单词 | old gold |
释义 | old goldn.adj. A. n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun] gorec725 mixeOE quedeeOE turdeOE dungOE worthinga1225 dirta1300 drega1300 naturea1325 fen1340 ordurec1390 fimea1475 merd1486 stercory1496 avoidc1503 siegec1530 fex1540 excrement1541 hinder-fallings1561 gong1562 foil1565 voiding1577 pilgrim-salvec1580 egestion1583 shita1585 sir-reverence1592 purgament1597 filinga1622 faecesa1625 exclusion1646 faecality1653 tantadlin1654 surreverence1655 draught1659 excrementitiousness1660 jakes1701 old golda1704 dejection1728 dejecture1731 shitea1733 feculence1733 doll1825 crap1846 excreta1857 excretes1883 hockey1886 dejecta1887 job1899 number two1902 mess1903 ming1923 do1930 tomtit1930 pony1931 No. 21937 dog shit1944 Shinola1944 big job1945 biggie1953 doo-doo1954 doings1957 gick1959 pooh1960 pooh-pooh1962 dooky1965 poopy1970 whoopsie1973 pucky1980 jobbie1981 a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 65 Who was that, you Rogues, that dung'd in his own Cap..and carry'd home the old Gold to inrich his Radish-Bed? 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Laystall A dunghill about London, on which the soil..is emptied, or in more technical terms, where the old gold collected at weddings by the Tom t—d man, is stored. 2. A dull golden-yellow colour with a brownish tinge.So called with reference to the colour of old and unpolished gold. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > golden yellow goldOE gold colour1547 goldness1657 goldishness1671 aventurine1791 goldenness1829 gilding1851 orange-gold1859 buttercup yellow1863 old gold1871 red-gold1884 Tuscan1887 honey1981 1871 Arthur's Home Mag. Jan. 73/2 Among the new combinations of color are, olive with plum-color or old gold; dark green with drab; [etc.]. 1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen III. xi. 313 Curtains..in dirty yellow, or, in upholsterer's language, ‘old gold’. 1923 Daily Mail 16 Apr. 1 Colours:..Old Gold, Tuscan, Mastic. 1997 M. Willett Second Time Around xxii. 163 The shabby armchair and the sofa were made bright with huge heavy cotton throws in old gold and bright scarlet. 2006 S. M. Stirling Sky People vii. 153 The afternoon sunlight had an odd sulfurous light, almost like the old gold of sunset but with a sickly cast. B. adj. Of the colour of old gold; of a dull golden-yellow colour with a brownish tinge. Also: designating this colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow gildenOE goldena1382 goldya1398 dory1398 goldc1400 goldisha1425 sunlyc1425 goldlya1450 aureatec1450 gildedc1450 giltenc1450 scorn-golda1586 Pactolian1586 aureal1587 gold colour1648 gold-coloured1674 spun gold1728 aurulent1731 aurelian1791 deaurated1818 Tuscan1830 corn-coloured1854 old gold1877 buttercup yellow1880 aureoline1881 sun gold1887 Tuscan-coloured1905 guinea-gold1938 spun-golden1978 1877 Queen 21 Apr. 275/2 For black silk mantles the fashionable contrast is either tilleul plaitings, or Vésuve red, or ‘old gold’ colour, olive green, or perhaps mandarin yellow. 1881 Art Amateur Nov. 131/1 The curtains may be lined with ‘old gold’ sateen. 1935 N. L. McClung Clearing in West xxix. 227 Mother had a silk eiderdown on her bed, old gold on one side and flowered with red geraniums on the other. 1966 J. B. Priestley Salt is Leaving ii. 25 The general effect suggested a palace made of milk chocolate. The old-gold lighting did nothing to spoil this effect. 1988 Irish Times 14 May (Weekend section) 1/1 He had acquired a Hercules bicycle painted in the old gold colour of Wolverhampton Wanderers' strip. 2009 Sowetan (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 4 Dec. The..windows in her new living area are framed in old-gold silk shantung. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1704 |
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