sportern.

Brit.

/ˈspɔːtə/, U.S.

/ˈspɔrdər/

Forms: 1500s– sporter; also Scottish pre-1700 sportar, pre-1700 sportare, pre-1700 sporter, pre-1700 sportour, pre-1700 sportur.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sport v., -er suffix¹, sport n.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < sport v.+ -er suffix¹, and partly < sport n.¹+ -er suffix¹. Compare earlier disporter n.

I. A person who sports, and related senses.

1. A person who provides, or is inclined to engage in, amusement, diversion, or pleasure; spec. (originally Scottish) †a person who entertains or amuses others; a jester, a fool (obsolete). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun]

playerOE

player1440

sporter1531

gamester1562

sporteer1654

sportsman1699

matchmakera1704

sporter1742

sporting parson1757

gamesman1812

sport1873

sportsman1886

sportswoman1900

hearty1915

jockstrap1956

jock1963

jockstrapper1967

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian

jugglerc1175

foolc1300

jangler1303

fool sagec1330

ribald1340

ape-ward1362

japer1377

sage fool1377

harlotc1390

disporter?a1475

jocular?a1475

joculatora1500

jester?1518

idiot1526

scoffer1530

sporter1531

dizzardc1540

vice1552

antic1564

bauble-bearer1568

scoggin1579

buffoon1584

pleasant1595

zany1596

baladine1599

clown1600

fiddle1600

mimic1601

ape-carrier1615

mime1616

mime-man1631

merry man1648

tomfool1650

pickle-herring1656

badine1670

puddingc1675

merry-andrew1677

mimical1688

Tom Tram1688

Monaghan1689

pickled herring1711

ethologist1727

court-foola1797

Tom1817

mimer1819

fun-maker1835

funny man1839

mimester1846

comic1857

comedian1860

jokesman1882

comique1886

Joey1896

tummler1938

alternative comedian1981

Andrew-

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon

sporter1531

Owlglassc1560

scogginist1593

scurr1596

hobby-horse1600

zany1606

buffoona1610

jack pudding?c1635

Owl-spieglea1637

droll1645

buffian1655

drollist1668

droller1676

merry-andrew1694

grotesque1864

harlequin1883

1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Chron. Scotl. (1938) I. v. i. 184 He had nane sa familiar to him as fydlaris, rutouris, huremasteris, & sportouris, traisting all thingis to succede wele be gouernance of sik vyle creaturis.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vi. i. f. 65/1 He..tuk sic delyte in syngaris, sportouris, & menstralis.

1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie xxxv. sig. f.i Rasys also sayeth, that the fete smal, and bewtifull, declare that man to be a fornicator, and sporter and maker of myrth, alwaye mery.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 14 To seik out..all persounis, minstrelis, gemsteris, sportouris, gyuen till ydlenes.

?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome iii. xxxviii. 536 To say the truth, the most regular Philosophers, and the greatest professors of vertue..haue been in effect amorous, and drinkers, dancers, sporters.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Iouëur, a player, gamester; dallier, sporter.

a1641 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 554 He is a spurgald sporter.

1658 E. Phillips Myst. Love & Eloquence 89 There was a Gallant in the Town, a brave and jolly Sporter.

1709 Brit. Apollo 24–26 Aug. The Sporters in Venus's Garden.

1752 W. Chaigneau Hist. Jack Connor I. iii. 25 Mirth in every Shape abounded; but Jack seem'd to drop all the romping Sporters.

1875 Steubenville (Ohio) Daily Herald 29 Oct. 4/4 The Steubenville sporters insisted upon the pools being declared off.

1912 W. Deeping Sincerity (1916) xi. 92 Jess had a shrewd knowledge of girls, and divided them into two groups of ‘sporters’ and ‘cats’.

1952 M. Kerr Personality & Confl. in Jamaica 89 ‘Well’ she said ‘when these big liners come in you know there are girls who go down to meet the boat. They are called “sporters”.’

