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单词 southboard
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southboardn.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English sooth bourd.
Etymology: Apparently a folk-etymological alteration of sooth bourd ( < sooth adj. + bourd n.: see quots. 1546, 1591, 1721 at sooth adj. 2b), after south adj. and board n.
Obsolete. rare.
A retort, a repartee.
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a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) vii. 267 Lindsay was a hussar in raillery, who had no mercy... Monteath was more than his match, for he..[gave] him such southboards as silenced him for the whole evening.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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