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单词 shaganappi
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shaganappin.adj.

Brit. /ˌʃaɡəˈnapi/, U.S. /ˌʃæɡəˈnæpi/
Forms: 1700s shackanappe, 1700s shag a nap pee, 1800s shaganapie, 1800s shaganapy, 1800s–1900s shaggineppi (in dictionaries), 1800s– shaganappi, 1800s– shaganappy, 1800s– shagginappi, 1900s shaga-nappi, 1900s shagganappi, 1900s shagganippy, 1900s shaggunappy (in dictionaries), 1900s– shaganappie, 1900s– shagannapi, 1900s– shagnappi.
Origin: A borrowing from Cree. Etymon: Cree pīšākanāpiy.
Etymology: < Cree (Swampy) pīšākanāpiy rawhide thong or cord < pīšākan leather + -āpiy cord.
North American.
A. n.
1. A thread, cord, thong, etc., made from rawhide; rawhide cut into strips. Now chiefly historical.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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