1988 M. Bradbury Unsent Lett. 91 The cafés and pubs where one always expected to meet..such leading sporters of the age as Angus Wilson.

2. A person who engages with something in a frivolous or light-hearted manner; a person who plays or toys with something; a trifler. Also in extended use. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > [noun] > one who disrespects > one who trifles with something serious

palterer1589

sporter1733

1733 Bee 6 339 Necessity rais'd Patriots, real ones; not such mock Patriots, and vain Sporters with Country Interest as this Age produces.

1834 J. Brown Lett. Sanctification vii. 330 A sporter with my misery, he would have but tormented me before the time.

1875 Memorial Samuel Finley Breese Morse 308 When electricity was made to lisp its first intelligible word to man, it was regarded as an idle sporter with the storm, a destroyer rather than a benefactor.

1890 R. G. Moulton Anc. Classical Drama (1898) iii. iv. 136 The god, instead of appearing as a careless sporter with human frailty, is now seen to be a Providence.

1936 M. M. Needham Shall Angels weep Again? xxi. 174 This ugly old woman, this sporter with human destiny.

a. A sportsman or sportswoman; esp. = sportsman n. 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun]

playerOE

player1440

sporter1531

gamester1562

sporteer1654

sportsman1699

matchmakera1704

sporter1742

sporting parson1757

gamesman1812

sport1873

sportsman1886

sportswoman1900

hearty1915

jockstrap1956

jock1963

jockstrapper1967

1742 Curious Traveller xx. 275 Young Fellows are driving Bulls about the Town... I thought it no safe Pleasure to be in the way of them, and therefore kept within Doors to see the Sporters pass by.

1810 Splendid Follies III. 192 This illustrious-hearted young sporter.

1829 Sporting Mag. n.s. 23 84 Prithee say Who are these gallant sporters.

1985 Guardian (Nexis) 2 Feb. Today Mr Morello, who refers to the boatsmen as ‘mainly..true sporters’, scoffs at their claims.

2006 Sporting Gun Dec. 111/1 It is a true sporter's gun, with an extra touch of class.

†b. An animal that participates in, or is bred for, hunting; a sporting animal. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog

kennet?a1400

greffier1575

velter1598

lucern1607

huntera1616

ranger1616

gun-dog1746

sporter1825

hunting dog1833

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. viii. 61 The beast [sc. a horse] was too keen a sporter to choose any other way than that which the stag followed.

1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. §6643 The trouble occasioned to the master will be trifling, because connected with a pleasing employ to him as a sportsman, and who will thus have his own sporters for nothing.

4. colloquial. A person who displays or expresses something publicly, or in an ostentatious manner; (in later use) esp. a person who wears an (esp. eye-catching) item on the face or body. Chiefly with of or with modifying noun. See sport v. 10.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > one who

wearer1402

sporter1796

1796 J. W. Newman Lounger's Common-place Bk. (new ed.) I. 127/1 He had acquired the character of a facetious companion in joyous circles; a sporter of epigrams and satirical repartee.

1816 A. Lewis Rhoda III. l. 9 Was it possible that her present companion could ever have been..the sporter of daring maxims, that shocked all moral feeling?

1870 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 3/5 Fashionable tall hats in light colors..have provoked the good-natured indignation of the sporters of beavers of a darker hue.

1892 Daily News 6 July 3/6 The sporters of special blazers and dainty flannels look hardly less miserable.

1944 C. Fisher Columnists 141 He is pink-faced, upright, splendid in pince-nez and the sporter of a mane of white hair.

1991 J. Barnes Lett. from London (1995) iv. 80 A few tanned sporters of upmarket leisurewear.

2001 Time Out (Nexis) 8 Aug. 38 A jeans-style glasses case..that cleverly fastens on to your denims—ideal for shade sporters.

II. Technical senses.

†5. = sport n.¹ 6. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > variety or species > [noun] > mutation

sporter1723

sport1834

break1921

1723 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia i. 16 These [varieties] may justly be called Sporters or Strollers, so many Lusus Naturæ sporting themselves from more simple Colours [etc.].

