单词 | booby hatch |
释义 | booby hatchn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1784 |
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