offsiden.1adj.1
/ˌɒfˈsʌɪd/, /ˈɒfˌsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈɔfˈsaɪd/, /ˈɑfˈsaɪd/ A. n.1 Usually with the.
1. Nautical. The side of a vessel further away from the shore; (hence) the far side of something.
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > the more distant side
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offside1856
1669 T. Allin Jrnl. 3 Nov. (1940) (modernized text) II. 128 We fitted two tackles to our mainmast and two to our foremast, having placed the Victory and the Orange on the off side of the Portland.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World viii. 207 It was happy for us that our masts fell all over the off side.
1788 T. Jefferson Jrnl. 3 Mar. in Papers (1956) XIII. 9 There are beams passing through the ship's sides, projecting to the off side of the came[l] and resting on it.
1856 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 286 To leap from the top of the wall, which was only high on the off-side.
1887 G. D. Atkin House Scraps 54 The ‘off-side’ of his ‘kissing-trap’ Displays an ugly mark!
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xl. 406 He forgot himself and jumped out on her off-side, as it were. The white boat, lying high and dry, showed him up.
1902 N.E.D. (at cited word) It is on the ‘off’ side of the spectator.
1951 N. M. Gunn Well at World's End xxx. 285 The path on the off side..wound with the hill slopes above the small river.
2003 www.whitenap.plus.com 10 Feb. (O.E.D. Archive) We just managed to creep past, scraping the offside of the boat in the overhanging trees and brambles on the opposite bank.
2. In earlier use: the side of a horse or draft animal furthest from that on which the driver walks or the rider normally mounts; (in later use also) the side of a vehicle furthest from the edge of the roadway, etc. Hence: the side of a carriageway or traffic lane furthest from the kerb. Opposed to nearside n.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > to the right
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > particular side of
nearside1650
stirrup side1663
offside1675
1675 London Gaz. No. 1002/4 A black stone Horse, four years old, roweld for a lameness behind on the off-side.
1708 Boston News-let. 27 Sept. 4/2 A large bay Horse..with blackish Main and Tail, the Main hanging mostly on the off side, middle paced.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 426 All the Indians mount a horse on the off side as we term it.
1800 Gentleman's Mag. 1 167 The [Mameluke] rider always mounts on the off side of the horse.
1842 S. Smith Lett. Locking in on Railways in Wks. (1859) II. 234/1 I know very well the danger of getting out on the off-side.
1884 E. L. Anderson Mod. Horsemanship i. ii. 8 The rider should practise mounting and dismounting upon the right or off side of the horse, as well as upon the usual side.
1915 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 6) xvii. 235 A single central light is not sufficient, as it does not indicate the extreme off-side of the car.
1981 R. H. Beatie Saddles 355/1 Cinch..a wide band..that goes underneath the horse from the off side to the near side. Its purpose is to hold the saddle firmly on the horse.
2001 Times (Nexis) 6 Feb. The defendant, driving in the opposite direction, drove on to the offside of the road into a head-on collision.
3. Cricket. Usually in forms off side, off-side. That part of the playing area lying on the right-hand side of a (right-handed) batter facing a bowler; the equivalent region to the left of a left-handed batter.Cf. on-side n., leg side n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > side
leg side?1801
offside1816
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long off1854
1816 W. Lambert Instr. & Rules Cricket 31 Wide Bowling..should be directed at the off side of the wicket.
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 43 The long-stop is frequently obliged to cover many slips from the bat, both to the leg and off side.
1884 I. Bligh in James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Ann. i. ii. 3 Some of his far-pitched balls on the off side.
1924 N. Cardus Days in Sun 49 Supposing the fieldsmen were set..with still a number of them idle on the off-side, with great gaps between the leg-side scouts.
1956 A. R. Alston Test Comm. xiii. 114 Benaud packed the off-side.
2002 Northern Echo (Electronic ed.) 20 June Muchall kept trying to work Ian Harvey behind square on the off side and finally steered one into the hands of Chris Taylor at gully.
4. figurative. The wrong or awkward side of something; the contentious or difficult aspect of an issue, situation, etc.
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society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > evil or dark > aspect
nightside1848
offside1870
1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 299 The off-side of a question has such an unconquerable attraction for him.
1901 S. O. Jewett Tory Lover xii. 99 There were some o' them fools that likes to be on the offside that went an' upheld him.
1909 Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 4/5 ‘What we don't tolerate in good society..is the vulgarity of vice. Some of us may be a little on the offside..but at least we do our best to hush things up which shouldn't be made public.’
1936 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Aug. 17/7 The Bond Market leaned to the offside again..in quiet trading featured by declines of a point or more in a group of utilities.
