body snatchern.

Brit.

/ˈbɒdɪ ˌsnatʃə/, U.S.

/ˈbɑdi ˌsnætʃər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: body n., snatcher n.

Etymology: < body n. + snatcher n. Compare body-snatching adj., body-snatching n.

†a. slang. A bailiff or other officer who carries out arrests; a ‘bum-bailiff’. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who executes orders of court > bailiff

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1778 Public Advertiser 19 Aug. They proved to be two of those Body-Snatchers, called hired Constables, who were patrolling the Fields.

1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 71 A Gentleman who lay under some difficulties retired into the country. The Body-Snatchers happened to get intelligence where he was.

1834 G. H. Weatherhead Pedestrian Tour France & Italy 96 The bailiffs arrived to seize their prey, when the priest claimed the privilege of his order;..so that the law's body-snatchers, thus foiled, saw their booty borne off in triumph.

1877 R. Rae Newport 40 Look here, my body-snatchers, you have unlawfully abridged the liberty of one of the sons of the sovereign State of New York!

b. A person who or thing which abducts, captures, or takes control of someone. Also in extended use.In later use frequently with allusion to Jack Finney's science fiction novel The Body Snatchers (1955), or any of several film adaptations based on this, in which alien seed pods replicate and replace the population of a town; cf. pod person n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [noun]

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shanghaier1917

snatcher1932

1852 B. R. Hall Frank Freeman's Barber Shop xiv. 252 A black woman told Carrie not to say master and missis, because you were body-snatchers and slave-drivers.

1894 Harper's Mag. Sept. 581/2 Girls who can't let a man go by without reaching out for him. That's what I call them—body snatchers.

1961 Fortune June 129/1 McCulloch had no compunction about using these executive recruiting firms. They were, he knew, often derisively called ‘body snatchers’, ‘head hunters’, ‘flesh peddlers’, and ‘pirates’.

1972 Chicago Tribune 4 Oct. iii. 17/1 The body snatchers are employing the same techniques..as the newscasters whose bodies they've invaded.

1994 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 9 Aug. (heading) South claims hundreds abducted By North Korea's ‘body snatchers’.

2000 C. Golden Head Games 166 ‘What are you looking at?’ ‘An alien body snatcher who stole my partner and took her place.’

2. A person who illicitly disinters or steals dead bodies or body parts, originally for sale to anatomists for dissection; a resurrectionist. Now chiefly historical.Before the passage of the Anatomy Act in 1832, the only cadavers which could legally be used for dissection were those of executed murderers; bodysnatchers exploited a market which had grown up to supply increased demand from anatomists.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > bodysnatcher > [noun]

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all-night man1861

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1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. Body-snatcher, a stealer of dead bodies from churchyards; which are sold to the surgeons and students in anatomy.

1824 E. Sutleffe Med. & Surg. Cases 289 A ‘resurrection man’, or, in a less impious phrase, a ‘body-snatcher’, passing at the instant, pressed through the sympathising crowd.

1844 J. C. Neal Peter Ploddy 74 A dear departed is much more likely to be resurrectionised by a surviving joke, than by the most intrepid of body-snatchers.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 937/2 So emboldened and careless did these body-snatchers become,..that they no longer confined themselves to pauper graves.

1993 Guardian 2 Nov. i. 7/7 Body-snatchers who supplied hospitals such as St Bartholomew's..with corpses for scientific research, with the remains being dumped in consecrated ground.

