nutcrackern.

Brit.

/ˈnʌtˌkrakə/, U.S.

/ˈnətˌkrækər/

Forms: see nut n.¹ and cracker n.

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

Etymology: < nut n.¹ + cracker n. Compare Dutch notekraker, notenkraker, †nootekraaker, German Nussknacker.With sense 7b compare Dutch notekraker , notenkraker , German Nussbrecher , †Nussknacker (this now only in sense 1a), and French casse-noix (1564 in Middle French in this sense). The scientific Latin genus name Nucifraga (see nucifrage n.) also means ‘nutcracker’, as does post-classical Latin caryocatactes (16th cent. or earlier), used as a specific epithet by Linnaeus (1758) < Hellenistic Greek καρυοκατάκτης.

I. The device and related senses.

a. A device for cracking the shell of a nut to reach the kernel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts

nutcracker1481

nut-crack1570

nutcrackers1600

crackera1640

crack-nut1656

orange-strainer1688

apple scoop1696

orange-peel cutter1757

apple corer1778

lemon-squeezer1781

corer1789

orange squeezer1815

seeder1865

sweat-box1870

reamer1894

stemmer1898

juicer1938

zester1963

1481 Petty Customs Acct. in H. S. Cobb Overseas Trade of London (1990) (modernized text) 58 1 doz. nutcrackers.

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Nucifrangibulum,..a nut cracker.

1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 14 He was fain at length to make a Nutcracker of it.

1673 S'too him Bayes 16 A sword..which was as like a nut-cracker for it crack'd men clad in steel.

1698 T. D'Urfey Campaigners ii. iii. 22 The rare Mechanical invention of Combs, Knifes, Scizzars, Tooth-picks, Thimbles, Buckles, Buttons, Bodkins, with the most ingenious Cork-screw and incomparable Nut cracker, bring in a Mint, a Mint of Money.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 115. ⁋1 He had once actually laid aside his [sc. Punch's] Head for a Nut-cracker.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ii. 9 After the manner of a toy nut-cracker.

1876 S. Warner & A. Warner Gold of Chickaree 130 Making a great and ill-adjusted effort with his nut-cracker, it slipped.

1911 F. H. Burnett Secret Garden xvi. 173 Mary's face looked as pinched as a nutcracker.

1996 Which? Guide to starting your own Business (new ed.) iv. 71 A new nutcracker..is likely to sell readily only in the period before Christmas.

b. In plural in same sense; applied spec. to such a device consisting of two pivoted limbs. Frequently as a pair of nutcrackers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts

nutcracker1481

nut-crack1570

nutcrackers1600

crackera1640

crack-nut1656

orange-strainer1688

apple scoop1696

orange-peel cutter1757

apple corer1778

lemon-squeezer1781

corer1789

orange squeezer1815

seeder1865

sweat-box1870

reamer1894

stemmer1898

juicer1938

zester1963

1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. A3^v My teeth are turn'd into Nut crackers, a thousand to one I breake out shortly, for I am full of nothing, but waxing kernels.

a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. ii. 34 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) A thousand Iron-mills Can be heard no further then a pair of Nut-crackers.

1736 T. Sheridan Let. 15 Sept. in J. Swift Wks. (1768) XIII. 177 I shall send..a fine pair of Cavan nut-crackers to save her white teeth.

a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 52 A pair of nut-crackers presented by Harry the Eighth to Anna Bullen.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 298 A pair of bellows, nut-crackers, &c. are composed of two levers of the second kind.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. iv. 68 Forgetting all about the baby on her lap: who did most appalling things with the nutcrackers.

1915 W. Cather Song of Lark ii. iv. 192 He..took up the nut-crackers and a Brazil nut.

1987 My Weekly 21 Feb. 37 I purchased wooden nut-crackers, carved in the form of a grinning Troll.

†2. In plural. cant. The pillory. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks

stocksc1325

pilloryc1330

stocka1382

gofe1489

stretchneck1543

harmans1567

foot trap1585

pigeonholes1592

jougs1596

berlina1607

halsfang1607

gorget1635

cippusa1637

nutcrackers1648

catasta1664

wooden cravat1676

the wooden ruff1677

neck stock1681

wooden casement1685

timber-stairsc1750

Norway neckcloth1785

law-neck-cloth1789

stoop1795

timber1851–4

nerve1854

1648 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 20. sig. V1^v I feare not the Impeaching Nutcrackers, and if I should chance to be arraigned for wit, I shall make bold to crie Not guilty.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nut-crackers, a Pillory. The Cull lookt through the Nut-crackers.