B. adj.1
1. Situated or occurring on the offside of a horse, draft animal, vehicle, etc., or of a carriageway or traffic lane.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [adjective] > of or relating to motor vehicles > right or left side
nearside1889
offside1951
1847 Bell's Life in Sydney 25 Dec. 3/2 I'd sooner be an off-side bullock driver.
1855 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) I. 506/2 The quey-calf occupies the near, and the bull-calf the off-side horn.
1937 Life 26 July 52/4 (caption) Offside backhand, in which ball is hit backwards, is one of the most difficult polo shots.
1951 N. Balchin Way through Wood iii. 46 I suppose he was driving dipped and it was one of those dippers that switches off the offside light.
1979 W. D. Joynt Breaking Road for Rest 39 The off side leader I will call Blackie, and near side leader, Tiger.
2000 Police Rev. 4 Feb. 19/3 More intriguingly, a spangle gall of oak was found in the front offside wheel arch.
2. Cricket. Usually in form off-side. Positioned on or struck towards the off side.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [adjective] > types of stroke
slashing1832
skied1868
on-side1898
agricultural1899
offside1900
skimming1930
slashed1974
1900 P. F. Warner Cricket in Many Climes 182 Blanckenberg..made some very good off-side strokes.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 31 May 3/1 Drives between the off-side fielders, and push-strokes between the bowler and mid-on, and past mid-on.
1999 Western Daily Press (Plymouth) (Electronic ed.) 19 July Solanki is a young player of immense talent and some of his off-side stroke play in particular was a joy to watch.
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offsidev.
/ˌɒfˈsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌɔfˈsaɪd/, /ˌɑfˈsaɪd/, Australian English /ˌɔfˈsɑed/, New Zealand English /ˌɒfˈsɑed/ Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
intransitive. To act as an offsider or assistant. Usually with for.
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1883 in M. Durack Kings in Grass Castles (1959) xxvi. 256 I have put up a yard on Galway since Uncle Jerry left—Pumpkin and Kangaroo offsiding.
1917 R. D. Barton Reminisc. Austral. Pioneer vii. 93 I met a black~fellow..who was offsiding for the horsedriver, and was called Archie.
1960 A. Upfield Bony & Kelly Gang 167 Bony was asked to offside for Joe Flanagan, the settlement's electrician.
2000 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 12 Sept. She..has been offsiding in her parent's contract mustering business since she could walk.
Derivatives
off-ˈsiding adj. and n. rare
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1928 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Feb. 21/1 There's easy work an' first-rate pay (and you are hard as nails), Off-sidin' cook, or sortin' dags, or maybe brandin' bales.
1946 Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Aug. 28/3 I went off-siding to a professional bird-catcher.
1998 City & Shire Leader (Brisbane) (Nexis) 3 Mar. (advt.) Truck Driver's Offsider... The successful applicant must..have 12 months experience in furniture offsiding.
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offsideadv.adj.2n.2
/ˌɒfˈsʌɪd/, /ˈɒfsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈɔfˈsaɪd/, /ˈɑfˈsaɪd/ Originally and chiefly Sport.
A. adv.
1.
a. Sport. In a position on the field of play where only players of the opposing team are allowed at that particular instant.Precise definitions of ‘offside’ vary from sport to sport and are subject to frequent change. In Association Football, Ice Hockey, and Hockey, the term is generally used with reference to a position taken up by an attacking player close to the opponent's goal in anticipation of receiving the ball or puck; in Rugby, it usually relates to encroachment by the team not in possession of the ball into a position too close to the team in possession.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [adverb] > offside
offside1845
1845 W. D. Arnold et al. Football Rules of Rugby School in J. Reason & C. James World of Rugby (1979) i. 12 Off side. A player is off his side, if the ball has touched one of his own side behind him, until the other side touch it.
?1863 J. C. Thring Winter Game: Rules of Football (ed. 2) Pref. v The Offside rule has been..framed..to show what being offside is.
1867 Sheffield Football Assoc. Rules Any player between an opponent's goal and goalkeeper (unless he has followed the ball there), is offside and out of play.
1882 Standard 20 Nov. 2/8 W. succeeded in kicking a goal, but he was declared to be off side at the time.
1897 Outing 30 284/2 We don't consider it fair to strike when off-side of an opponent.
1904 Daily Chron. 11 Nov. 1/7 ‘Linesman’ deals with an original and interesting suggestion to improve the conditions under which Association players should be ruled off-side.