2008 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 19 Mar. 9 The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	body snatcher
释义	body snatchern. Brit. /ˈbɒdɪ ˌsnatʃə/, U.S. /ˈbɑdi ˌsnætʃər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: body n., snatcher n. Etymology: < body n. + snatcher n. Compare body-snatching adj., body-snatching n. 1. †a. slang. A bailiff or other officer who carries out arrests; a ‘bum-bailiff’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who executes orders of court > bailiff beadlec1000 ridemanlOE cacherela1325 outrider1332 bailiff1377 catchpolea1382 bailiec1386 officer?1387 sheriff's manc1400 attacher1440 messenger1482 tipped staffc1500 servitor1527 bailie-errant1528 processar1534 bum-bailiff1560 tipstaff1570 nut-hook1600 saffo1607 servera1612 bailiff-errant1612 bum-bailey1615 process servera1616 buckle-bosom1622 bumbee1653 exploiter1653 moar1656 bum1659 bummer1675 bumbail1696 bulldog1699 sheriff's officer1703 bum-trap1749 bound-bailiff1768 shelly-coata1774 body snatcher1778 lurcher1785 fool-finder1796 messenger1801 bugaboo1809 borough-bailiff1812 sheriff mair1812 speciality1815 grab1823 legalist1835 candy man1863 writter1882 sheriff1928 1778 Public Advertiser 19 Aug. They proved to be two of those Body-Snatchers, called hired Constables, who were patrolling the Fields. 1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 71 A Gentleman who lay under some difficulties retired into the country. The Body-Snatchers happened to get intelligence where he was. 1834 G. H. Weatherhead Pedestrian Tour France & Italy 96 The bailiffs arrived to seize their prey, when the priest claimed the privilege of his order;..so that the law's body-snatchers, thus foiled, saw their booty borne off in triumph. 1877 R. Rae Newport 40 Look here, my body-snatchers, you have unlawfully abridged the liberty of one of the sons of the sovereign State of New York! b. A person who or thing which abducts, captures, or takes control of someone. Also in extended use.In later use frequently with allusion to Jack Finney's science fiction novel The Body Snatchers (1955), or any of several film adaptations based on this, in which alien seed pods replicate and replace the population of a town; cf. pod person n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [noun] man-thiefeOE men-stealer1526 man-stealer1582 spirit1611 plagiary1613 spiriter1665 kidnapper1678 silver-cooper1796 abductor1809 body snatcher1852 shanghaier1917 snatcher1932 1852 B. R. Hall Frank Freeman's Barber Shop xiv. 252 A black woman told Carrie not to say master and missis, because you were body-snatchers and slave-drivers. 1894 Harper's Mag. Sept. 581/2 Girls who can't let a man go by without reaching out for him. That's what I call them—body snatchers. 1961 Fortune June 129/1 McCulloch had no compunction about using these executive recruiting firms. They were, he knew, often derisively called ‘body snatchers’, ‘head hunters’, ‘flesh peddlers’, and ‘pirates’. 1972 Chicago Tribune 4 Oct. iii. 17/1 The body snatchers are employing the same techniques..as the newscasters whose bodies they've invaded. 1994 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 9 Aug. (heading) South claims hundreds abducted By North Korea's ‘body snatchers’. 2000 C. Golden Head Games 166 ‘What are you looking at?’ ‘An alien body snatcher who stole my partner and took her place.’ 2. A person who illicitly disinters or steals dead bodies or body parts, originally for sale to anatomists for dissection; a resurrectionist. Now chiefly historical.Before the passage of the Anatomy Act in 1832, the only cadavers which could legally be used for dissection were those of executed murderers; bodysnatchers exploited a market which had grown up to supply increased demand from anatomists. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > bodysnatcher > [noun] resurrectionist1777 resurrection man1781 resurrection woman1815 body snatcher1819 resurrection cove1819 resurrectioner1822 resurrection jarvey1825 grab1831 snatcher1831 body lifter1832 all-night man1861 resurrector1861 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. Body-snatcher, a stealer of dead bodies from churchyards; which are sold to the surgeons and students in anatomy. 1824 E. Sutleffe Med. & Surg. Cases 289 A ‘resurrection man’, or, in a less impious phrase, a ‘body-snatcher’, passing at the instant, pressed through the sympathising crowd. 1844 J. C. Neal Peter Ploddy 74 A dear departed is much more likely to be resurrectionised by a surviving joke, than by the most intrepid of body-snatchers. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 937/2 So emboldened and careless did these body-snatchers become,..that they no longer confined themselves to pauper graves. 1993 Guardian 2 Nov. i. 7/7 Body-snatchers who supplied hospitals such as St Bartholomew's..with corpses for scientific research, with the remains being dumped in consecrated ground. 2008 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 19 Mar. 9 The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1778
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