sparringn.³

/ˈspɑːrɪŋ/

Etymology: < spar v.²

1. The action of fighting or encountering in a special manner (see the verb) on the part of cocks and pugilists. Also transferred, skirmishing.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [noun] > manner of fighting > skirmishing

bickering1297

skirmishingc1385

skrimming1487

pickeering1644

sparring1686

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > fighting between animals > [noun] > cock-fighting

cockfightingc1450

cockfight1512

cockingc1613

cocking matcha1619

cock match1654

alectryomachy1656

sparring1686

main1760

sod1814

alectoromachyc1820

spar1850

cock watch1879

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun]

defence1549

pugilation1656

fencing1692

boxing1693

the (noble, also manly) art of self-defence1724

noble art1749

bruising1750

ring1770

noble science1778

pugilism1788

sparring1797

the sweet science1810

the fancy1820

pugilistics1820

pugnastics1830

fista1839

scrapping1891

ring-work1899

no contest1922

1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 278/2 After they have been thus fed,..take them out of their Pens, and putting a pair of Hots upon each of their Heals,..let them fight, and buffet each other a good while, provided they do not wound or draw Blood of each other, and this is called Sparring of Cocks.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Sparring, among Cock-fighters, is the fighting a Cock with another to breathe him.

1797 Sporting Mag. 10 320 Nor is the glory of sparring extinguished for ever.

1811 Sporting Mag. 37 99 A manly stand-up fight, to the exclusion altogether of sparring and shifting.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. viii. 142 The fighting man was..there, stripped for sparring.

1885 New Bk. Sports 127 Fifty years ago sparring with the gloves was regarded chiefly as a means to an end.

2. transferred. Verbal hitting or skirmishing; engagement in argument or dispute; bandying of words.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun]

pleac1275

distancec1325

stance14..

in controversyc1432

disceptation1447

disputation1489

disception1492

concertation1509

controversity1528

contending1561

fending and proving1583

digladiation?1591

bandying1599

contestation1602

controverting1610

wrangling1612

contesting1616

rixation1623

contestion1632

controversarya1635

contest1642

vitilitigation1647

ergoteering1687

sparring1755

hash1789

controversying1865

argle-bargle1872

wringle-wrangle1882

argy-bargy1887

polemicizing1948

va-et-vient1959

1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 32 She knew the conversation of the evening would turn upon the subject of the earl's marriage: and that some gentle sparrings might probably be aimed at her ladyship.

1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 11 These gentlemen had had some sparrings in debate before.

1861 Illustr. London News 18 May 476/3 A little amusing sparring took place between the lecturer and Mr. Sexton.

1891 S. Mostyn Curatica 81 But let us have done with sparring, and come to business.

Compounds

C1. In attributive uses, as sparring-academy, sparring-lesson, sparring-match, sparring-room, etc.

ΚΠ

1704 London Gaz. No. 4063/4 The..Pens are..very convenient to the sparring and stiving Rooms.

1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xviii. 208 This sparring-match is quite a Comedy to me.

1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxix. 261 I've got a gent up stairs for a sparring lesson.

1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) iv. 36 He would have..referred him to his spacious..Sparring Academy.

C2.

† sparring-blow n. Obsolete (see quots. 1699, 1785); also, a hard or severe blow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > hard or vigorous striking > a hard or vigorous blow

rackc1300

pelta1540

sparring-blowa1690

racket1710

whack1737

skite1825

slogger1829

slug1830

swinger1836

slog1846

crump1850

bitch slap1987

a1690 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) I. 139 This Year [sc. 1645] had generally been very fatal to his Majesty's Interests, so it concluded with such a Sparring-Blow as destroy'd almost all hopes of Resource.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sparring-blows, the first Strokes to try the goodness of young Cocks Heels; also those in a Battel before the Cocks come to Mouth it.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Sparring blows, blows given by cocks before they close, or as the term is, mouth it, used figuratively for words previous to a quarrel.

sparring partner n. a boxer employed to practise with another in training for a contest; also transferred and figurative, esp. a person with whom one enjoys arguing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > person engaged in > giving enjoyment

sparring partner1908

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > sparring partner

sparring partner1908

sparmate1937

1908 Captain Sept. 530/2 Jack was the best sparring partner he could have.

1930 Daily Express 8 Sept. 2/3 Cal Barton (Birmingham), Jack Hood's sparring partner.

1958 Victorian Stud. I. 248 Mill..is used with the utmost disrespect as a sort of punch-drunk sparring-partner.

1971 H. Wilson Labour Govt. xxv. 493 Mr Mikoyan, my old sparring-partner and friend of the 1947 trade talks, now in honourable retirement, was waiting for us.

