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单词 stinger
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stingern.1

Brit. /ˈstɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈstɪŋər/
Etymology: < sting v.1+ -er suffix1.
1. One who stings; applied figuratively to Death. Also, one who goads or instigates; one who has a sharp tongue.
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the world > life > death > [noun] > personified or as an agent
deathOE
dragon?a1513
stinger1552
stretch-legc1560
king of terrors1610
divorcer?1611
reaper1650
raw-bone1784
Small-Back1823
grim reaper1847
the great or last enemy1885
scytheman1909
the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates
prickera1382
stirrerc1384
enticerc1386
exciter1387
risera1398
solicitor1412
erterc1440
prompter1440
stirrer?1533
motionerc1535
author1546
onsetter1549
stinger1552
setter-on1560
incentor1570
incensora1575
mover1578
whetter1579
out-hounder1596
hounder1597
egger on1598
inciter1598
instigator1598
urger1598
motive1600
fomenter1607
inflamer1609
fetcher in?1611
provokera1616
putter-ona1616
monitor1616
spurrer1632
outputter1639
poddera1640
commoter1646
impulsor1653
shaker and mover1874
agent provocateur1888
impeller1889
sooler1935
spark plug1941
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > one who uses invective or abuse
scoldc1175
scolder1423
railer1513
reviler1517
stinger1552
disgracer1570
invectiver1596
inveighera1601
outrayer1602
blatant1610
vent-giver1611
invector1654
insectator1706
slangwhanger1807
vituperator1837
invectivist1862
clapperclawer1873
vituperant1889
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Prycker or stynger, Stigator, stimulator.
1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 13 To stingers suche a stingyng crowne, of Nettelles doeth belong.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Triumph of Faith in tr. Deuine Weekes & Wks. 564 Life of our life, our deaths death, Stingers sting.
a1607 H. Chettle Trag. Hoffman (1631) sig. F1v Haue ye not heard I haue bin a stinger, a tickler, a wormer.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Esguillonneur, a pricker, stinger.
1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger ii. ii. 507 Pratlers, tatlers, stingers [It. mordaci].
1827 C. Lamb Going or Gone in Poems 5 Death, that last Stinger.
2. An animal or plant that stings.
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the world > plants > [noun] > poisonous or stinging
stinger1593
noxious weed1773
banewort1864
the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > that stings
stinger1593
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > stings or bites > cause of
stinger1593
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 143 The gad-fly is a little creature; but some little creatures be stingers.
1602 Contention Liberalitie & Prodigalitie iv. ii. sig. D3v Thornes, thistles, and nettles most horrible stingers, Rauens, grypes, and gryphons, oh vengible wringers.
1616 T. Scot Philomythie To Rdr. sig. ¶¶3v He longs for hony, That mongst the angry Waspes thrusts his bold fingers, And from their neasts in Summer, hunts those stingers.
1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) 512 The insects of this order [Hymenoptera] may be divided into two groups, Stingers and Piercers.
1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 293 The Girardinia Leschenaultii, or Nilgiri nettle, a most virulent stinger.
3. Something that stings or smarts; e.g. a sharp blow, or the hand that delivers it; something that causes sharp distress, a pungent speech or crushing argument; a sharp frost. Now colloquial. Also Australian, an exceptionally hot or cold period of time.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun]
roodOE
thornc1230
prickc1384
rack?a1425
travailerc1450
goading1548
twinge1548
goad1553
tormentor1553
cut1568
stingera1577
butcher1579
torture1612
bosom-devil1651
wound1844
knife-edge1876
nemesis1933
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > a sharp or smart blow
dab1300
rapc1330
thresta1400
bruntc1400
knap14..
yedderc1440
gird1487
yert1509
fillip1543
yark1555
flewet1570
stingera1577
flirt1577
wherret1577
riprapc1580
spang1595
nick1651
lick1680
flip1692
yowf1711
clink1722
wherrya1726
click1773
whither1791
swata1800
yank1818
snock1825
clip1830
snop1849
clinkera1863
siserary1893
blip1894
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > a period of
stinger1852
storm1880
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > period of extreme weather
stinger1899
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > instance of invective or abuse
reproach1485
yarking1565
revilement1577
skinning1852
stinger1900
stinker1912
a1577 G. Gascoigne Grief of Joye iv. xxiii, in Compl. Wks. (1910) II. 552 But that so sweete a synger, Shoulde dye so sone: that sorrowe seemde a stynger.
1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case iv. ii. I 2 b San. That's a stinger, tis a good wench, be not daunted.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Stinger, a sharp and rapid hit.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxviii. 382 My eyes, but we're in for a stinger!
1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 39 Old Aunt Lapaccia trussed me with one hand, (Its fellow was a stinger as I knew).
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. vi. 97 At nine o'clock..the gun fires... And when you hear him go, I think you'll say he's a Stinger.
1899 ‘S. Rudd’ in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 103 My! it'll be a stinger to-night.
1900 A. Upward Ebenezer Lobb 46 I wrote him back a stinger which he will not soon forget.
1904 H. G. Wells Food of Gods ii. i. 166 One [button] hit me a regular stinger just 'ere, mum.
1942 E. Langley Pea Pickers xiv. 220 The next day was a stinger... It dawned sultry red.
4. A long structure attached to the stern of a pipe-laying barge which supports the pipe as it enters the water and prevents it from buckling.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > support at stern of pipe-laying barge
stinger1958
1958 Offshore Drilling Oct. 11/2 The ‘stinger’ is final cradle [sic], submerged 85 feet off the stern of the lay barge, which holds the pipe to a 2500 ft. radius to prevent any undue strain during the process of lowering it into the underwater trench.
1966 M. J. Lamb in Exploiting the Ocean (Marine Technol. Soc.) 296 A ‘stinger’ is used in deep water to limit the sag in the pipe.
1969 Preprints 1st Ann. Offshore Technol. Conf. 2 38/1 As the lay barge proceeds into deep water the articulated stinger curves downward and the suspended pipe span acquires a distinct S-shaped curve. The upper part of this curve, called the over-bend, is supported by the stinger.
1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 6/3 Key changes include..the addition of 160-ft truss-type stinger in place of the usual pontoon stinger.

