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单词 pocky
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pockyn.

Brit. /ˈpɒki/, U.S. /ˈpɑki/, Scottish English /ˈpɔkɪ/
Forms: 1800s pokky, 1800s– pockie, 1800s– pocky, 1900s– pjoki, 1900s– poki, 1900s– pokie.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke n.1, -y suffix6.
Etymology: < poke n.1 (compare Scots forms at that entry) + -y suffix6. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (po·ki) /ˈpəʊkɪ/.
Scottish (chiefly Orkney and Shetland).
A small bag; (now) esp. a paper or plastic bag as used in shops.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > shopping-bag
shopping bag1849
pocky1880
shopping net1890
shopper1962
packet1977
1880 W. T. Dennison Orcadian Sketch-bk. 97 Rob wus bit ower like a bockie In a ill apshakin pockie.
1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xx. 190 There's the pocky..ye gae me to keep the sewin' things in.
1917 A. S. Neill Dominie Dismissed iv. 54 They used to hide their packets in every corner of it [sc. my desk], then they would come to me and say: ‘Please, sir, my pockie is in the wee corner on the right.’
1976 R. Bulter Shaela 5 If wir aald fok could see wis, dey wid tink wis faa'n füls, Buyin soup attae a pocky.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pockyadj.1adv.

Brit. /ˈpɒki/, U.S. /ˈpɑki/
Forms: see pock n.1 and -y suffix1; also Middle English polky (transmission error).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pock n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < pock n.1 + -y suffix1.
1.
a. Full of or marked with pocks or pustules; pitted; spec. infected with the pox, usually syphilis (now historical).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis > infected with
pockyc1350
French-sick1605
Frenchified1607
pock-rotten1616
poxed1678
Gallican1694
syphilitic1787
pox-fouleda1915
c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 8* F[emme]. ad face verolee, W[oman]. hath face polky [read pokky].
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 286 Pokky, porriginosus.
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Gviijv Oure fayre yong doughter was sent to the old pockye kynge of fraunce, the yere before oure mortall enemye.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xlvijv The Dutchmen..spake shamefully of this mariage, that a feble old & pocky man should mary so fayre a lady.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 450 Under colour of giving physicke to their pockie patients.
1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. viii. 21 Ha' ye sent the pocky Doctor and the plaguy 'Pothecary to a Justice o' Peace to be examin'd?
1687 T. Brockbank Jrnl. Dec. (1930) 6 He took his Mother about ye neck wth his pocky arm, and Kist her wth his scabbed lips.
1730 J. Swift Lady's Dressing-room 134 To him that looks behind the scene, Statira's but some pocky queen.
1794 Safe-conduct Territories Republic of Venus iii. 165 No doubt Moses had plenty of pocky, as well as mangy patients, among that hopeful banditti.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 601 (note) A healthy wet nurse, getting a sore nipple, in consequence of suckling a pocky child..will communicate the disease to the Fœtus.
1968 H. Kenner Counterfeiters i. 34 When this was written Gulliver's account of the pocky breasts of court ladies had been in the poet's memory some sixteen years.
1998 H. Mantel Giant, O'Brien vii. 85 He inoculates a pocky pauper with matter from another person's chancre, and is interested to find that chancres form.
2005 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 10 Apr. 31 Daniel Craig has ginger hair, pocky skin and is what can only be described as ‘craggy’.
b. Chiefly colloquial. Contemptible, worthless, poor. Also as an intensifier (also as adv.). Cf. lousy adj. 2, mangy adj. 3, poxy adj.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme > specifically of something bad or reprobated
woefula1400
mortalc1425
preciousc1475
fine1559
trim1569
gay1581
unconscionable1590
pocky1601
abominable1612
fearful1634
handsome1638
plaguey1694
dreadful1700
awfy1724
murrain1728
diabolical1750
deuced1782
dire1836
sinful1863
sodding1881
blooming1882
flaming1895
ruddy1896
abysmal1904
awful1916
hellishing1927
right1958
steaming1962
schwag1993
1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 79 Were not this pockie good stuffe..to pester your Pulpit withall?
1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. C3 As for curing of the Pockes, it serues for that vse but among the pockie Indian slaues.
1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd iii. sig. H4v Plaguie boy, he sooths his humour? these french villaines ha pockie wits. View more context for this quotation
1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant iv. i. 47 But that's his pocky humour.
1733 Grub-St. Jrnl. 29 Nov. 1/1 Our newspapers are filled with pocky advertisements.
1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. v. 62 You're from Feladelphy—what a pocky tarnal great place that must be! by all accounts.
1940 K. Roberts Oliver Wiswell xcvi. 823 They gave him less than one eighth of their quotas! And to get even that little measly, pocky eighth, the states had to [etc.].
1984 S. Moore Paths of Fortune 73 ‘Never seen such a pocky choice,’ muttered Rowley.
2. Relating to or of the nature of a pock or pustule, or the pox (usually syphilis, occasionally smallpox); syphilitic, variolous. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis
pocky?1550
Neapolitan1591
syphilitic1764
syphiloid1813
luodic1822
vaccino-syphilitic1868
neurosyphilitic1877
parasyphilitic1889
?1550 T. Becon Jewel of Joye sig. Siiiiv To heale all those pockye diseases wherwt your soules are infected.
a1555 J. Bradford in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xlv. 135 With theyr Pockeye Plasteres, and Sores.
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram ix. sig. A8 But neuer in like pockie heate before.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xviii. 129 Mercurial Ointment is good for lameness and pocky biles.
1701 J. Harvey Scelera Aquarum Pref. Their Nature being better understood, a priori from the Knowledge of their Causes, both Scorbutick and Pocky Complications.
1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 504 A pledgit dipp'd in the pocky matter was applied to the excoriated part.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 638 The pocky itch is so denominated from the resemblance of the pustules to minute small-pox.
1843 T. Watson Lect. Physic II. lxxxix. 781 This has needlessly been made a separate species of itch, scabies purulenta, pocky itch.
1964 Listener 30 Apr. 730/3 Scholars don't regard their function this quarter-centennial year as involving..scratching pocky boils.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pockyadj.2

Brit. /ˈpɒki/, U.S. /ˈpɑki/, Scottish English /ˈpɔkɪ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English pock , poke n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < pock, Scots variant of poke n.1 + -y suffix1.
Originally Scottish regional (Orkney).
Designating a form of cloud, esp. cumulus, having rounded festoons on its undersurface.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adjective] > other specific shapes or formations
wavy1796
comoid1818
volumy1827
stratiform1843
pocky1862
noctilucent1910
1862 C. Clouston in A. Mitchell Pop. Weather Progn. Scotl. 15 I first observed this kind of cloud (cumulous-like festoons of drapery) on 5th March 1822... When properly developed, it was always followed by a storm or gale within twenty-four hours. It is called ‘Pocky cloud’ by our [Orkney] sailors.
1894 Times 18 Apr. 4/7Pocky cloud’ was seen over London at about 9 20 a.m. moving from south.
1902 Geogr. Jrnl. 20 432 The black ‘cauliflower’ cloud, reminiscent of the mammary or ‘pocky’ cloud of Clouston.
1968 K. J. Shapiro Selected Poems 318 The pocky cloud mammato-cumulus comes on.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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