单词 | nuttery |
释义 | nutteryn. 1. A place in which nut trees grow or are raised. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > orchard or fruit garden > type of apple-garth1268 oliveyarda1382 olivetc1384 apple orchard?c1400 nut garden1535 oil-garden1535 olive garden1577 lemon-orchard1611 meloniere1658 orange grove1688 melonry1717 nutterya1729 peachery1789 lemon-grove1830 nut grove1840 prune orchard1847 lemon-garden1864 seed orchard1903 a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1960) 344 If in thy nuttery, I should be found To beare no Nutmegs, Almonds, but a nut All Wormeate, or in barrenness abound. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 247 In another moment he has mounted the bank, and is in the midst of the nuttery. 1932 H. Nicolson Diary 20 Mar. (1966) 113 What would be good..would be to put the end of the main nuttery walk at the end of a main vista. 1995 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 36/5 A nuttery contains Kentish Cob, Frizzled Filbert and White Filbert hazelnuts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for nuts nuttery1881 1881 Graphic 15 Oct. 402/1 Busy rats, who carry off and also establish a nuttery. 1882 Cent. Mag. 25 300 They [sc. mice] generally have a well-filled granary or nuttery. 3. U.S. slang. A psychiatric hospital. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill bedlam-house1525 dull-house1622 madhouse1649 bedlam1663 lunatic hospital1762 asylum1776 retreat1796 lunatic house1813 lunatic asylum1828 maison de santé1843 idiot asylum1848 rat house1854 bughouse1887 Colney Hatch1891 booby hatch1896 mental hospital1898 booby house1900 nut factory1900 nut collegec1906 nuthouse1906 monkey house1910 booby-hutch1914 nuttery1915 loony bin1919 nut hatch1928 silly house1930 bin1938 snake-pit1947 funny farm1950 1915 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 75 A cozy corner in the nuttery for yours. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route vi. 62 Should the sociotechnic social worker be convinced that you are not normal she will have you bound for a nuttery before sunset. 1995 Boston Herald (Nexis) 19 Feb. b37 ‘The King of Wrestling Rap’..will try to unravel Outpatient, out on a work-furlough program from the state nuttery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1729 |
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