Draft additions 1993

b. U.S. = sting n.2 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > stinging organ
tanga1350
sting1398
stingle1398
spear1608
stinger1926
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.
1926 J. K. Strecker in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 77 In an article referred to above, I mention the stinging snake and its so-called stinger.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road iv. iv. 268 Suddenly a bug flew into his arm and embedded a long stinger in it that made him howl.
1972 Sci. Amer. Apr. 93/2 Even in the winter bees too cold to fly can protrude their stingers; a mass of cold clustered bees with protruded stingers reminds one of a porcupine.

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5. Military. With capital initial. The name of a type of lightweight, shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missile with infrared homing, manufactured in the U.S.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [noun] > types of
loon1947
seeker1949
Honest John1952
Nike1952
heat-seeker1956
anti-ballistic missile1957
Polaris1957
Pershing1958
SAM1958
cruise missile1959
sea-cat1959
minuteman1961
ABM1963
lance1964
Exocet1970
trident1972
MX missile1973
stinger1975
cruise1976
tomahawk1976
silo buster1977
Euromissile1979
Brilliant Pebbles1988
1975 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 17 Mar. 42/2 The Stinger missile system has experienced problems in technical development that have caused the program to be extended about 14 months in development.
1982 Daily Tel. 5 Aug. 5/1 Mr Pattie refers to adverse Press comment comparing the performance of Blowpipe unfavourably with the American heat-seeking missile, Stinger.
1987 tr. M. Gorbachev Perestroika ii. v. 177 The transfer of the Stingers to the counter-revolutionary bands..is simply immoral and totally unjustifiable.
1990 Combat & Survival July 19/3 The Stinger missile is a battle-proven way to take out helicopters, which is more than can be said of British shoulder-launched systems.

