patchworkn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpatʃwəːk/, U.S.

/ˈpætʃˌwərk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: patch n.¹, work n.

Etymology: < patch n.¹ + work n. Compare earlier patchment n., compatchment n.

A. n.

a. Something composed of many different pieces or elements, esp. when put together in a makeshift or incongruous way; a medley or jumble. Now usually taken as a figurative use of sense A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

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

1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn sig. A4 It cannot be expected they should have any effect for common Good, at best, but Patch-work.

1739 Hist. Wks. Learned I. 103 He that thinks the Iliad and Odysses the Patchwork of a Beggar's Rhapsodies.

1857 F. Locker London Life 20 Life is chequer'd, a patchwork of smiles and of frowns.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. viii. lxxiv. 211 This imperfectly-taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork.

1920 19th Cent. Dec. 942 A tuchun..will address the foreigner in a patchwork of stilted literary phrases jumbled together.

1988 M. Seymour Ring of Conspirators i. 41 Crane's stories..were an impenetrable patchwork of truth and fantasy.

b. The work of patching something up, repair work. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > with a patch

clouting1382

piecing1395

vampeying1416

patching1445

vamping1599

patchwork1712

1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 Dec. (1948) II. 580 I should ruin my self with endeavoring to mend them..and I have been too much engaged in Patch-work already.

1979 B. M. Gill Death Drop x. 154 Some neat and discreet patchwork over the cracks should restore the fabric of the school.

a. spec. A type of needlework in which small pieces of fabric, differing in colour and pattern, and sometimes in size and shape, are sewn together to form one article; an example of this.crazy patchwork: see crazy adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > patchwork

patchwork1703

1703 Country Farmer's Catech. in J. O. Halliwell & T. Wright Nares's Gloss. (1867) II. 488/2 Not to spend their time in knit-knots, patch-work, fine twilights.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vi. 109 My Clothes..looked like the Patch-Work made by the Ladies in England.

1772 A. G. Winslow Diary 62 I exchanged a piece of patchwork..for a pair of curious lace mitts with blue flaps.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. iv. 153 Every woman..wore pockets..fashioned with patch-work into many curious devices.

1872 G. MacDonald Wilfrid Cumbermede I. iii. 17 The bed was covered with an equally charming counterpane of silk patchwork.

1931 R. S. McKim One Hundred & One Patchwork Patterns 84/1 Shoo fly is one of the simplest of old-fashioned patchworks.

1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 30/3 The patchwork could either be hand-appliquéd or tacked and machine-stitched to the backing fabric.

b. A surface divided into many small areas of varying shapes and colours. Frequently (with of) applied to the ground as seen from an aerial position.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > types of terrain

patchwork1865

Mound Region1873

boulder-flat1884

karrenfeld1885

boulder-belt1894

karst land1894

karst1902

felsenmeer1905

stone-field1906

staircasing1911

fundament1928

strewn field1937

thermokarst1943

patterned ground1950

pseudokarst1954

tower karst1954

tektite field1960

stone pavement1969

1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 243 The picturesque patchwork of Devonshire verdure.

1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve xii A patchwork of fields spread out and ran down to the cliffs.

1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird vii. 89 A tropical patchwork of white beach and water and mangrove swamp.

2000 Explore Worldwide Brochure 2001/2002 60/4 A patchwork of small villages, paddy fields, and ghats unfurls before our eyes.

3. Mining. In Wales: an area of numerous discrete opencast excavations. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1897 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 8 177 The ironstones were formerly dug out in extensive open-air workings [in South Wales] known as ‘patchworks’.

1900 A. Strahan & W. Gibson Geol. S. Wales Coal-field ii. v. 50 The gentle dip and long slopes cause the outcrops to be widely spaced out and keep each bed near the surface for a long distance, and thus have led to a great development of the system of open-air working known as ‘patchwork’.

B. adj. (attributive).

1. Made out of patchwork (sense A. 2a), esp. in patchwork cushion, patchwork quilt; put together from patches. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > patchwork

patchwork1711

patchworked1803

piecework1842

Resht1883

1711 E. Freke Diary 16 Oct. in Jrnl. Cork Hist & Archaeol. (1912) 18 204 New Patchwork Couchin, given mee.

1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iii, in New Monthly Mag. 60 393 No patchwork quilt, all seams and scars.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 139 There was the old patch-work counterpane.