?1750 Apol. Life Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew (ed. 2) 234 Nut-crackers, a pillory.]

†3. Used as the title of a book. Cf. nut n.¹ 4. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1751 ‘F. Foot’ (title) The Nut-Cracker: Containing an agreeable Variety of well-season'd Jests, Epigrams, Epitaphs, &c.

†4. plural. colloquial. Jaws which resemble a pair of nutcrackers (cf. Compounds 1). Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1793 A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 266 A mouth that will be nut-cracks at 60.]

1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton iii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 17/1 Her mouth..receded too much from her nose and chin, and..threatened ‘nut-crackers’ in advanced age.

5. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). figurative. A difficult or problematic situation. Also in extended use. Cf. ball-breaker n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult matter

business1827

sod1940

cruncher1947

ball-breaker1950

nutcracker1960

1948 E. Hemingway Let. 15 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 656 Just because something was sold for a miserable price once when my nuts were in the nut-cracker..is no reason to sell something else for a miserable price.]

1960 J. Carpenter Youngest Harlot 128 I was a ham-and-egger when I sailed on that nutcracker.

1993 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 28 Feb. 12 ‘They got too many pistolas,’ Glendale Coach Brian Beauchemin said. ‘They gave us opportunities but we didn't make it a nutcracker.’

II. A person or animal that cracks nuts.

6. A person who cracks nuts. Now rare.In Jonson used depreciatively of idle or undiscriminating members of a theatre audience.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > theatre audience > occupants of specific seat or place

scaffolder1597

nutcracker1602

groundling1604

understander1633

pit-mask1701

goddess1799

pittite1807

stall-holder1849

half-crowner1886

stallite1887

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. ii. sig. B2^v Sirrah, you, Nut-cracker: goe your waies to him againe, and tell him I must ha' money, I.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Prol. Court 6 Schollers, that can iudge, and faire report The sense they heare, aboue the vulgar sort Of Nut-crackers, that onely come for sight.

1773 K. O'Hara Golden Pippin iii. 39 Par. But why to me this Beauty-reference? Merc. You, Sir, Jove knows,—can guess the difference—Betwixt—a Nymph—and a Nut-cracker.

1982 New Scientist 23 Dec. 804/2 So vital are the French nutcrackers to the French walnut industry that [etc.].

†a. The common or northern cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis (family Emberizidae). Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Cardinalinae > genus Cardinalis

red-bird1649

Virginian nightingale1668

hawfinch1673

nutcracker1688

Virginia nightingale1694

cardinal1702

cardinal grosbeak1783

scarlet grosbeak1837

winter redbird1868

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 242/2 The Virginian Nightingale..is called the Nut-craker, because it loves to feed on Kernels.

b. Either of two crows of the genus Nucifraga, the white-spotted brown N. caryocatactes of Eurasia and the black, white, and grey N. columbiana of western North America.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Nucifraga (nut-cracker)

nutcracker1693

nut-breaker1778

1693 N. Staphorst tr. L. Rauwolf Trav. Eastern Countries ii. xi, in J. Ray Coll. Curious Trav. I. 220 I saw there several strange Birds, and among others some of a delicate green and blue colour, which were about the bigness of our Nut-crackers [Ger. Nußhöher], by them called Sucuruck, and by other Alsecrach.

1758 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. I. 63 The Nut-Cracker. This bird..is about the size of our jack-daw.

1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. App. 488 Nutcracker... The specimen we toke our description from is the only one we ever heard was shot in these kingdoms.

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. (at cited word) The Nutcracker is said to lay up a store of acorns and nuts for winter.

1853 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. 270 The Nutcracker Crow..is about the size of a jackdaw, but its form is more slender.

1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 646 The Nutcracker breeds very early in the year, long before the snows are melted.

1904 R. G. Thwaites Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. III. 16 (note) This bird [Picicorvus columbianus] is now known as the American nutcracker.

1944 National Geographic Mag. June 690/1 We never see nutcrackers on the mountain-tops nor magpies in the valleys of eastern United States.

1983 Birds Spring 44/1 However, the sexes in a number of other birds, including pigeons, gulls, oystercatchers, the cockatoos among parrots and the nutcrackers among the crow family, take turns in incubating and brooding and both feed the young.

