bluetonguen.

Brit.

/ˈbluːtʌŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbluˌtəŋ/

Forms: also as two words and with hyphen.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., tongue n.

Etymology: < blue adj. + tongue n.In sense 1 after South African Dutch blauwtong (Afrikaans bloutong).

1. Originally South African.

a. African horse sickness, esp. in a form in which the tongue is markedly swollen and pale. Now rare or disused.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of horses or sheep

cratches?1523

bluetongue1863

Borna disease1898

1863 J. S. Dobie Jrnl. 19 Apr. in S. Afr. Jrnl. (1945) 86 Blue tongue here also (which is a swelling of the tongue and lips which prevents the poor beasts from eating).

1887 H. R. Haggard Jess viii. 70 It's a beautiful veldt..no horse sickness, no blue-tongue.

1907 F. T. Barton Horse: Ailments & Accidents 57 In the œdematous form, the head becomes greatly enlarged, and, in blue tongue, the tongue livid and swollen.

1938 H. F. Trew Afr. Man Hunts i. 12 Then our horses began to die from a strange disease called ‘blue tongue’ for which I found there was no preventive and no remedy.

b. A viral disease affecting sheep and (less commonly) cattle and other domestic and wild ruminants, characterized by inflammation of the nasal and oral cavities and by lameness due to coronitis or laminitis, and caused by an orbivirus transmitted by midges (genus Culicoides).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > other disorders

shotc1500

foul?1523

redwater1594

blacklega1722

garget1725

dunt1784

black water1800

cothe1800

fardel-bound1825

navel ill1834

bluetongue1867

heartwater1880

orf1890

tick-borne fever1921

strike1932

1867 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 355/1 A disease called the blue-tongue is very fatal to sheep at Natal.

1893 Vet. Jrnl. & Ann. Compar. Pathol. 37 331 The lips, cheeks, and tongue [of a sheep with malarial catarrhal fever] become greatly swollen, the latter often presenting a purple colour, hence one of the names given to this disease by the Dutch farmers—Bluetongue.

1908 Natal Agric. Jrnl. 11 3 As the result of recent investigations into the disease of bluetongue in sheep.., the Government Bacteriologist has been able to produce a vaccine capable of protecting sheep against this disease.

1963 Times 22 Apr. 2/6 Blue tongue, though it exists no nearer to the United Kingdom than Spain and Portugal, is so feared in Australia that it has led to a ban on all livestock imports from Britain.

2007 Daily Tel. 24 Aug. 2/2 There is an increased risk of bluetongue, a disease of all ruminants, including cattle, sheep, deer and goats, spreading across the Channel for the first time.

a. Chiefly Australian. A blue-tongued skink (genus Tiliqua). Also attributive.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Tiliqua (blue-tongue)

scincoid lizard1790

scincoid1831

blue-tongued lizard1848

sleepy lizard1883

bluetongue1892

blue-tongued skink1914

1892 J. P. Thomson Brit. New Guinea 278 The plant-eating Tiliqua, formerly called Cyclodus, and familiarly the Sleeping Lizard or Blue Tongue.

1904 Daily Chron. 28 Jan. 6/2 The ‘Australian Blue-Tongue’ is a..lizard, with a curious habit of thrusting forth a long tongue as bright as turquoise blue.

1979 C. Klein Women of Certain Age 60 A blue-tongue opened a sudden mouth at her feet, almost catapulting her down the stairs.

2001 Cats Aug. 2 He's also the proud dad of a Devon Rex named Ricky who plays the piano, two dogs, Chaser and Lucy, and a blue-tongue skink, Cosette.

b. slang (originally Australian). = rouseabout n. 2. [An extended use of sense 2a, with derogatory comparison of the worker's behaviour to the perceived sleepiness or laziness of the skink.]

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer > other personnel

rouseabout1861

tar-boy1888

bluetongue1900

broomie1933

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [noun] > odd-job or handyman

factotum1562

Magister factotum1573

Johannes factotum1592

Jack of all trades1618

Tom of all trades1631

John-of-all-trades1639

handyman1742

odd man1743

gimcrack1766

Jack of all work1773

orraman1802

bottle washer1835

Jack1836

odd-jobs man1859

roustabout1862

hob-jobber1873

rouster1882

odd-jobber1886

knockabout1889

orra-loon1895

rouser1896

trouncer1896

leatherneck1898

loppy1898

rouseabout1901

bluetongue2002

1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Aug. 14/3 The shearer terms the roustabout variously a ‘loppy’, ‘bluetongue’, ‘wop-wop’, ‘leather-neck’, ‘crocodile’, &c.

1975 L. Ryan Shearers 124 ‘Righto, you blue-tongues!’ he bellowed out. ‘Get stuck into it!’

1988 More (Auckland) Mar. 31 A rouseabout—also variously known as a rousie,..the person ‘picking up’ or a blue tongue—is responsible for the passage of wool after being shorn from the sheeps' back to the wool press where it is baled.

2002 Townsville Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Aug. 43 He started work on September 19, 1942, as a ‘bluetongue’, or tractor driver's offsider.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 1).

ΚΠ

1905 Rep. Transvaal Dept. Agric. 118 The mule must have been susceptible to horse-sickness, and the inoculation of Bluetongue virus did not produce the disease.

1907 F. T. Barton Horse: Ailments & Accidents 56 Three forms of Cape horse sickness are recognised:—The pulmonary, the œdematous (big head), and the glossal or blue-tongue disease.

1940 Sci. News Let. 10 Aug. 85/2 For some not clearly understood reason, the bluetongue germ or virus grew on these sick eggs.

