blimpn.¹

Brit.

/blɪmp/, U.S.

/blɪmp/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed; perhaps of imitative origin (compare e.g. blob n.¹, blip n.¹, lump n.¹).This word has been said to derive from the sound made by an airship's taut envelope when flicked with a finger or thumb, one eyewitness source specifying a particular instance (on 5 December 1915) when this sound was imitated by Lieutenant (later Air Commodore) A. D. Cunningham while inspecting an airship at R.N.A.S. Capel le Ferne (see Aeroplane 81 (1951) 5 Oct. and compare quot. 1916 at sense 1). Other theories relate this word to limp adj., either as a shortening of the expression bloody limp or of a designation of a class of non-rigid airships as Type B: Limp, but neither of these appears to be supported by historical evidence. For further discussion of the competing theories see A. D. Topping in Amer. Aviation Historical Soc. Jrnl. 8 (1963) 253–66.

1. A small non-rigid airship. Also: a large tethered balloon, as a barrage balloon.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > set of captive balloons > one of

blimp1916

barrage balloon1923

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > airship > types of airship

aeroplane1884

non-rigid1909

Parseval1909

rigid1911

blimp1916

submarine scout1917

semi-rigid1920

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > balloon > types of balloon > attached to a wire

sausage balloon1874

kite-balloon1898

blimp1916

1916 H. Rosher Let. 11 Feb. in In Royal Naval Air Service 146 Visited the Blimps..this afternoon at Capel.

1918 R. D. Paine Fighting Fleets xiv. 284 Two can play at the bombing game, and in the Dover Strait the English ‘blimps’ take a hand at it.

1934 Discovery Jan. 14/2 Excellent photographs..could probably be secured next summer from a small ‘blimp’ carrying a pilot and a photographer and directed by wireless telephony.

1940 T. H. Harrisson & C. H. Madge War begins at Home v. 125 The [barrage] balloons, so suitably called blimps, became a major symbol in the first three months of the war.

1971 H. Wouk Winds of War x. 124 A small silver blimp came floating across the clear blue sky, towing a sign advertising odol toothpaste.

2006 Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 32/5 ‘You know you've made it when you've got your own blimp,’ said John as he launched a barrage balloon bearing the firm's logo into the skies above company HQ.

2009 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 84/2 One [camera] in the blimp hovering over the stadium..was providing stunning..vistas of Manhattan and northern New Jersey.

2. figurative, of a person.

a. colloquial and depreciative (originally and chiefly North American). An excessively fat person.

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1920 W. W. Gower Michigan Year-bk. Cartoons Of all the palpitating blimps, And corpulascious duds I've seen.

1930 Life 17 Oct. 4/2 Surgical attention to eye, as result of urging man in crowd to ‘Stop shoving, you big blimp!’..$5.00.

1943 J. R. Sturdy Corvette K-225 (flim script) in J. E. Lighter Hist. Amer. Dict. Slang (1994) I. (at cited word) Shuddup, ya big blimp!

1990 G. G. Liddy Monkey Handlers ix. 141 If I ate everything Mazie cooked for me, I could work out four hours a day and still end up a blimp.

2007 D. Lubar Curse of Campfire Weenies 122 Get moving, you fat blimp.

b. U.S. slang. depreciative. A young woman; esp. one who is considered sexually promiscuous. Cf. bag n. 17. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > promiscuity > person > woman

bat1607

tramp1922

bag1924

poule1924

blimp1926

punch board1955

slag1958

slagbag1966

hosebag1974

mama1980

slutbag1987

Essex girl1991

knob jockey2003

1926 McNaught's Monthly Apr. 120/2 Take the words they [sc. schoolboys] have to express the female of the species—a wren, a Jane, a Bid, a blimp, and so on.

1927 Immortalia 151 Oh, I wish I was a pimp, For I'd give the boys a crimp With all my whorey blimps, over there.

1932 Amer. Speech 7 329 [Johns Hopkins University] Blimp, a girl of doubtful morals.

1942 N. Algren Never Come Morning ii. i. 42 Blimps cheatin' on their husbands 'n boy friends.

1961 Washington Post 23 Apr. f18/1 A girl may be dubbed a ‘blimp’ (girl who floats from one boy to another).

3. Originally Cinematography. A soundproof cover for a film camera, used to prevent the noise of its mechanism intruding on the soundtrack of a film (cf. camera booth n. at camera n. Compounds). Later more generally (also in sound blimp): a soundproof cover for a camera.Recorded earliest in attributive use.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > camera > sound-proof covering

blimp1929

1929 Los Angeles Sunday Times 7 Apr. 8/4 (caption) Lane Chandler, with the new Blimp camera, perfected at the Paramount studio to ensure noiseless camera operation for talking sequences in ‘The Studio Murder Mystery’.

