单词 | bottle-arsed |
释义 | bottle-arsedadj. 1. Of a person: having large or broad buttocks (used chiefly as a term of abuse). rare (archaic in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [adjective] > types of > person having bottle-arsedc1550 big-arsed1810 big-assed1944 c1550 C. Bansley Treat. Pryde & Abuse of Women sig. A.iiv Downe for shame wyth these bottell arste bummes, and theyr trappynge trinkets so vayne. 1909 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang (rev. ed.) I. 339/2 Bottle-arse, a full-breeched man or woman. Whence bottle-arsed = broad in the beam, full buttocked. 2005 L. St. C. Robson Shadow Patriots i. 7 Od's ballocks! Leave off, you bottle-arsed rascal. 2. Printing slang. Of metal type or printed characters: wider at one end than at the other. Now historical and rare.Often as a result of excessive wear on the type, or incorrect levelling in the form. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [adjective] > wider at one end bottle-arsed1747 bottled1877 1747 J. Parker Let. 24 Sept. in B. Franklin Papers (1961) III. 175 The new Letter..is not bottle-ars'd; but is unhappily about a Hair-space shorter than the other. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 233 It [sc. the type] drives out, or gets in, either at the head, or the foot, and is, as Printers call it, Bottle-arsed. 1889 Inland Printer Sept. 1081/1 The type, not being heated, will not become soft on the bottom, nor ‘bottle-arsed’; hence a less frequent renewal of body fonts will be required. 1914 Graphic Arts July 11/2 In the days of hand-mould casting, types which came out thicker at the feet than at the shoulder were called bottle-arsed. 1964 G. Legman Horn Bk. iii. 281 Bottle-arsed printed numbers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.c1550 |
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