†c. English regional (Shropshire). The nuthatch, Sitta europaea. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Sittidae > genus Sitta > sitta europaea (nuthatch)

nuthatchc1350

nutjobber1544

nut-pecker1553

wood-cracker1677

jar-bird1768

nutcracker1879

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 305 Nutcracker, Sitta Europæa, the Nuthatch.—Bridgnorth.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. Designating (a face which contains) a nose and chin with the points near each other either naturally or through loss of teeth. Also in similative compounds.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > lower part of face > [adjective] > like nutcracker

nutcrackera1704

nutcrackery1868

a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 22 Hollow Cheeks,..Nut-cracker Chin, that almost meets her Nose.

1707 P. A. Motteux Farewel Folly ii. 35 His Daughter's a wry-fac'd, Nutcracker-Chinn'd, Lanthorn-jaw'd, flatbreech'd, straddling Pair of Kitchin Tongues.

1818 W. Wilberforce in S. Wilberforce Life W. Wilberforce (1868) xxiii. 380 She is a toothless, nutcracker jawed old woman, but quite upright and active.

1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob 272 A..bunch of bones, with a nut-cracker nose and chin.

1925 D. Garnett Sailor's Return 150 A thin young man with a nutcracker nose and jaw.

1981 R. Rendell Best Man to Die (BNC) One day when he was old this would be a nutcracker face.

C2.

Nutcracker Man n. (a nickname for) an East African fossil hominid, Australopithecus boisei, with massive jaws and powerful premolar teeth, which was the maker of the oldest stone tools known, esp. the specimen discovered by Mary Leakey at Olduvai, Tanzania, in 1959 (cf. Zinjanthropus n.).Similar remains, including the characteristic large premolar teeth, have also been found in South Africa.

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the world > people > protohuman > [noun]

anthropolite1778

Neanderthal man1861

caveman1862

man1863

prehistoric man1863

Pithecanthropus1873

Java man1895

Homo erectus1904

Heidelberg1909

Eoanthropus1912

dawn man1913

Neanderthaler1913

Piltdown man1913

Aurignacian1915

Neanderthalian1920

Rhodesian man1921

Boskopoid1926

Peking man1926

Sinanthropus1927

Piltdown1931

Predmostian1931

Minnesota Man1932

Neanderthaloid1934

Steinheim1935

Gigantopithecus1936

Africanthropus1938

Paranthropus1938

Piltdowner1941

Meganthropus1942

Telanthropus1949

Saldanha Man1953

pithecanthropine1955

Nutcracker Man1959

Homo habilis1964

iceman1972

1959 Times 4 Sept. 8/4 He [sc. L. S. B. Leakey] has named the species Zinjanthropus Boisei... The nickname given by Dr. Leakey to the world's oldest man is ‘Nutcracker Man’ because of the tremendously developed teeth.

1961 New Scientist 26 Oct. 221 Not only is Zinjanthropus or Nutcracker Man ‘unquestionably’ human but some of his fairly distant ancestors were human as well.

1972 S. Cupitt tr. H. Wendt From Ape to Adam iv. 228 He [sc. Robert Broom] found the remains of an australopithecine equipped with a particularly powerful jaw and truly nutcracker-like teeth... These ‘Nutcracker men’ even had a small sagittal crest on their skulls.

1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones v. 83 Journalists called it Nutcracker Man, because of its enormous jaws and teeth.

Derivatives

ˈnutcracker-like adj.

ΚΠ

1972 S. Cupitt tr. H. Wendt From Ape to Adam iv. 228 An australopithecine equipped with a particularly powerful jaw and truly nutcracker-like teeth.

1989 Science 10 Nov. 759/1 A modest force..is applied by hand and multiplied by a nutcracker-like device.

ˈnutcrackery adj. (having a face) resembling or reminiscent of a pair of nutcrackers (cf. Compounds 1).

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > lower part of face > [adjective] > like nutcracker

nutcrackera1704

nutcrackery1868

1868 M. E. Braddon Birds of Prey (new ed.) i. i An old lady who had been seen to arrive in a brougham, especially weird and nutcrackery of aspect.

1938 M. Gervaise Distance Enchanted vii. 126 A nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor.

1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill Envoi 306 The booth of the sorceress Betty, who looked the beautiful witch that she was, just nutcrackery enough to qualify and no more.

2004 P. J. Williams Open House iii. 89 Elegant silver tongs, exquisitely wrought nutcrackery things designed to snap and twist and crush.

