sergeant-majorn.

Etymology: < sergeant n. + major adj.; in French sergent-major.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsergeant-ˈmajor.

†1. In the 16–17th cent, a military title variously applied to officers widely differing in rank and function.

a. A field officer, one in each regiment, next in rank to the lieutenant-colonel, and corresponding partly to the ‘major’, partly to the ‘adjutant’, of the modern army.Ordinarily referred to as superior to the captains, but in many instances a ‘captain’ is said to be also ‘sergeant-major’.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > major

sergeant-major1574

major1575

Maj.1648

1574 H. G. tr. G. Cataneo Most Briefe Tables Ranckes of Footemen sig. Hi^v Maister of the Campe, or Seargiant Maier, or Capitaine.

1594 J. Smythe Certen Instr. Militarie 36 The Sergeant Maior must command all the Captaines or their Lieutenants.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 15 Euery Regiment hath this Sergeant Maior.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 20 An English Captaine who was also Sargent Maior.

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. I. 39 He might haue beene Serieant-Maior, if not Lieutenant-Coronell to the regiment.

1624 W. G. tr. E. von Mansfeld Direct. Warre 13 The eldest Sergeant..is also to fetch the Word from the Sergeant Maior of the Regiment.

1633 Swedish Intelligencer iv. 127 The Sergeant-Major over these 5 companies, was Captaine Thomas Grove, who now commanded them.

1642 (title) A List of the names of the severall Colonells.. with the Leivtenant Colonells, Serieant Maiors, and Captaines and Lievtenants appointed by the Committee, for the ordering of the Militia of this honourable city of London.

1642 Declar. Lords & Comm. for Rais. Forces 22 Dec. 7 Serjeant-Major of the sayd Regiment.

1683 J. Turner Pallas Armata xi. 225 The Swedes of a long time allowed him [sc. the Major] no company, yet allow'd him the command over Captains, but it is now many years ago since they were permitted to have companies; hence perhaps it is that when they have no companies, they may be called Serjeant-Majors, as when they have companies, the Germans call them Captain-Majors, but the English use frequently the words of Serjeant Major and Serjeant-Major General, none of them are used either by German, Swede, or Dane.

1704 Mil. Dict. (ed. 2)

†b. A general officer, corresponding to the modern major-general. Also sergeant-major major, sergeant-major general. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > general > types of

sergeant-general1579

lieutenant-general1589

sergeant-major1594

colonel-generalc1595

major-general1633

general officer1647

under-general1698

1594 J. Smythe Certen Instr. Militarie 60 If a Lord Marshall or a Sergeant Maior Maior, haue..10000 or more or fewer piquers to reduce into one bodie of squadron, hee may [etc.].

c1595 T. Maynarde Sir Francis Drake his Voy. (1849) 14 We buried Captaine Arnolde Baskerville, our serjant-major generall.

1599 J. Chamberlain Let. 17 Jan. (1939) I. 62 Sir Ferdinando Gorge is named to be Sergeant Major [of the army in Ireland].

1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 62 The Serieant-Maior of the Horse, which in some discipline is called the Commissary-generall.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xvii. 222 The Sergeant Major, being the second Commander to Don Iohn.

1642 List Army Earl Essex 1 His Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex, Capt. Generall. Sir Iohn Merrick, Serjeant Major Generall, and President of the Councell of Warre.

1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 50 Lord Wentworth was Serjeant Major of the Horse.

1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. viii. 147 [Richard III] Went himselfe in Person in the head of his Army..executing Himselfe the duty of a Sergeant Major.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 178 Philip Skippon..was now made Serjeant-Major-General of the Army, by the absolute power of the two Houses.

2. A non-commissioned officer of the highest grade.The regimental sergeant-major (who is, strictly speaking, not a ‘non-commissioned officer’, but a ‘warrant officer’), is an assistant to the adjutant. There is also a sergeant-major belonging to each squadron of cavalry and each battery of artillery.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > sergeant-major

first sergeant1776

sergeant-major1802

company sergeant major1813

S.M.1890

top1898

top sergeant1898

major1901

RSM1913

top cutter1917

top kick1918

Sar-Major1919

top soldier1926

Sarn't-major1946

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) In most regiments the serjeant-major, under the direction of the adjutant, is directed to drill every young officer who comes into the regiment.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality v, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 90 Claverhouse..called for his serjeant-major.

