单词 | beefeater |
释义 | beefeatern. 1. An eater of beef; contemptuously, a well-fed menial. (Properly with hyphen, beef-eater.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > oaths other than religious or obscene tega1529 porkling1541 goodyear1579 dogfish1589 rope1598 beefeater1610 mutton-monger1620 fish-facea1625 bacon-picker1653 thunder1709 thunderation1836 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > flesh- or meat-eater > spec beef beefeater1610 1610 Histrio-mastix iii. 99 Awake yee drowsie drones That long have suckt the honney from my hives: Begone yee greedy beefe-eaters y'are best. a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) ix. 109 We conquered France, more by such factions & ambitious assistances, than by any odds of our Bows, or Beef-eaters, as the French were then scornfully pleas'd to terme us. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 516 Amongst immortal gluttons, Hercules (βουϕάγος) the beef-eater was chief. 2. a. Popular appellation of the Yeomen of the Guard, in the household of the Sovereign of Great Britain, instituted at the accession of Henry VII in 1485; also of the Warders of the Tower of London, who were named Yeomen Extraordinary of the Guard in the reign of Edward VI, and wear the same antique uniform as the ‘Beefeaters of the Guard’. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > lifeguard or bodyguard > [noun] > specific Yeoman of the Guard1485 solak1520 janissary1529 Mameluke1531 praetorian1592 trabant1617 beefeater1671 bostangi1686 mousquetaire1706 drabant1707 protector1781 Varangian1788 Papal Zouave1864 greenfinch1865 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard > warder of Tower of London Extraordinary Yeoman1485 waiter1551 warder1679–88 beefeater1864 1671 J. Crowne Juliana iv. 44 The Beef-eaters o' the Guard. 1671 J. Crowne Juliana iv. 44 You Beef-eater, you saucy Cur? 1736 H. Fielding Pasquin ii. 19 Is not there a sort of Employment, Sir, call'd—Beef-Eating? If your Lordship please to make me a Beef-Eater. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic (1883) iii. i. 175 Enter Beef-eater, with his halbert. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 293 Without some better protection than that of the trainbands and beefeaters. 1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 63 The Beefeaters at the Tower wear the costume of Henry VIIth's body-guard. b. A style of hat worn by women, resembling that worn by a Yeoman of the Guard. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > tall > other steeple-crown1684 beefeater1785 Robin Hood hat1855 chef's hat1892 Robin Hood1960 toque1966 1785 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) ii. 59 Hats tied under the chin, beefeaters etc are not worn by fashionable people. 1895 Daily News 3 Sept. 6/3 The black straw sailor hat, with Beefeater crown. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 5/2 A style of hat which was a favourite with us a year or two ago—viz., a velvet beefeater—has been brought in again. 3. Ornithology. A genus of African birds ( Buphaga), called also Ox-peckers, allied to the Starling family, which live chiefly on parasitic larvæ hatched under the skin of cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Buphagus (ox-pecker) rhinoceros bird1822 beefeater1836 oxpecker1837 tick-bird1850 buffalo-bird1857 ox-biter1885 tick-eater1903 cow-picker1915 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 22 The Beef-eater..or Pique-bœuf..digs and squeezes out with his forceps of a beak the larva that lies festering under the tough hide of the quadruped. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1610 |
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