big chilln.

Brit.

/ˌbɪɡ ˈtʃɪl/, U.S.

/ˌbɪɡ ˈtʃɪl/

Forms: also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: big adj., chill n.

Etymology: < big adj. + chill n.In sense 2, influenced by the title of the U.S. film The Big Chill (1983), which depicts a group of estranged college friends reunited in autumn for the funeral of a contemporary, and consequently reassessing their adult lives against the revived memory of adolescent idealism.

colloquial (originally and chiefly North American).

1. A spell of extremely cold weather. Also: a geological period of very cold conditions; a glacial period.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > cold spell

snap1740

cold snap1776

snap1829

cold wave1876

big chill1911

1911 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 13 Nov. 18/1 Big chill in Cleveland.

1948 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 9 Dec. 1/2 The mercury skidded to 20 below zero in Montana and Wyoming today and the big chill—coldest of the season—is heading towards the central states.

1993 Gazette (Montreal) 27 Dec. a1 Big chill descends on city. Blackouts left thousands of families shivering in the dark..as Montrealers braced for the coldest weather on record in nearly seven years.

1997 Equinox Feb. 18/1 Earth scientists have been at a loss to explain a mysterious 1,300-year winter that stalled the glacial retreat of the last ice age... The cause of the big chill, known as the Younger Dryas, is unknown.

2. Frequently with the.

a. A numbing and depressing sensation or influence on the feelings, a damper; (also) a state of affairs causing loss of confidence or resolve. Cf. chill n. 4a, 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances

cloudc1430

palla1450

melancholya1475

downdraughta1681

Job's comforter1738

damper1748

killjoy1776

wet blanket1810

down-drag1814

chill1821

dismals1829

shadow1855

down1856

a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857

wet blanket1857

depressor1868

dampener1887

sorry-go-round1898

wet smack1927

bringdown1935

droopy drawers1939

big chill1943

party pooper1947

misery1951

party poop1951

grinch1966

downer1969

1943 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. 21/1 One trick the present Yankees have inherited from their predecessors is the art of putting a big chill on hot opposition.

1948 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Mar. 16/4 Final big chill to red-hot plans of 106 business and industrial leaders for a $53 million Sesquicentennial Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1953 was administered March 12 by the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce.

1983 N.Y. Times 22 Nov. c14 Aren't we all..getting a bit tired of watching 60's-style students as they beat a hasty retreat into the big chill of the middle-class mainstream?

1986 J. Viorst Necessary Losses xi. 167 Growing up is not the death of all that's swell and sweet. Growing up need not be the Big Chill.

1993 S. Callahan in R. M. Baird & S. E. Rosenbaum Ethics of Abortion x. 116 Pragmatic failures of a pro-choice feminist position..are, in fact, causing disaffection among young women. Middleaged pro-choice feminists blamed ‘the big chill’ on the general conservative backlash.

1999 Electronic Engin. Times (Electronic ed.) 28 Feb. Aside from the big chill caused by the recession and resulting weak sales of consumer electronics, the companies are suffering from a range of problems.

b. Death; mortality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun]

hensithOE

qualmOE

bale-sithea1000

endingc1000

fallOE

forthsitheOE

soulingOE

life's endOE

deathOE

hethensithc1200

last end?c1225

forthfarec1275

dying1297

finec1300

partingc1300

endc1305

deceasec1330

departc1330

starving1340

passingc1350

latter enda1382

obita1382

perishingc1384

carrion1387

departing1388

finishmentc1400

trespassement14..

passing forthc1410

sesse1417

cess1419

fininga1425

resolutiona1425

departisona1450

passagea1450

departmentc1450

consummation?a1475

dormition1483

debt to (also of) naturea1513

dissolutionc1522

expirationa1530

funeral?a1534

change1543

departure1558

last change1574

transmigration1576

dissolving1577

shaking of the sheets?1577

departance1579

deceasure1580

mortality1582

deceasing1591

waftage1592

launching1599

quietus1603

doom1609

expire1612

expiring1612

period1613

defunctiona1616

Lethea1616

fail1623

dismissiona1631

set1635

passa1645

disanimation1646

suffering1651

abition1656

Passovera1662

latter (last) end1670

finis1682

exitus1706

perch1722

demission1735

demise1753

translation1760

transit1764

dropping1768

expiry1790

departal1823

finish1826

homegoing1866

the last (also final, great) round-up1879

snuffing1922

fade-out1924

thirty1929

appointment in Samarra1934

dirt nap1981

big chill1987

1987 Campus Voice Spring 48/3 Sky divers routinely flirt with death, but increasing numbers of people claim to have come closer to the Big Chill than any daredevil has.

1999 Philadelphia Inquirer 26 Sept. g8/2 Call it Heaven, the Pure Land, Firdaws, the Other Side, or olam-haba, 82 percent of adult Americans today believe some aspect of them will endure beyond their own big chill.