1837 King's Regul. Army 170 The Troop Serjeant-Majors... The Regimental Serjeant-Major.

in extended use.1897 Daily News 15 June 3/4 They were members of the Salvation Army, one of them, a woman, describing herself as the sergeant-major.

3. An American fish, the cow-pilot, Pomacentrus saxatilis.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomacentridae > pomacentrus saxatilis (cow-pilot)

sergeant-major1876

mojarra1882

cow-pilot1884

1876 G. B. Goode Catal. Fishes Bermudas 38 Glyphidodon saxatilis,..Cow-pilot; Sergeant-major.

1885 A. Brassey In Trades 407 Fine little black and white ‘serjeant-majors’ as they are called, because of their many stripes.

a. Military slang. Used attributively to designate (a) coffee with cream or milk and sugar (U.S.); (b) strong sweet tea; tea with rum; also in the possessive and elliptical.

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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > other types of tea

black tea1706

bohea1706

cocoa tea1747

caravan tea1798

Russian tea1799

hickory tea1868

sencha1874

Earl Grey mixture1884

Earl Grey tea1914

sergeant-major1923

Earl Grey1936

teh tarik1975

chai latte1994

the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with milk or cream

milk coffeec1695

café au lait1763

mélange1838

caffè latte1847

sergeant-major1923

café crème1936

cappuccino1948

mochaccino1963

flat white1971

latte macchiato1976

cortado1985

caffè macchiato1988

latte1989

skinny1992

1923 T. Boyd Through Wheat viii. 131 ‘Bring your canteen cups. Sergeant-major coffee.’.. ‘Coffee, hot! And milk and sugar in it!’

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 254 Sergeant Major's Tea, tea with sugar and milk, or a dash of rum, in it.

1929 J. L. Hodson Grey Dawn ii. v. 210 Two of them got up before the rest and made a fire and produced ‘sergeant-major's tea’ and bacon done to a turn.

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. iv. 115 I'd like a drop o' tea with some rum in it, good old sergeant-major's.

1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 331 Pointing up to skyless heaven like the spoon out of sergeantmajor's tay.

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 164 Sergeant-major's, a Samson-strong, love-sweet brew of tea, popularly supposed to be the perquisite of holders of that rank.

1981 J. Wainwright Urge for Justice i. v. 30 This tea..it damn near dissolved the spoon. A real ‘sergeant major’ brew. The way tea should be made.

b. In other slang and colloquial uses.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > striped object

zebra1778

sergeant-major1889

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Sergeant-major (butchers), an expression used by butchers in garrison towns to denote a large piece of mutton in the rib part. So called obviously from the white stripes like sergeants' stripes. Sergeant-major's brandy and soda (army), a stable jacket gold laced. Sergeant-major's wash cat (army), a new kit. The troop store man.

1906 East London Disp. 26 June Sargus cervinus, our very common Zebra, or as it is sometimes called, the sergeant major, on account of its very distinct stripes.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Sergeant Major, the, the Crown in the game of ‘Crown and Anchor’. Suggested by the crown on a Company Sergeant Major's sleeve.

Derivatives

sergeant-major v. transitive to order or shout in a brusque and stentorian manner.

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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > order about

snuba1797

to order about (also around)1853

sergeant-major1931

1931 E. A. Robertson Four Frightened People ii. 77 Then we heard the voice of Mrs. Mardick sergeant-majoring the truant few.

1962 M. Duffy That's how it Was iv. 43 ‘She'll soon learn,’ the voice sergeant-majored high above me.

sergeant-majorish adj.

ΚΠ

1926 A. Bennett Ld. Raingo xxxvi. 168 ‘Bow,’ said the sergeant-majorish official behind him, in a no-nonsense voice.

a1935 T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) ii. iii. 108 Cursing fellows forbidden to look resentful..is a sergeant-majorish trick which good corporals would not allow themselves.

sergeant-majorly adj. characteristic of or resembling a sergeant-major.

