puerileadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈpjʊərʌɪl/,

/ˈpjɔːrʌɪl/, U.S.

/ˈpjurəl/,

/ˈpjuˌraɪl/

Forms: 1500s– puerile, 1600s puerrill.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French puéril; Latin puerīlis.

Etymology: < Middle French pueril, French puéril, †pueril (noun) rudiments, textbooks for children (1461 in plural pueriles ), (adjective) characteristic of or suitable for a child, unsophisticated, lacking seriousness, silly (1476), of or relating to a child or childhood (early 16th cent.), designating a form of respiration considered normal in children (R. T. H. Laennec 1819, in the passage translated in quot. 1821 at sense A. 1b), and its etymon classical Latin puerīlis of or characteristic of a boy or child, childish, immature < puer boy, child (perhaps < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek παῖς boy, child: see paedo- comb. form) + -īlis -ile suffix. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin puerilia trivialities (4th cent.; use as noun of neuter plural of classical Latin puerīlis), also dialogi pueriles, literally ‘childish dialogues’, ‘dialogues for children’, the title of a schoolbook (1517, re-published in London together with other texts in 1532). Compare Catalan pueril (14th cent.), Spanish pueril (late 14th cent.), Portuguese pueril (late 16th cent.), Italian pueril (a1306).

A. adj.

a. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or suitable for a boy or child; (hence) youthful, innocent; elementary. Now rare except as in sense A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of

childlyeOE

childishOE

childen?c1225

childheady1340

puerile1527

pupillary1611

pupillar1832

bread-and-buttery1858

chittish1871

brattish1879

kiddish1897

1527 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1872) (modernized text) IV. ii. 1456 An image puerile of our Lord.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 125/1 Fanciullesco, childish, toyish, indiscreete, puerile, brattish.

1661 K. W. Confused Characters sig. A8 Let the..Reader mend what he sees amiss in these puerrill exercises.

a1695 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1721) II. 602 [Franciscus Junius] was..educated in puerile Learning at Leyden in Holland.

1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 22 May 1/1 The Cheapness of Puerile Delights, the guiltless Joy they leave upon the Mind.

1791 E. Benger Female Geniad i. 50 The parent thro' the infant stages leads..To prune by virtue each puerile thought.

1815 C. Nooth Orig. Poems & Play 16 Remembrance still retraces many a kind And salutary lesson taught by him, To earn his valued praise my childish mind Oft' left th'unfinish'd game; the puerile whim.

1852 J. S. Blackie On Stud. Lang. 7 There is no subject of puerile inculcation that more imperatively calls for a good teacher.

1980 J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson I. i. 8 Being a nervous child he developed tricks which are not conducive to approval in puerile communities.

b. Of respiration: characterized by loud breath sounds heard on examination with a stethoscope (considered normal in children but often pathological in adults). Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [adjective] > sounds in auscultation

puerile1821

pectoriloquous1824

large1827

sibilant1833

tubular1834

moist1843

rhonchal1843

pectoriloquial1846

redux1848

murmurish1851

rhonchial1852

bronchophonic1862

sticky1872

coarse1879

skodaic1882

1821 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest ii. 293 Some few individuals, again, preserve through life a state of respiration resembling that of children, and which I shall therefore denominate puerile [Fr. puérile], in whatever age it may be perceptible.

1826 Lancet 19 Aug. 670/2 To this sound of the respiration in adults, the name of puerile is given. Some such persons have not, properly speaking, any real disease, but they pant after taking exercise.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 131 Should the opposite lung be healthy and free to act, puerile breathing will probably be heard on that side.

1937 J. Crocket Physic. & Radiol. Exam. Lungs (ed. 2) vi. 151 Exaggerated or sharpened breath sounds.—This form of respiration, which is called ‘puerile’ when it occurs universally over both lungs, is characterised by the intensity being increased.

1999 Sci., Technol. & Human Values 24 427 Laennec even described a stethoscopic lung sound, so-called ‘puerile respiration’..which he..considered a sign of asthma.