1929 Pop. Mech. Mag. Dec. 888/1 The blimp is cheaper than the large boxes in which cameras have been inclosed heretofore to make them soundproof, and gives greater flexibility in the use of camera angles.

1963 Movie Apr. 12/1 Tripods, blimps, dollies, tracking rails, booms, cranes, lighting equipment.

2010 Variety (Nexis) 25 Mar. 1 Among the rarities shifted to Rochester: Technicolor Camera Blimps, the enclosures used to silence the mammoth three-strip Technicolor cameras of yore.

2013 Shooting from Hip (Nexis) 30 Mar. Even with a sound blimp attached to my camera to reduce noise, I still manage to piss off the snobby millionaires seated feet away from me.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

blimpn.²

Brit.

/blɪmp/, U.S.

/blɪmp/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Blimp.

Etymology: < the name of Colonel Horatio Blimp, a cartoon character pictured as a rotund and pompous retired British army officer voicing a hatred of new ideas, invented by David Alexander Cecil Low (1891–1963), New Zealand-born cartoonist and caricaturist.Colonel Blimp first appeared in Low's Topical Budget , a weekly satirical cartoon feature in the Evening Standard , on 21 April 1934. The surname was perhaps suggested by blimp n.¹ 1.

depreciative.

allusively. More fully Colonel Blimp.

a. The type of person with old-fashioned or reactionary opinions and a pompous and peremptory manner, embodied in the character of Colonel Blimp (see etymology) and considered representative of a distinct or dominant group in British politics and society. Frequently attributive designating a person or class of people reminiscent of Colonel Blimp (cf. sense b).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [noun] > person

mumpsimus1530

inveteratist1715

reactionary1799

statu quo-ite1816

retrograde1825

redneck1830

stationary1831

stick-in-the-mud1832

reactionist1834

retrogradist1836

retrogressionist1848

mountainy man1851

misoneist1891

reactionarist1907

blimp1934

Neanderthal1966

hard hat1970

1934 Evening Standard 28 May 10 Prime Minister Blimp: ‘Gad, sir, the Air League is right. We must oppose all proposals for the abolition of military aviation.’

1937 F. P. Crozier Men I Killed 13 Blimp still reigns, unfortunately, in places of greater responsibility where he can make a fool of himself more easily.

1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn 44 Thirty years ago the Blimp class was already losing its vitality.

1963 J. N. Harris Weird World Wes Beattie (1966) i. 14 He got this old Colonel Blimp magistrate pretty angry, so he threw the book at him.

1973 Times 26 Feb. (Arms for Peace Suppl.) p. iv/5 Colonel Blimp, bureaucracy and bull, the unholy trinity.

1997 New Yorker 25 Aug. 133/1 Charles..is sufficiently at ease in Camilla's company to send himself up as a buffoonish Colonel Blimp figure.

b. An old-fashioned, pompous, or reactionary person, likened to Colonel Blimp; (originally) spec. an old army officer of this type.

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the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [noun] > person

puffball1763

pomposo1806

panjandrum1825

Lord Muck1858

stuffed shirt1913

blimp1935

1935 Manch. Guardian 25 Sept. 5/2 The authors are by no means Colonel Blimps: they even..dare to utter sacrilegious things about the holy ritual of cricket.

1937 F. P. Crozier Men I Killed vii. 137 Our new system of rearmament is at least serving the purpose of encouraging our Colonel Blimps to hide their heads..in the sand.

1957 J. Osborne Look Back in Anger ii. 68 Going to the dogs, as the Blimps are supposed to say.

1985 K. Williams Just Williams v. 110 An elderly blimp from a nearby table told us to be quiet.

2006 Independent 25 Oct. 37/2 In advertising..the elderly are either patronised as vigorous crinklies or jeered at as Colonel Blimps.

