indeed many sorts of pigeons such as Helmets, Nuns, Tumblers, Barbs. 1735 J. Moore 48 The Nun..is a bird somewhat larger than a Jacobine, her Plumage is very particular, and she seems to take her Name from it. 1868 (new ed.) 359 The Nun..attracts notice from the pleasing contrast in its feathers; its head is almost covered with a veil of white feathers, which gives it its name. 1909 43 702 A Nun is a white bird with certain well-defined markings of black, blue, red or yellow. 1965 G. Maxwell xiii. 167 My aunt's black-and-white nun pigeons whickered past my window and drank at the bird-table. 1993 8 May 72/3 Nuns are in fact a variety of domestic fancy pigeon. the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Bucconidae (puff-bird) > genus Monasa (nun-bird) 1890 at Nun A name of several birds... A nun-bird. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Saxicola 1918 14 Feb. (Red Page) White-fronted Bush-Chat (Tang, Nun, Tintac) and other members of the genus. 1942 E. Anderson 28 ‘Nun’, the white-throated chat. 1965 II. 334 The white-fronted chat..known by a number of local names, the commonest of which are ‘nun’ (from the white head of the male) and ‘tang’, an imitation of the note. the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae 1678 M. Lister 168 Concha Veneris exigua alba, striata. Nuns... Juxta Hartlepool..copiosè reperiuntur; ubi Nuns appellantur. 1681 N. Grew i. vi. i. 138 Many of this sort, striated, are found, saith Mr. Lyster, near Hartle-pool in the County of Durham, where the People call them Nuns. ?1711 J. Petiver VII.–VIII. Table 66 Like our English Nuns but more pointed. 1758 W. Borlase xxiii. 277 The purple, spotted Nuns, alias Courie:..Concha Veneris exigua. 1848 S. V. Wood 17 In England these shells are called ‘Nuns’ and in Scotland ‘Johnny Groat's Buckie,’ according to Dr. Fleming. 1936 22 75 These authors included the nuns, ‘Trivia’, in the real cowries, ‘Cypraea’, on account of the denticulate lips and the hidden spire. 1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells (new ed.) 246 On some parts of the coast it is the Nun, in others the Stick-farthing. 1968 N. F. McMillan 47 Trivia monacha (da Costa)..Cowrie, Nun, Groat, Grottie-buckie, etc. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for warming bed 1728 E. Chambers at Damsel A kind of Utensil put in Beds, to warm old Mens Feet withal. It consists of a hot Iron inclosed in a hollow Cylinder, which is wrap'd round with linnen Cloth... Some call it a Nun. a1843 R. Southey (1851) 4th Ser. 434/1 A hot iron for warming old men's feet is called a Damsel, or Nun. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types > unspecified 1832 J. Rennie 96 The Nun... Wings one inch one-twelfth. 1890 14 Aug. 4/3 The devastating moth, known as the ‘nun’, has made its appearance in north and west Germany. 1924 58 132 In France the nun moth lives almost exclusively on oak, but feeds on pine in Germany. 1974 July 35/1 The gypsy moth is a destructive forest pest in large parts of the eastern U.S. and in some parts of Europe... The closest kin of this species is the nun moth. 1994 12 Nov. 26/1 The forests around Warsaw, Katowice and Toruń had been infested by caterpillars of the nun moth (Lymantria monacha). Compoundssociety > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > monastic profession > [noun] > novice OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1900) i. iv. 30 (heading) Be þære nunfæmnan, þe bat þone leahtric. a1450 Ordination of Nuns (Vesp.) in E. A. Kock (1902) 147 Efter þis sal þat nun nouece stand stil befor þe auter. 1768 G. Baretti II. 21 To get out of the convent at night by the connivance of the nun-portress. 1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil i. 19 Till the nun-princess Ilia Bear unto Mars two children at a birth. a1930 D. H. Lawrence (1993) 853 Pale dreamy chaplets; a grey nun-sister sets Such on the virgin hair of dead sixteen. 1970 R. D. Taring xi. 146 Namgyal's nun-nanny was very powerful at Tsarong House. 1816 J. Scott v. 90 These black eyes..took additional charms from the nun-looking wimple. 