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单词 pogo
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pogon.

Brit. /ˈpəʊɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊɡoʊ/
Forms: also with capital initial
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.Probably not related to Orkney Scots pogo a type of child's toy made out of feathers (which is itself of uncertain origin); compare:1929 H. Marwick Orkney Norn 133/1 Pogo, a child's toy; made by tying together centrally the quill ends of a number of feathers and letting the tips radiate out in all directions so that it always rested on feather-tips however it was laid down. On a breezy day this would go careering before the wind at a great pace and provided infinite amusement.The place and circumstances of the origin of the device itself are also uncertain: some contemporary U.S. sources suggest a British origin, but even this much is not certain.
1. A recreational device on which a person can jump about for exercise or amusement, consisting of a long spring-loaded metal pole with a grip or handlebars at the top and rests for the feet near the bottom; more fully pogo stick. Occasionally also: the pastime of jumping on this.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [noun]
swinging1610
shuggie-shue1653
bilboquet1743
kite-flying1804
cup and ball1836
kittly-benders1854
cakewalk1863
mudlarking1888
pogo1921
pogoing1921
yo-yo1932
waterball1950
laugher1973
karaoke1977
bouncy castle1986
paintball1987
bouncing castle1988
paintballing1989
zorbing1996
1921 Glasgow Herald 30 Aug. 7 What is a Pogo? It is a four-foot pole, hollowed at the foot for the insertion of a strong spring, with a rubber cushion at the end of it. About half a foot above the spring are two steps.
1921 Punch 21 Sept. 225/1 Charlie Chaplin intends to give a ‘Pogo’ to each of the children who are now attending his old schools.
1921 Oxf. Times 11 Nov. 16/4 On Thursday afternoon two undergraduates were seen racing along Cornmarket Street on Pogo sticks.
1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 3315/1 To maintain his balance the exponent of pogo has to keep moving, and looks rather like a kangaroo.
1958 Daily Mail 8 July 6/4 On stilts and pogo sticks (their latest craze).
1962 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. 25 The so-called independent or swing voters who bounced across voting machines in a pattern similar to that of a small boy on a pogo stick.
1973 Nature 30 Nov. 313/1 The hopping of kangaroos is reminiscent of a bouncing ball or the action of a pogo stick.
1993 New Scientist 6 Mar. 84/3 Hopping on pogo sticks..is much easier on the knees than a skipping rope or jogging.
2. A punk rock dance, whose movements are suggestive of jumping on a pogo stick. (Cf. earlier pogo-dancing at Compounds 1b).
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun]
mashed potato1747
bunny hug1912
chicken scratch1912
bunny-hugging1916
jazz1919
black bottom1925
shuffle1925
Mess Around1926
snake hips1933
Susie-Q1936
Lambeth Walk1937
bunny hop1938
bop1956
pony1961
Watusi1961
locomotion1962
mash potato1962
frug1964
hully gully1964
dancercise1967
pogo1977
moonwalking1980
slam dance1981
slam dancing1981
body-popping1982
b-boying1984
mosh1985
moshing1987
1977 Kensington Post 18 Mar. 15/3 When they go out dancing they [sc. Punk Rockers] terrify the uninitiated with a dance called the ‘Pogo’—where they just jump up and down on the same spot.
1978 New Society 19 Jan. 115/2 The wildly exuberant punk dance—the pogo—..derives from the celebratory ‘knees-up’ of the football terraces. Basically, the participants leap up and down, two-footed, some of them alone, more in two or threes.
1987 Q Oct. 95/2 For those ageing spiketops..this LP would provide as good an excuse as any for a 10th anniversary pogo.
1996 Independent on Sunday 4 Feb. (Real Lives section) 4/7 No wonder that the punk dance, the pogo, originated in London. Jumping on the spot is all there's room to do.
2005 Times (Nexis) 18 June Grab your partner by the hair, punch him in the face like you just don't care! This traditional pas de deux, blending aspects of the mosh and the pogo,..is destined to be huge in the Spanish resorts.. this summer.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive in sense 1, as pogo carnival, pogo club, pogo hop, pogo-player, etc.
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1921 Glasgow Herald 30 Aug. 7 On the Continent there are Pogo clubs, which conduct Pogo carnivals where the principal items are the high and the long jumps.
1924 Punch 24 Sept. 338 A dozen well-mounted pogo-players.
1994 B. Sterling Heavy Weather 95 The amputated twister, stranded in midair, took a great pogo hop forward, centering itself under the cloud again.
b. With reference to punk rock (see sense 2), as pogo dance, pogo-dancing, etc.
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1977 Zigzag Mar. 8/1 I've never subscribed to the theory that up to the age of thirty it was all pogo dancing down the Roxy.
1977 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. ii. 16/2 Vicious, a friend of Rotten's and the inventor..of the London punks' hopping ‘pogo’ dance.
1977 Times 14 Dec. 11 The Clash still play the driving, relentless songs that forced the invention of the pogo-dance.
1998 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 10 May 99 The crowd indulged in a communal pogo dance.
1999 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 7 Apr. (Entertainment section) 63 A concert with screaming fans, raised arms, pogo-dancing.
C2. Astronautics. Denoting (the effects of) low-frequency longitudinal oscillations of a spacecraft, generated or amplified by motion of on-board fluid.
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [adjective] > type of oscillation
pogo1964
1964 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 10/1 Probably the biggest problem encountered in Gemini development so far has been the excessive vertical oscillations of earlier Titan II's. This ‘pogo effect’ was deemed so great that it would blur the vision of astronauts in the critical stages of flight.
1971 Nature 10 Dec. 316/2 The Diamant B [booster rocket] has been used successfully on three previous occasions, but a strong vibrational ‘pogo effect’ was noticed.
1976 G. P. Sutton & D. M. Ross Rocket Propulsion Elements (ed. 4) viii. 259 Techniques for damping Pogo instability tendency include..properly designed engine, interstage, and payload support structures.
2000 Aerospace Daily (Nexis) 10 Oct. 53 Issues with an external tank attach bolt and a pogo suppression valve in the main engine fuel system were settled over the weekend.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pogov.