ΚΠ

1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son viii. 77 Moreover, he might pocket a sergeant-majorly share of the tips.

sergeant-majorship n.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > sergeant-major > position of

sergeant-majorship1892

1892 Athenæum 1 Oct. 448/2 [c 1630] The king gave him [sc. Fabert] another company vacant by death, again permitting his retention of the sergeant-majorship.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sergeant-major
释义	sergeant-majorn. Etymology: < sergeant n. + major adj.; in French sergent-major.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsergeant-ˈmajor. †1. In the 16–17th cent, a military title variously applied to officers widely differing in rank and function. a. A field officer, one in each regiment, next in rank to the lieutenant-colonel, and corresponding partly to the ‘major’, partly to the ‘adjutant’, of the modern army.Ordinarily referred to as superior to the captains, but in many instances a ‘captain’ is said to be also ‘sergeant-major’. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > major sergeant-major1574 major1575 Maj.1648 1574 H. G. tr. G. Cataneo Most Briefe Tables Ranckes of Footemen sig. Hi^v Maister of the Campe, or Seargiant Maier, or Capitaine. 1594 J. Smythe Certen Instr. Militarie 36 The Sergeant Maior must command all the Captaines or their Lieutenants. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 15 Euery Regiment hath this Sergeant Maior. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 20 An English Captaine who was also Sargent Maior. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. I. 39 He might haue beene Serieant-Maior, if not Lieutenant-Coronell to the regiment. 1624 W. G. tr. E. von Mansfeld Direct. Warre 13 The eldest Sergeant..is also to fetch the Word from the Sergeant Maior of the Regiment. 1633 Swedish Intelligencer iv. 127 The Sergeant-Major over these 5 companies, was Captaine Thomas Grove, who now commanded them. 1642 (title) A List of the names of the severall Colonells.. with the Leivtenant Colonells, Serieant Maiors, and Captaines and Lievtenants appointed by the Committee, for the ordering of the Militia of this honourable city of London. 1642 Declar. Lords & Comm. for Rais. Forces 22 Dec. 7 Serjeant-Major of the sayd Regiment. 1683 J. Turner Pallas Armata xi. 225 The Swedes of a long time allowed him [sc. the Major] no company, yet allow'd him the command over Captains, but it is now many years ago since they were permitted to have companies; hence perhaps it is that when they have no companies, they may be called Serjeant-Majors, as when they have companies, the Germans call them Captain-Majors, but the English use frequently the words of Serjeant Major and Serjeant-Major General, none of them are used either by German, Swede, or Dane. 1704 Mil. Dict. (ed. 2) †b. A general officer, corresponding to the modern major-general. Also sergeant-major major, sergeant-major general. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > general > types of sergeant-general1579 lieutenant-general1589 sergeant-major1594 colonel-generalc1595 major-general1633 general officer1647 under-general1698 1594 J. Smythe Certen Instr. Militarie 60 If a Lord Marshall or a Sergeant Maior Maior, haue..10000 or more or fewer piquers to reduce into one bodie of squadron, hee may [etc.]. c1595 T. Maynarde Sir Francis Drake his Voy. (1849) 14 We buried Captaine Arnolde Baskerville, our serjant-major generall. 1599 J. Chamberlain Let. 17 Jan. (1939) I. 62 Sir Ferdinando Gorge is named to be Sergeant Major [of the army in Ireland]. 1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 62 The Serieant-Maior of the Horse, which in some discipline is called the Commissary-generall. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xvii. 222 The Sergeant Major, being the second Commander to Don Iohn. 1642 List Army Earl Essex 1 His Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex, Capt. Generall. Sir Iohn Merrick, Serjeant Major Generall, and President of the Councell of Warre. 1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 50 Lord Wentworth was Serjeant Major of the Horse. 1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. viii. 147 [Richard III] Went himselfe in Person in the head of his Army..executing Himselfe the duty of a Sergeant Major. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 178 Philip Skippon..was now made Serjeant-Major-General of the Army, by the absolute power of the two Houses. 2. A non-commissioned officer of the highest grade.The regimental sergeant-major (who is, strictly speaking, not a ‘non-commissioned officer’, but a ‘warrant officer’), is an assistant to the adjutant. There is also a sergeant-major belonging to each squadron of cavalry and each battery of artillery. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > sergeant-major first sergeant1776 sergeant-major1802 company sergeant major1813 S.M.1890 top1898 top sergeant1898 major1901 RSM1913 top cutter1917 top kick1918 Sar-Major1919 top soldier1926 Sarn't-major1946 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) In most regiments the serjeant-major, under the direction of the adjutant, is directed to drill every young officer who comes into the regiment. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality v, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 90 Claverhouse..called for his serjeant-major. 1837 King's Regul. Army 170 The Troop Serjeant-Majors... The Regimental Serjeant-Major. in extended use.1897 Daily News 15 June 3/4 They were members of the Salvation Army, one of them, a woman, describing herself as the sergeant-major. 3. An American fish, the cow-pilot, Pomacentrus saxatilis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomacentridae > pomacentrus saxatilis (cow-pilot) sergeant-major1876 mojarra1882 cow-pilot1884 1876 G. B. Goode Catal. Fishes Bermudas 38 Glyphidodon saxatilis,..Cow-pilot; Sergeant-major. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 407 Fine little black and white ‘serjeant-majors’ as they are called, because of their many stripes. 4. a. Military slang. Used attributively to designate (a) coffee with cream or milk and sugar (U.S.); (b) strong sweet tea; tea with rum; also in the possessive and elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > other types of tea black tea1706 bohea1706 cocoa tea1747 caravan tea1798 Russian tea1799 hickory tea1868 sencha1874 Earl Grey mixture1884 Earl Grey tea1914 sergeant-major1923 Earl Grey1936 teh tarik1975 chai latte1994 the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with milk or cream milk coffeec1695 café au lait1763 mélange1838 caffè latte1847 sergeant-major1923 café crème1936 cappuccino1948 mochaccino1963 flat white1971 latte macchiato1976 cortado1985 caffè macchiato1988 latte1989 skinny1992 1923 T. Boyd Through Wheat viii. 131 ‘Bring your canteen cups. Sergeant-major coffee.’.. ‘Coffee, hot! And milk and sugar in it!’ 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 254 Sergeant Major's Tea, tea with sugar and milk, or a dash of rum, in it. 1929 J. L. Hodson Grey Dawn ii. v. 210 Two of them got up before the rest and made a fire and produced ‘sergeant-major's tea’ and bacon done to a turn. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. iv. 115 I'd like a drop o' tea with some rum in it, good old sergeant-major's. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 331 Pointing up to skyless heaven like the spoon out of sergeantmajor's tay. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 164 Sergeant-major's, a Samson-strong, love-sweet brew of tea, popularly supposed to be the perquisite of holders of that rank. 1981 J. Wainwright Urge for Justice i. v. 30 This tea..it damn near dissolved the spoon. A real ‘sergeant major’ brew. The way tea should be made. b. In other slang and colloquial uses. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > striped object zebra1778 sergeant-major1889 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Sergeant-major (butchers), an expression used by butchers in garrison towns to denote a large piece of mutton in the rib part. So called obviously from the white stripes like sergeants' stripes. Sergeant-major's brandy and soda (army), a stable jacket gold laced. Sergeant-major's wash cat (army), a new kit. The troop store man. 1906 East London Disp. 26 June Sargus cervinus, our very common Zebra, or as it is sometimes called, the sergeant major, on account of its very distinct stripes. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Sergeant Major, the, the Crown in the game of ‘Crown and Anchor’. Suggested by the crown on a Company Sergeant Major's sleeve. Derivatives sergeant-major v. transitive to order or shout in a brusque and stentorian manner. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > order about snuba1797 to order about (also around)1853 sergeant-major1931 1931 E. A. Robertson Four Frightened People ii. 77 Then we heard the voice of Mrs. Mardick sergeant-majoring the truant few. 1962 M. Duffy That's how it Was iv. 43 ‘She'll soon learn,’ the voice sergeant-majored high above me. sergeant-majorish adj. ΚΠ 1926 A. Bennett Ld. Raingo xxxvi. 168 ‘Bow,’ said the sergeant-majorish official behind him, in a no-nonsense voice. a1935 T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) ii. iii. 108 Cursing fellows forbidden to look resentful..is a sergeant-majorish trick which good corporals would not allow themselves. sergeant-majorly adj. characteristic of or resembling a sergeant-major. ΚΠ 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son viii. 77 Moreover, he might pocket a sergeant-majorly share of the tips. sergeant-majorship n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > sergeant-major > position of sergeant-majorship1892 1892 Athenæum 1 Oct. 448/2 [c 1630] The king gave him [sc. Fabert] another company vacant by death, again permitting his retention of the sergeant-majorship. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1574
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