1824 W. Scott III. ii. 39 The place they live in was some sort of nun-shop long ago. 1863 Oct. 507 Theirs is the true nun-nature. 1872 W. D. Howells ix. 241 Soft nun-voices speaking French through grated doors. 1935 Feb. 178/2 Priests are great nun-makers. C3. Compounds with nun's. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > thin or fine 1883 10 Nov. 91/3 Nun's-cloth dress (1s. a yard)—16s. 0d. 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. 266/2 Nun's cloth, a fine thin untwilled woollen fabric formerly called mousselaine de laine; it is a kind of bunting. 2001 23 Sept. ii. 62/2 My favorite suit..was from nun's cloth. Nun's veiling, it's called, and we made black suits out of that. 1939 M. B. Picken 235/2 Nun's cotton, fine, cotton embroidery thread. 1969 R. T. Wilcox 104/3 Nun's cotton, an embroidery cotton of fine white thread. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > marine trumpet 1903 R. Hughes 213 Nun's-fiddle, marine trumpet. 1975 S. Marcuse (rev. ed.) 543/1 The trumpet marine is also called nun's fiddle because it is supposed to have substituted for the trumpet in convents. the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > asceticism > [noun] > ascetic temperament 1637 J. Shirley i. i. sig. B3 Shee is all nunns flesh about her, but has the Divell No tricke to thaw her chastitie? 1673 J. Dryden i. i. 7 They that look for Nuns flesh in me shall be mistaken. 1738 J. Swift 105 I'll be sworn Miss has not an Inch of Nun's Flesh about her. 1815 III. 234 Lady Floray couldn't have been much of a girl when she did marry—if she was engaged eight years, she must have had a little nun's flesh about her. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > cotton > sewing cotton > specific 1625 I. 138 Tua vnce of nwnes threid pryce of the vnce x s. 1766 W. Gordon 322 1 small box nuns thread. 1844 G. Dodd iv. 10 The making of sewing-thread, known by the names of ‘ounce-thread’ and ‘nun's-thread’. 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. 266/2 Nun's thread, a fine white thread made in the convents of Italy and Flanders and used for netting and lace. 1880 Oct. 698/1 Nun's veil cloth, the voile religieux of which we have heard so much. 1883 28 Mar. 455/2 Write at once for our splendid collection of..nun's veil cloth. 1897 Aug. 236/2 Muslins and dressy cottons were in the sixties replaced by..nun's veil cloth, soft cashmeres, and soft twilled flannels. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > thin, light, or delicate > for clothing 1882 Feb. 393 As beautiful herself as any part of the beautiful scene, in her gown of white nuns' veiling. 1955 E. Ostick 28 Cloths of this description [sc. plain weave] are..delaines, nun's veiling, crêpe flannels and afghalaines in the wool range. 1975 22 Apr. 9/5 A navy coat of ‘nun's veiling’..lined with silk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † nunn.2Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item.. Etymon: nun n.1 Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a specific use of nun n.1 Obsolete. rare. society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius 297/1 Turbo,..a top, gig, or nun. 1598 J. Florio A toppe, gigge or nunne that children plaie with, a whirlegigge. 1611 R. Cotgrave Sabot, a Top, Gig, or Nunne to whip, or play with. Compounds society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] 1615 G. Markham (1635) i. ii. 11 There be other Anglers which make their Corks [for floats] in the fashion of a Nun-gigge, small at both ends, and bigge in the middest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2021). nunv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nun n.1 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)] 1753 S. Richardson V. ix. 45 I will have you to town, and nun you up with Aunt Nell. 1953 R. Graves 12 Herself she enticed To be nunned for Christ. 1973 B. Brophy xx. 542 Laura..is the rare bird whom the Queen cannot leave free but must see safely nunned in order to put temptation out of Yousef's reach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
