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单词 booby hatch
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booby hatchn.

Brit. /ˈbuːbɪ hatʃ/, U.S. /ˈbubi ˌhætʃ/
Forms: see booby n.1 and hatch n.1
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: booby n.1, hatch n.1
Etymology: Apparently < booby n.1 + hatch n.1, probably after booby-hutch n. Compare the discussion at booby-hutch n.
1. Nautical. On the deck of a vessel: a removable cover or small companion (companion n.2 1) over a hatchway which allows people access to a lower deck or compartment but which is not large enough to be used for cargo; (hence) a hatchway of this type. Later also: a sliding hatch on the roof of the cabin of a yacht. Cf. booby-hutch n. 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > opening leading to cabin > cover over > type of
booby hatch1784
booby-hutch1821
booby house1845
mansard1882
1784 J. Green Jrnl. 21 Apr. in Amer. Neptune (1950) 10 103 The Carpenter makeing a boobey hatch for the forhachway.
1806 Raleigh Reg. & N.-Carolina Gaz. 6 Oct. When Devoe was taken up at sea, he had been 44 hours on the booby-hatch, during which time he not only discovered great fortitude, but singular presence of mind.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiv. 130 The sky-light and booby-hatch [are] put on.
1906 Temple Bar Jan. 76 The mate..sits on the booby hatch, and strums his banjo to the stars.
1956 B. Kendrick in Amer. Mag. Feb. 129/1 The booby hatch opened and Phyllis came below, sliding it shut after her.
1983 Jrnl. Soc. Hist. 17 16 The 'tween decks would normally have access through two ‘booby hatches’ which would have to be firmly closed except in the calmest seas and winds.
2015 N. A. Veronico Hidden Warships v. 191 A ladder that leads to a ‘Booby Hatch’ overhead that exists on the deck behind the thirty-seven millimeter cannon.
2. slang (originally U.S.).
a. A place of incarceration; a lock-up; a prison. Cf. booby n.1 5, booby-hutch n. 4a. Now rare (chiefly historical).
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
quarternOE
prisona1200
jailc1275
lodgec1290
galleya1300
chartrea1325
ward1338
keepingc1384
prison-house1419
lying-house1423
javel1483
tollbooth1488
kidcotec1515
clinkc1530
warding-place1571
the hangman's budget1589
Newgate1592
gehenna1594
Lob's pound1597
caperdewsie1599
footman's inn1604
cappadochio1607
pena1640
marshalsea1652
log-house1662
bastille1663
naskin1673
state prison1684
tronk1693
stone-doublet1694
iron or stone doublet1698
college1699
nask1699
quod1699
shop1699
black hole1707
start1735
coop1785
blockhouse1796
stone jug1796
calaboose1797
factory1806
bull-pen1809
steel1811
jigger1812
jug1815
kitty1825
rock pile1830
bughouse1842
zindan1844
model1845
black house1846
tench1850
mill1851
stir1851
hoppet1855
booby hatch1859
caboose1865
cooler1872
skookum house1873
chokey1874
gib1877
nick1882
choker1884
logs1888
booby house1894
big house1905
hoosegow1911
can1912
detention camp1916
pokey1919
slammer1952
joint1953
slam1960
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > place of detention or lock-up
roundhousec1437
cagea1500
stress house1505
lock-up1746
goose-house1841
booby hatch1859
prison camp1865
hold-over1888
booby-hutch1889
charge-house1900
1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 13/2 Booby-hatch, station-house.
1897 G. Ade Pink Marsh 3 They'd have him in the booby-hatch in about two hours.
1917 North Western Courier (Narrabri, New S. Wales) 21 Nov. Getting away with between sixty and seventy thousand pounds, before he finally found his way to a comparatively short period in the ‘Booby Hatch’.
1935 M. Anderson Winterset in Critics’ Choice (1965) i. iii. 37 Tell that to your sergeant back in the booby-hatch.
2013 A. Cossins Baby Farmers xx. 245 The gaol was so plagued by lice and bed-bugs that it was nicknamed ‘Lousy Bay’ and ‘The Booby Hatch’.
b. A psychiatric hospital or home, an asylum for the mentally ill.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill
bedlam-house1525
dull-house1622
madhouse1649
bedlam1663
lunatic hospital1762
asylum1776
retreat1796
lunatic house1813
lunatic asylum1828
maison de santé1843
idiot asylum1848
rat house1854
bughouse1887
Colney Hatch1891
booby hatch1896
mental hospital1898
booby house1900
nut factory1900
nut collegec1906
nuthouse1906
monkey house1910
booby-hutch1914
nuttery1915
loony bin1919
nut hatch1928
silly house1930
bin1938
snake-pit1947
funny farm1950
1896 F. P. Dunne in Chicago Evening Post 26 Sept. 6/5 Th' inmates iv th' booby hatch out at Dunning.
1923 Time 10 Mar. 15/3 Liane,..whose specialty is driving lover after lover to ruin, death, or the booby-hatch.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas xi. 111 What, tell people you're me and I'm you. Sure we could, if you don't mind being put in the booby-hatch.
1959 Austral. Women's Weekly 1 Apr. 24/3 I don't dislike her... I just think she belongs in a booby hatch.
1985 G. Story Need of Wanting Always 133 Boy oh boy, we'll both wind up in the booby hatch, you just wait and see.
2012 Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 Aug. [With] Gladys in the booby hatch, Marilyn was farmed out to numerous foster homes and orphanages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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