单词 | ragging |
释义 | † raggingn.1 Obsolete. rare. Ragged edges or projections. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [noun] > roughness > roughness of edge > rough edge burr1611 ragging1683 fash1831 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 143 To Justifie the Mold, and clear it from Ragging. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 122/2 That the Mould be clear from Ragging; which without several proofs and tryings it cannot be expected to be perfectly true. 1868 Sci. Amer. 1 July 3/1 When the head of a cold chisel has been battered, so that the steel ‘rags’ over the edge, the edges of the head should always be ground off. The ‘ragging’ is very hard and flinty, and apt to fly at the blow of a hammer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online September 2018). raggingn.2 1. The action or practice of scolding, teasing, or boisterously making fun of someone; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] > action of japingc1380 jesting1526 raillying1612 banteringa1672 rallying1673 smoking1781 ragging1788 quizzing1795 chaffing1826 quizzification1856 joshing1864 barracking1885 ribbing1913 mickey-taking1967 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > scolding chidingc893 flitingc1200 scolding1486 rating1556 schooling1557 chafing?1578 railwifery1695 ragging1788 mobbing1803 fratching1805 row1830 tongue-lashing1881 rough tonguing1916 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > scolding > instance of Kyrie15.. Kyrie eleison1528 chide1538 wormwood lecture1640 rant1663 scold1726 trimming1763 blowing up1772 set-to1774 set-down1780 ragging1788 scouting1794 hurl?a1800 hearing1816 heckling1832 twisting1834 downsetting1842 going-over1843 shrewing1847 call1862 tongue-lashing1881 tongue-walking1888 telling-off1893 rousting1900 lumps1935 fourpenny one1936 rucking1958 society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > students' ragging1893 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) at Rag She gave him a good ragging, or ragged him off heartily. 1888 E. Dowson Let. Nov. (1967) 19 After a good deal of ragging with Chitty J. two days ago, the affair was settled. 1893 Daily News 25 Sept. 5/3 Commemoration Week exercises at Oxford furnished..the most audacious examples of ‘ragging’. 1899 T. M. Ellis Three Cat's-eye Rings 114 What a ragging we should get! 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 May 337/1 An ugly ragging mood was astir. 1965 T. B. L. Webster in T. A. Dorey & D. R. Dudley Rom. Drama i. 5 Several elements in the Dyskolos show Menander's debt to earlier comedy, particularly the ragging of Knemon. 1990 Daily Star 23 Oct. 17/3 Rugger supremo Bill Beaumont hates answering rugby questions. If he gets them wrong, he gets a ragging at his home club bar. 2. spec. The action or practice of ritually humiliating new army recruits or university students by physical or verbal bullying; = hazing n. 2b. Now chiefly South Asian. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > practised on college freshmen hazing1855 ragging1903 bastardization1964 1903 Times 27 Jan. 10/4 The staff officers in Pallmall are wrestling with the latest case of ‘ragging’. 1917 R. Kipling Bk. of Words (1928) 147 I'm not defending ragging—I've known cases where everyone who took part in it ought to have been R.T.U. 1932 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 12/4 Ragging in the army, such as we have at home (this was said just after one of the so-called ‘ragging scandals’ in the Guards) would be impossible here. 1982 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 20 July Defense officials said hazing is forbidden in the armed forces, but the New Strait Times claimed Monday, ‘it appears that ragging is rife despite the ban.’ 1990 Hindu (Madras) 16 Jan. 19/1 Ragging probably started as an innocuous exercise of fun and frolic, placing the newcomers in harmless comic and embarrassing situations. 2007 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 29 Jan. 6 (heading) New student found dead in hostel, ragging suspected. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). raggingn.3ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > dressing stone scappling1473 droving1819 plain work1823 broaching1842 stone-dressing1845 ragging1850 straggling1850 drove work1851 rocking1856 scutching1861 skifflinga1877 1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. III. 1109 In straggling, or ragging, the stone is kept running as usual whilst a piece of soft iron about a quarter or half an inch square..is wriggled against the edge of the stone by a motion of the wrist. 2. a. Ore in small pieces. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > other classes of ore ragging1860 1860 C. Tomlinson Useful Arts & Manuf. 2nd Ser. Dressing ores 10 That portion [of a dredging] occupying the bottom of the sieve, called ragging, which is also in a marketable state. 1878 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) IV. (Suppl.) 618 The ores are divided into four classes: (1) Cobbed ore; (2) Sieve raggings; (3) Fine Raggings; (4) Slimes. 1905 C. Schnabel Handbk. Metall. 36 The coarsest ore is first dumped on the bed, then the smaller sizes (raggings) and finally the fines. 1983 H. Alter Materials Recovery from Munic. Waste vii. 162 Initially the jig was not charged with a bed or ragging and the screen deck blinded with organic material before a bed could accumulate. 2003 C. K. Gupta Chem. Metall. ii. 170 With fine material it is necessary to provide an added layer of coarse heavy material to form the bed, and so an artificial bed or ragging is used. This is made of steel shot, lead shot, coarse galena, or some other heavy material. b. The manual breaking up of ore into smaller pieces and its preliminary sorting. Cf. rag v.4 Now historical. ΚΠ 1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) II. 67 Ragging..consists simply in reducing the stones to a smaller size, and rejecting as many of the sterile stones as can be readily picked out. 1878 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) IV. (Suppl.) 618 Steel ragging sledge, 7lb. weight. 1994 M. Palmer & P. Neaverson Industry in Landscape, 1700–1900 iv. 77 The initial sorting and breaking, known as ‘ragging’, ‘spalling’ or ‘bucking’, was generally carried out by boys or women on a flat floor with a heavy flagged surface. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). raggingn.4 Originally U.S. The act or practice of playing, singing, or dancing to ragtime; the act or practice of converting (a tune, melody, etc.) to ragtime. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > specific type of music gibbeting1615 fuguing1694 serenading1797 hornpiping1864 ragging1899 jazzing1917 riffing1933 rocking1948 rock 'n' rolling1956 skiffling1957 rifferama1977 riffola1979 hip-hopping1987 riffage1991 1899 Musical Rec. (Boston) Apr. 158/1 The negroes call their clog-dancing, ‘ragging’, and the dance, a ‘rag’. 1913 Collier's 15 Feb. 6/2 The worst of these dance halls..are habitually frequented by people of the fashionable and so-called decent class, who go..for the purpose of joining in the ‘ragging’. 1936 Harper's Mag. Apr. 570/2 ‘Jamming’, ‘cat-time’, ‘swing’, ‘riffing’, ‘getting off’, ‘going to town’, ‘ragging’, ‘gut-bucketing’,..are names for the hot performance, which is the heart and soul of jazz. 1994 J. W. Finson Voices that are Gone (1997) vi. 230 The constantly syncopated melody of the refrain shows one kind of ragging against an alternating bass. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). raggingn.5 Interior Decorating. The technique of creating a decorative effect on a surface by applying or partially removing paint with a wadded rag, esp. using a blotting motion; (also) the effect or finish so produced. Cf. rag-rolling n. ΚΠ 1981 J. Innes Paint Magic 42 Rag-rolling or ‘ragging’ is a development of stippling. 1986 Upstream Sept. 17/1 A seemingly endless choice of finishes including..ragging, dragging, marbling. 1989 Bella 29 Apr. 22/1 The traditional method of ragging is to lift off a light glaze of paint with a rag. 1994 Canad. Select Homes Oct. (Insert) 72 Ragging is both quick and easy. Although the application is similar to sponging, many people prefer the bolder but still subtle effect of color applied with a bunched-up cloth. 2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 2 Apr. x. 46/3 Faux finishes are still hot but have been expanded beyond ragging. 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