单词 | patchery |
释义 | † patcheryn.1 Obsolete. Knavery, roguery; trickery, cheating, deception. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun] truandise?c1225 lorelshipc1380 truantry1426 coquineryc1430 loselry1480 loonery?a1513 palliardrya1522 truanting1532 patchingc1535 foul play1546 patchery?1553 slavery1553 palliardy1568 smaikry1573 roguishness1579 rascality1582 roguery1594 scutchery1594 ropery1599 cullionry1611 scoundrelism1611 friponnerie1708 rascalism1837 scoundreldom1837 rascaldom1851 scoundrelship1856 rascalry1868 scallywaggery1897 scallywagism1897 scallywagging1915 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] truandise?c1225 lorelshipc1380 truantry1426 coquineryc1430 loselry1480 loonery?a1513 palliardrya1522 truanting1532 patchingc1535 patchery?1553 palliardy1568 roguishness1579 rascality1582 roguery1594 scutchery1594 ropery1599 scoundrelism1611 roguinga1625 friponnerie1708 rascalism1837 scoundreldom1837 scamphood1845 rascaldom1851 scoundrelship1856 rascalry1868 scallywaggery1897 scallywagism1897 scallywagging1915 ?1553 Respublica (1952) v. ix. 60 Tis a bagg of Rye in dede, vsiree, periuree, pitcheree, patcherie, pilferie, briberee, snatcherie, catcherie. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 40 From the fathers sermons shal such fond patcherye flicker? a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. i. 95 You heare him cogge, See him dissemble, Know his grosse patchery . View more context for this quotation 1643 J. Lightfoot Elias Redivivus 5 Did not this patchery of humane invention divorce them a sunder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † patcheryn.2 Obsolete. The action of patching, esp. the hasty or clumsy repairing or assembling of something. Also: (usually figurative) something made up or thrown together from pieces or fragments; a patchwork. Cf. purple patchery n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > variety of form or non-uniformity > that which is diverse in form patchery1579 chequer-work1618 contesseration1652 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > clumsily botching1465 bodging1572 patchery1579 tinkering1591 cobblinga1764 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [noun] > a composite thing or complex whole > of diverse elements patchery1579 patchmenta1603 patchwork1697 vamp1884 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 239 The Greeke Article is so placed, as it can abide no such patcherie. 1623 R. Bernard Looke beyond Luther Ep. Ded. 2 A new vpstart Religion, a patcherie of Iudaisme, Paganisme and Heresie. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. ii. xxiii. 135/2 Vile Human Inventions..and Patcheries sticht into the Service of the Lord. 1789 T. Sheridan Compl. Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 2) 559/2 Patchery, botchery, bungling work. Out of use. 1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises III. 31 Designating such performances as jargon and patchery. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) App. 232 A thin sample of poetic patchery cobbled up and stitched together. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1?1553n.21579 |
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