2010 Farmers Weekly 26 Mar. 81/1 Then there is the bull situation to sort out and all the bluetongue vaccinations.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bluetongue
释义	bluetonguen. Brit. /ˈbluːtʌŋ/, U.S. /ˈbluˌtəŋ/ Forms: also as two words and with hyphen. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., tongue n. Etymology: < blue adj. + tongue n.In sense 1 after South African Dutch blauwtong (Afrikaans bloutong). 1. Originally South African. a. African horse sickness, esp. in a form in which the tongue is markedly swollen and pale. Now rare or disused. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of horses or sheep cratches?1523 bluetongue1863 Borna disease1898 1863 J. S. Dobie Jrnl. 19 Apr. in S. Afr. Jrnl. (1945) 86 Blue tongue here also (which is a swelling of the tongue and lips which prevents the poor beasts from eating). 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess viii. 70 It's a beautiful veldt..no horse sickness, no blue-tongue. 1907 F. T. Barton Horse: Ailments & Accidents 57 In the œdematous form, the head becomes greatly enlarged, and, in blue tongue, the tongue livid and swollen. 1938 H. F. Trew Afr. Man Hunts i. 12 Then our horses began to die from a strange disease called ‘blue tongue’ for which I found there was no preventive and no remedy. b. A viral disease affecting sheep and (less commonly) cattle and other domestic and wild ruminants, characterized by inflammation of the nasal and oral cavities and by lameness due to coronitis or laminitis, and caused by an orbivirus transmitted by midges (genus Culicoides). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > other disorders shotc1500 foul?1523 redwater1594 blacklega1722 garget1725 dunt1784 black water1800 cothe1800 fardel-bound1825 navel ill1834 bluetongue1867 heartwater1880 orf1890 tick-borne fever1921 strike1932 1867 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 355/1 A disease called the blue-tongue is very fatal to sheep at Natal. 1893 Vet. Jrnl. & Ann. Compar. Pathol. 37 331 The lips, cheeks, and tongue [of a sheep with malarial catarrhal fever] become greatly swollen, the latter often presenting a purple colour, hence one of the names given to this disease by the Dutch farmers—Bluetongue. 1908 Natal Agric. Jrnl. 11 3 As the result of recent investigations into the disease of bluetongue in sheep.., the Government Bacteriologist has been able to produce a vaccine capable of protecting sheep against this disease. 1963 Times 22 Apr. 2/6 Blue tongue, though it exists no nearer to the United Kingdom than Spain and Portugal, is so feared in Australia that it has led to a ban on all livestock imports from Britain. 2007 Daily Tel. 24 Aug. 2/2 There is an increased risk of bluetongue, a disease of all ruminants, including cattle, sheep, deer and goats, spreading across the Channel for the first time. 2. a. Chiefly Australian. A blue-tongued skink (genus Tiliqua). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Tiliqua (blue-tongue) scincoid lizard1790 scincoid1831 blue-tongued lizard1848 sleepy lizard1883 bluetongue1892 blue-tongued skink1914 1892 J. P. Thomson Brit. New Guinea 278 The plant-eating Tiliqua, formerly called Cyclodus, and familiarly the Sleeping Lizard or Blue Tongue. 1904 Daily Chron. 28 Jan. 6/2 The ‘Australian Blue-Tongue’ is a..lizard, with a curious habit of thrusting forth a long tongue as bright as turquoise blue. 1979 C. Klein Women of Certain Age 60 A blue-tongue opened a sudden mouth at her feet, almost catapulting her down the stairs. 2001 Cats Aug. 2 He's also the proud dad of a Devon Rex named Ricky who plays the piano, two dogs, Chaser and Lucy, and a blue-tongue skink, Cosette. b. slang (originally Australian). = rouseabout n. 2. [An extended use of sense 2a, with derogatory comparison of the worker's behaviour to the perceived sleepiness or laziness of the skink.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer > other personnel rouseabout1861 tar-boy1888 bluetongue1900 broomie1933 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [noun] > odd-job or handyman factotum1562 Magister factotum1573 Johannes factotum1592 Jack of all trades1618 Tom of all trades1631 John-of-all-trades1639 handyman1742 odd man1743 gimcrack1766 Jack of all work1773 orraman1802 bottle washer1835 Jack1836 odd-jobs man1859 roustabout1862 hob-jobber1873 rouster1882 odd-jobber1886 knockabout1889 orra-loon1895 rouser1896 trouncer1896 leatherneck1898 loppy1898 rouseabout1901 bluetongue2002 1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Aug. 14/3 The shearer terms the roustabout variously a ‘loppy’, ‘bluetongue’, ‘wop-wop’, ‘leather-neck’, ‘crocodile’, &c. 1975 L. Ryan Shearers 124 ‘Righto, you blue-tongues!’ he bellowed out. ‘Get stuck into it!’ 1988 More (Auckland) Mar. 31 A rouseabout—also variously known as a rousie,..the person ‘picking up’ or a blue tongue—is responsible for the passage of wool after being shorn from the sheeps' back to the wool press where it is baled. 2002 Townsville Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Aug. 43 He started work on September 19, 1942, as a ‘bluetongue’, or tractor driver's offsider. Compounds General attributive (in sense 1). ΚΠ 1905 Rep. Transvaal Dept. Agric. 118 The mule must have been susceptible to horse-sickness, and the inoculation of Bluetongue virus did not produce the disease. 1907 F. T. Barton Horse: Ailments & Accidents 56 Three forms of Cape horse sickness are recognised:—The pulmonary, the œdematous (big head), and the glossal or blue-tongue disease. 1940 Sci. News Let. 10 Aug. 85/2 For some not clearly understood reason, the bluetongue germ or virus grew on these sick eggs. 2010 Farmers Weekly 26 Mar. 81/1 Then there is the bull situation to sort out and all the bluetongue vaccinations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1863
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