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单词 sooner
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soonern.1

/ˈsuːnə/
Etymology: < soon adv.
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.
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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.
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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

Brit. /ˈsuːnə/, U.S. /ˈsunər/, Australian English /ˈsuːnə/
Etymology: perhaps as sooner n.1
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.
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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).
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