2012 N. Twitchell Politics of Rope vi. 106 Cyril Osborne (Louth) an inveterate opponent of abolition, easily characterized as a reactionary blimp.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blimp
释义	blimpn.¹ Brit. /blɪmp/, U.S. /blɪmp/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed; perhaps of imitative origin (compare e.g. blob n.¹, blip n.¹, lump n.¹).This word has been said to derive from the sound made by an airship's taut envelope when flicked with a finger or thumb, one eyewitness source specifying a particular instance (on 5 December 1915) when this sound was imitated by Lieutenant (later Air Commodore) A. D. Cunningham while inspecting an airship at R.N.A.S. Capel le Ferne (see Aeroplane 81 (1951) 5 Oct. and compare quot. 1916 at sense 1). Other theories relate this word to limp adj., either as a shortening of the expression bloody limp or of a designation of a class of non-rigid airships as Type B: Limp, but neither of these appears to be supported by historical evidence. For further discussion of the competing theories see A. D. Topping in Amer. Aviation Historical Soc. Jrnl. 8 (1963) 253–66. 1. A small non-rigid airship. Also: a large tethered balloon, as a barrage balloon. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > set of captive balloons > one of blimp1916 barrage balloon1923 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > airship > types of airship aeroplane1884 non-rigid1909 Parseval1909 rigid1911 blimp1916 submarine scout1917 semi-rigid1920 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > balloon > types of balloon > attached to a wire sausage balloon1874 kite-balloon1898 blimp1916 1916 H. Rosher Let. 11 Feb. in In Royal Naval Air Service 146 Visited the Blimps..this afternoon at Capel. 1918 R. D. Paine Fighting Fleets xiv. 284 Two can play at the bombing game, and in the Dover Strait the English ‘blimps’ take a hand at it. 1934 Discovery Jan. 14/2 Excellent photographs..could probably be secured next summer from a small ‘blimp’ carrying a pilot and a photographer and directed by wireless telephony. 1940 T. H. Harrisson & C. H. Madge War begins at Home v. 125 The [barrage] balloons, so suitably called blimps, became a major symbol in the first three months of the war. 1971 H. Wouk Winds of War x. 124 A small silver blimp came floating across the clear blue sky, towing a sign advertising odol toothpaste. 2006 Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 32/5 ‘You know you've made it when you've got your own blimp,’ said John as he launched a barrage balloon bearing the firm's logo into the skies above company HQ. 2009 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 84/2 One [camera] in the blimp hovering over the stadium..was providing stunning..vistas of Manhattan and northern New Jersey. 2. figurative, of a person. a. colloquial and depreciative (originally and chiefly North American). An excessively fat person. ΚΠ 1920 W. W. Gower Michigan Year-bk. Cartoons Of all the palpitating blimps, And corpulascious duds I've seen. 1930 Life 17 Oct. 4/2 Surgical attention to eye, as result of urging man in crowd to ‘Stop shoving, you big blimp!’..$5.00. 1943 J. R. Sturdy Corvette K-225 (flim script) in J. E. Lighter Hist. Amer. Dict. Slang (1994) I. (at cited word) Shuddup, ya big blimp! 1990 G. G. Liddy Monkey Handlers ix. 141 If I ate everything Mazie cooked for me, I could work out four hours a day and still end up a blimp. 2007 D. Lubar Curse of Campfire Weenies 122 Get moving, you fat blimp. b. U.S. slang. depreciative. A young woman; esp. one who is considered sexually promiscuous. Cf. bag n. 17. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > promiscuity > person > woman bat1607 tramp1922 bag1924 poule1924 blimp1926 punch board1955 slag1958 slagbag1966 hosebag1974 mama1980 slutbag1987 Essex girl1991 knob jockey2003 1926 McNaught's Monthly Apr. 120/2 Take the words they [sc. schoolboys] have to express the female of the species—a wren, a Jane, a Bid, a blimp, and so on. 1927 Immortalia 151 Oh, I wish I was a pimp, For I'd give the boys a crimp With all my whorey blimps, over there. 1932 Amer. Speech 7 329 [Johns Hopkins University] Blimp, a girl of doubtful morals. 1942 N. Algren Never Come Morning ii. i. 42 Blimps cheatin' on their husbands 'n boy friends. 1961 Washington Post 23 Apr. f18/1 A girl may be dubbed a ‘blimp’ (girl who floats from one boy to another). 