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单词 smasher
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smashern.1

Brit. /ˈsmaʃə/, U.S. /ˈsmæʃər/
Etymology: < smash v.1
1. slang.
a. Anything uncommon, extraordinary, or unusual, esp. unusually large or excellent.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind
swinger1599
rapper1653
thumper1660
whisker1668
spanker1751
slapper1781
whopper1785
skelper1790
smasher1794
pelter1811
swapper1818
jumbo1823
sneezer1823
whacker1825
whanger1825
infant1832
bulger1835
three-decker1835
bouncer1842
snorter1859
whalera1860
plonker1862
bruiser1868
snapper1874
plumper1881
boomer1885
heavy1897
sollicker1898
sanakatowzer1903
Moby Dicka1974
stonker1987
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent thing
starOE
dainty1340
daisyc1485
say-piece1535
bravery1583
paragon1585
daint1633
rapper1653
supernaculum1704
dandy1785
roarer1813
sneezer1823
plum1825
trimmer1827
sockdolager1838
rasper1844
dinger1861
job1863
fizzer1866
champagne1880
beauty1882
pie1884
twanger1889
smasher1894
crackerjack1895
Taj Mahal1895
beaut1896
pearler1901
lollapalooza1904
bearcat1909
beaner1911
grande dame1915
Rolls-Royce1916
the nuts1917
pipperoo1939
rubydazzler1941
rumpty1941
rumptydooler1941
snodger1941
sockeroo1942
sweetheart1942
zinger1955
blue-chipper1957
ring-a-ding1959
premier cru1965
sharpie1970
stormer1978
1794 Gentleman's Mag. 64 i. 216/1 Smasher..signifies any thing larger than common.
a1800 in S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss.
1853 S. Moodie Life in Clearings 106 If you make it twelve and a half cents, you'll have a smasher [= a full house].
1894 Daily News 11 Sept. 5/1 Lord Rosebery's colt, who, if not the ‘smasher’ which his precipitate admirers declared him to be.., is above the average of high-class three-year-olds.
b. A very pretty or attractive woman; an attractive man.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > man
Prince Charming1855
Valentino1930
dreamboat1941
smasher1948
hunk1966
babe1973
oppa2009
the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman
morsela1450
honeypot1618
enchantera1704
peach1710
enchantress1713
sparkler1713
enslaver1728
witch1740
fascinatress1799
honey1843
biscuit1855
fairy1862
baby1863
scorcher1881
cracker1891
peacherino1896
hot tamale1897
mink1899
hotty?1913
babe1915
a bit of skirt1916
cookie1917
tomato1918
snuggle-pup1922
nifty1923
brahma1925
package1931
ginch1934
blonde bombshell1942
beast1946
smasher1948
a bit of crackling1949
nymphet1955
nymphette1961
fox1963
beaver1968
superbabe1970
brick house1977
nubile1977
yummy mummy1993
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 173 To a Scotsman an attactive girl was ‘a wee smasher’.
1949 J. R. Cole It was so Late 61 ‘Yes. No kidding,’ Don said. ‘But she was easier to look at than anything around here. She was a smasher—straight she was!’
1957 A. Wilson Bit off Map & Other Stories 74 When the jeunes filles met Rodney, Jackie..put her head on one side and said, ‘I say, isn't he a smasher!’
1963 Security Gaz. V. i. 13/2 The applicant for a shorthand typist's job—she was a smasher.
1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xviii. 458 In a long black wig, tan body paint and my few scraps of metal I look a smasher.
2. colloquial.
a. A severe or crushing reply, article, review, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > severe > instance of
cockshy1822
smasher1828
slasher1849
scarifier1855
slating1870
slate1887
savaging1905
excoriation1924
caning1933
pasting1974
handbagging1987
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 189 His reply..was a complete smasher.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxi. 305 He's a tremendous hand at a smasher.
1864 Reader No. 100. 674/1 The Edinburgh Review had ‘come down a smasher on Robert Browning’.
b. A bad or damaging fall; a heavy blow.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow
smitea1200
ponder1339
clouta1400
whopc1440
routa1450
maul1481
sousec1500
dunta1522
flake1559
lambskin1573
lamback1592
daud1596
baster1600
mell1658
thumper1682
lounder1723
smash1725
plumper1756
spanker1772
douser1782
thud1787
bash1805
stave1819
batter1823
belter1823
wallop1823
whacker1823
belt1825
smasher1829
dingbat1843
dinger1845
oner1861
squeaker1877
clod1886
wham1923
dong1941
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > falling down or from erect position (animates) > severe fall
breakneck1563
plumper1810
purl1825
mucker1851
cropper1858
burster1863
smasher1875
crumpler1883
smeller1923
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 706 Tom, by the effect of this smasher, lost his equilibrium.
1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 4 The horses will come a terrific smasher.
1897 Daily News 1 June 8/2 Before I could consider,..I had fetched him the smasher.
3. An appliance or machine which smashes or crushes; spec. a bookbinder's compressing-machine; a form of embossing-press.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > crushing or grinding
mullet1398
mill1560
rammer1630
pulverizer1635
crackera1640
hand mill1656
grinder1688
mortar1733
pestle mill1773
pulverer1778
bruiser1809
smasher1822
muller1823
pug mill1824
crusher1825
pounding machine1839
pug1859
disintegrator1874
micronizer1934
society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > machines
arming press1832
smasher1876
smashing-machinea1877
backing-machine1879
sewing machine1880
wire-stitcher1882
bumper1951
smashing-press-
1822 W. James Naval Hist. (1826) I. 47 Its destructive effects..induced its ingenious inventor to give it the name of smasher.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 44 The folded sheets are sometimes condensed in another American machine called ‘The Smasher’.
1882 J. B. Nicholson Art Bookbinding 44 A powerful embossing press, technically called a smasher.
4. One who smashes.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > breaking into pieces or shattering > one who shatters or smashes
shiverer1834
shatterer1867
smasher1884
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > one who or that which strikes heavily
thumper?1562
smasher1884
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > player > types of
volley1878
volleyer1878
foot-faulter1893
match-player1894
net player1919
double-faulter1921
smasher1921
tennis-professional1938
tennis-pro1942
counterpuncher1944
retriever1974
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 July 1/2 Every day the smashing is postponed..the more likely will it be that the Mahdi will be the smasher and we the smashed.
1921 A. W. Myers Twenty Years Lawn Tennis 78 The brilliant server and smasher became a double-faulter and a snatcher at lobs.
1928 B. Nuthall Learning Lawn Tennis vii. 114 I am not an expert smasher myself.
5. attributive in smasher hat, a slouched hat. Also elliptical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > with brim hanging over face
slouch1714
slouched hat1779
slouch hat1837
smasher hat1891
vagabond1927
1891 E. Glanville Fossicker xviii. 156 The Dutchmen stared at him from under the brims of their felt ‘smashers’.
1892 J. R. Couper Mixed Humanity i. 4 A wide-awake, called in South Africa a ‘smasher’.
1894 C. H. W. Donovan With Wilson in Matabeleland ix. 189 Brown cord jackets and ‘smasher’ hats, bandoliers and rifles.
1899 G. H. Russell Under Sjambok x. 107 The men..are content to put a piece of crape round the arm and smasher hat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

