单词 | shaganappi |
释义 | shaganappin.adj. North American. A. n. 1. A thread, cord, thong, etc., made from rawhide; rawhide cut into strips. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > rope or thong of raw hide rawhide1829 shaganappi1873 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > tie > thong, lace, or cord > sinew or rawhide sinewa1400 babiche1806 shaganappi1873 1743 J. Isham in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1949) 12 46/1 (gloss.) Shag, a nap, pee or a string of Leather. 1873 G. M. Grant Ocean to Ocean v. 122 When any part broke before, a thong of Shaganappi had united the pieces. Shaganappi, in this part of the world does all that leather, cloth, rope, nails, glue, straps, cord, tape..[etc.] are used for elsewhere. 1892 J. Robertson in C. W. Gordon Life J. Robertson (1908) 338 In the old days..every one had his pocket full of shaganappi. 1970 P. Berton National Dream vi. i. 221 Red River carts were held together with shaganappi. 2. More fully shaganappi pony. A small or rough pony, used esp. by North American Indians. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > defined by size > small > pony > with particular characteristics heath-cropper1819 show pony1842 piney-wood tacky1846 shaganappi1879 raw1895 1879 Manitoba Daily Free Press 23 Sept. One drove a four-in-hand mule caravan, while the other guided a like number of high-stepping ‘shaganappi’ ponies. 1895 W. Elkington Five Years in Canada xi. 101 A few years ago the only horses in the country were bronchos and Indian ‘shaganappies’ as they are called. 1908 Outlook 5 Sept. 302/2 The women..hanging on their shaganappies (native ponies). 1929 Canad. Bar Rev. Apr. 236 To see the country I drove by Shaganappy pony and buckboard as far west as Portage la Prairie. 1984 G. Story It never pays to laugh too Much 38 She used to watch him with those clouded Bitner Mother Mary eyes whilst he yanked his shagannapi's tether chain where he was staked out across from the school barn. B. adj. 1. Made of shaganappi. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1820 G. Simpson Jrnl. Occurr. in Athabasca Dept. (1938) 10 Sept. 58 Any dressed skins, sinews, and Shaganapy lines that can be spared, you will send here for New Caledonia. 1874 Daily Free Press (Winnipeg) 16 Nov. The leather coat fever has again broken out, and the patients show inordinate eruptions of shaganappi shoulder fringe and beads. 1903 W. A. Fraser Blood Lilies xxxiii. 228 He might have made a snare from his old shaganappi harness. a1942 C. Æ. Shaw Tales Pioneer Surveyor (1970) xiv. 108 The small ends of the poles were tied together and a shaganappi band held them in place. 2. figurative. Cheap, makeshift; of a low or inferior quality. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective] salec1299 bastarda1348 sorry1372 slight1393 shrewd1426 singlec1449 backc1450 soberc1450 lesser1464 silly?a1500 starven1546 mockado1577 subaltern1578 bastardly1583 wooden1592 starved1604 perishing1605 starveling1611 minor1612 starvy1647 potsherd1655 low1727 la-la1800 waif1824 lathen1843 one-eyed1843 snide1859 bobbery1873 jerkwater1877 low-grade1878 shoddy1882 tinhorn1886 jerk1893 cheapie1898 shaganappi1900 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1907 pissy1922 crappy1928 cruddy1935 el cheapo1967 pound shop1989 1900 W. A. Fraser Mooswa 35 Have patience, little shaganappi (cheap) Bird. 1961 W. O. Mitchell Jake & Kid i. 2 At the Rabbit Hill school concert last night, folks heard a shaganappy speech. 2005 R. M. Patterson Far Pastures vi. 56 We rather harped on the efficiency factor: no haywire, shaganappi outfit for this trip, we told each other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1743 |
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