†6. [After scientific Latin ludifica (in Trichosea ludifica), feminine of post-classical Latin ludificus (9th cent.; < classical Latin ludus play (see ludus n.) + -ficus -fic suffix; compare classical Latin lūdificāre ludify v.)] A Eurasian moth, Trichosea ludifica (family Pantheidae), with brown and white patterned forewings. Obsolete. rare .

ΚΠ

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 81 The Sporter (Diphthera ludifica).

7. Firearms. A rifle designed for use in field sports.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > rifle > types of

three-o(h)-three1683

air rifle1801

yager1817

big bore1838

seventy-five1840

telescopic rifle1850

Minié rifle1851

needle rifle1856

pea rifle1856

Lancaster1857

six-shooting1858

Whitworth1858

Henry1861

polygroove1863

telescopic-sighted rifle1863

spencer1866

magazine rifle1867

Snider rifle1868

chassepot1869

Martini–Henry rifle1869

Winchester1871

Mauser rifle1872

Martini1876

saloon rifle1881

express1884

express rifle1884

Mannlicher1884

Mauser1887

Lee-Enfield1888

Flobert1890

pump gun1890

take-down1895

two-two1895

Ross rifle1901

hammer-rifle1907

sporter1907

French 751914

twenty-two1925

machine-gun rifle1941

assault rifle1950

assault weapon1968

kalashnikov1970

assault rifle1975

1907 G. M. Fairchild From Quebec Scrap-bk. 291 The Ross Rifle Company has already undertaken the manufacture of three lines of sporters equipped with the Ross Magazine.

1975 Outdoor Life Feb. 124/2 The main purpose of the bolt handle is to replace the bolt handles of..military rifle actions that are being rebuilt and converted to sporters.