1907 St. Nicholas July 832/1 In a short time our patchwork flag was put together.

1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. viii. 33 Life was fine With two in a bed and patchwork cushions And checks and tassels on the washing-line.

1990 Daily Mail: Creating Perfect Home No. 4. 10/4 Patchwork cushions and bedspreads are pretty as well as practical.

2. figurative. Composed of miscellaneous pieces or elements; made up of odds and ends.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective]

fawa700

medleyc1350

freckledc1380

motleyc1380

pied1382

specked1382

vary1382

partyc1385

parted1393

peckleda1400

polymitec1425

sere-colouredc1425

vairc1425

discoloured?1440

motleyed1447

varying1488

sheld1507

fleckered1508

piet1508

mellay1515

particoloured1530

pickled1552

varied1578

mingled1580

partly coloured1582

chequered1592

medley-coloured1593

mingle-coloured1593

piebald1594

feathered1610

changeable1612

particolour1612

enamelled1613

variousa1618

pie-coloured1619

jaspered1620

gangean1623

versicolour1628

patchwork1634

damasked1648

variously-coloureda1660

variegateda1661

agated1665

varicoloured1665

damaska1674

various-coloureda1711

pieted1721

versicoloured1721

diversicoloured1756

mosaic1776

harlequin1779

spanged1788

calico1807

piety1811

varied-coloured1811

discolorate1826

heterochromous1842

jaspé1851

discolor1859

discolorous1860

jasperoid1876

damascened1879

heterochromatic1895

variotinted1903

batik1914

varihued1921

rumbled1930

damasky1931

pepper-and-salt1940

partihued1959

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > exhibiting variety in appearance > irregular in appearance

patched1447

shredden1581

patchy1583

of shreds (and patches)1604

patchwork1634

patched work1716

desultory1842

unpatterned1842

patchworky1845

patchworked1873

splashy1880

spotty1881

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. x. 95 We shall no longer wonder at the motly patchwork laws of some governments.

1713 J. Gay in Guardian 1 Sept. 2/1 What Horace [Ars Poet. ll. 15–16] says of his Patch work Poets, Purpureus late qui splendeat unus & Alter Assuitur Pannus—.

1814 Monthly Rev. 78 463 Those second-hand minds and patchwork intellects.

1833 Ld. Broughton in Lady Dorchester Recoll. Long Life (1910) IV. xiv. 304 The breaking up of this Administration would probably bring about a patchwork Government.

1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 420 The patchwork rubric of the English church.

1956 H. J. Paton in H. D. Lewis Contemp. Brit. Philos. 3rd Ser. 348 I never had any use for the patchwork theory popular at that time.

2002 Q July 33/2 (advt.) ‘20-20’ is a patchwork collection of various singles and leftovers from past projects.

Compounds

patchwork-covered adj.

ΚΠ

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xxix, in All Year Round 30 Mar. 1/2 His patchwork-covered bed was in a little inner division or recess.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 234 Spread with clean calico and adorned with patchwork-covered pillows.

2002 Women's Wear Daily (Nexis) 12 Sept. 6 Sitting on a patchwork-covered couch in the south London house she decorated with her husband.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

patchworkv.

Brit.

/ˈpatʃwəːk/, U.S.

/ˈpætʃˌwərk/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: patchwork n.

Etymology: < patchwork n. Compare earlier patchworked adj., patchworker n.

1. transitive. To adorn or variegate (a landscape, etc.) with areas of contrasting colour or appearance. Only in passive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > variegate [verb (transitive)]

chequer?a1400

fleckc1430

engrail1483

shoot1532

begary1538

intermingle1553

enchase1590

diaper1592

sinew1592

motley1602

intercolour1607

damask1610

particolour1610

inshade1613

freta1616

enamel1650

discolour1656

variegatea1728

jasper1799

intershoot1845

patchwork1853

pattern1898

strand1914

harlequin-

1853 Househ. Words 12 Mar. 28/1 A large sheet of tissue paper,..patchworked outside with postage marks of continental frontiers and government stamps.

