popgunn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɒpɡʌn/, U.S.

/ˈpɑpˌɡən/

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: potgun n.

Etymology: Apparently < potgun n., with alteration of the first element after pop- comb. form.

A. n.

1. A toy gun which shoots a pellet or cork by suddenly compressing the air behind it. Also: a pea-shooter. Frequently (and in earliest use) figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy weapons > [noun]

poop1489

pellet1553

trunk1553

elder-gun1600

popgun1649

spitter1688

pluff1695

whistling arrowa1718

pea-shooter1782

pea gun1812

detonating ball1814

pea-blower1821

pen-gun1821

pipegun1828

torpedo1831

spring gun1837

putty blower1861

tweaker1862

pluffera1866

bean-shooter1890

putty shooter1896

water pistol1897

stink bomb1915

cap-pistol1920

cap-gun1931

laser gun1961

1649 Mercurius Pragmaticus (for King Charles II) No. 4. sig. D1 They should have been fetch'd off; not like gallant Lockier with a Coach, and a pop-gun.

1662 T. Hobbes Seven Probl. in Tracts (1682) iii. 18 'Tis of the nature of a Pop gun which Children use.

a1668 J. Alleine Alarme to Unconverted Sinners (1672) 134 Wilt thou make light of all the terrours of the law..as if they were but the reports of the childrens pop-guns?

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 46. ¶6 She is a meer Sermon Popgun, repeating and discharging Texts, Proofs [etc.].

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. vi. 47 I value a Pistol, or a Blunderbuss, or any such Thing, no more than a Pop-gun .

1777 E. Montagu Let. 9 July in J. Doran Lady of Last Cent. (1873) 215 The scriblers weekly let fly their pop-guns at the Duchess.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. 283 The trunks were succeeded by pot-guns made with hollow pieces of elder, or of quills... Called also popguns.

1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xv. 136 Just as one pellet in a pop-gun drives out another.

1883 H. Caine Cobwebs Crit. iii. 54 Volleys from the popgun of criticism.

1967 D. Abercrombie Elem. Gen. Phonetics ii. 24 An air-stream mechanism can be compared to a fruit-spray, a Flit gun, a syringe, or a child's pop-gun.

1979 A. Stuart Force Play 54 ‘The male prick’, she announced..‘is a popgun in a nuclear age.’

2004 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 5 Oct. e1 It's like trying to rob somebody with a popgun, but forgetting to even jam the cork into the barrel.

2. depreciative. A small, inefficient, or antiquated firearm. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > small, inefficient, or antiquated gun

potgun1562

pot-cannon1653

popgun1719

gas pipe1867

plinker1960

1719 A. Ramkins Mem. 149 Had they attack'd us when warm'd up with good Liquor, I believe I should have had little regard to those Pop-guns they threatened us with.

1767 C. Lee Let. 16 Aug. in Mem. (1792) 316 The hopes of reducing it with our pop-guns soon appeared vain; it was then seemingly determined to blockade it.

1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 389 I instantly stepped into the next room, to get the old pop-gun there;..my finger was in an instant on the trigger.

1864 in A. Bisset Omitted Chap. Hist. Eng. vi. 376 Cromwell's pop-guns, which I will engage did not kill twenty men during the action [of Dunbar].

1919 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism I. ii. vii. 240 To equip men with pop-guns for a hunting expedition in the jungle.

1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris i. 43 I tried to keep him from going up there on that goddam little popgun... I tried to keep him from going up there on that damn Camel.

2004 Independent (Nexis) 6 Feb. 7 Did the Prime Minister know the 45-minute weapons were, comparatively, popguns of mass destruction?

B. adj.

Of or relating to a popgun; acting like a popgun. Also: suggestive of or resembling a popgun; spec. ineffectual, hit-or-miss. Frequently in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > ineffective

deadc1380

virtuelessa1393

uneffectuous1549

inefficace1570

limping1577

unprevailing1604

inficient1609

weak1609

unofficious1611

penny farthing1615

invalidable1634

invalid1635

unprevalent1640

ineffectible1650

ineffective1651

inefficacious1658

insignificant1661

uneffective1670

popgun1690

foible1715

unefficacious1744

inefficient1750

ineffectual1785

effete1790

foisonlessc1817

puttering1857

non-effective1862

non-efficient1863

shaftless1881

powder puff1911

fouled-up1942

1690 in J. Dryden Don Sebastian (end matter) 133 You the Upper-Tire of Pop-gun Wit..Is all this Crowd barely to see the play, Or is't the Poets Execution day?

a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 17 His merry Postures, and Pop-gun-way of Delivery.

