sunbaken.
/ˈsʌnbeɪk/, U.S. /ˈsənˌbeɪk/, Australian English /ˈsʌnbæek/, New Zealand English /ˈsʌnbæek/ 1. The process of being dried up, parched, or hardened by the heat of the sun; (also) the effect of this process.The exact sense of quot. 1884 is unclear; it may perhaps show an isolated example of sense 2 in a U.S. context.
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1884 Chicago Tribune 5 July 12/7 A lake, Sunbake, Headache, Mistake.
1886 S. Austral. Reg. (Adelaide) 12 Jan. 6/4 In England after the hunting season a horse can hardly be turned out before May, and by the middle of June the ground is getting hard from sunbake.
1901 in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. (1903) 8 671 The farming in this region..is done by planting in ridges, as a protection against heat and sunbake.
1941 Canad. National Mag. Sept. 23/1 Just look at your skin. Probably since September came you have been seeing..that dry, leathery texture coming from sunbake and windburn on the water and the open road.
2000 K. J. K. Mmbagha in A. Luvai & K. Makokha Echoes across Valley iv. 105 Rotting under grass thatch or congealed by sunbake.
2. Australian and New Zealand. An act or period of sunbathing. Cf. sunbake v., sunbathe n.
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1906 Austral. Star (Sydney) 29 Oct. 1/3 They are not allowed to have a ‘sunbake’ after their swim.
1940 Digger Yarns I'd been 'avin' a bit of a sunbake all the mornin'.
1958 Tararua 28 First is the salubrium, a rest or sunbake in salubrious conditions.
1967 D. Horne Educ. Young Donald 10 I would walk there to have a swim and a sunbake.
2006 Cairns (Queensland) Post (Nexis) 14 Nov. 48 Sightings also came from Palm Cove on Sunday morning, having a sunbake before flying home.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sunbakev.
/ˈsʌnbeɪk/, U.S. /ˈsənˌbeɪk/, Australian English /ˈsʌnbæek/, New Zealand English /ˈsʌnbæek/ Australian and New Zealand.
intransitive. To sunbathe.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > be subjected or exposed to heat or fire [verb (intransitive)] > expose oneself to sun > in order to tan
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1907 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 19 Nov. 5/4 Many bathers were allowed to lie about on the beach, sun-baking, etc.
1918 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Jan. 24/4 She was at Manly when she last wrote—sun-baking.
1957 D. Whitington Treasure upon Earth 62 Sun-baking later on the sand she told him a little of herself.
1991 D. A. Stewart Springtime in Taranaki 84 The beach was of the famous Taranaki iron-sand, grey in the heat where we sunbaked.
2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 3 July 5/2 (caption) Shane and Simon Warne sunbake poolside yesterday at their luxury resort.
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ˈsunbaker n. a person who sunbathes; (also) one who tans readily.
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1911 Southland (N.Z.) Times 10 Oct. 3/2 The [boxing] contest was fought in the open, the men having no protection from a hot sun. This circumstance, however, did not affect Smith, who is a ‘sun-baker’. Howard, on the other hand, was pink as a rose.
1933 Brisbane Courier 2 Jan. 12/2 Competent observers at Southport yesterday considered the crowd of bathers and sun-bakers on the Main Beach greater than on Christmas Day.
1949 C. B. Maxwell Surf 41 A sunbaker sat up and pushed forward a well-filled pot. ‘Have a beer, sergeant!’
2000 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 29 Aug. The city that's home to the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and thousands of topless sunbakers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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