单词 | pacifier |
释义 | pacifiern. 1. A person who or thing which pacifies someone or something. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > [noun] > peacemaker peacemaker?a1425 make-peacea1513 pacifier1533 compounder1539 pacificator1539 truce-maker1552 ground-layer1603 stickler1615 peace-wright1718 peacemonger1808 honest broker1878 society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > appeasing, pacifying, or propitiating > one who appeases pacifier1533 conciliatorc1575 smoother1611 placater1894 1533 T. More Apologye xiii. 94 Yf this pacyfyer of this dyuysyon wyl say that this is nothing lyke the present mater. c1600 Resurrection of Our Lord (1912) 26 The true pacifier whose bloude Did reconcile, both God and man together. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Reconciliateur, a reconciler, pacifyer, peace-maker. 1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 106 The Sirname of Pingsi, which sounds as much as ‘Pacifier of the Western world’. 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. xii. 63 Time, the pacifier of every woe. 1800 C. B. Brown Arthur Mervyn II. xxiii. 208 The pen is a pacifyer. It checks the mind's career; it circumscribes her wanderings. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles v. 164 The pacifier of the tumults and the discords in the outward region. 1907 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 1 141 The United States appeared as a pacifier in the affairs of Central America. 1969 Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 2 By 1990 most of us..will be taking synthetic mood modifiers, pacifiers and general comforters. 1990 N. Annan Our Age vi. 85 He learnt in middle age to rise above jealousy and become the diplomatic pacifier. 2. North American. A rubber or plastic teat made for a baby or small child to suck on for comfort; = dummy n. 5g. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others spurc1450 cock1608 turnel1621 corala1625 house of cardsa1625 Jack-in-the-box1659 (Prince) Rupert's Drops1662 sucker1681 whirligig1686 playbook1694 card house1733 snapper1788 card castle1792 Aaron's bells?1795 Noah's Ark1807 Jacob's ladder1820 cat-stairs1825 daisy chain1841 beanbag1861 playboat1865 piñata1868 teething ring1872 weet-weet1878 tumble-over1883 water cracker1887 jumping-bean1889 play money1894 serpentin1894 comforter1898 pacifier1901 dummy1903 bubble water1904 yo-yo1915 paper airplane1921 snowstorm1926 titty1927 teaser1935 Slinky1948 teether1949 Mr Potato Head1952 squeeze toy1954 Frisbee1957 mobile1957 chew toy1959 water-rocket1961 Crazy Foam1965 playshop1967 war toy1973 waterball1974 pull-along1976 transformer1984 Aerobie1985 1901 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 24 Nov. 11/6 (advt.) Baby Pacifiers..$10. 1904 F. Crissey Tattlings Retired Politician 367 I put away my teething ring and baby ‘pacifier’ several years ago. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female xiii. 271 The very modern pediatrician may recommend a pacifier—the same old pacifier that still lingers on the back-street, in the little..drug stores. 1963 M. McCarthy Group xiv. 321 Norine removed the pacifier from the baby's mouth. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 4 July 5- a/3 The government has closed the books on a case that started with the choking death of a five-month-old boy and ended with the recall of more than 100,000 baby pacifiers. 2002 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 15 Nov. a13 The Australian health minister insulted Henry in Parliament, comparing him to a baby spitting out a pacifier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1533 |
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