单词 | sooner |
释义 | soonern.1 U.S. slang. One who acts prematurely; esp. one who endeavoured to get into Government territory in the West before the time appointed for its settlement (chiefly with reference to the settlement of the territory now known as Oklahoma before the official opening of the area to settlers on 22 April 1889). Hence (with capital initial), an Oklahoman. Also attributive; the Sooner State n. Oklahoma. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > illegal settler squatter1788 sooner1890 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [noun] > (untimely) earliness > one who acts prematurely sooner1890 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > specific state > states Marylander1640 Rhode Islander1665 Jerseyman1679 Pennsylvanian1685 Carolinian1705 Georgian1732 Marylandian1750 Jersey blue1758 Californian1762 Louisianian1775 Mississippian1775 Acadian1776 Vermonteer1778 Kentuckian1779 Vermontese1783 Indianian1784 Cohee1786 Kentuck1789 Virginian1797 Michiganian1813 Michigan1814 Tennessean1815 Ohioan1818 Illinoian1819 Ohian1819 Missourian1820 buckeye1823 Vermonter1825 Hoosier1826 red horse1833 sucker1833 wolverine1833 puke1834 corn-cracker1835 Texian1835 Alaskan1836 Texan1837 Michigander1838 Oregonian1838 Rackensack1839 Arkansian1844 badger1844 Bay Stater1845 Lone Star Stater1845 Oregonese1845 tar-boiler1845 weasel1845 web foot1845 Alabaman1846 Iowanc1848 Arkansan1851 Minnesotian1851 Washingtonian1852 Minnesotan1854 Nebraskan1854 Kansian1855 Utahan1855 Floridan1856 fly-up-the-creek1857 Dakotian1861 Coloradan1862 Coloradian1862 Texican1863 Coloradoan1864 tarheel1864 Cajun1868 Kansan1868 Montanian1869 Floridian1870 mudcat1872 New Jerseyan1872 Arkansawyer1874 longhorn1876 Mainer1879 New Jerseyite1885 prune picker1892 Hawaiian1893 Oklahoman1894 Tex1909 blue hen's chicken1921 Tejano1925 Geechee1926 Arkie1927 sooner1930 wyomingite1930 New Mexican1940 Okie1948 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Oklahoma the Sooner State1939 1890 in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 7 May Governor Campbell..thinks it altogether too soon to talk of 1892... The Governor is quite right in declining to be regarded as a sooner. 1890 Congress. Rec. 17 Jan. 657/2 We have recognized the fact that there are ‘sooners’ there. 1892 Law Times 93 413/1 The settler that gets in surreptitiously..is called a ‘Sooner’, because he gets there sooner than the rest. 1893 Philadelphia Daily Inquirer 21 Aug. The intention and attempt to keep the Sooners off the Cherokee strip..have come to grief. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 13 June 7 White ‘sooners’..were trying to rob them [sc. Indians] of some of the most valuable mineral deposits on their reservation. 1930 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 22 Mar. 841/3 She has done excellent reporting, has constructed a ripping yarn, has given us novel incidents, novel characters, a fresh setting, has created a strange new Sooner mythology. 1939 New Yorker 14 Oct. 73 Oklahoma uses on its road signs a phrase which I first heard in Kansas and never again except in the Sooner State. 1948 Okla. Cotton Grower 15 May 2/2 For the Sooner State planter that is perhaps the first major theorem of the business. 1948 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 11 July 21/5 Sooners have less reason to be offended at being called ‘Okies’ than residents of other states have for their nicknames. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 30 June 4- e/2 University of Oklahoma quarterback Joe McReynolds was dropped from the Sooners football roster Tuesday. Derivatives ˈsoonerism n. the practice of the unlawful and premature settlement of Oklahoma. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > [noun] > premature soonerism1894 1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 19 Mar. An important case growing out of the ‘soonerism’ at the Oklahoma opening will be given a hearing. 1945 J. L. Marshall Santa Fe 232 They watched the line through telescopes and, congratulating themselves on their success in checkmating ‘Soonerism’, figured it would take the first settlers on the fastest horses, about ninety minutes to reach Oklahoma. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018). soonern.2 slang (chiefly Australian). An idler, shirker; applied as a term of abuse to an ineffectual or obstructive person, object, etc. Also attributive in sooner dog. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > one who skulkc1320 loundererc1425 old soldier1722 malingerer1785 skulker1785 shirker1799 shirk1818 slink1824 schemer1843 sconcer1843 scrimshanker1882 scrimshank1886 sooner1892 Weary Willie1896 slacker1898 slackster1901 sugarer1904 work-shy1904 gold brick1905 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 lead-swinger1917 piker1917 gold-bricker1919 slinker1919 poler1938 skiver1941 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [noun] > that which is useless > useless person or thing > person sooner1892 gold brick1905 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [noun] > that which is useless > useless person or thing > thing or object good-for-nothing1611 sooner1969 1892 K. Lentzner Dict. Slang-Eng. of Austral. 117 Sooner, a weak idler, a lazy good-for-nothing. 1919 E. Dyson Hello Soldier! 31 He slugged a tubby Hun, Then choked a Fritzie with his dukes, 'n' pinched the sooner's gun! 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxv. 270 Onlookers: Tongue-tied Joe, a sooner dog, a Scotch dog, a dog of all nations, a hungry goat. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 801/1 Sooner dog, one that would sooner feed than fight. 1948 V. Palmer Golconda xix. 159 ‘The dirty sooners!’ he burst out. ‘They don't know a man when they find one, those heads down south.’ 1969 P. A. Smith Folklore Austral. Railwaymen 117 This was an old sooner of an engine. She'd had it. On a stiff climb in a tunnel she began to slip. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11890n.21892 |
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