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单词 puckeroo
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puckerooadj.

Brit. /pʌkəˈruː/, U.S. /ˌpəkəˈru/, New Zealand English /ˈpʌkʌru/, /pʌkəˈruː/
Forms: 1900s– puckeroo, 1900s– pukaroo, 1900s– pukaru, 1900s– pukkaroo.
Origin: A borrowing from Maori. Etymon: Maori pakaru.
Etymology: < Maori pakaru broken. Compare earlier puckeroo v. and later puckerooed adj.Compare the following earlier attestations of the Maori word in an English context:1844 J. W. Barnicoat Jrnl. (MS.) 160 Gideon [sc. a Maori] foreseeing the collision..shouted out Puikero! puikero! puikero! (broken).1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 220 Pakaru, broken; smashed. A Maori word, in use among the New Zealand Troops.
New Zealand slang.
Useless, broken, out of order; destroyed, finished. Cf. puckeroo v., puckerooed adj.
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1911 Auckland Star 21 June 5/8 His final leave-taking before leaving his cell this morning... ‘Good-bye, I'm pukaru now, I will meet you in the next world’.
1943 Amer. Speech 18 93 Pukkaroo, adjective.., (to make) worthless, useless—it could be used..of an engine that had broken down—..is perhaps from the Maori pakaru, to destroy.
1952 J. H. Lyon Faring South 76 Bob related how a row of Maoris would..tell him to go to Taranaki, where they said he would be pukaru or finished.
2005 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 28 Nov. 6 He [sc. a horse] was scoped and there was nothing to suggest that he was puckeroo.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

puckeroov.

Brit. /pʌkəˈruː/, U.S. /ˌpəkəˈru/, New Zealand English /ˈpʌːkəru/, /pʌkəˈruː/
Forms: 1800s pukeru, 1800s– puckaroo, 1900s– buckeroo, 1900s– puckeroo, 1900s– pukaroo.
Origin: A borrowing from Maori. Etymon: Maori pākaru.
Etymology: < Maori pākaru to break (recorded in S. Lee & T. Kendall Gram. & Vocab. Lang. N.Z. (1820) as pakádu (verbal noun), glossed ‘bursting’). Compare later puckeroo adj., puckerooed adj.The form buckeroo reflects the Maori pronunciation of p without aspiration.
New Zealand slang.
transitive. To break, destroy, ruin; to kill. Cf. puckeroo adj., puckerooed adj.
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the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)]
mareOE
shendOE
hinderc1000
amarOE
awemc1275
noyc1300
touchc1300
bleche1340
blemisha1375
spill1377
misdoa1387
grieve1390
damagea1400
despoil?a1400
matea1400
snapea1400
mankc1400
overthrowa1425
tamec1430
undermine1430
blunder1440
depaira1460
adommage?1473
endamage1477
prejudicec1487
fulyie1488
martyra1500
dyscrase?1504
corrupt1526
mangle1534
danger1538
destroy1542
spoil1563
ruinate1564
ruin1567
wrake1570
injury1579
bane1587
massacre1589
ravish1594
wrong1595
rifle1604
tainta1616
mutilea1618
to do violence toa1625
flaw1665
stun1676
quail1682
maul1694
moil1698
damnify1712
margullie1721
maul1782
buga1790
mux1806
queer1818
batter1840
puckeroo1840
rim-rack1841
pretty1868
garbage1899
savage1899
to do in1905
strafe1915
mash1924
blow1943
nuke1967
mung1969
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally
atterc885
hurtc1200
marc1225
appair1297
impair1297
spilla1300
emblemishc1384
endull1395
blemishc1430
depaira1460
depravea1533
deform1533
envenom1533
vitiate1534
quail1551
impeach1563
subvert1565
craze1573
taint1573
spoil1578
endamage1579
qualify1584
stain1584
crack1590
ravish1594
interess1598
invitiate1598
corrupt1602
venom1621
depauperate1623
detriment1623
flaw1623
embase1625
ungold1637
murder1644
refract1646
depress1647
addle1652
sweal1655
butcher1659
shade1813
mess1823
puckeroo1840
untone1861
blue1880
queer1884
dick1972
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1840 A. D. W. Best Jrnl. 13 Dec. (1966) 267 The Mauries swore that we should all be Puckarooed as well as the gun and away they scuttled.
1885 Short Sk. Life T. Hancock ii. 19 [Maoris said] ‘We will pukeru you!’ ‘Very well’, I said, ‘pukeru me’.
1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang v. 42 [By the 1890s] we had begun to pukaroo things, when we broke something, confused an issue, or ruined some plan of action. This is derived with extraordinary simplicity from the Maori pakaru, broken.
1948 R. Finlayson Tidal Creek vii. 179 The surest way to buckeroo an axe.
1960 M. R. Muir Word for Word 174 I don't know. His old man was pretty strict, of course... Probably pukarooed any romances.
1970 N.Z. Listener 12 Oct. 12/1 Bad show, fighting. I puckerooed things properly last night.
1997 Evening Standard (Palmerston North, N.Z.) (Nexis) 12 June 9 What if Oliver gets on the field and has a blinder?..Hewitt's test career could be puckerooed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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