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单词 ruffianize
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ruffianizev.

Brit. /ˈrʌfɪənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈrəfiənˌaɪz/
Forms: 1600s 1800s– ruffianize, 1800s– ruffianise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ruffian n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < ruffian n. + -ize suffix. Compare earlier ruffianism n., ruffian v.
1.
a. intransitive. To act as a ruffian; (originally) to act as a prostitute's pimp; (later) to behave violently or brutally. Obsolete. rare.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > procure or pimp
panderize1598
ruffianize1611
procurea1616
pimpa1640
bawd1647
bludge1937
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ruffienner, to Ruffianize, to pandarize it; make or set leacherous matches.
1867 T. D. English Ambrose Fecit ii. 11 Those fellows who went robbing and ruffianizing over the country.
1894 R. H. Vickers Hist. Bohemia xxiii. 603 ‎They sacked and pillaged and slaughtered and ruffianized with thorough Tartar and Cossack effectiveness.
b. transitive. To abuse in the manner of a ruffian. Obsolete. rare.
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1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 607 I believe that any man may with impunity..ruffianize the prime writers of his age and country; but that vengeance will fall on his head if he dares but to lay his little finger on the smallest of Critics.
1836 Times 15 June 2/4 He contended that the hon. and learned member for Kilkenny had no right to browbeat and ruffianize any hon. member in the manner he had done.
c. transitive. To make ruffianly in character.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > [verb (transitive)]
ruffianize1833
1833 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) VI. 220 The portrait prefixed to this book seems intentionally to have radicalised, or rather ruffianised, a countenance which had no cut-throat expression at that time.
1844 J. Mills D'Horsay v. 29 To ruffianize the mind, which should have been cultivated for ornament and example.
1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. i. i. 55 He objected to the Reform Bill of 1832, that it had ruffianised Parliament.
1998 Mideast Mirror (Nexis) 27 May Settlements like these could ‘ruffianize’ Jerusalem, leading..to incessant friction between Jews and Arabs.
2. intransitive. Boxing. To fight without regard to the rules of the sport. Also transitive with it. Cf. ruffian v. 2b. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > box unfairly
ruffian1817
ruffianize1817
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)] > hit unfairly or damage
bruisea1627
ruffian1808
spoil1811
ruffianize1817
1817 Sporting Mag. Mar. 285/1 Belasco and Lazarus ruffianized in high style, and operated as a contrast to the elegant light play of science.
1824 P. Egan Boxiana II. 547 David and Lazarus..ruffianized it with all the appetite of gluttons.
1888 G. B. Shaw in Unpublished Shaw (1996) 158 Dont think that a man can rise to great eminence in the ring by ruffianizing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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