单词 | bod |
释义 | bodn.1 slang. = body n. in various senses; (esp.) a person. (In Scottish quots. 1788, 1813, perhaps shortened from bodach n.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] hadc900 lifesmaneOE maneOE world-maneOE ghostOE wyeOE lifeOE son of manOE wightc1175 soulc1180 earthmanc1225 foodc1225 person?c1225 creaturec1300 bodyc1325 beera1382 poppetc1390 flippera1400 wat1399 corsec1400 mortal?a1425 deadly?c1450 hec1450 personagec1485 wretcha1500 human1509 mundane1509 member1525 worma1556 homo1561 piece of flesh1567 sconce1567 squirrel?1567 fellow creature1572 Adamite1581 bloat herringa1586 earthling1593 mother's child1594 stuff1598 a piece of flesh1600 wagtail1607 bosom1608 fragment1609 boots1623 tick1631 worthy1649 earthlies1651 snap1653 pippin1665 being1666 personal1678 personality1678 sooterkin1680 party1686 worldling1687 human being1694 water-wagtail1694 noddle1705 human subject1712 piece of work1713 somebody1724 terrestrial1726 anybody1733 individual1742 character1773 cuss1775 jig1781 thingy1787 bod1788 curse1790 his nabs1790 article1796 Earthite1814 critter1815 potato1815 personeityc1816 nibs1821 somebody1826 tellurian1828 case1832 tangata1840 prawn1845 nigger1848 nut1856 Snooks1860 mug1865 outfit1867 to deliver the goods1870 hairpin1879 baby1880 possum1894 hot tamale1895 babe1900 jobbie1902 virile1903 cup of tea1908 skin1914 pisser1918 number1919 job1927 apple1928 mush1936 face1944 jong1956 naked ape1965 oke1970 punter1975 1788 J. Macaulay Poems Var. Subj. 143 While aulder bods were babees birling, We took our slide. 1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems II. 131 Sae he made a long blaw about graces, an' gods, Like Vulcan, an' Bachus, an' ither sic bods. 1933 R. Strachey Many Happy Returns i. 33 The Red, the White and the Blue is unfurled and covers the dead bod, the corpse of a grocer given for England. 1953 ‘N. Shute’ In Wet vi. 187 The rest go to the camp with the R.A.A.F. bods. 1954 C. P. Snow New Men xxii. 151 ‘Bods’ meant bodies, people, any kind of staff: scientists were bods, so were floor cleaners. 1955 P. Sharp in Chambers & Landreth Called Up iii. 73 To join a station you have to get these cards signed by odd bods all over the place. 1966 Crescendo Aug. 8/1 The show-tune formula is quite simple—I know dozens of bods who make a living using it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † bodn.2 Founding. Obsolete. = bott n. 2. Chiefly in bod-stick. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > openings for metal or crucible > plug to close tapping-hole bott1863 bod1877 1877 E. Kirk Founding of Metals 61 The tapper should have at least three bod sticks..always ready. 1877 E. Kirk Founding of Metals 110 In tapping he shoves the old bod into the cupola instead of cutting it away. 1883 T. D. West Amer. Foundry Pract. (ed. 2) 331 The melter..runs the bod-stick without any clay on it into the running iron. 1883 T.D. West Amer. Foundry Pract. 334 Instead of having the bod-sticks all wood, the cut B shows an iron nipple made to fit on the end of a wooden stick. 1899 E. Kirk Cupola Furnace 96 While the melter is waiting for the iron, he arranges his tap bars, bod stuff and bod sticks, and places a bod on each stick to be ready for instant use. 1900 J. Sharp Mod. Foundry Pract. 144 A round ball of this [loam] is placed on a disc of iron at the end of an iron rod, and is forced into the tap~hole..when it is wished to stop a tapping out with the bott or bod stick. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). > as lemmasBOD BOD n. Biology biochemical (also biological) oxygen demand. ΚΠ 1933 Ann. Surv. Amer. Chem. 1932 xix. 240 Chlorination only reduced the B.O.D. in the effluent 10 per cent. 1992 Operation Forestry Northwest June 37/2 It is this treatment which reduces BOD and toxicity before it is discharged into the river. 2004 D. D. Mara Dom. Wastewater Treatm. Developing Countries v. 68 It would actually be more convenient to measure the 3-day BOD at 30°C which can be shown..to be essentially equal to the 5-day 20°C BOD. < as lemmas |
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