1754 S. Bowden Poems Var. Subj. 90 You may Such idle bullets throw away; For what avails your Pop-gun skill, Your shot may wound—but hers can kill.

1780 S. Johnson Let. 24 Aug. (1992) III. 304 Gentle purges, and slight phlebotomies, are not my favourites, they are popgun batteries, which lose time and effect nothing.

1823 W. Scott Let. 11 Jan. (1934) VII. 309 Bells rung on the true pop-gun principle by the action of air alone.

1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider ix. 87 He had been flogged in boyhood for shooting pop-gun wads into the face of a portrait of the reigning monarch.

1895 Montreal Med. Jrnl. 23 565 The physician without physiology and chemistry..practising a sort of pop-gun pharmacy, hitting now the malady and again the patient, he himself not knowing which.

1947 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 3 Dec. 2/5 With Saint Nick's annual visit only a popgun shot away, Christmas shoppers are scurrying around town.

1968 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 1 (headings) Centers in Slums Offer Legal, Employment Assistance; ‘Outreachers’ Make Rounds. A Popgun Effort, Critics Say.

1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 24 Oct. d1/1 The Rams, shackled all season by a pop-gun offense in a howitzer league, inexplicably scored touchdowns on their first three possessions.

Derivatives

ˈpopgunner n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > small or inefficient gun

popgunner1831

popshooter1845

1831 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 25 The..tag-rag popgunners blazing away at the fieldfares.

1995 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Sept. 16 Sir John should..quietly tiptoe from the hall for the last time while pop-gunners pop-gun their little hearts away.

ˈpopgunnery n. rare

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > use or operation of small arms > [noun] > discharge of pop-gun