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Frequently with capital initial. Also Stinger Spike System. A device used by police officers consisting of an extendable spiked metal strip which may be placed across a road in order to stop a vehicle by puncturing its tyres.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom; Stinger Spike System is a proprietary name in the United States.
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1991 New Scientist 24 Aug. 23/2 Donald Kilgrow first began working on his Stinger Spike System after participating in a chase that the police ended by erecting a roadblock... The spikes..‘are stainless steel, and they will punch right through a steel-belted radial tyre and deflate it..in about 20 seconds’.
1996 Times 30 Jan. 6/8 A police car chasing five masked men in a stolen vehicle..fell foul of a Stinger, a chain of spikes thrown down by other officers and intended for their quarry.
2003 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 4 May 13 A stolen Toyota Tarago led police in a 40-minute chase along the Bruce Highway. The pursuit ended at Burpengary when police placed ‘stingers’—or road spikes—on the Burpengary weighbridge.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stingern.2

Brit. /ˈstɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈstɪŋər/, Scottish English /ˈstɪŋər/
Etymology: < sting v.2 + -er suffix1.
Scottish and dialect.
A thatcher; a thatching-tool.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > roofer > thatcher
theeker14..
thacker1420
thacksterc1440
thatcherc1450
thatchester1583
stinger1808
society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > other thatching equipment
eaves-knifea1642
knape1764
groom1790
sting1802
stinger1854
thatching-beetle1874
spartle1894
spud1939
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Stinger, a mender of thatched roofs; so called, because he uses a sting or short pointed stick in doing his work.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 296 Stincher or Stinger, a tool, described under its synonyme Battledore. Used by thatchers when repairing a roof, but not..when a whole building is newly thatched.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stingern.3

Brit. /ˈstɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈstɪŋər/
Etymology: Variant of stengah n.
= stengah n. Also: used as the name of various other mixed drinks or cocktails (see quots. 1973, 1976).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > other cocktails
balderdash1611
twist1699
Coke-upon-Littleton1740
julep1787
camphor julep1788
switchel1790
sling1792
mint sling1804
mint julep1809
swizzle1813
smash1850
rattlesnake1862
sour1862
Collins1865
John Collins1865
split1882
rickey1893
Picon punch1900
stinger1901
Bronx1906
Jack Rose1912
Pimm's1912
orange blossom1919
Americano1928
Merry Widow1930
snowball1930
atomic cocktail1941
Sazarac cocktail1941
grasshopper1949
Bellini1955
saketini1959
wallbanger1970
caipirinha1973
Long Island ice tea1978
Alabama slammer1980
Long Island iced tea1981
1901 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 106 Two ‘stingers’ were brought... A ‘stinger’..is a noggin of Scotch whiskey, enlivened by much or little, according to individual taste, of the local buzz-water.
1903 W. Del Mar Around World through Japan vii. 64 A ‘peg’ of whiskey and tonic-water, followed by a stengah (the Malay word for half, usually pronounced stinger) or split drink.
1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ix. 376 I found 'em in the palm grill, or whatever it's called, drinking stingers.
1928 C. Mackenzie Extraordinary Women x. 176 Two rounds of stingers brought the evening to a close.
1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) x. 242 Have another daiquiri... Or change to a stinger.
1961 I. Fleming Thunderball xv. 156 After they had had coffee and a stinger at the bar they separated and went to the [gaming] tables.
1973 Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) May 45/1 B & B Stinger. 3 parts B & B Liqueur, 1 part White Creme de Menthe.
1976 Scotsman 24 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 3/7 A Stinger..is a better drink, being creme de menthe well laced with brandy, and stronger.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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