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

单词	nutcracker
释义	nutcrackern. Brit. /ˈnʌtˌkrakə/, U.S. /ˈnətˌkrækər/ Forms: see nut n.¹ and cracker n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nut n.¹, cracker n. Etymology: < nut n.¹ + cracker n. Compare Dutch notekraker, notenkraker, †nootekraaker, German Nussknacker.With sense 7b compare Dutch notekraker , notenkraker , German Nussbrecher , †Nussknacker (this now only in sense 1a), and French casse-noix (1564 in Middle French in this sense). The scientific Latin genus name Nucifraga (see nucifrage n.) also means ‘nutcracker’, as does post-classical Latin caryocatactes (16th cent. or earlier), used as a specific epithet by Linnaeus (1758) < Hellenistic Greek καρυοκατάκτης. I. The device and related senses. 1. a. A device for cracking the shell of a nut to reach the kernel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts nutcracker1481 nut-crack1570 nutcrackers1600 crackera1640 crack-nut1656 orange-strainer1688 apple scoop1696 orange-peel cutter1757 apple corer1778 lemon-squeezer1781 corer1789 orange squeezer1815 seeder1865 sweat-box1870 reamer1894 stemmer1898 juicer1938 zester1963 1481 Petty Customs Acct. in H. S. Cobb Overseas Trade of London (1990) (modernized text) 58 1 doz. nutcrackers. 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Nucifrangibulum,..a nut cracker. 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 14 He was fain at length to make a Nutcracker of it. 1673 S'too him Bayes 16 A sword..which was as like a nut-cracker for it crack'd men clad in steel. 1698 T. D'Urfey Campaigners ii. iii. 22 The rare Mechanical invention of Combs, Knifes, Scizzars, Tooth-picks, Thimbles, Buckles, Buttons, Bodkins, with the most ingenious Cork-screw and incomparable Nut cracker, bring in a Mint, a Mint of Money. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 115. ⁋1 He had once actually laid aside his [sc. Punch's] Head for a Nut-cracker. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ii. 9 After the manner of a toy nut-cracker. 1876 S. Warner & A. Warner Gold of Chickaree 130 Making a great and ill-adjusted effort with his nut-cracker, it slipped. 1911 F. H. Burnett Secret Garden xvi. 173 Mary's face looked as pinched as a nutcracker. 1996 Which? Guide to starting your own Business (new ed.) iv. 71 A new nutcracker..is likely to sell readily only in the period before Christmas. b. In plural in same sense; applied spec. to such a device consisting of two pivoted limbs. Frequently as a pair of nutcrackers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts nutcracker1481 nut-crack1570 nutcrackers1600 crackera1640 crack-nut1656 orange-strainer1688 apple scoop1696 orange-peel cutter1757 apple corer1778 lemon-squeezer1781 corer1789 orange squeezer1815 seeder1865 sweat-box1870 reamer1894 stemmer1898 juicer1938 zester1963 1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. A3^v My teeth are turn'd into Nut crackers, a thousand to one I breake out shortly, for I am full of nothing, but waxing kernels. a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. ii. 34 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) A thousand Iron-mills Can be heard no further then a pair of Nut-crackers. 1736 T. Sheridan Let. 15 Sept. in J. Swift Wks. (1768) XIII. 177 I shall send..a fine pair of Cavan nut-crackers to save her white teeth. a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 52 A pair of nut-crackers presented by Harry the Eighth to Anna Bullen. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 298 A pair of bellows, nut-crackers, &c. are composed of two levers of the second kind. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. iv. 68 Forgetting all about the baby on her lap: who did most appalling things with the nutcrackers. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark ii. iv. 192 He..took up the nut-crackers and a Brazil nut. 1987 My Weekly 21 Feb. 37 I purchased wooden nut-crackers, carved in the form of a grinning Troll. †2. In plural. cant. The pillory. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks stocksc1325 pilloryc1330 stocka1382 gofe1489 stretchneck1543 harmans1567 foot trap1585 pigeonholes1592 jougs1596 berlina1607 halsfang1607 gorget1635 cippusa1637 nutcrackers1648 catasta1664 wooden cravat1676 the wooden ruff1677 neck stock1681 wooden casement1685 timber-stairsc1750 Norway neckcloth1785 law-neck-cloth1789 stoop1795 timber1851–4 nerve1854 1648 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 20. sig. V1^v I feare not the Impeaching Nutcrackers, and if I should chance to be arraigned for wit, I shall make bold to crie Not guilty. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nut-crackers, a Pillory. The Cull lookt through the Nut-crackers. ?1750 Apol. Life Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew (ed. 2) 234 Nut-crackers, a pillory.] †3. Used as the title of a book. Cf. nut n.¹ 4. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1751 ‘F. Foot’ (title) The Nut-Cracker: Containing an agreeable Variety of well-season'd Jests, Epigrams, Epitaphs, &c. †4. plural. colloquial. Jaws which resemble a pair of nutcrackers (cf. Compounds 1). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1793 A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 266 A mouth that will be nut-cracks at 60.] 1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton iii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 17/1 Her mouth..receded too much from her nose and chin, and..threatened ‘nut-crackers’ in advanced age. 5. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). figurative. A difficult or problematic situation. Also in extended use. Cf. ball-breaker n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult matter business1827 sod1940 cruncher1947 ball-breaker1950 nutcracker1960 1948 E. Hemingway Let. 15 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 656 Just because something was sold for a miserable price once when my nuts were in the nut-cracker..is no reason to sell something else for a miserable price.] 1960 J. Carpenter Youngest Harlot 128 I was a ham-and-egger when I sailed on that nutcracker. 1993 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 28 Feb. 12 ‘They got too many pistolas,’ Glendale Coach Brian Beauchemin said. ‘They gave us opportunities but we didn't make it a nutcracker.’ II. A person or animal that cracks nuts. 6. A person who cracks nuts. Now rare.In Jonson used depreciatively of idle or undiscriminating members of a theatre audience. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > theatre audience > occupants of specific seat or place scaffolder1597 nutcracker1602 groundling1604 understander1633 pit-mask1701 goddess1799 pittite1807 stall-holder1849 half-crowner1886 stallite1887 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. ii. sig. B2^v Sirrah, you, Nut-cracker: goe your waies to him againe, and tell him I must ha' money, I. View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Prol. Court 6 Schollers, that can iudge, and faire report The sense they heare, aboue the vulgar sort Of Nut-crackers, that onely come for sight. 1773 K. O'Hara Golden Pippin iii. 39 Par. But why to me this Beauty-reference? Merc. You, Sir, Jove knows,—can guess the difference—Betwixt—a Nymph—and a Nut-cracker. 1982 New Scientist 23 Dec. 804/2 So vital are the French nutcrackers to the French walnut industry that [etc.]. 7. †a. The common or northern cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis (family Emberizidae). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Cardinalinae > genus Cardinalis red-bird1649 Virginian nightingale1668 hawfinch1673 nutcracker1688 Virginia nightingale1694 cardinal1702 cardinal grosbeak1783 scarlet grosbeak1837 winter redbird1868 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 242/2 The Virginian Nightingale..is called the Nut-craker, because it loves to feed on Kernels. b. Either of two crows of the genus Nucifraga, the white-spotted brown N. caryocatactes of Eurasia and the black, white, and grey N. columbiana of western North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Nucifraga (nut-cracker) nutcracker1693 nut-breaker1778 1693 N. Staphorst tr. L. Rauwolf Trav. Eastern Countries ii. xi, in J. Ray Coll. Curious Trav. I. 220 I saw there several strange Birds, and among others some of a delicate green and blue colour, which were about the bigness of our Nut-crackers [Ger. Nußhöher], by them called Sucuruck, and by other Alsecrach. 1758 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. I. 63 The Nut-Cracker. This bird..is about the size of our jack-daw. 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. App. 488 Nutcracker... The specimen we toke our description from is the only one we ever heard was shot in these kingdoms. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. (at cited word) The Nutcracker is said to lay up a store of acorns and nuts for winter. 1853 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. 270 The Nutcracker Crow..is about the size of a jackdaw, but its form is more slender. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 646 The Nutcracker breeds very early in the year, long before the snows are melted. 1904 R. G. Thwaites Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. III. 16 (note) This bird [Picicorvus columbianus] is now known as the American nutcracker. 1944 National Geographic Mag. June 690/1 We never see nutcrackers on the mountain-tops nor magpies in the valleys of eastern United States. 1983 Birds Spring 44/1 However, the sexes in a number of other birds, including pigeons, gulls, oystercatchers, the cockatoos among parrots and the nutcrackers among the crow family, take turns in incubating and brooding and both feed the young. †c. English regional (Shropshire). The nuthatch, Sitta europaea. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Sittidae > genus Sitta > sitta europaea (nuthatch) nuthatchc1350 nutjobber1544 nut-pecker1553 wood-cracker1677 jar-bird1768 nutcracker1879 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 305 Nutcracker, Sitta Europæa, the Nuthatch.—Bridgnorth. Compounds C1. General attributive. Designating (a face which contains) a nose and chin with the points near each other either naturally or through loss of teeth. Also in similative compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > lower part of face > [adjective] > like nutcracker nutcrackera1704 nutcrackery1868 a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 22 Hollow Cheeks,..Nut-cracker Chin, that almost meets her Nose. 1707 P. A. Motteux Farewel Folly ii. 35 His Daughter's a wry-fac'd, Nutcracker-Chinn'd, Lanthorn-jaw'd, flatbreech'd, straddling Pair of Kitchin Tongues. 1818 W. Wilberforce in S. Wilberforce Life W. Wilberforce (1868) xxiii. 380 She is a toothless, nutcracker jawed old woman, but quite upright and active. 1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob 272 A..bunch of bones, with a nut-cracker nose and chin. 1925 D. Garnett Sailor's Return 150 A thin young man with a nutcracker nose and jaw. 1981 R. Rendell Best Man to Die (BNC) One day when he was old this would be a nutcracker face. C2. Nutcracker Man n. (a nickname for) an East African fossil hominid, Australopithecus boisei, with massive jaws and powerful premolar teeth, which was the maker of the oldest stone tools known, esp. the specimen discovered by Mary Leakey at Olduvai, Tanzania, in 1959 (cf. Zinjanthropus n.).Similar remains, including the characteristic large premolar teeth, have also been found in South Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1959 Times 4 Sept. 8/4 He [sc. L. S. B. Leakey] has named the species Zinjanthropus Boisei... The nickname given by Dr. Leakey to the world's oldest man is ‘Nutcracker Man’ because of the tremendously developed teeth. 1961 New Scientist 26 Oct. 221 Not only is Zinjanthropus or Nutcracker Man ‘unquestionably’ human but some of his fairly distant ancestors were human as well. 1972 S. Cupitt tr. H. Wendt From Ape to Adam iv. 228 He [sc. Robert Broom] found the remains of an australopithecine equipped with a particularly powerful jaw and truly nutcracker-like teeth... These ‘Nutcracker men’ even had a small sagittal crest on their skulls. 1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones v. 83 Journalists called it Nutcracker Man, because of its enormous jaws and teeth. Derivatives ˈnutcracker-like adj. ΚΠ 1972 S. Cupitt tr. H. Wendt From Ape to Adam iv. 228 An australopithecine equipped with a particularly powerful jaw and truly nutcracker-like teeth. 1989 Science 10 Nov. 759/1 A modest force..is applied by hand and multiplied by a nutcracker-like device. ˈnutcrackery adj. (having a face) resembling or reminiscent of a pair of nutcrackers (cf. Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > lower part of face > [adjective] > like nutcracker nutcrackera1704 nutcrackery1868 1868 M. E. Braddon Birds of Prey (new ed.) i. i An old lady who had been seen to arrive in a brougham, especially weird and nutcrackery of aspect. 1938 M. Gervaise Distance Enchanted vii. 126 A nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor. 1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill Envoi 306 The booth of the sorceress Betty, who looked the beautiful witch that she was, just nutcrackery enough to qualify and no more. 2004 P. J. Williams Open House iii. 89 Elegant silver tongs, exquisitely wrought nutcrackery things designed to snap and twist and crush. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nutcrackerv. Brit. /ˈnʌtˌkrakə/, U.S. /ˈnətˌkrækər/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nutcracker n. Etymology: < nutcracker n. †1. transitive. With adjective or prepositional phrase as complement: to bring into a certain state by the use of a nutcracker. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xxiii, in All Year Round 9 Mar. 507/1 Are infants to be nutcrackered into their tombs? 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. iv. 70 Babies are to be nutcrackered dead. 2. transitive. colloquial. To squeeze or force as if with a nutcracker. ΚΠ 1979 Economist (Nexis) 17 Mar. 14 The police are nutcrackered into excesses by the terrorists and the peculiar nature of Ulster's courts. 1990 R. M. Fried Nightmare in Red (1991) iv. 113 General Douglas MacArthur..flanked the North Korean invaders, and nutcrackered them northward. 1994 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Apr. 17 The South Bank Board..saw the residency as a chance to seize control of concert programming only to get nutcrackered by the orchestras. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1481v.1861
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