1896 Temple Bar June 215 The island..patch-worked with green fields on a brown moorland ground.

1944 D. Stewart in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 169 The ragged country,..patchworked with leaden tea-tree and an occasional acre of ploughed land.

1988 Washington Post 5 Nov. e24/1 Croom is still a bucolic and simple area, patchworked with wooded glens and tobacco fields.

2. transitive. To make a patchwork of; to assemble haphazardly, to cobble together.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > patch together

patcha1529

to shuffle up1532

rash1570

bepiece1578

cobble1589

consarcinate1610

to clap upa1616

clap1649

to knock up1683

patchwork1856

to fadge up1863

to knock together1874

fake1879

1856 Spectator 22 Nov. 1239/2 A collection of studies..may be ingeniously patchworked into a cleverly-devised frame.

1941 Punch 17 Sept. 246/1 Walt Disney is developing a taste for the simplest method of making a feature-length film: patchworking all the fragments that happen to be about.

1978 A. S. Byatt Virgin in Garden xiv. 145 He had no knowledge of other texts from which Simmonds had patchworked his theory of the universe.

1995 Appl. Linguistics 16 467 The student has patchworked material from Buck (1980) and from Ekman and Oster (1979) without any attempt to link the two with her own words.

3. intransitive. To create a patchwork by assembling pieces of fabric. Cf. patchworker n.

ΚΠ

1972 R. Godden Diddakoi vii. 139 Lots of our mothers patchworked to make the quilts.

2001 Progress Press (Austral.) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 6 A group of women have spent endless hours stitching, embroidering and patchworking.

Derivatives

ˈpatchworking n. the sewing of a patchwork; patchwork itself (also figurative).

ΚΠ

1978 Washington Post 1 Oct. h3/2 The patchworking, which is essentially a cut-and-paste job, makes a warm and homey heirloom out of a basic wooden box.

1995 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 24 363 The politics of cultural identity and ideological factors inform..the..‘patchworking’..and deployment of resources among household members.