3. Originally Cinematography. A soundproof cover for a film camera, used to prevent the noise of its mechanism intruding on the soundtrack of a film (cf. camera booth n. at camera n. Compounds). Later more generally (also in sound blimp): a soundproof cover for a camera.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > camera > sound-proof covering blimp1929 1929 Los Angeles Sunday Times 7 Apr. 8/4 (caption) Lane Chandler, with the new Blimp camera, perfected at the Paramount studio to ensure noiseless camera operation for talking sequences in ‘The Studio Murder Mystery’. 1929 Pop. Mech. Mag. Dec. 888/1 The blimp is cheaper than the large boxes in which cameras have been inclosed heretofore to make them soundproof, and gives greater flexibility in the use of camera angles. 1963 Movie Apr. 12/1 Tripods, blimps, dollies, tracking rails, booms, cranes, lighting equipment. 2010 Variety (Nexis) 25 Mar. 1 Among the rarities shifted to Rochester: Technicolor Camera Blimps, the enclosures used to silence the mammoth three-strip Technicolor cameras of yore. 2013 Shooting from Hip (Nexis) 30 Mar. Even with a sound blimp attached to my camera to reduce noise, I still manage to piss off the snobby millionaires seated feet away from me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blimpn.² Brit. /blɪmp/, U.S. /blɪmp/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Blimp. Etymology: < the name of Colonel Horatio Blimp, a cartoon character pictured as a rotund and pompous retired British army officer voicing a hatred of new ideas, invented by David Alexander Cecil Low (1891–1963), New Zealand-born cartoonist and caricaturist.Colonel Blimp first appeared in Low's Topical Budget , a weekly satirical cartoon feature in the Evening Standard , on 21 April 1934. The surname was perhaps suggested by blimp n.¹ 1. depreciative. allusively. More fully Colonel Blimp. a. The type of person with old-fashioned or reactionary opinions and a pompous and peremptory manner, embodied in the character of Colonel Blimp (see etymology) and considered representative of a distinct or dominant group in British politics and society. Frequently attributive designating a person or class of people reminiscent of Colonel Blimp (cf. sense b). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [noun] > person mumpsimus1530 inveteratist1715 reactionary1799 statu quo-ite1816 retrograde1825 redneck1830 stationary1831 stick-in-the-mud1832 reactionist1834 retrogradist1836 retrogressionist1848 mountainy man1851 misoneist1891 reactionarist1907 blimp1934 Neanderthal1966 hard hat1970 1934 Evening Standard 28 May 10 Prime Minister Blimp: ‘Gad, sir, the Air League is right. We must oppose all proposals for the abolition of military aviation.’ 1937 F. P. Crozier Men I Killed 13 Blimp still reigns, unfortunately, in places of greater responsibility where he can make a fool of himself more easily. 1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn 44 Thirty years ago the Blimp class was already losing its vitality. 1963 J. N. Harris Weird World Wes Beattie (1966) i. 14 He got this old Colonel Blimp magistrate pretty angry, so he threw the book at him. 1973 Times 26 Feb. (Arms for Peace Suppl.) p. iv/5 Colonel Blimp, bureaucracy and bull, the unholy trinity. 1997 New Yorker 25 Aug. 133/1 Charles..is sufficiently at ease in Camilla's company to send himself up as a buffoonish Colonel Blimp figure. b. An old-fashioned, pompous, or reactionary person, likened to Colonel Blimp; (originally) spec. an old army officer of this type. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [noun] > person puffball1763 pomposo1806 panjandrum1825 Lord Muck1858 stuffed shirt1913 blimp1935 1935 Manch. Guardian 25 Sept. 5/2 The authors are by no means Colonel Blimps: they even..dare to utter sacrilegious things about the holy ritual of cricket. 1937 F. P. Crozier Men I Killed vii. 137 Our new system of rearmament is at least serving the purpose of encouraging our Colonel Blimps to hide their heads..in the sand. 1957 J. Osborne Look Back in Anger ii. 68 Going to the dogs, as the Blimps are supposed to say. 1985 K. Williams Just Williams v. 110 An elderly blimp from a nearby table told us to be quiet. 2006 Independent 25 Oct. 37/2 In advertising..the elderly are either patronised as vigorous crinklies or jeered at as Colonel Blimps. 2012 N. Twitchell Politics of Rope vi. 106 Cyril Osborne (Louth) an inveterate opponent of abolition, easily characterized as a reactionary blimp. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1916n.²1934
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