2. Usually derogatory. Of conversation, thought, humour, etc.: befitting children rather than adults; childish, infantile, immature; unsophisticated; silly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [adjective]

childishc1405

indigest1423

bairnly1533

babish?1552

babished1563

babyish1646

puerilea1680

chitty1755

jejune1898

immature1902

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > young (of beings)

littleeOE

youngOE

younglyOE

younglinga1250

little waxena1325

greena1398

imperfecta1398

primec1429

unold?1440

juvync1450

novelc1450

unaged1486

in youth's flowers?1507

unbearded1560

unweaned1581

whelpish1586

ungrown1593

under-age1594

unhatched1601

infantine1603

springalda1614

unbakeda1616

unlickeda1616

juvenile1625

lile1633

juvenal1638

bloomy1651

youngish1667

blooming1676

puerilea1680

youngerly1742

steerish1789

chota1814

white-shoe1960

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > childish

pushpin1660

puerilea1680

a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 117 From the precision of our thoughts to infer the real precision or separation of the things themselves, is a very putid and puerile Sophism.

?1685 Remonstr. to Parl. upon Acct. of Relig. 4 Moved with an Itch of being in Print, they publish their own puerile Conceptions.

1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 78 They are trifling and I had almost said puerile.

1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum No. 1. 13 There is scarcely a young girl who has not read with eagerness a great number of idle romances, and puerile tales, sufficient to corrupt her imagination and cloud her understanding.

1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend 15 Feb. 394 It is mere puerile declamation.

1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism v. 123 The..expedient by which Scott makes the end of his story agreeable is no solution of the moral problem raised, but only a puerile evasion of it.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xiii. 208 ‘By-the-by—I never told you. I had a letter from Charlotte while I was away in London.’ This attempt to divert the conversation was too puerile, and Mrs. Honeychurch resented it.

1954 I. Murdoch Under Net 71 When I tried to explain some notion of Hugo's it sounded flat and puerile, or else quite mad, and I soon gave up the attempt.

1997 Time Out 10 Sept. 84/3 Whether the American youth audience will get all this is open to question, which is presumably the reasons for sundry toilet jokes and other puerile intrusions into an otherwise clued-in genre parody.

†B. n.

In plural. Books (esp. Latin primers) or written exercises for children (cf. juvenile n. 3); (hence) childish or simple things. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [noun] > actions or habits of

childhoodc1330

childhead1340

pueriles1576

childness1823

short-frock1885

1576 C. Hollyband Frenche Littelton sig. Bvi^v As his scholars are fit for: vnto some, he readeth Terence, Virgill, Horace, Tullies offices: vnto others, Cato, pueriles [Fr. pueriles], their accidentes, their grammar.

1658 J. Bramhall Schisme Garded vi. 362 He saith (according to his old Pueriles) that a Negative may be proved in Logick.

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα i. i. 27 Which seek..to reduce ancient Churches, of long growth, of tall and manly stature, to their pueriles, their long coats and cradles.

Derivatives

ˈpuerilely adv. [compare French puérilement (1501 in Middle French), Spanish puerilmente (late 14th cent.)] in a puerile fashion; childishly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adverb]

youngly1533

youthly1541

youthfully1581

youthlike1582

puerilely1654

verdantly1828

youthily1839

juvenilely1889

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [adverb]

childlya1425

bairn-likec1425

bairnly1483

childishly1533

babishly1551

puerilely1654

babyishly1829

babily1872

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > insubstantially > childishly

puerilely1654

1654 S. Ward Vindiciæ Academiarum 53 He deales with us..somewhat Puerilely, in insulting over us without cause, Tetrically striking at us without any occasion.

1751 tr. Female Foundling I. p. v A Narration of Events which are visibly fictitious,..or puerilely extravagant.

1841 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 313 Then followed the Gothic, grand, majestic, and spiritual..yet complicated and puerilely minute in its ornamental details.

1979 Technol. & Culture 20 681 A social force too crucially significant either to be just puerilely embraced or to be only cynically tolerated.

2005 Oklahoman (Nexis) 9 Dec. 16 d Marley is more reflective after he is reformed, as compared to Scrooge who turns puerilely giddy.

† puerileness n. Obsolete rare = puerility n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [noun]

chilcea1200

fauntelte1377

bairnheid?a1513

childishness1539

babishness1557

puerility1576

childnessa1616

puerileness1727

babyhood1748

babyishness1836

immaturity1895

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > childishness

puerility1576

puerileness1727

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Puerilely..Puerileness.

1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 75 Puerileness of things And playful trifles held thee fast.

1859 A. Cary Adopted Daughter 211 Domines of all ages have been noted for their sternness, and also for occasional exhibitions of puerileness.

ˈpuerilized adj. [compare French puériliser to make puerile (1801 used transitively, 1842 used intransitively)] rare made puerile.