2002 Field & Stream Jan. 62/1 The one I've had a chance to use..is the most accurate .22 sporter I've ever fired in terms of aggregate group size.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sporter
释义	sportern. Brit. /ˈspɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈspɔrdər/ Forms: 1500s– sporter; also Scottish pre-1700 sportar, pre-1700 sportare, pre-1700 sporter, pre-1700 sportour, pre-1700 sportur. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sport v., -er suffix¹, sport n.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < sport v.+ -er suffix¹, and partly < sport n.¹+ -er suffix¹. Compare earlier disporter n. I. A person who sports, and related senses. 1. A person who provides, or is inclined to engage in, amusement, diversion, or pleasure; spec. (originally Scottish) †a person who entertains or amuses others; a jester, a fool (obsolete). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] playerOE player1440 sporter1531 gamester1562 sporteer1654 sportsman1699 matchmakera1704 sporter1742 sporting parson1757 gamesman1812 sport1873 sportsman1886 sportswoman1900 hearty1915 jockstrap1956 jock1963 jockstrapper1967 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian jugglerc1175 foolc1300 jangler1303 fool sagec1330 ribald1340 ape-ward1362 japer1377 sage fool1377 harlotc1390 disporter?a1475 jocular?a1475 joculatora1500 jester?1518 idiot1526 scoffer1530 sporter1531 dizzardc1540 vice1552 antic1564 bauble-bearer1568 scoggin1579 buffoon1584 pleasant1595 zany1596 baladine1599 clown1600 fiddle1600 mimic1601 ape-carrier1615 mime1616 mime-man1631 merry man1648 tomfool1650 pickle-herring1656 badine1670 puddingc1675 merry-andrew1677 mimical1688 Tom Tram1688 Monaghan1689 pickled herring1711 ethologist1727 court-foola1797 Tom1817 mimer1819 fun-maker1835 funny man1839 mimester1846 comic1857 comedian1860 jokesman1882 comique1886 Joey1896 tummler1938 alternative comedian1981 Andrew- the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon sporter1531 Owlglassc1560 scogginist1593 scurr1596 hobby-horse1600 zany1606 buffoona1610 jack pudding?c1635 Owl-spieglea1637 droll1645 buffian1655 drollist1668 droller1676 merry-andrew1694 grotesque1864 harlequin1883 1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Chron. Scotl. (1938) I. v. i. 184 He had nane sa familiar to him as fydlaris, rutouris, huremasteris, & sportouris, traisting all thingis to succede wele be gouernance of sik vyle creaturis. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vi. i. f. 65/1 He..tuk sic delyte in syngaris, sportouris, & menstralis. 1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie xxxv. sig. f.i Rasys also sayeth, that the fete smal, and bewtifull, declare that man to be a fornicator, and sporter and maker of myrth, alwaye mery. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 14 To seik out..all persounis, minstrelis, gemsteris, sportouris, gyuen till ydlenes. ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome iii. xxxviii. 536 To say the truth, the most regular Philosophers, and the greatest professors of vertue..haue been in effect amorous, and drinkers, dancers, sporters. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Iouëur, a player, gamester; dallier, sporter. a1641 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 554 He is a spurgald sporter. 1658 E. Phillips Myst. Love & Eloquence 89 There was a Gallant in the Town, a brave and jolly Sporter. 1709 Brit. Apollo 24–26 Aug. The Sporters in Venus's Garden. 1752 W. Chaigneau Hist. Jack Connor I. iii. 25 Mirth in every Shape abounded; but Jack seem'd to drop all the romping Sporters. 1875 Steubenville (Ohio) Daily Herald 29 Oct. 4/4 The Steubenville sporters insisted upon the pools being declared off. 1912 W. Deeping Sincerity (1916) xi. 92 Jess had a shrewd knowledge of girls, and divided them into two groups of ‘sporters’ and ‘cats’. 1952 M. Kerr Personality & Confl. in Jamaica 89 ‘Well’ she said ‘when these big liners come in you know there are girls who go down to meet the boat. They are called “sporters”.’ 1988 M. Bradbury Unsent Lett. 91 The cafés and pubs where one always expected to meet..such leading sporters of the age as Angus Wilson. 2. A person who engages with something in a frivolous or light-hearted manner; a person who plays or toys with something; a trifler. Also in extended use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > [noun] > one who disrespects > one who trifles with something serious palterer1589 sporter1733 1733 Bee 6 339 Necessity rais'd Patriots, real ones; not such mock Patriots, and vain Sporters with Country Interest as this Age produces. 1834 J. Brown Lett. Sanctification vii. 330 A sporter with my misery, he would have but tormented me before the time. 1875 Memorial Samuel Finley Breese Morse 308 When electricity was made to lisp its first intelligible word to man, it was regarded as an idle sporter with the storm, a destroyer rather than a benefactor. 1890 R. G. Moulton Anc. Classical Drama (1898) iii. iv. 136 The god, instead of appearing as a careless sporter with human frailty, is now seen to be a Providence. 