单词 | bobbing |
释义 | bobbingn.1 1. Beating, striking; also figurative the giving of a sharp ‘rap’ in speech. (See bob n.3 2) Hence bobbing-block. ΘΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] buffetingc1240 dintc1330 smitingc1330 dentinga1398 wapping1398 strikingc1400 swippingc1420 dinginga1425 bobbing1526 swappingc1540 nicking1668 hitting1687 biffing1915 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whipping-block bobbing-block1526 whipping-blocka1877 whipping-bench1906 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. SSSviii Wt spyttynges, bobbynges & other tormentes, many and diuerse. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos v. sig. N.iij Loude their brests wt bobbings rings. 1575 G. Gascoigne Wks. (1587) 296 A bobbing blocke, a beating stocke, an owle. 1692 J. Dennis Poems in Burlesque 4 To leave off Stumming for dry Bobbing. 2. Movement up and down; dancing, curtsying, etc. (See bob v.3). ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > bobbing bobbing1726 1726 in A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. II. 152 With bobbing Willy's Shanks are sair. 1832 H. Martineau For Each & All v. 62 There was plenty of bobbing from the girls. 1865 Englishman's Mag. Oct. 310 Bees..making a ceaseless bobbing in the flowers. 3. Fishing for eels with a bob. (In East Anglia babbing, which also signifies a method of catching crabs; see quot. 1867.) Also U.S. (see bob n.1 7). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for eels in specific manner bobbing1620 sniggling1661 pitching1674 eeling1780 sand-eeling1862 sun spearing1865 stichering1872 blobbing1877 eel-picking1883 eel-spearing1883 1620 W. Lawson in J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (new ed.) sig. C6v There is a third vsuall way to catch Eeles, called Bobbing. 1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 105 This grave and ponderous creature may like Eeles be taken and pull'd up only with bobbing. 1815 S. L. Mitchill in Trans. Lit. & Philos. Soc. N.Y. 1 360 The eel..is also taken..by a bunch of tough bait, after a manner called bobbing. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Babbing, an east-country method of catching crabs, by enticing them to the surface of the water with baited lines and then taking them with a landing net. 1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xvii. 243 The manner most frequently adopted for catching eels, called ‘bobbing’, is primitive enough, and is by means of a line formed of narrow stripes of flax leaves, to the end of which is tied a bundle of earth worms. 1883 Cent. Mag. July 383/1 Bobbing has been practiced in Florida for more than a century, and is a very simple but remarkably ‘killing’ method of fishing. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 62 Trolling with the rod, ‘skittering’, and ‘bobbing’ are other modes of local popularity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). bobbingn.2 The action or pastime of riding on bob-sleighs. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] hurley-hacket1529 coasting1775 tobogganing1849 toboggan1870 bobsledding1880 bobsleighing1885 bobbing1888 luging1907 bobsleigh1911 bobsled1932 luge1966 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > of wood or corn > on bobsleigh bobbing1942 1888 Troy Daily Times 31 Jan. (Farmer) All the village bobbing clubs will participate in the carnival at Albany tomorrow... There are seventy-eight entries for the bobbing parade. 1888 Harper's Mag. May 973/1 Ruby and Ned displeased their mother by joining a ‘bobbing’ party on a neighbouring ‘hill’ street. 1904 Windsor Mag. Jan. 245/1 Bobbing can be practised on any high-road having a sufficient length of suitable slope. 1928 Evening Standard 5 Jan. 6/2 Bobbing is carried out either on bobs (five passengers) or boblets (three passengers). 1942 A. Koroleff Efficiency in Skidding Wood 5/2 Other methods in which log carriers of some kind are used (such as ‘bobbing’, ‘draying’, ‘boganning’, etc.). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019). bobbingadj.ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adjective] gamelyOE hathfula1250 scornfula1400 hathlya1425 mockisha1513 mockinga1529 mowinga1529 deriding1530 hethingfulc1540 bourding1552 make-sport1582 frumping1587 yarking1593 jerking1596 bobbing1605 derident1609 buffoonizing1611 scoptical?1611 scommatizing1613 derisory1618 ridiculous1622 ludibriousa1643 frumpish1647 twitting1655 derisivea1662 derisorious1664 scoptic1670 ridiculing1684 derisionarya1704 mockful1754 irrisory1846 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 22 With these bobbing rimes. ΘΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [adjective] > that strikes smitinga1382 swappingc1450 dinting1566 denting1575 bobbing1581 striking1625 hitting1632 jutting1776 pucking1922 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hippolytus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 65 Dash out on mee thy bobbing bolt. 3. a. That bobs up and down or from side to side; dancing; curtsying. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > bobbing bobbing1681 dancing1697 subsaltatory1831 bobbling1892 abob1908 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. 6 Jewels, Rings, and bobbing Pearls Pluck'd from Moores ears. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 72 Bobbing rabbits, wild and shy. 1868 Good Words July 445 He took off his hat to bobbing apple-women. b. Bobbing Joan: an old dance-tune. Bobbing John: a nickname of the Earl of Mar in 1715, referring to his behaviour to successive dynasties. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > specific dance tunes Sellenger's round1567 lusty gallant1569 cogs and rungs1621 Bobbing Joan1756 1756 Hop Garland Strike up Bobbing Joan, Or I'll break your fiddle. 1842 R. H. Barham Nell Cook!! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 132 Moral... Don't let your Niece sing ‘Bobbing Joan’! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). > as lemmasˈbobbing ˈbobbing n.3 working as a ‘bobber’. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] > of loads > unloading teeming?1468 unloading1542 lightening1590 unlading1818 disloading1831 unshipment1846 offloading1912 bobbing1962 downloading1962 1962 J. Tunstall Fishermen iii. 81 Bobbing..can easily be done by men in their fifties. < n.11526n.21888adj.1581 as lemmas |
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