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单词 picador
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picadorn.

Brit. /ˈpɪkədɔː/, U.S. /ˈpɪkəˌdɔr/
Inflections: Plural picadors, (irregular) picadores.
Forms: 1700s– picador, 1900s– picadoro (irregular).
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish picador.
Etymology: Apparently < Spanish picador (although this is apparently not attested in the bullfighting sense until later: 1820; 1598 or earlier in sense ‘horse trainer’) < picar to prick, pierce (see pick v.1) + -ador -ator suffix. Compare French picador (1776 in a translation of the source cited in quot. 1775 at sense 1), Portuguese picador (1620).Figurative use (compare sense 2) is apparently not recorded in dictionaries of Spanish. In plural form picadores after the Spanish plural form. N.E.D. (1906) gives a pronunciation with stress on the third syllable.
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.
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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.
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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).
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