单词 | stoney |
释义 | stoneyn.1 dialect. A child's coloured marble made of stone or a stone-like material. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble > types of nicker1675 alley1720 blood alley1821 commoney1837 Rouge Royal1837 peewee1848 stoney1856 knicker1860 bonce1862 plunker1863 dobber1875 agate1886 mig1886 glassy1887 miggle1890 shooter1892 aggie1896 knuckler1896 milkie1908 ghoen1913 miggie1916 immy1928 glarney1953 1856 Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 1 283/2 Stone marbles are called stoneys, and clay ones commoneys, though Dutch alleys are only stoneys enamelled. 1868 Little Corporal May 67/3 Chinies, Stonies, and Agates, some large and some small. 1884 ‘J. Strathesk’ More Bits from Blinkbonny ii. 33 Those played with were called ‘taas’, and consisted of ‘marbles, stanies, frenchies, moral-leggers, doggles, breakers’, [etc]. 1919 W. Wingate Poems 74 Reddies and stanies for ‘moshie’ or ‘ring’. 1956 G. E. Evans Ask Fellows who cut Hay xxiv. 215 Single marbles were placed in a long line, as many marbles as there were players... The player stood at the end of the line, an agreed distance from the first marble, or stoney as it was called. 1965 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 13 Apr. 6/4 A good ‘staney’, a hard stone boolie which could be hurled against the school wall without breaking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). Stoneyadj.n.2 colloquial (chiefly Canadian). A. adj. Designating the Stoney (sense B.); of or relating to the Stoney. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [adjective] Dogrib1766 Nootka1784 Nootkan1790 Dog-ribbed1791 beaver1801 Okanagan1814 Carrier1820 Sitka1822 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Nass1830 Tsimshian1836 Sitkan1851 Makah1855 Snohomish1856 Wakash1856 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Nisga'a1874 Tlingit1881 Nimpkish1886 Wakashan1892 Musqueam1902 Gitksan1917 Squamish1928 'Namgis1966 Nuu-chah-nulth1978 Nuxalk1981 1861 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 1 253 Many of the Stoney Indians can read and write in their own language. 1988 Canad. Geographic Feb. 76/1 He tells of a visit with Chief John Snow of the Stoney people. 1993 Canad. Geographic May 98/3 I wanted to spend more time with Father De Smet among the Stoney Indians in 1845. 2003 J. Treat Around Sacred Fire vi. 184 The two months of summer break were their only opportunity to immerse themselves in Stoney traditions. B. n.2 1. A member of a Siouan people inhabiting the Canadian province of Alberta. The Stoney are an offshoot of the Assiniboine, and although they are often confused with this group, the Stoney are a distinct people; their language and that spoken by the Assiniboines are mutually unintelligible. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun] Slave1789 beaver1801 Carrier1801 Musqueam1808 Nootkian1811 Okanagan1814 Takulli1820 Dogrib1823 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Bella Coola1834 Nootkan1835 Chilkat1836 Nootka1846 Squamish1846 Siwash1847 Kwakiutl1848 Nitinaht1848 Sitkan1848 Sitka1853 Makah1855 Stick Indian1857 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Mattole1864 Tlingit1865 Nisga'a1874 Hoochinoo1878 Nimpkish1885 Tsimshian1888 Gitksan1889 Nuxalk1910 Snohomish1910 Nuu-chah-nulth1983 Ditidaht1988 'Namgis1994 1861 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 1 251 At one time the Plain Stoneys or Assineboines were a very powerful tribe on the Saskatchewan district. 1870 D. Cameron tr. A. Taché Sketch North-west of Amer. 120 Englishmen also use the name Assiniboines, but they call this tribe of Sious Stonies. 1907 J. W. Schultz My Life as Indian xvii. 194 They found different tribes..and various mountain tribes, the Kutenais, Pend d'Oreilles, and Stonies. 1967 D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 7) xx. 309 The northern [branch of the Assiniboine], commonly known today as Stonies, settled on several small reserves in Saskatchewan and Alberta. 1976 Times 23 July 11/7 Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts, a Stoney Indian), an impassive little man. 2013 M. Enns Wild Horses, Wild Wolves iii. 60/2 The Stoneys, along with their horses, continued north to the area along the Bow River. 2. The Siouan language of the Stoney. Stoney was earlier assumed to be a Canadian or Alberta variety of the closely-related Assiniboine and sometimes called Northern Assiniboine. ΚΠ 1863 J. Palliser Jrnls., Rep. & Observ. Explorations Brit. N. Amer. 117 in Parl. Papers XXXIX. 441 Mr. Brazeau..was a wonderful Indian linguist, and spoke Stoney, Sioux, Salteau, Cree, Blackfoot, and Crow. 1983 E. G. Luxton in J. E. Foster Developing West 102 I was fortunate in having a mother who spoke Cree and Stony fluently and a father who spoke Stony. 2014 B. Rice Trouble with Beauty 98 You must be Stoney. You speak Stoney? You don't even speak Stoney! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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