单词 | pitchering |
释义 | pitcheringn.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > [noun] > from a pitcher pitchering1820 1820 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. 109 A job compared to which the water pitcherings of the Danaides were hopeful. 2. English regional (northern, esp. Yorkshire). Money with which to buy beer, demanded from a man seen out courting (also in plural). Also: the custom of demanding such money, practised esp. as a means of sanctioning the relationship in the local community. Cf. pitcher v. Now historical. ΚΠ 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 385 When any young men meet with an acquaintance in company with his sweetheart, they put in their claim for ‘pitcherings’..and the courtship is ever afterwards duly recognized. 1868 Times 24 Dec. 10/5 For the defence it was suggested that in Bradford there was a custom called ‘pitchering’ which is that if two or three men see a man and a woman together they ask the man for money. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 96/2 Pitchering, a toll demanded of sweethearts with which to buy beer. 1991 J. Howe tr. F. Barret-Ducrocq Love in Time of Victoria 86 In more remote rural societies the ritual was even more complex:..the public exchange of presents; sometimes pitchering, which gave public recognition to pre-nuptial concubinage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1820 |
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