1977 ‘E. McBain’ Long Time no See iv. 60 I was workin [sic] with Warren and a sparring partner... Warren's got a fight Tuesday night.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	sparring
释义	sparringn.¹ Etymology: < spar v.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsparring. The action of closing, fastening, or securing. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [noun] > closing or shutting shutting?a1366 closing1398 clausurec1440 sparring1564 uphasping1582 closure1600 fastening1605 shut1667 close1721 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 41 The digging vp of graues, the sparring in of windowes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). sparringn.² /ˈspɑːrɪŋ/ Etymology: < spar n.¹ or spar v.³ The action of fitting or providing with spars, in various senses. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc. > providing with sparring1459 poling1573 1459–60 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 88 Pro..le Watlyng et sparryng unius domus. 1606 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 166 For bynding, rearinge, sparringe, lattinge, and making of iiij dowers in the said barne, vj^li. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 9 For clamps..they be all of 6. inch planke... The rest for the sparring vp of the workes of square 3. inch planke. 1873 ‘Vanderdecken’ (title) Yachts and Yachting... Being a treatise on building, sparring, canvassing, sailing, and the general management of yachts, etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2018). sparringn.³ /ˈspɑːrɪŋ/ Etymology: < spar v.² 1. The action of fighting or encountering in a special manner (see the verb) on the part of cocks and pugilists. Also transferred, skirmishing. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [noun] > manner of fighting > skirmishing bickering1297 skirmishingc1385 skrimming1487 pickeering1644 sparring1686 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > fighting between animals > [noun] > cock-fighting cockfightingc1450 cockfight1512 cockingc1613 cocking matcha1619 cock match1654 alectryomachy1656 sparring1686 main1760 sod1814 alectoromachyc1820 spar1850 cock watch1879 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] defence1549 pugilation1656 fencing1692 boxing1693 the (noble, also manly) art of self-defence1724 noble art1749 bruising1750 ring1770 noble science1778 pugilism1788 sparring1797 the sweet science1810 the fancy1820 pugilistics1820 pugnastics1830 fista1839 scrapping1891 ring-work1899 no contest1922 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 278/2 After they have been thus fed,..take them out of their Pens, and putting a pair of Hots upon each of their Heals,..let them fight, and buffet each other a good while, provided they do not wound or draw Blood of each other, and this is called Sparring of Cocks. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Sparring, among Cock-fighters, is the fighting a Cock with another to breathe him. 1797 Sporting Mag. 10 320 Nor is the glory of sparring extinguished for ever. 1811 Sporting Mag. 37 99 A manly stand-up fight, to the exclusion altogether of sparring and shifting. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. viii. 142 The fighting man was..there, stripped for sparring. 1885 New Bk. Sports 127 Fifty years ago sparring with the gloves was regarded chiefly as a means to an end. 2. transferred. Verbal hitting or skirmishing; engagement in argument or dispute; bandying of words. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] pleac1275 distancec1325 stance14.. in controversyc1432 disceptation1447 disputation1489 disception1492 concertation1509 controversity1528 contending1561 fending and proving1583 digladiation?1591 bandying1599 contestation1602 controverting1610 wrangling1612 contesting1616 rixation1623 contestion1632 controversarya1635 contest1642 vitilitigation1647 ergoteering1687 sparring1755 hash1789 controversying1865 argle-bargle1872 wringle-wrangle1882 argy-bargy1887 polemicizing1948 va-et-vient1959 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 32 She knew the conversation of the evening would turn upon the subject of the earl's marriage: and that some gentle sparrings might probably be aimed at her ladyship. 1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 11 These gentlemen had had some sparrings in debate before. 1861 Illustr. London News 18 May 476/3 A little amusing sparring took place between the lecturer and Mr. Sexton. 1891 S. Mostyn Curatica 81 But let us have done with sparring, and come to business. Compounds C1. In attributive uses, as sparring-academy, sparring-lesson, sparring-match, sparring-room, etc. ΚΠ 1704 London Gaz. No. 4063/4 The..Pens are..very convenient to the sparring and stiving Rooms. 1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xviii. 208 This sparring-match is quite a Comedy to me. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxix. 261 I've got a gent up stairs for a sparring lesson. 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) iv. 36 He would have..referred him to his spacious..Sparring Academy. C2. † sparring-blow n. Obsolete (see quots. 1699, 1785); also, a hard or severe blow. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > hard or vigorous striking > a hard or vigorous blow rackc1300 pelta1540 sparring-blowa1690 racket1710 whack1737 skite1825 slogger1829 slug1830 swinger1836 slog1846 crump1850 bitch slap1987 a1690 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) I. 139 This Year [sc. 1645] had generally been very fatal to his Majesty's Interests, so it concluded with such a Sparring-Blow as destroy'd almost all hopes of Resource. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sparring-blows, the first Strokes to try the goodness of young Cocks Heels; also those in a Battel before the Cocks come to Mouth it. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Sparring blows, blows given by cocks before they close, or as the term is, mouth it, used figuratively for words previous to a quarrel. sparring partner n. a boxer employed to practise with another in training for a contest; also transferred and figurative, esp. a person with whom one enjoys arguing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > person engaged in > giving enjoyment sparring partner1908 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > sparring partner sparring partner1908 sparmate1937 1908 Captain Sept. 530/2 Jack was the best sparring partner he could have. 1930 Daily Express 8 Sept. 2/3 Cal Barton (Birmingham), Jack Hood's sparring partner. 1958 Victorian Stud. I. 248 Mill..is used with the utmost disrespect as a sort of punch-drunk sparring-partner. 1971 H. Wilson Labour Govt. xxv. 493 Mr Mikoyan, my old sparring-partner and friend of the 1947 trade talks, now in honourable retirement, was waiting for us. 1977 ‘E. McBain’ Long Time no See iv. 60 I was workin [sic] with Warren and a sparring partner... Warren's got a fight Tuesday night. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.¹1564n.²1459n.³1686
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