ΚΠ

1887 Harper's Mag. Jan. 322 Its long-puerilized fancy will bear an endless repetition of them.

1981 French Rev. 54 405 The absence of an appropriate intellectual course content leads to a low-grade, puerilized form of instruction.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	puerile
释义	puerileadj.n. Brit. /ˈpjʊərʌɪl/, /ˈpjɔːrʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈpjurəl/, /ˈpjuˌraɪl/ Forms: 1500s– puerile, 1600s puerrill. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French puéril; Latin puerīlis. Etymology: < Middle French pueril, French puéril, †pueril (noun) rudiments, textbooks for children (1461 in plural pueriles ), (adjective) characteristic of or suitable for a child, unsophisticated, lacking seriousness, silly (1476), of or relating to a child or childhood (early 16th cent.), designating a form of respiration considered normal in children (R. T. H. Laennec 1819, in the passage translated in quot. 1821 at sense A. 1b), and its etymon classical Latin puerīlis of or characteristic of a boy or child, childish, immature < puer boy, child (perhaps < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek παῖς boy, child: see paedo- comb. form) + -īlis -ile suffix. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin puerilia trivialities (4th cent.; use as noun of neuter plural of classical Latin puerīlis), also dialogi pueriles, literally ‘childish dialogues’, ‘dialogues for children’, the title of a schoolbook (1517, re-published in London together with other texts in 1532). Compare Catalan pueril (14th cent.), Spanish pueril (late 14th cent.), Portuguese pueril (late 16th cent.), Italian pueril (a1306). A. adj. 1. a. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or suitable for a boy or child; (hence) youthful, innocent; elementary. Now rare except as in sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of childlyeOE childishOE childen?c1225 childheady1340 puerile1527 pupillary1611 pupillar1832 bread-and-buttery1858 chittish1871 brattish1879 kiddish1897 1527 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1872) (modernized text) IV. ii. 1456 An image puerile of our Lord. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 125/1 Fanciullesco, childish, toyish, indiscreete, puerile, brattish. 1661 K. W. Confused Characters sig. A8 Let the..Reader mend what he sees amiss in these puerrill exercises. a1695 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1721) II. 602 [Franciscus Junius] was..educated in puerile Learning at Leyden in Holland. 1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 22 May 1/1 The Cheapness of Puerile Delights, the guiltless Joy they leave upon the Mind. 1791 E. Benger Female Geniad i. 50 The parent thro' the infant stages leads..To prune by virtue each puerile thought. 1815 C. Nooth Orig. Poems & Play 16 Remembrance still retraces many a kind And salutary lesson taught by him, To earn his valued praise my childish mind Oft' left th'unfinish'd game; the puerile whim. 1852 J. S. Blackie On Stud. Lang. 7 There is no subject of puerile inculcation that more imperatively calls for a good teacher. 1980 J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson I. i. 8 Being a nervous child he developed tricks which are not conducive to approval in puerile communities. b. Of respiration: characterized by loud breath sounds heard on examination with a stethoscope (considered normal in children but often pathological in adults). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [adjective] > sounds in auscultation puerile1821 pectoriloquous1824 large1827 sibilant1833 tubular1834 moist1843 rhonchal1843 pectoriloquial1846 redux1848 murmurish1851 rhonchial1852 bronchophonic1862 sticky1872 coarse1879 skodaic1882 1821 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest ii. 293 Some few individuals, again, preserve through life a state of respiration resembling that of children, and which I shall therefore denominate puerile [Fr. puérile], in whatever age it may be perceptible. 1826 Lancet 19 Aug. 670/2 To this sound of the respiration in adults, the name of puerile is given. Some such persons have not, properly speaking, any real disease, but they pant after taking exercise. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 131 Should the opposite lung be healthy and free to act, puerile breathing will probably be heard on that side. 1937 J. Crocket Physic. & Radiol. Exam. Lungs (ed. 2) vi. 151 Exaggerated or sharpened breath sounds.—This form of respiration, which is called ‘puerile’ when it occurs universally over both lungs, is characterised by the intensity being increased. 1999 Sci., Technol. & Human Values 24 427 Laennec even described a stethoscopic lung sound, so-called ‘puerile respiration’..which he..considered a sign of asthma. 