smashern.2

Brit. /ˈsmaʃə/, U.S. /ˈsmæʃər/
Etymology: < smash n.2 or smash v.2
slang.
1. One who passes or utters counterfeit coin or forged notes.
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society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > [noun] > passing of money > passing of counterfeits > person who
outera1415
outputter1574
smasher1795
shoful-pitcher1839
shofulman1851
shover1859
varnisher1864
passer1929
dropper1938
1795 H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash Smasher, a passer of counterfeit coin.
1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis 107 The Dealer..for the most part disposes of it to the utterers, vulgarly called Smashers.
1836 Lincoln Herald 20 Dec. 4/2 Several individuals have been imposed upon by the smashers.
1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. x. 124 When I said that my father was a smasher, I meant one who passes forged notes.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 18 Sept. 3/1 Most frequently the single-handed ‘smasher’ contents himself in passing one coin in an evening.
figurative.1872 Punch 2 Mar. 97/1 Some smashers have lately been trying to pass the base word ‘cablegram’.
2. A counterfeit coin. rare.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > false coin > [noun] > a false coin
bad pennyc1400
countera1529
slip1592
black dog1665
swimmer1699
Brummagem1838
sinker1839
smasher1851
wrong 'un1899
wooden nickel1927
wrongo1937
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour (1864) II. 488/2 Every bit of it, every coin,..was bad—all smashers.
3. A receiver of stolen property. rare.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > receiver of stolen goods > [noun]
receiver?a1400
intaker1421
resetterc1430
marker1591
marter1591
fence1699
fencer1699
fencing-cully1699
lock1699
family man1747
locker1753
drop1915
smasher1929
handler1995
1929 C. Humphreys Great Pearl Robbery i. 60 The goods might be disposed of to a ‘smasher’, that is, a receiver of stolen property.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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