单词 | barking |
释义 | barkingn.1 1. a. The utterance of a dog's sharp explosive cry. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > bark > barking barkingc1300 baffing1401 wappingc1440 bawling1555 spending1615 yapping1668 c1300 K. Alis. 4966 From the brest to the grounde Men hy ben, abouen houndes. Berkyng of houndes hy habbe. 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 122 What pleasure..in hearing the barking and howling of Dogs? 1795 R. Southey Occas. Pieces iii, in Wks. (1837) II. 222 His barkings loud and quick. b. transferred. Harsh coughing. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > type of cough fox's cough1611 churchyard cough1693 hacking1770 barking1813 graveyard cough1873 hoicking1926 smoker's cough1927 1813 Examiner 1 Feb. 75/1 The play went on, amidst croaking, squeaking, barking. 2. figurative. Angry or assailing outcry. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > [noun] complaint1374 exclamation1430 reclamation1533 barking1549 remonstrance1593 remonstration1605 querulation1614 remonstrating1647 queruling1838 Protestantism1854 1549 J. Olde tr. Erasmus Paraphr. 1 Tim. iv. 11 Feare not any mens barkinges. 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 35 To launch out into sudden barking at the first faults you see. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2019). barkingn.2 1. Steeping in an infusion of bark; tanning. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > converting to leather tawing1408 barkingc1440 tewc1440 tanneryc1460 tanning1481 tannage1662 bark-tanning1707 leach1779 sumaching1792 chrome-tanning1882 stocking1883 sumac tanning1932 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 25 Barkynge of lethyr, frunicio. 1865 Intellectual Observer No. 38. 107 [The] Barking the nets of the fishermen. 2. The action of stripping off bark from trees; the cutting away of a ring of bark, so as to kill the tree, otherwise called ring-barking. barking-irons: tools used for this purpose. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees barking1545 bark-galling1742 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > of skin, bark, husk, etc. > of bark rindinga1425 barking1545 disbarking1601 excortication1664 debarking1742 decortication1816 excoriation1830 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees > barking tools barking-irons1845 spud1914 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees > removing circle of bark > in order to kill tree ringbarking1823 barking1878 1545 Act 37 Hen. VIII vi. §1 Barking of Apple-trees. 1773 W. Barnard in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 218 Directing the falling and barking of a large quantity of timber. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. iii. 12 Here were a draw-shave, a cross-cut saw..barking irons, a scythe. 1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. iii. 71 In order to blight and kill a whole forest..it is not necessary to fell every tree, but only..to perform the operation of barking. 1884 Australasian 8 Nov. 875/1 In ring-barking a belt of bark about a foot in width is taken off the tree. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2019). barkingadj.1 1. Uttering barks; ‘giving tongue,’ yelping. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [adjective] > that barks wappingc1440 barking1552 boughing1566 yamphing1728 yaffing1815 yaffling1875 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Addition A barking dogge. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 156 Barking dogs, and crowing cocks. 2. transferred. Uttering harsh, rough, or angry sounds, like a dog's barking; harsh-sounding. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > making harsh or discordant sound hoarsec1369 ganglinga1398 roughlyc1400 rauk?a1425 rustyc1430 hask?1440 savagea1450 raw1474 hoar?a1505 harsh1530 untunable1545 jarring1552 jarry1582 barking1589 absonant1600 wrangling1608 raucous1615 asper1626 streperous1637 scrannel1638 caterwaulinga1652 unmelodious1665 jangling1667 latrant1702 untuneful1709 raucid1730 unharmonious1742 unmelodized1771 unmelodic1823 raucal1826 rauque1845 raspish1847 serratic1859 jangled1874 jangly1891 amelodic1937 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 210 The rude and barking language of the Affricans. c1800 H. K. White Christmas-day 36 He had words To soothe the barking waves. 3. figurative. Raising clamorous outcry, noisily aggressive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] > outcry or clamour > making clamosec1380 criousa1382 clamorousa1554 brawlinga1568 outcrying1593 barking1598 wrangling1608 clamouring1635 clamant1639 hullabalooing1867 conclamant1890 yammering1895 clamatory1900 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F4 I stop thy currish barking chops. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 50 His barking curses, and Excommunications. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 21 Bread and salt can appease the wayfarer's barking stomach. Compounds barking-bird n. the Pteroptochus Tarnu, of Chiloe, so named from its voice. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Rhinocryptidae (tapaculo) > member of genus Pteroptochos barking-bird1839 guidguid1839 turco1839 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xv. 352 An allied species,..is called by the natives ‘Guid-guid’..and by the English the barking-bird. barking deer n. the Indian muntjac, Cervulus muntjac, found in India, Burma (Myanmar), and south-western China; so named from its call. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Muntiacus (muntjak) muntjac1771 rib-faced deer1781 kidang1783 Chinese muntjac1852 kakar1876 barking deer1880 1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 742/2 The barking deer or muntjac (Cervulus vaginalis). 1898 Geogr. Jrnl. 11 502 The small barking deer, called ‘pause’ by the natives. 1939 A. Keith Land below Wind xiv. 259 There is no meat as sweet as barking deer. barking iron n. slang a pistol. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol pistolet1550 potguna1556 pistol?1560 snapper1587 pistoletto1647 pop1708 gun1744 cracker1751 stick1781 barking iron1785 barker1815 young gun1822 buffer1824 reporter1827 iron1828 flute1842 cannon1901 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Barking Irons, pistols, from their explosion resembling the bow-wow or barking of a dog. (Irish). 1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. 56 Seeing the barking iron [he] shrunk back. 1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 63 Put up your barking-iron, and no more noise. barking spider n. (see quot. 1952). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > large bush-spider1796 barking spider1934 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Jan. 21/4 The barking spider of Central Australia and other stridulating species can probably hear quite well. 1952 A. G. Mitchell in Chambers's Shorter Eng. Dict. Suppl. 790/1 Barking spider, a large reddish-brown spider of Central Australia, said to produce a barking or whistling sound. barking wolf n. U.S. = coyote n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis latrans (coyote) prairie wolf1804 coyote1824 barking wolf1826 Mearns coyote1917 1826 J. D. Godman Amer. Nat. Hist. I. 260 The Prairie or Barking Wolf..frequents the prairies..of the west. 1867 Amer. Naturalist 1 289 The Prairie or Barking Wolf (Canis latrans Say), is by far the most abundant carnivorous animal in Arizona, as it is also in almost every part of the West. Draft additions January 2010 colloquial (chiefly British). Short for barking mad adj. at Additions. ΚΠ 1960 N. Mitford Don't Tell Alfred xiv. 156 If Dr. Jore comes here every day like he says he's going to he will drive me mad. Really, properly barking. 1968 ‘J. Welcome’ Hell is where you find It iv. 67 She had something, that girl. She's mad, that's the worst of it. Bonkers, barking, round the bend. 1978 D. Hare Plenty vii. 53 Some of the senior men, their wives are absolutely barking. 1989 Sunday Tel. 4 June (Colour Suppl.) 7/4 Waitresses from the next-door café stand gaping with that half-sympathetic, half-mocking look reserved for the completely barking. 2002 Maxim June 52/3 As a descendent of the most barking bunch of Royals in European history, it was only a matter of time before she succumbed to the same insanity that befell her ancestors. Draft additions January 2010 barking mad adj. colloquial (chiefly British) wild and unpredictable; completely demented, utterly irrational. ΚΠ 1927 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 27 Nov. 6/2 At 2:30 this afternoon..a half dozen barking mad auto polo cars will be whirled into action. 1933 C. P. Pakenham Mr. Jiggins of Jigginstown xvii. 275 ‘But he was mad!’ said Mrs Jiggins..‘Barking mad!’ ‘That is a question which might have to be considered,’ said Mr. Duckworth. 1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain vii. 194 A thief from the Winchester assizes had gone raving, staring, barking mad off Ushant. 2006 R. Dawkins God Delusion 253 I have described atonement, the central doctrine of Christianity, as vicious, sado-masochistic and repellent. We should also dismiss it as barking mad. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). barkingadj.2 That ‘barks’; following the trade of a tanner. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with skins or hides > [adjective] > that is a tanner barkingc1600 c1600 Rob. Hood (Ritson) xxxv. 39 Barking tanner's sons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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