2. Usually derogatory. Of conversation, thought, humour, etc.: befitting children rather than adults; childish, infantile, immature; unsophisticated; silly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [adjective] childishc1405 indigest1423 bairnly1533 babish?1552 babished1563 babyish1646 puerilea1680 chitty1755 jejune1898 immature1902 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > young (of beings) littleeOE youngOE younglyOE younglinga1250 little waxena1325 greena1398 imperfecta1398 primec1429 unold?1440 juvync1450 novelc1450 unaged1486 in youth's flowers?1507 unbearded1560 unweaned1581 whelpish1586 ungrown1593 under-age1594 unhatched1601 infantine1603 springalda1614 unbakeda1616 unlickeda1616 juvenile1625 lile1633 juvenal1638 bloomy1651 youngish1667 blooming1676 puerilea1680 youngerly1742 steerish1789 chota1814 white-shoe1960 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > childish pushpin1660 puerilea1680 a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 117 From the precision of our thoughts to infer the real precision or separation of the things themselves, is a very putid and puerile Sophism. ?1685 Remonstr. to Parl. upon Acct. of Relig. 4 Moved with an Itch of being in Print, they publish their own puerile Conceptions. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 78 They are trifling and I had almost said puerile. 1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum No. 1. 13 There is scarcely a young girl who has not read with eagerness a great number of idle romances, and puerile tales, sufficient to corrupt her imagination and cloud her understanding. 1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend 15 Feb. 394 It is mere puerile declamation. 1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism v. 123 The..expedient by which Scott makes the end of his story agreeable is no solution of the moral problem raised, but only a puerile evasion of it. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xiii. 208 ‘By-the-by—I never told you. I had a letter from Charlotte while I was away in London.’ This attempt to divert the conversation was too puerile, and Mrs. Honeychurch resented it. 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net 71 When I tried to explain some notion of Hugo's it sounded flat and puerile, or else quite mad, and I soon gave up the attempt. 1997 Time Out 10 Sept. 84/3 Whether the American youth audience will get all this is open to question, which is presumably the reasons for sundry toilet jokes and other puerile intrusions into an otherwise clued-in genre parody. †B. n. In plural. Books (esp. Latin primers) or written exercises for children (cf. juvenile n. 3); (hence) childish or simple things. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > actions or habits of childhoodc1330 childhead1340 pueriles1576 childness1823 short-frock1885 1576 C. Hollyband Frenche Littelton sig. Bvi^v As his scholars are fit for: vnto some, he readeth Terence, Virgill, Horace, Tullies offices: vnto others, Cato, pueriles [Fr. pueriles], their accidentes, their grammar. 1658 J. Bramhall Schisme Garded vi. 362 He saith (according to his old Pueriles) that a Negative may be proved in Logick. 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα i. i. 27 Which seek..to reduce ancient Churches, of long growth, of tall and manly stature, to their pueriles, their long coats and cradles. Derivatives ˈpuerilely adv. [compare French puérilement (1501 in Middle French), Spanish puerilmente (late 14th cent.)] in a puerile fashion; childishly. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adverb] youngly1533 youthly1541 youthfully1581 youthlike1582 puerilely1654 verdantly1828 youthily1839 juvenilely1889 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [adverb] childlya1425 bairn-likec1425 bairnly1483 childishly1533 babishly1551 puerilely1654 babyishly1829 babily1872 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > insubstantially > childishly puerilely1654 1654 S. Ward Vindiciæ Academiarum 53 He deales with us..somewhat Puerilely, in insulting over us without cause, Tetrically striking at us without any occasion. 1751 tr. Female Foundling I. p. v A Narration of Events which are visibly fictitious,..or puerilely extravagant. 1841 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 313 Then followed the Gothic, grand, majestic, and spiritual..yet complicated and puerilely minute in its ornamental details. 1979 Technol. & Culture 20 681 A social force too crucially significant either to be just puerilely embraced or to be only cynically tolerated. 2005 Oklahoman (Nexis) 9 Dec. 16 d Marley is more reflective after he is reformed, as compared to Scrooge who turns puerilely giddy. † puerileness n. Obsolete rare = puerility n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [noun] chilcea1200 fauntelte1377 bairnheid?a1513 childishness1539 babishness1557 puerility1576 childnessa1616 puerileness1727 babyhood1748 babyishness1836 immaturity1895 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > childishness puerility1576 puerileness1727 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Puerilely..Puerileness. 1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 75 Puerileness of things And playful trifles held thee fast. 1859 A. Cary Adopted Daughter 211 Domines of all ages have been noted for their sternness, and also for occasional exhibitions of puerileness. ˈpuerilized adj. [compare French puériliser to make puerile (1801 used transitively, 1842 used intransitively)] rare made puerile. ΚΠ 1887 Harper's Mag. Jan. 322 Its long-puerilized fancy will bear an endless repetition of them. 1981 French Rev. 54 405 The absence of an appropriate intellectual course content leads to a low-grade, puerilized form of instruction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1527
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