单词 | punch-drunk |
释义 | punch-drunkadj.n. Originally U.S. A. adj. 1. Originally (of a boxer): dazed or stupefied from taking punches to the head. Later also: (Medicine) designating a neurological syndrome characterized by weakness of the legs and unsteadiness of gait, tremor, impaired speech, and slowness of thinking, seen chiefly in boxers (often after retirement) and attributed to repeated head injury; suffering from this syndrome. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [adjective] > attributes of boxer muffled1721 lightweight1823 punch-drunk1911 punchless1913 southpaw1914 light welter1950 1911 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 28 Dec. 3/3 At the finish he had Kennedy punch drunk and Tom's face was masked with blood. 1912 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 29 June Punch-drunk through the first round, and floundering around like a great helpless calf, his mouth and nose shedding blood in a thick stream. 1937 Daily Mirror 2 Mar. 12/4 Nowadays the Kid is punch-drunk. His limbs tremble and quiver like a man stricken with ague. His voice is so slurred that one cannot properly understand what he is saying. 1950 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 80 708/2 Permanent sequelae comparable to those of the ‘punch drunk’ syndrome. 1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) i. i. 31 You and me know he's so..punch-drunk he'd do anything anybody told him. 1996 New Scientist 20 Jan. 4/2 Geddes thinks she may have found the earliest stage in a process that eventually leads to the extensive damage seen in punch-drunk boxers. 2004 Curr. Sports Med. Rep. 3 9 For soccer, there has been some concern that heading may be associated with the development of cumulative traumatic brain encephalopathy, or the ‘punch drunk’ syndrome described in boxers. 2. Behaving as if punch-drunk; confused, stupefied. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [adjective] > stupefied astonedc1300 astonieda1375 obstupefacta1538 moidered1587 dunt1787 stupefied1790 moidering1839 punch-drunk1922 1922 Richmond (Indiana) Palladium & Sun-Telegram 4 Dec. 11/4 Now New York is becoming a bit punch drunk itself. 1925 Amer. Mercury Mar. 258/1 The tattered standard is thrust into the broken hands of a punchdrunk politician. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Mar. 12/7 I am delegated to remind all who may be punch-drunk with winter that the famous Blizzard of Eighty-eight occurred on March 12. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 497/3 In this punch-drunk civilization it is perverse to expect me to take seriously the horse itself, or indeed Mr. Kirkup's gracious swan, or Mr. Trypanis's seasick cock. 2003 New Yorker 4 Aug. 43/2 A couple of punch-drunk wasps knocked against the window inside, trying to get out. B. n. 1. Medicine. The punch-drunk syndrome. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders brain damage1864 mind-blindness1888 satellitosis1906 syringobulbia1908 Alzheimer's disease1911 kernicterus1912 pseudotumour1914 brain death1928 punch-drunk1928 Sturge–Weber syndrome1935 Alzheimer1938 Creutzfeldt–Jakob1939 Alzheimer1940 Schilder's disease1940 hypsarrhythmia1952 kuru1957 laughing death1957 Minamata disease1957 myelinolysis1959 spongiform encephalopathy1960 CJD1975 old-timer's disease1983 mad —— disease1990 1928 Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana) 24 Apr. 4/5 He is suffering from what is known as the ‘boxer's waltz’ or ‘punch drunk’. 1928 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 Oct. 1103/1 The early symptoms of punch drunk usually appear in the extremities. 1950 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 2 222/1 In the literature, it was pointed out that the syndrome of ‘punch-drunk’ was due to punctate hemorrhages in the basal ganglia. 2012 C. A. Noggle et al. Encycl. Neuropsycholog. Disorders 258/2 Dementia pugilistica,..also referred to as chronic traumatic encephalopathy,..chronic traumatic brain injury,..and ‘punch drunk’. 2. A punch-drunk person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > mental prostration or paralysis > person punchy1932 punch-drunk1934 slappy1937 1934 Jasper (Indiana) Herald 14 Sept. 5/1 (advt.) Gem Theatre... Thursday, Sept. 20. ‘The Party is Over’ with Stuart Erwin and Ann Sothern. Shorts ‘Punch Drunks’ and ‘By Persons Unknown’. Show 7.45 P. M. 1943 Gen 16 Jan. 30/2 Your out-and-out punch-drunk is harmless rather than homicidal. 1969 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 18 ‘Punch-drunks’ are completely unknown in amateur boxing. 2006 Washington Post 9 Feb. e1 He's an impossibly affected, egotistical blowfish, with a baleful stare and a surly, punch-drunk's face. Derivatives ˌpunch-ˈdrunkenness n. the condition of being punch-drunk; the punch-drunk syndrome. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > mental prostration or paralysis amazec1425 amazedness?1520 amazement1553 astonishment1611 mopedness1660 anergia1874 anergy1890 punch-drunkenness1928 slug-nuttiness1943 1928 Atlanta Constit. 16 Nov. 16/7 The boxing world, jarred somewhat by a scientific left hook, is still echoing the effects of medical research into the condition commonly known as ‘punch-drunkenness’. 1939 J. Berryman in Astounding Sci. Fiction May 51 Tiny bloodclots on the lining of the brain, whose pressure on delicate centers often caused them to manifest the symptoms of punch-drunkenness. 1941 Lancet 14 June 759/1 There is, however, that specific problem of boxing, ‘punchdrunkenness’—the permanent damage due to repeated cerebral injury. 1989 G. Early Tuxedo Junction iii. vi. 145 Before television the world of boxing was one of..severe punch-drunkenness, down-and-out fighters without two nickels to rub together. 2012 N. Carter Med., Sport & Body viii. 181 During the thirties a greater awareness emerged of boxing's long-term medical consequences in the form of punch-drunkenness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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