单词 | bowery |
释义 | boweryn. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] townOE wick1086 farm1414 gainery1424 farmhold1471 room?a1513 farm place1526 colony1566 labouring1604 podere1605 fund1694 location1813 bowery1842 ranch1865 1842 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 225 He had purchased a farm, or, as the Dutch Settlers called it, a bowerie. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iv. i. 203 His abode, which he had fixed at a Bowerie or country-seat at a short distance from the city, just at what is now called Dutch-street. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxii. 53 The [Dutch] emigrants were scattered on boweries or plantations. 2. the Bowery n. an area of southern Manhattan in New York City.Formerly an area of squalid and wretched character, noted for its cheap places of amusement and frequented by homeless vagrants. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in North America > (part of) New York the Bowery1787 Gotham1807 hell's kitchen1879 tenderloin district1887 west side1897 Big Apple1922 village1929 apple1939 Soul City1964 1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 27 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 305 I..left the city by way of the Bowery. c1844 R. H. Collyer Lights & Shadows Amer. Life 7 The crowd and bustle of business in Chatham Street, and the Bowery. 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxviii. 130 Stiff as a cigar-store Indian from the Bowery. 3. (See quot. 1878.) Both examples refer to Salt Lake City, Utah. ΚΠ 1869 S. Bowles Our New West xii. 244 An audience of four or five thousands spread out under the ‘Bowery’ adjoining the Tabernacle where the summer meetings are held. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxi. 341 At once the bretheren were called together in the bowery—an open shed where they usually worshiped. Compounds C1. attributive, in sense ‘of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Bowery’. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective] carlisha1240 lewdc1380 carlc1450 villain1483 ruffian1528 shake-ragged1550 porterlike1568 popular1583 ungracious1584 ordinarya1586 tapsterly1589 mechanic1598 round-headed1598 base-like1600 strummell-patch1600 porterly1603 scrubbing1603 vernaculous1607 plebeian1615 reptile1653 proletarian1663 mobbish1695 low1725 terraefilial1745 low-lifed1747 Whitechapel1785 lowlife1794 boweryish1846 gutter1849 bowery1852 lowish1886 swab1914 lumpen1944 1852 C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand 29 Its occupants are of not-to-be-mistaken Bowery cut—veritable b'hoys. 1884 H. G. Carleton Thompson St. Poker Club 14 Mr. Tooter Williams and the odor of a Bowery cigar entered together. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xviii. 263 ‘Hell!’ he cried, with a torrent of Bowery oaths. C2. Bowery boy n. a rough or rowdy of a type at one time characteristic of the Bowery. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > raising outcry > Bowery Bowery boy1840 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > rough or boisterous > person > of specific area Bowery boy1840 Bowery girl1856 Apache1902 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 28 Aug. 2/1 The Bowery boys of New York have..eclipsed the nice young men of Baltimore. 1862 O. W. Norton Army Lett. 48 The Twenty-fifth New York is composed of New York Roughs, Bowery boys, ‘Dead Rabbits’, etc. Bowery girl n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > rough or boisterous > person > of specific area Bowery boy1840 Bowery girl1856 Apache1902 1856 Spirit of Times 1 Nov. 149/1 Starflower of the blooming Bower-y girls. 1882 J. D. McCabe New York 642 The original ‘Bowery Girl’ must have been made of a rib of the original ‘Bowery Boy’, so exactly was she his counterpart. a1952 E. J. Brady in R. Ward Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 185 The Bowery gal she knows 'er know; The Frisco gal is silly. Derivatives ˈboweryish adj. smacking of the Bowery in New York. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective] carlisha1240 lewdc1380 carlc1450 villain1483 ruffian1528 shake-ragged1550 porterlike1568 popular1583 ungracious1584 ordinarya1586 tapsterly1589 mechanic1598 round-headed1598 base-like1600 strummell-patch1600 porterly1603 scrubbing1603 vernaculous1607 plebeian1615 reptile1653 proletarian1663 mobbish1695 low1725 terraefilial1745 low-lifed1747 Whitechapel1785 lowlife1794 boweryish1846 gutter1849 bowery1852 lowish1886 swab1914 lumpen1944 1846 E. A. Poe Wks. (1864) III. 109 Elevating the tone of this ‘Editor's Table’ (which its best friends are forced to admit is a little Boweryish). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). boweryadj. Of the nature of a bower; embowering, leafy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [adjective] > having arbours pleached1600 arboured1610 bowery1713 boweringa1717 embowering1717 bowered1746 bower-enshaded1816 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade > specific leafy bowery1713 boweringa1717 1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 11 Bow'ry Mazes and surrounding Greens. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 77 Shaded..by wild overgrown shrubs, bowery acacias. 1862 M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I II. vii. 157 The boweriest part of the garden. 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