popgunnery1845

1845 E. A. Poe in Broadway Jrnl. 1 Mar. 139/2 The lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery.

1997 Phoenix New Times (Nexis) 6 Nov. (heading) Reactionary Pop Gunnery; It's hard to tell the facetious from the straight in the comically martial Starship Troopers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	popgun
释义	popgunn.adj. Brit. /ˈpɒpɡʌn/, U.S. /ˈpɑpˌɡən/ Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: potgun n. Etymology: Apparently < potgun n., with alteration of the first element after pop- comb. form. A. n. 1. A toy gun which shoots a pellet or cork by suddenly compressing the air behind it. Also: a pea-shooter. Frequently (and in earliest use) figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy weapons > [noun] poop1489 pellet1553 trunk1553 elder-gun1600 popgun1649 spitter1688 pluff1695 whistling arrowa1718 pea-shooter1782 pea gun1812 detonating ball1814 pea-blower1821 pen-gun1821 pipegun1828 torpedo1831 spring gun1837 putty blower1861 tweaker1862 pluffera1866 bean-shooter1890 putty shooter1896 water pistol1897 stink bomb1915 cap-pistol1920 cap-gun1931 laser gun1961 1649 Mercurius Pragmaticus (for King Charles II) No. 4. sig. D1 They should have been fetch'd off; not like gallant Lockier with a Coach, and a pop-gun. 1662 T. Hobbes Seven Probl. in Tracts (1682) iii. 18 'Tis of the nature of a Pop gun which Children use. a1668 J. Alleine Alarme to Unconverted Sinners (1672) 134 Wilt thou make light of all the terrours of the law..as if they were but the reports of the childrens pop-guns? 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 46. ¶6 She is a meer Sermon Popgun, repeating and discharging Texts, Proofs [etc.]. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. vi. 47 I value a Pistol, or a Blunderbuss, or any such Thing, no more than a Pop-gun . View more context for this quotation 1777 E. Montagu Let. 9 July in J. Doran Lady of Last Cent. (1873) 215 The scriblers weekly let fly their pop-guns at the Duchess. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. 283 The trunks were succeeded by pot-guns made with hollow pieces of elder, or of quills... Called also popguns. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xv. 136 Just as one pellet in a pop-gun drives out another. 1883 H. Caine Cobwebs Crit. iii. 54 Volleys from the popgun of criticism. 1967 D. Abercrombie Elem. Gen. Phonetics ii. 24 An air-stream mechanism can be compared to a fruit-spray, a Flit gun, a syringe, or a child's pop-gun. 1979 A. Stuart Force Play 54 ‘The male prick’, she announced..‘is a popgun in a nuclear age.’ 2004 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 5 Oct. e1 It's like trying to rob somebody with a popgun, but forgetting to even jam the cork into the barrel. 2. depreciative. A small, inefficient, or antiquated firearm. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > small, inefficient, or antiquated gun potgun1562 pot-cannon1653 popgun1719 gas pipe1867 plinker1960 1719 A. Ramkins Mem. 149 Had they attack'd us when warm'd up with good Liquor, I believe I should have had little regard to those Pop-guns they threatened us with. 1767 C. Lee Let. 16 Aug. in Mem. (1792) 316 The hopes of reducing it with our pop-guns soon appeared vain; it was then seemingly determined to blockade it. 1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 389 I instantly stepped into the next room, to get the old pop-gun there;..my finger was in an instant on the trigger. 1864 in A. Bisset Omitted Chap. Hist. Eng. vi. 376 Cromwell's pop-guns, which I will engage did not kill twenty men during the action [of Dunbar]. 1919 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism I. ii. vii. 240 To equip men with pop-guns for a hunting expedition in the jungle. 1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris i. 43 I tried to keep him from going up there on that goddam little popgun... I tried to keep him from going up there on that damn Camel. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 6 Feb. 7 Did the Prime Minister know the 45-minute weapons were, comparatively, popguns of mass destruction? B. adj. Of or relating to a popgun; acting like a popgun. Also: suggestive of or resembling a popgun; spec. ineffectual, hit-or-miss. Frequently in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > ineffective deadc1380 virtuelessa1393 uneffectuous1549 inefficace1570 limping1577 unprevailing1604 inficient1609 weak1609 unofficious1611 penny farthing1615 invalidable1634 invalid1635 unprevalent1640 ineffectible1650 ineffective1651 inefficacious1658 insignificant1661 uneffective1670 popgun1690 foible1715 unefficacious1744 inefficient1750 ineffectual1785 effete1790 foisonlessc1817 puttering1857 non-effective1862 non-efficient1863 shaftless1881 powder puff1911 fouled-up1942 1690 in J. Dryden Don Sebastian (end matter) 133 You the Upper-Tire of Pop-gun Wit..Is all this Crowd barely to see the play, Or is't the Poets Execution day? a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 17 His merry Postures, and Pop-gun-way of Delivery. 1754 S. Bowden Poems Var. Subj. 90 You may Such idle bullets throw away; For what avails your Pop-gun skill, Your shot may wound—but hers can kill. 1780 S. Johnson Let. 24 Aug. (1992) III. 304 Gentle purges, and slight phlebotomies, are not my favourites, they are popgun batteries, which lose time and effect nothing. 1823 W. Scott Let. 11 Jan. (1934) VII. 309 Bells rung on the true pop-gun principle by the action of air alone. 1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider ix. 87 He had been flogged in boyhood for shooting pop-gun wads into the face of a portrait of the reigning monarch. 1895 Montreal Med. Jrnl. 23 565 The physician without physiology and chemistry..practising a sort of pop-gun pharmacy, hitting now the malady and again the patient, he himself not knowing which. 1947 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 3 Dec. 2/5 With Saint Nick's annual visit only a popgun shot away, Christmas shoppers are scurrying around town. 1968 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 1 (headings) Centers in Slums Offer Legal, Employment Assistance; ‘Outreachers’ Make Rounds. A Popgun Effort, Critics Say. 1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 24 Oct. d1/1 The Rams, shackled all season by a pop-gun offense in a howitzer league, inexplicably scored touchdowns on their first three possessions. Derivatives ˈpopgunner n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > small or inefficient gun popgunner1831 popshooter1845 1831 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 25 The..tag-rag popgunners blazing away at the fieldfares. 1995 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Sept. 16 Sir John should..quietly tiptoe from the hall for the last time while pop-gunners pop-gun their little hearts away. ˈpopgunnery n. rare ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > use or operation of small arms > [noun] > discharge of pop-gun popgunnery1845 1845 E. A. Poe in Broadway Jrnl. 1 Mar. 139/2 The lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery. 1997 Phoenix New Times (Nexis) 6 Nov. (heading) Reactionary Pop Gunnery; It's hard to tell the facetious from the straight in the comically martial Starship Troopers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : pop-gunv. < n.adj.1649 see also
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