1936 M. M. Needham Shall Angels weep Again? xxi. 174 This ugly old woman, this sporter with human destiny. 3. a. A sportsman or sportswoman; esp. = sportsman n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] playerOE player1440 sporter1531 gamester1562 sporteer1654 sportsman1699 matchmakera1704 sporter1742 sporting parson1757 gamesman1812 sport1873 sportsman1886 sportswoman1900 hearty1915 jockstrap1956 jock1963 jockstrapper1967 1742 Curious Traveller xx. 275 Young Fellows are driving Bulls about the Town... I thought it no safe Pleasure to be in the way of them, and therefore kept within Doors to see the Sporters pass by. 1810 Splendid Follies III. 192 This illustrious-hearted young sporter. 1829 Sporting Mag. n.s. 23 84 Prithee say Who are these gallant sporters. 1985 Guardian (Nexis) 2 Feb. Today Mr Morello, who refers to the boatsmen as ‘mainly..true sporters’, scoffs at their claims. 2006 Sporting Gun Dec. 111/1 It is a true sporter's gun, with an extra touch of class. †b. An animal that participates in, or is bred for, hunting; a sporting animal. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog kennet?a1400 greffier1575 velter1598 lucern1607 huntera1616 ranger1616 gun-dog1746 sporter1825 hunting dog1833 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. viii. 61 The beast [sc. a horse] was too keen a sporter to choose any other way than that which the stag followed. 1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. §6643 The trouble occasioned to the master will be trifling, because connected with a pleasing employ to him as a sportsman, and who will thus have his own sporters for nothing. 4. colloquial. A person who displays or expresses something publicly, or in an ostentatious manner; (in later use) esp. a person who wears an (esp. eye-catching) item on the face or body. Chiefly with of or with modifying noun. See sport v. 10. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > one who wearer1402 sporter1796 1796 J. W. Newman Lounger's Common-place Bk. (new ed.) I. 127/1 He had acquired the character of a facetious companion in joyous circles; a sporter of epigrams and satirical repartee. 1816 A. Lewis Rhoda III. l. 9 Was it possible that her present companion could ever have been..the sporter of daring maxims, that shocked all moral feeling? 1870 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 3/5 Fashionable tall hats in light colors..have provoked the good-natured indignation of the sporters of beavers of a darker hue. 1892 Daily News 6 July 3/6 The sporters of special blazers and dainty flannels look hardly less miserable. 1944 C. Fisher Columnists 141 He is pink-faced, upright, splendid in pince-nez and the sporter of a mane of white hair. 1991 J. Barnes Lett. from London (1995) iv. 80 A few tanned sporters of upmarket leisurewear. 2001 Time Out (Nexis) 8 Aug. 38 A jeans-style glasses case..that cleverly fastens on to your denims—ideal for shade sporters. II. Technical senses. †5. = sport n.¹ 6. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > variety or species > [noun] > mutation sporter1723 sport1834 break1921 1723 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia i. 16 These [varieties] may justly be called Sporters or Strollers, so many Lusus Naturæ sporting themselves from more simple Colours [etc.]. †6. [After scientific Latin ludifica (in Trichosea ludifica), feminine of post-classical Latin ludificus (9th cent.; < classical Latin ludus play (see ludus n.) + -ficus -fic suffix; compare classical Latin lūdificāre ludify v.)] A Eurasian moth, Trichosea ludifica (family Pantheidae), with brown and white patterned forewings. Obsolete. rare . ΚΠ 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 81 The Sporter (Diphthera ludifica). 7. Firearms. A rifle designed for use in field sports. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > rifle > types of three-o(h)-three1683 air rifle1801 yager1817 big bore1838 seventy-five1840 telescopic rifle1850 Minié rifle1851 needle rifle1856 pea rifle1856 Lancaster1857 six-shooting1858 Whitworth1858 Henry1861 polygroove1863 telescopic-sighted rifle1863 spencer1866 magazine rifle1867 Snider rifle1868 chassepot1869 Martini–Henry rifle1869 Winchester1871 Mauser rifle1872 Martini1876 saloon rifle1881 express1884 express rifle1884 Mannlicher1884 Mauser1887 Lee-Enfield1888 Flobert1890 pump gun1890 take-down1895 two-two1895 Ross rifle1901 hammer-rifle1907 sporter1907 French 751914 twenty-two1925 machine-gun rifle1941 assault rifle1950 assault weapon1968 kalashnikov1970 assault rifle1975 1907 G. M. Fairchild From Quebec Scrap-bk. 291 The Ross Rifle Company has already undertaken the manufacture of three lines of sporters equipped with the Ross Magazine. 1975 Outdoor Life Feb. 124/2 The main purpose of the bolt handle is to replace the bolt handles of..military rifle actions that are being rebuilt and converted to sporters. 2002 Field & Stream Jan. 62/1 The one I've had a chance to use..is the most accurate .22 sporter I've ever fired in terms of aggregate group size. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1531
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