单词 | pig-stick |
释义 | pig-stickn. Now rare. An instance of pig-sticking; a wild-boar hunt. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > pigs pig hunting1631 boar-hunting1770 pig-hunt1793 pig-sticking1833 boar-hunt1843 pig-stick1906 1906 Westm. Gaz. 13 July 2/1 Pickle meanwhile was having a pig-stick on the sands, with Floss in the rôle of pig. 1930 Time & Tide 14 Feb. 206/2 The Master of the pig-stick had a face and a temper as scarlet as paprika. 1990 Sunday Tel. 28 Oct. (Review section) p. xi/7 An Indian view of the Raj which is shorn of tiger-skins and pig-sticks, of the toys, jewels, frivolities of the lives of our ancestors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pig-stickv. 1. intransitive. To participate in pig-sticking. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > hunt specific animal [verb (intransitive)] > hunt pigs stick1820 pig hunt1845 pig-stick1877 1877 Land & Water 6 Jan. 18/2 To pig-stick, or hunt the wild boar, armed with a hog-spear or lance, is, I believe, a sport essentially and exclusively belonging to India. 1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night 74 Animals who stand on one hind leg and beckon with all the rest, or try to pigstick in harness. 1907 F. Campbell Shepherd of Stars vii. 84 Do you pig-stick, Miss Pickle? 2. transitive. In extended use: to stab (a person, etc.) as if butchering a pig; to wound mortally. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with sharp weapon woundc760 stickOE snese?c1225 stokea1300 steekc1300 bearc1330 stangc1340 chop1362 broach1377 foinc1380 strikec1390 borea1400 dag?a1400 gorea1400 gridea1400 staira1400 through-girdc1405 thrustc1410 runc1425 to run throughc1425 traversec1425 spitc1430 through-seeka1500 stitch1527 falchiona1529 stab1530 to stab (a person) in1530 stob?1530 rutc1540 rove?c1550 push1551 foxa1566 stoga1572 poniard1593 dirk1599 bestab1600 poach1602 stiletto1613 stocka1640 inrun1653 stoccado1677 dagger1694 whip1699 bayonetc1700 tomahawk1711 stug1722 chiv1725 kittle1786 sabre1790 halberd1825 jab1825 skewer1837 sword1863 poke1866 spear1869 whinger1892 pig-stick1902 shiv1926 1902 Sandusky (Ohio) Star Jrnl. 21 Jan. The young officer scowled at him, with the remark, ‘I will pig stick you!’ 1971 ‘R. Allen’ Suedehead ix, in Compl. Richard Allen (1992) I. 163 A police helmet moved back and forth across Joe's range of vision and he wished he had the guts to pig-stick the copper. 1998 Herald (Glasgow) 19 Nov. 22 The..hereditaries who delight in a last chance to pig-stick the Government before it does away with their voting rights. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1906v.1877 |
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