Rip Van Winklen.

Brit.

/ˌrɪp van ˈwɪŋkl/, U.S.

/ˌrɪp vən ˈwɪŋk(ə)l/

Forms: also with lower-case initial in the second element.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Rip Van Winkle.

Etymology: < Rip Van Winkle, the name of a character in Washington Irving's Sketch Book (1819–20), an amiable but lazy villager of Dutch descent, who falls asleep after a drinking party, sleeps through the American Revolutionary War, and awakes twenty years later in the United States of America. Compare earlier Rip Van Winkleish adj.

A person who or thing which resembles Rip Van Winkle, esp. in being unfamiliar with prevailing conditions; one who has remained oblivious or antithetical to fundamental social and political changes over an extended period.

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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > one who is old fashioned

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1833 Advocate (Shelbyville, Kentucky) 28 Sept. 2/4 Wm. C. Preston, of South Carolina, in one of his furious tirades, applied to the State of North Carolina, the somewhat degrading epithet of ‘the Rip Van Winkle of the South’.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House ii. 5 Both the world of fashion and the Court of Chancery are things of precedent and usage; over-sleeping Rip Van Winkles, who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery weather.

1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 135/2 This announcement will doubtless take many by surprise, and add another rivet, fastening upon us the sobriquet of the Rip Van Winkle State [i.e. North Carolina].

1892 G. B. Shaw Fabian Soc. 20 There are some Rip Van Winkles in our movement who are only now waking up.

a1901 J. Fiske Ess. Historical & Literary (1902) i. i. 3 A few Rip van Winkles are still to be found who..try now and then to fan into fresh life the dying embers of sectional prejudice and distrust.

1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune iii. i. 262 A Rip Van Winkle's self-pity would seize him.

1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 187 That somewhat shop-soiled military Rip van Winkle, Giuseppe Garibaldi.

1974 H. McCloy Sleepwalker ii. 17 What was she? A girl Rip Van Winkle who had been asleep since 1940?

2004 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 12 Mar. 6/2 She urged the electorate to ‘eject the Rip van Winkles and appoint progressive, intelligent people’.

Compounds

attributive. Characteristic of or resembling Rip Van Winkle or (an aspect of) his experience.

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1822 N. Amer. Rev. July 215 One story..is of the true Knickerbocker and Rip Van Winkle school.

1837 Farmers' Reg. Nov. 386/2 Her institutions of learning..must rouse her from her Rip Van Winkle slumber.

1893 I. Zangwill Ghetto Trag. 133 Is it possible that I can get into touch again with my youth..after a sort of Rip Van Winkle sleep?

1959 Times 6 May 15/7 Time, in Česky Krummau, seems to have stopped about the year 1800. In this Rip-van-Winkle atmosphere, we were taken to the tiny castle chapel, where there is a baroque organ in which every single pipe is in its original state.

1977 W. H. S. Smith Young Man's Country iii. 93 On the wall, as if to convince me that I was not in a Rip Van Winkle dream, was a list of S.D.O.s.

2003 B. Trapido Frankie & Stankie ix. 213 Dinah..remembers the weeks as a horror experience in Rip Van Winkle land.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	rip van winkle
释义	Rip Van Winklen. Brit. /ˌrɪp van ˈwɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˌrɪp vən ˈwɪŋk(ə)l/ Forms: also with lower-case initial in the second element. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Rip Van Winkle. Etymology: < Rip Van Winkle, the name of a character in Washington Irving's Sketch Book (1819–20), an amiable but lazy villager of Dutch descent, who falls asleep after a drinking party, sleeps through the American Revolutionary War, and awakes twenty years later in the United States of America. Compare earlier Rip Van Winkleish adj. A person who or thing which resembles Rip Van Winkle, esp. in being unfamiliar with prevailing conditions; one who has remained oblivious or antithetical to fundamental social and political changes over an extended period. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > one who is old fashioned mumpsimus1573 fogram1760 fogey1792 fogramite1813 frump1817 primitist1818 foist1820 Rip Van Winkle1833 foozle1860 old-timer1860 mossyback1865 mossback1873 dugout1912 pterodactyl1921 unhip1936 fud1942 square1944 primitivist1975 retread1982 1833 Advocate (Shelbyville, Kentucky) 28 Sept. 2/4 Wm. C. Preston, of South Carolina, in one of his furious tirades, applied to the State of North Carolina, the somewhat degrading epithet of ‘the Rip Van Winkle of the South’. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House ii. 5 Both the world of fashion and the Court of Chancery are things of precedent and usage; over-sleeping Rip Van Winkles, who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery weather. 1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 135/2 This announcement will doubtless take many by surprise, and add another rivet, fastening upon us the sobriquet of the Rip Van Winkle State [i.e. North Carolina]. 1892 G. B. Shaw Fabian Soc. 20 There are some Rip Van Winkles in our movement who are only now waking up. a1901 J. Fiske Ess. Historical & Literary (1902) i. i. 3 A few Rip van Winkles are still to be found who..try now and then to fan into fresh life the dying embers of sectional prejudice and distrust. 1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune iii. i. 262 A Rip Van Winkle's self-pity would seize him. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 187 That somewhat shop-soiled military Rip van Winkle, Giuseppe Garibaldi. 1974 H. McCloy Sleepwalker ii. 17 What was she? A girl Rip Van Winkle who had been asleep since 1940? 2004 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 12 Mar. 6/2 She urged the electorate to ‘eject the Rip van Winkles and appoint progressive, intelligent people’. Compounds attributive. Characteristic of or resembling Rip Van Winkle or (an aspect of) his experience. ΚΠ 1822 N. Amer. Rev. July 215 One story..is of the true Knickerbocker and Rip Van Winkle school. 1837 Farmers' Reg. Nov. 386/2 Her institutions of learning..must rouse her from her Rip Van Winkle slumber. 1893 I. Zangwill Ghetto Trag. 133 Is it possible that I can get into touch again with my youth..after a sort of Rip Van Winkle sleep? 1959 Times 6 May 15/7 Time, in Česky Krummau, seems to have stopped about the year 1800. In this Rip-van-Winkle atmosphere, we were taken to the tiny castle chapel, where there is a baroque organ in which every single pipe is in its original state. 1977 W. H. S. Smith Young Man's Country iii. 93 On the wall, as if to convince me that I was not in a Rip Van Winkle dream, was a list of S.D.O.s. 2003 B. Trapido Frankie & Stankie ix. 213 Dinah..remembers the weeks as a horror experience in Rip Van Winkle land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1822
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