2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 Sept. 32 The ultimate oversized carry-all in pretty patchworking.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	patchwork
释义	patchworkn.adj. Brit. /ˈpatʃwəːk/, U.S. /ˈpætʃˌwərk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: patch n.¹, work n. Etymology: < patch n.¹ + work n. Compare earlier patchment n., compatchment n. A. n. 1. a. Something composed of many different pieces or elements, esp. when put together in a makeshift or incongruous way; a medley or jumble. Now usually taken as a figurative use of sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ 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 1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn sig. A4 It cannot be expected they should have any effect for common Good, at best, but Patch-work. 1739 Hist. Wks. Learned I. 103 He that thinks the Iliad and Odysses the Patchwork of a Beggar's Rhapsodies. 1857 F. Locker London Life 20 Life is chequer'd, a patchwork of smiles and of frowns. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. viii. lxxiv. 211 This imperfectly-taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork. 1920 19th Cent. Dec. 942 A tuchun..will address the foreigner in a patchwork of stilted literary phrases jumbled together. 1988 M. Seymour Ring of Conspirators i. 41 Crane's stories..were an impenetrable patchwork of truth and fantasy. b. The work of patching something up, repair work. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > with a patch clouting1382 piecing1395 vampeying1416 patching1445 vamping1599 patchwork1712 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 Dec. (1948) II. 580 I should ruin my self with endeavoring to mend them..and I have been too much engaged in Patch-work already. 1979 B. M. Gill Death Drop x. 154 Some neat and discreet patchwork over the cracks should restore the fabric of the school. 2. a. spec. A type of needlework in which small pieces of fabric, differing in colour and pattern, and sometimes in size and shape, are sewn together to form one article; an example of this.crazy patchwork: see crazy adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > patchwork patchwork1703 1703 Country Farmer's Catech. in J. O. Halliwell & T. Wright Nares's Gloss. (1867) II. 488/2 Not to spend their time in knit-knots, patch-work, fine twilights. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vi. 109 My Clothes..looked like the Patch-Work made by the Ladies in England. 1772 A. G. Winslow Diary 62 I exchanged a piece of patchwork..for a pair of curious lace mitts with blue flaps. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. iv. 153 Every woman..wore pockets..fashioned with patch-work into many curious devices. 1872 G. MacDonald Wilfrid Cumbermede I. iii. 17 The bed was covered with an equally charming counterpane of silk patchwork. 1931 R. S. McKim One Hundred & One Patchwork Patterns 84/1 Shoo fly is one of the simplest of old-fashioned patchworks. 1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 30/3 The patchwork could either be hand-appliquéd or tacked and machine-stitched to the backing fabric. b. A surface divided into many small areas of varying shapes and colours. Frequently (with of) applied to the ground as seen from an aerial position. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > types of terrain patchwork1865 Mound Region1873 boulder-flat1884 karrenfeld1885 boulder-belt1894 karst land1894 karst1902 felsenmeer1905 stone-field1906 staircasing1911 fundament1928 strewn field1937 thermokarst1943 patterned ground1950 pseudokarst1954 tower karst1954 tektite field1960 stone pavement1969 1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 243 The picturesque patchwork of Devonshire verdure. 1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve xii A patchwork of fields spread out and ran down to the cliffs. 1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird vii. 89 A tropical patchwork of white beach and water and mangrove swamp. 2000 Explore Worldwide Brochure 2001/2002 60/4 A patchwork of small villages, paddy fields, and ghats unfurls before our eyes. 3. Mining. In Wales: an area of numerous discrete opencast excavations. Now rare. ΚΠ 1897 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 8 177 The ironstones were formerly dug out in extensive open-air workings [in South Wales] known as ‘patchworks’. 1900 A. Strahan & W. Gibson Geol. S. Wales Coal-field ii. v. 50 The gentle dip and long slopes cause the outcrops to be widely spaced out and keep each bed near the surface for a long distance, and thus have led to a great development of the system of open-air working known as ‘patchwork’. B. adj. (attributive). 1. Made out of patchwork (sense A. 2a), esp. in patchwork cushion, patchwork quilt; put together from patches. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > patchwork patchwork1711 patchworked1803 piecework1842 Resht1883 1711 E. Freke Diary 16 Oct. in Jrnl. Cork Hist & Archaeol. (1912) 18 204 New Patchwork Couchin, given mee. 1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iii, in New Monthly Mag. 60 393 No patchwork quilt, all seams and scars. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 139 There was the old patch-work counterpane. 1907 St. Nicholas July 832/1 In a short time our patchwork flag was put together. 1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. viii. 33 Life was fine With two in a bed and patchwork cushions And checks and tassels on the washing-line. 1990 Daily Mail: Creating Perfect Home No. 4. 10/4 Patchwork cushions and bedspreads are pretty as well as practical. 2. figurative. Composed of miscellaneous pieces or elements; made up of odds and ends. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] fawa700 medleyc1350 freckledc1380 motleyc1380 pied1382 specked1382 vary1382 partyc1385 parted1393 peckleda1400 polymitec1425 sere-colouredc1425 vairc1425 discoloured?1440 motleyed1447 varying1488 sheld1507 fleckered1508 piet1508 mellay1515 particoloured1530 pickled1552 varied1578 mingled1580 partly coloured1582 chequered1592 medley-coloured1593 mingle-coloured1593 piebald1594 feathered1610 changeable1612 particolour1612 enamelled1613 variousa1618 pie-coloured1619 jaspered1620 gangean1623 versicolour1628 patchwork1634 damasked1648 variously-coloureda1660 variegateda1661 agated1665 varicoloured1665 damaska1674 various-coloureda1711 pieted1721 versicoloured1721 diversicoloured1756 mosaic1776 harlequin1779 spanged1788 calico1807 piety1811 varied-coloured1811 discolorate1826 heterochromous1842 jaspé1851 discolor1859 discolorous1860 jasperoid1876 damascened1879 heterochromatic1895 variotinted1903 batik1914 varihued1921 rumbled1930 damasky1931 pepper-and-salt1940 partihued1959 the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > exhibiting variety in appearance > irregular in appearance patched1447 shredden1581 patchy1583 of shreds (and patches)1604 patchwork1634 patched work1716 desultory1842 unpatterned1842 patchworky1845 patchworked1873 splashy1880 spotty1881 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. x. 95 We shall no longer wonder at the motly patchwork laws of some governments. 1713 J. Gay in Guardian 1 Sept. 2/1 What Horace [Ars Poet. ll. 15–16] says of his Patch work Poets, Purpureus late qui splendeat unus & Alter Assuitur Pannus—. 1814 Monthly Rev. 78 463 Those second-hand minds and patchwork intellects. 1833 Ld. Broughton in Lady Dorchester Recoll. Long Life (1910) IV. xiv. 304 The breaking up of this Administration would probably bring about a patchwork Government. 1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 420 The patchwork rubric of the English church. 1956 H. J. Paton in H. D. Lewis Contemp. Brit. Philos. 3rd Ser. 348 I never had any use for the patchwork theory popular at that time. 2002 Q July 33/2 (advt.) ‘20-20’ is a patchwork collection of various singles and leftovers from past projects. Compounds patchwork-covered adj. ΚΠ 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xxix, in All Year Round 30 Mar. 1/2 His patchwork-covered bed was in a little inner division or recess. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 234 Spread with clean calico and adorned with patchwork-covered pillows. 2002 Women's Wear Daily (Nexis) 12 Sept. 6 Sitting on a patchwork-covered couch in the south London house she decorated with her husband. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). patchworkv. Brit. /ˈpatʃwəːk/, U.S. /ˈpætʃˌwərk/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: patchwork n. Etymology: < patchwork n. Compare earlier patchworked adj., patchworker n. 1. transitive. To adorn or variegate (a landscape, etc.) with areas of contrasting colour or appearance. Only in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > variegate [verb (transitive)] chequer?a1400 fleckc1430 engrail1483 shoot1532 begary1538 intermingle1553 enchase1590 diaper1592 sinew1592 motley1602 intercolour1607 damask1610 particolour1610 inshade1613 freta1616 enamel1650 discolour1656 variegatea1728 jasper1799 intershoot1845 patchwork1853 pattern1898 strand1914 harlequin- 1853 Househ. Words 12 Mar. 28/1 A large sheet of tissue paper,..patchworked outside with postage marks of continental frontiers and government stamps. 1896 Temple Bar June 215 The island..patch-worked with green fields on a brown moorland ground. 1944 D. Stewart in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 169 The ragged country,..patchworked with leaden tea-tree and an occasional acre of ploughed land. 1988 Washington Post 5 Nov. e24/1 Croom is still a bucolic and simple area, patchworked with wooded glens and tobacco fields. 2. transitive. To make a patchwork of; to assemble haphazardly, to cobble together. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > patch together patcha1529 to shuffle up1532 rash1570 bepiece1578 cobble1589 consarcinate1610 to clap upa1616 clap1649 to knock up1683 patchwork1856 to fadge up1863 to knock together1874 fake1879 1856 Spectator 22 Nov. 1239/2 A collection of studies..may be ingeniously patchworked into a cleverly-devised frame. 1941 Punch 17 Sept. 246/1 Walt Disney is developing a taste for the simplest method of making a feature-length film: patchworking all the fragments that happen to be about. 1978 A. S. Byatt Virgin in Garden xiv. 145 He had no knowledge of other texts from which Simmonds had patchworked his theory of the universe. 1995 Appl. Linguistics 16 467 The student has patchworked material from Buck (1980) and from Ekman and Oster (1979) without any attempt to link the two with her own words. 3. intransitive. To create a patchwork by assembling pieces of fabric. Cf. patchworker n. ΚΠ 1972 R. Godden Diddakoi vii. 139 Lots of our mothers patchworked to make the quilts. 2001 Progress Press (Austral.) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 6 A group of women have spent endless hours stitching, embroidering and patchworking. Derivatives ˈpatchworking n. the sewing of a patchwork; patchwork itself (also figurative). ΚΠ 1978 Washington Post 1 Oct. h3/2 The patchworking, which is essentially a cut-and-paste job, makes a warm and homey heirloom out of a basic wooden box. 1995 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 24 363 The politics of cultural identity and ideological factors inform..the..‘patchworking’..and deployment of resources among household members. 2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 Sept. 32 The ultimate oversized carry-all in pretty patchworking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1634v.1853
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