Brit. /ˈpəʊɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊɡoʊ/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pogo n.
Etymology: < pogo n.
1.
a. intransitive. To jump up and down on or as on a pogo stick.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [verb (intransitive)]
wawc1440
swing1662
quizc1790
sea-bathe1792
mudlark1870
pogo1921
yo-yo1932
to jump rope1934
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [verb (transitive)]
swing1615
hurl1893
pogo1921
1921 Glasgow Herald 30 Aug. 7 To Pogo you place one foot on each step, clutch the top of the pole firmly in both hands, and hop.
1987 Time (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Scorecard section) 9 He says his ‘sport’ is good exercise and a lot of fun—except when your stick gets stuck. This happened often..when Furman pogoed for..3 hours and 40 minutes in the clay-bottomed Amazon River.
2004 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 24 Dec. It had been years since I last pogoed, so I was quite surprised when the Post asked me to test-drive the new Flybar 1200, a supersonic pogo stick.
b. intransitive. To perform a pogo dance.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [verb (intransitive)]
truck1937
pogo1977
1977 New Wave Mag. No. 7. 3 They just arrived and pogoed through the front door.
1991 New Musical Express (BNC) 16 Mar. 6 Wayne..is pogoing furiously behind his keyboards , like someone at a Members gig in 1978.
1995 Face Jan. 90/2 From the first, unexpectedly fiery chords of the first song, they're pogoing, screaming, singing, shouting requests.
2. transitive. To cross on or as on a pogo stick. rare.
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1921 Punch 21 Sept. 225/1 Three men..expressed their intention of ‘Pogoing’ the Channel.
1921 Punch 21 Sept. 225/1 A small girl has ‘pogo-ed’ five hundred miles.

Derivatives

ˈpogoer n.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [noun] > dancer
pogoer1977
1977 Sniffin' Glue Aug. 11/2 He changed the words to tell the posy pogoers they're only here for the fancy dress party.
1999 Times Union (Nexis) 19 May b9 Eight women in sequined sports bras and hot-pink miniskirts bouncing around on pogo sticks... The pogoers do no more than that—bounce, bounce, bounce.
2000 Guardian 29 Sept. (Friday Review section) 4/1 After 33 minutes, the band walked off and the pogoers shouted after them: ‘Plastic punks!’
ˈpogoing n. and adj.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [noun]
swinging1610
shuggie-shue1653
bilboquet1743
kite-flying1804
cup and ball1836
kittly-benders1854
cakewalk1863
mudlarking1888
pogo1921
pogoing1921
yo-yo1932
waterball1950
laugher1973
karaoke1977
bouncy castle1986
paintball1987
bouncing castle1988
paintballing1989
zorbing1996
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [noun]
pogoing1921
truck1935
trucking1935
jerk1964
bump1967
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [adjective]
pogoing1921
1921 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 24 Sept. (caption) The new sport fad of English society is ‘pogo-ing’.
1977 Oxf. Times 30 Sept. (City ed.) 16 The dancers at the front jumping up and down on one leg (they call it pogoing, m'dear).
1977 L. Bangs in G. Marcus Psychotic Reactions (1987) 229 When I got to the gig I pushed my way down through the pogoing masses.
1995 Mojo Jan. 117/1 The bootleg Velvets EP Foggy Notion, which..was hardly in itself responsible for gobbing, spiky haircuts and pogoing.
2005 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 10 Jan. (World section) 9 Nicholas' feet are blistered after a week of pogoing. But the nine-year-old has vowed to spend every day of the school holidays on his pogo.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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