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单词 shrove
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Shroven.

Etymology: Short for Shrovetide n. or Shrove Tuesday n.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
Shrovetide, or the merrymaking connected therewith.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [noun] > period following > first week of > Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of
Shrovetidec1425
carnival1549
Shrove1579
fast mass1812
Fasching1911
1579 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 327 During Christmas..& Shrove.
1621 R. Brathwait Shepheards Tales in Natures Embassie 178 In their wakes, shroues, wassel-cups, or tides.
1913 19th Cent. July 133 Nora was to marry Tom Mahony next Shrove.

Compounds

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shrove-cake n. a small cake made to give children who go shroving (Halliwell, 1847).
shrove-cock n. Obsolete = shroving cock n. at shroving n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > cock-throwing > [noun] > cock
shroving cock1629
shrove-cock1659
Shrove Tuesday cock1697
Shrovetide cock1700
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > used in festivals
shroving cock1629
shrove-cock1659
Shrove Tuesday cock1697
Shrovetide cock1700
1659 Lady Alimony v. ii. sig. I4 O ye pittiful Simpletons, who spend your days in throwing Cudgels at Jack a Lents or Shrove-Cocks.
shrove-prentice n. Obsolete one of ‘a set of ruffianly fellows, who took upon them at Shrovetide the name of London Prentices, and in that character invaded houses of ill-fame’ (Halliwell).
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans > member of gang of hooligans
whitecap1607
shrove-prentice1638
Mohock?1711
sweater1712
highbinder1806
hoodlum1871
hooligan1898
hood1930
skolly1934
tear-away1938
gunsel1942
Teddy boy1954
hell's angel1956
angel1965
bikie1967
skinhead1969
bovver boy1970
boot-boy1977
casual1980
1638 W. Davenant Madagascar 29 More cruell than Shrove-Prentices, when they (Drunk in a Brothell House) are bid to pay.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

shrovev.

Etymology: < shrove- in Shrovetide n.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
intransitive. To keep Shrovetide; to make merry. Often in (to go) a-shroving (locally applied to the practice of going round singing for money on Shrove Tuesday).
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [verb (intransitive)] > observe Shrove customs
shrove1577
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 104/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I He trauayled to Rome a shrouing, of set purpose to be merrie.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. P2v To certefie him, that verie shortly hee would send him a couple of Hennes to Shroue with.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Berlingaccione, one that loueth to shroue euer and make good cheere.
1620 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) II. 198 Those ladies have invited them to a masque..so that on Thursday next, the king, prince, and all the court go thither a shroving.
a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ee2/2 To see him stated thus, as though he went A shroving through the City.
1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. vii. 22 Hans Boobikin a rich Boors Son, whom his Father had sent abroad a Fryring, that is, Shroving in our Language. [See also shroving n.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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