单词 | overrunner |
释义 | overrunnern.ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 23 (MED) Here endis the prolouge of þis boke þat es cald ouerrener of þe werld. 2. A person who or thing which overruns something; spec. an invader, a despoiler. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] > raider road-maker1611 overrunnera1657 raider1861 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > non-native inhabitant alien?a1400 out-comelingc1400 strangerc1460 free denizen1551 denizen1576 peregrine1593 inmatea1600 outcomer1607 resident alien1801 metic1808 expatriate1818 international1851 offcome1859 overrunner1876 aubain1882 offcomer1898 non-native1899 outworlder1948 transplant1961 expat1962 non-patrial1971 a1657 R. Lovelace Poems (1659) 83 Vandall ore-runners, Goths in Literature, Ploughmen that would Parnassus new manure. 1872 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Biogr. & Mythol. (new ed.) I. 365/1 The (fabulous) conqueror (overrunner) of Asia Minor. 1876 J. Hodgson Cradle of Confederacy 111 The Indian was not an occupyer. He was simply an overrunner, and had not the faintest claim. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 44 Gallia's over-runner, Rome's inveterate foe. 1997 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. 8 I headed to the kitchen to create some uses of my own for these garden overrunners [sc. zucchinis]. 2001 Philadelphia Daily News (Nexis) 7 Nov. 10 Zane fired up his own negative ads, calling Sweeney a tax hiker and cost overrunner. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > miscellaneous kinds of titlerc1400 running houndc1425 overrunner1742 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. v. 101 Ringwood the best Hound..no Babler, no Over-runner, respected by the whole Pack. View more context for this quotation 4. English regional. A shrew. Now rare. ΚΠ 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 64 Our-runner, for Over-runner,..a shrew-mouse; which is supposed to portend ill-luck if it runs over a person's foot. 1910 W. H. Hudson Shepherd's Life (1993) xxii. 190 I recall here one of his anecdotes of a very small creature—a shrew, or over-runner, as he called it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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