1976 Sc. Daily Express 27 Dec. 12/6 He looked suspiciously off-side.
1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Sports section) 9/4 Gloucester were caught offside and Paul Grayson kicked a simple penalty goal.
b. Off to one side. Hence (chiefly in Irish English): away from the expected or usual place; out of the way.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [adverb] > removed > aside or out of the way
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offside1933
1933 N. O. Solum tr. O. Rölvaag Boat of Longing i. iii. 15 Off-side, on a long spit of mainland running into the sea, a genial little cove had hid itself away well out of reach of the great ocean.
1945 C. Woolrich If I should die before I Wake 103 A voice in one of the gloom-obscured..chairs off-side to him said mildly, ‘That you, Blake?’
1970 P. Anderson Tau Zero vii. 68 Supposing the probe had taken our identical path, the nebulina would have been well offside at the time—more than fifty years ago, remember.
1975 Irish Times 30 May 9/1 He would not give any information he had to the police because he was afraid they would ‘warn these assassins to get offside and take their guns offside.’
1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories ii. 96 So we got offside right away, made our way to the brickworks on the Limestone Road.
1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men xxxvii. 294 What a bloody eejit I am. They get me out of work, give me holleys when I've no time due to me, just so as I'm offside when they kidnap my sister.
2. Originally New Zealand. Out of favour with; on bad terms with.
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society > society and the community > dissent > [adverb] > at variance
out1565
ajar1622
offside1944
1944 F. L. Combs Half Lengths 8 Harris began to put himself offside with some of the leading citizens.
1969 J. Hascombe Down & Almost Under 32 As well as..putting us ‘offside’ with neighbours..[he] is now a canine luxury par excellence.
1979 Southerly Mar. 54 It was about this time..that I got offside with some of the sports writers.
1989 Guardian (BNC) 14 Aug. The Buraimi Oasis put us off-side with half the Middle East. It was the cause of Anglo-American friction.
B. adj.2
1. Sport (chiefly Football and Ice Hockey). Of, relating to, or involving a player or players being offside. offside rule n. a rule which defines when a player is offside. offside trap n. Association Football a manoeuvre in which players on the defending team push upfield in order to put one or more opposing players into an offside position.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [adjective] > offside
offside?1863
?1863 J. C. Thring Winter Game: Rules of Football (ed. 2) Pref. v The offside rule has been most carefully framed.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Nov. 1/2 The majority of the critics averring that the Scottish half played a persistently offside game.
1895 Outing 27 250/2 The off-side rule should be clearly understood.
1933 Times 13 Nov. 6/2 Hull City relied a good deal on an offside trap which often did not work.
1969 Official Rule Bk. National Hockey League 1969–70 44 The duty of the linesman is to determine any infractions of the rules concerning off-side play at the blue line, or center line, or any violation of the ‘Icing the Puck’ rule.
1976 Wymondham & Attleborough Express 19 Nov. 24/4 Hempnall were not to be denied and hit back immediately, Borroughes beating the offside trap to convert a fine pass from Tweedale.
1987 Times (Nexis) 5 Dec. The offside rule is probably the most controversial law in football, but nobody has yet devised an acceptable amendment or alternative.
1993 Hockey News (Toronto) 5 Feb. 7/1 Removing the two-line offside pass would provide more excitement and less restraint than any of those rules ever could.
2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 xx. 472 Gerrard's side had lost by a single goal scored by me standing, he said in an offside position, too close to the two bags and a coat we'd used for goalposts.
2. figurative (originally Australian). Unacceptable, improper, in poor taste; inappropriate.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective]
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1910 H. Lawson Prose Wks. (1948) 600 It seems that Brutus objected to Cassius's, or one of his off-side friends' methods of raising the wind.
1924 M. Synon in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1923 199 His tone gave her no handle to catch for controversy, and she swung into off-side statement.
1939 K. Tennant Foveaux ii. 142 You only had to say something a bit offside to Bramley and he would blush like girl.
1996 M. Cheek Sleeping Beauties xii. 94 ‘Those too’, he said, slightly puzzled at the somewhat offside nature of the statement.
C. n.2 Sport (chiefly Football and Hockey).
The fact of being offside; an instance of this.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > offside or on side
offside1887
1887 in B. James Eng. v Scotl. (1969) ii. 50 Dewhurst shot the ball in, and Cobbold helped it past Macauley, an appeal for offside by Dewhurst being disallowed.
1899 A. H. Quinn Pennsylvania Stories 24 Claims of ‘off~side’ were freely made and repudiated by the captains.
1925 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 22 Nov. 16/4 The ball was called back, and Kansas was penalized five yards for off-side.
1969 Official Rule Bk. National Hockey League 1969–70 44 He shall stop the play for off-sides occurring on face-offs.
2002 Sun (Nexis) 3 Oct. He smashed in his second goal as the Baggies back-line vainly appealed for offside.
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