2003 R. Lacey Street Bible 53 You won't snuff out a life, stop someone's clock, blow anyone away, bump anyone off, dole out the big chill.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	big chill
释义	big chilln. Brit. /ˌbɪɡ ˈtʃɪl/, U.S. /ˌbɪɡ ˈtʃɪl/ Forms: also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: big adj., chill n. Etymology: < big adj. + chill n.In sense 2, influenced by the title of the U.S. film The Big Chill (1983), which depicts a group of estranged college friends reunited in autumn for the funeral of a contemporary, and consequently reassessing their adult lives against the revived memory of adolescent idealism. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). 1. A spell of extremely cold weather. Also: a geological period of very cold conditions; a glacial period. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > cold spell snap1740 cold snap1776 snap1829 cold wave1876 big chill1911 1911 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 13 Nov. 18/1 Big chill in Cleveland. 1948 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 9 Dec. 1/2 The mercury skidded to 20 below zero in Montana and Wyoming today and the big chill—coldest of the season—is heading towards the central states. 1993 Gazette (Montreal) 27 Dec. a1 Big chill descends on city. Blackouts left thousands of families shivering in the dark..as Montrealers braced for the coldest weather on record in nearly seven years. 1997 Equinox Feb. 18/1 Earth scientists have been at a loss to explain a mysterious 1,300-year winter that stalled the glacial retreat of the last ice age... The cause of the big chill, known as the Younger Dryas, is unknown. 2. Frequently with the. a. A numbing and depressing sensation or influence on the feelings, a damper; (also) a state of affairs causing loss of confidence or resolve. Cf. chill n. 4a, 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances cloudc1430 palla1450 melancholya1475 downdraughta1681 Job's comforter1738 damper1748 killjoy1776 wet blanket1810 down-drag1814 chill1821 dismals1829 shadow1855 down1856 a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857 wet blanket1857 depressor1868 dampener1887 sorry-go-round1898 wet smack1927 bringdown1935 droopy drawers1939 big chill1943 party pooper1947 misery1951 party poop1951 grinch1966 downer1969 1943 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. 21/1 One trick the present Yankees have inherited from their predecessors is the art of putting a big chill on hot opposition. 1948 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Mar. 16/4 Final big chill to red-hot plans of 106 business and industrial leaders for a $53 million Sesquicentennial Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1953 was administered March 12 by the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. 1983 N.Y. Times 22 Nov. c14 Aren't we all..getting a bit tired of watching 60's-style students as they beat a hasty retreat into the big chill of the middle-class mainstream? 1986 J. Viorst Necessary Losses xi. 167 Growing up is not the death of all that's swell and sweet. Growing up need not be the Big Chill. 1993 S. Callahan in R. M. Baird & S. E. Rosenbaum Ethics of Abortion x. 116 Pragmatic failures of a pro-choice feminist position..are, in fact, causing disaffection among young women. Middleaged pro-choice feminists blamed ‘the big chill’ on the general conservative backlash. 1999 Electronic Engin. Times (Electronic ed.) 28 Feb. Aside from the big chill caused by the recession and resulting weak sales of consumer electronics, the companies are suffering from a range of problems. b. Death; mortality. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] hensithOE qualmOE bale-sithea1000 endingc1000 fallOE forthsitheOE soulingOE life's endOE deathOE hethensithc1200 last end?c1225 forthfarec1275 dying1297 finec1300 partingc1300 endc1305 deceasec1330 departc1330 starving1340 passingc1350 latter enda1382 obita1382 perishingc1384 carrion1387 departing1388 finishmentc1400 trespassement14.. passing forthc1410 sesse1417 cess1419 fininga1425 resolutiona1425 departisona1450 passagea1450 departmentc1450 consummation?a1475 dormition1483 debt to (also of) naturea1513 dissolutionc1522 expirationa1530 funeral?a1534 change1543 departure1558 last change1574 transmigration1576 dissolving1577 shaking of the sheets?1577 departance1579 deceasure1580 mortality1582 deceasing1591 waftage1592 launching1599 quietus1603 doom1609 expire1612 expiring1612 period1613 defunctiona1616 Lethea1616 fail1623 dismissiona1631 set1635 passa1645 disanimation1646 suffering1651 abition1656 Passovera1662 latter (last) end1670 finis1682 exitus1706 perch1722 demission1735 demise1753 translation1760 transit1764 dropping1768 expiry1790 departal1823 finish1826 homegoing1866 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 snuffing1922 fade-out1924 thirty1929 appointment in Samarra1934 dirt nap1981 big chill1987 1987 Campus Voice Spring 48/3 Sky divers routinely flirt with death, but increasing numbers of people claim to have come closer to the Big Chill than any daredevil has. 1999 Philadelphia Inquirer 26 Sept. g8/2 Call it Heaven, the Pure Land, Firdaws, the Other Side, or olam-haba, 82 percent of adult Americans today believe some aspect of them will endure beyond their own big chill. 2003 R. Lacey Street Bible 53 You won't snuff out a life, stop someone's clock, blow anyone away, bump anyone off, dole out the big chill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1911
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