单词 | picador |
释义 | picadorn. 1. Bullfighting. A person mounted on horseback who goads the bull with a lance, aiming to pierce the neck muscles in order to reduce its strength. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun] > bullfighter > types of toreador1618 matador1681 torero1728 picador1775 banderillero1797 rejoneador1834 tauricide1845 espada1882 lidiador1893 peon1923 pic1925 pic1926 1775 R. Twiss Trav. Portugal & Spain 291 Three men on horseback were to encounter the bull: these are called picadores, jockeys. 1789 tr. J.-F. de Bourgoing Trav. Spain II. 150 The Picadores..open the scene. 1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 771/2 The bull..has to contend first against the picadores, combatants on horseback, who, dressed according to the ancient Spanish manner..wait for him, each being armed with a long lance. 1838 Q. Rev. 62 411 The picador, holding his lance under his right arm, pushes to the right, and pulls his horse to the left; the bull is thus turned from his plunge, and passes on to the next horseman. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 257 The picador prods the bull in the back to weaken him while he is goring the horse. 1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. x. 140 The proud procession of the quadrillas, matadors, banderilleros, picadoros. 1992 N. Stephenson Snow Crash iv. 28 The van takes off like a hormone-pumped bull who has just been nailed in the ass by the barbed probe of a picador. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > person engaged in disputer1434 wrangler1561 debater1594 controvertist1608 disputant1612 controverser1614 controverter1615 controversist1623 disputator1637 polemic1639 disceptator1656 controversialist1658 eristic1659 scaldabancoa1670 fencera1680 controversionalist?1780 digladiator1803 argufier1805 polemist1825 polemicist1864 polemician1871 picador1876 barrack-room lawyer1943 1876 J. Weiss Wit, Humor, & Shakespeare iii. 86 Then there is that picador of a clown, who plants in Malvolio's thin skin a perfect quick-set of barbed quips. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Dec. 19/1 He steps hither and thither..like a literary picador amid a troop of huge, blundering cattle. 1978 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. c3/1 No cow is more sacred than the haute cuisine, but Henri Gault and Christian Millau have made careers as its flamboyant picadors. 1987 D. Ackerman in J. Daynard Place Within (1997) 55 The canyon traps light:..the picadors of light jabbing the horned spray of the Colorado River. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1775 |
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