nut-crackingadj.

Brit.

/ˈnʌtˌkrakɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈnətˌkrækɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nut n.¹, cracking adj.¹

Etymology: < nut n.¹ + cracking adj.¹ Compare earlier nutcracker n. In sense 2 punningly after ball-breaking adj.; compare nut n.¹ 14a.

1. That cracks nuts; constructed so as to crack nuts. Also: resembling or reminiscent of a nutcracker.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [adjective] > relating to nutcrackers

nut-cracking1800

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [adjective] > of or relating to rodents > of family Sciuromorpha > like a squirrel > that cracks nut

nut-cracking1842

1800 J. Murdock Beau Metamorphized i. i. 21 How can you caress that mischievous, nut-cracking thing?

1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life I. 203 Nut-cracking human heads, and wax dolls with moveable eyes.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 399/2 The type..intermediate between the tree-nesting and nut-cracking squirrels on the one hand and the burrowing and frugivorous Tamias on the other.

1878 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 548 The instinct of commerce and bargaining will be as strong in him at the outset as the tail-hanging, nut-cracking instinct was in the ape.

1931 R. Campbell Georgiad ii. 42 Some withered Nornie of the boreal race With sour, nut-cracking, vegetarian face.

2002 Sun (Nexis) 5 Jan. Taking only the clothes they stand up in..they track the rare, nut-cracking chimps of the rainforest.

2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). figurative. Arduous, punishing; (also) emasculating. Cf. ball-breaking adj.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective] > difficult to do or accomplish

higheOE

grievousc1386

steep1598

arduous1718

leg-breaking1835

knobby1862

nut-cracking1982

1982 J. D. Hodgson in H. R. Northrup & R. L. Rowan Employee Relations & Regulation in '80s 19 Government regulation of the workplace escalated from nit-picking to nut-cracking levels.

1993 N.Y. Times 14 Sept. b13/6 If we had gotten the pitching we thought we had, we might have been two games ahead instead of two games behind. Let's see if they have enough courage to pick up the slack. It's nut-cracking time now.

2000 Kenyon Rev. 22 114 She's heard them whisper that she is ‘a nut-cracking dyke’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nut-cracking
释义	nut-crackingadj. Brit. /ˈnʌtˌkrakɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnətˌkrækɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nut n.¹, cracking adj.¹ Etymology: < nut n.¹ + cracking adj.¹ Compare earlier nutcracker n. In sense 2 punningly after ball-breaking adj.; compare nut n.¹ 14a. 1. That cracks nuts; constructed so as to crack nuts. Also: resembling or reminiscent of a nutcracker. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [adjective] > relating to nutcrackers nut-cracking1800 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [adjective] > of or relating to rodents > of family Sciuromorpha > like a squirrel > that cracks nut nut-cracking1842 1800 J. Murdock Beau Metamorphized i. i. 21 How can you caress that mischievous, nut-cracking thing? 1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life I. 203 Nut-cracking human heads, and wax dolls with moveable eyes. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 399/2 The type..intermediate between the tree-nesting and nut-cracking squirrels on the one hand and the burrowing and frugivorous Tamias on the other. 1878 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 548 The instinct of commerce and bargaining will be as strong in him at the outset as the tail-hanging, nut-cracking instinct was in the ape. 1931 R. Campbell Georgiad ii. 42 Some withered Nornie of the boreal race With sour, nut-cracking, vegetarian face. 2002 Sun (Nexis) 5 Jan. Taking only the clothes they stand up in..they track the rare, nut-cracking chimps of the rainforest. 2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). figurative. Arduous, punishing; (also) emasculating. Cf. ball-breaking adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective] > difficult to do or accomplish higheOE grievousc1386 steep1598 arduous1718 leg-breaking1835 knobby1862 nut-cracking1982 1982 J. D. Hodgson in H. R. Northrup & R. L. Rowan Employee Relations & Regulation in '80s 19 Government regulation of the workplace escalated from nit-picking to nut-cracking levels. 1993 N.Y. Times 14 Sept. b13/6 If we had gotten the pitching we thought we had, we might have been two games ahead instead of two games behind. Let's see if they have enough courage to pick up the slack. It's nut-cracking time now. 2000 Kenyon Rev. 22 114 She's heard them whisper that she is ‘a nut-cracking dyke’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1800
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