| 单词 | to go a-gooding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go a-gooding 2. The action of begging or collecting alms; spec. the custom of going round the wealthier households of a parish at Christmas time to beg for money or food, typically on either St. Thomas's day (21st December) or Boxing Day. Frequently in to go a-gooding. Cf. Gooding Day n. at Compounds. Now English regional and historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)] thigc1300 begc1384 crave1393 to go a-begged1393 prowl1530 to go (or have been) a begging1535 maund?1536 to bear the wallet1546 cant1567 prog1579 to turn to bag and wallet1582 skelder1602 maunder1611 strike1618 emendicate1623 mendicate1623 to go a-gooding1646 mump1685 shool1736 cadge1819 to stand pad1841 stag1860 bum1870 schnorr1875 panhandle1894 pling1915 stem1924 nickel-and-dime1942 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > begging thigging1331 cravingc1430 rogation?1536 progging1579 skeldering1600 begging1606 beggary1608 maunding1608 maund1610 gooding1646 mendication1646 mumping1685 mendicity1756 cadge1819 cadging1859 mumpery1894 plinging1910 yegging1913 panhandling1931 aggressive panhandling1981 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > begging > traditional on specific occasion souling1813 gooding1818 Thomasing1847 quête1903 society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > other festivities hoppingc1330 hocking1406 church ale1448 bid-alec1462 kirk-ale1543 maids' ale1547 quaff-tide1582 help-ale1587 clerk-ale1627 Chinese New Year1704 Rasa-yatra1767 spring festival1788 souling1813 gooding1818 walking day1826 yatra1827 triacontaëterid1839 pwe1842 Thomasing1847 hocking-ale1854 Mary-ale1857 Oktoberfest1859 Marymass1866 club-walking1874 Lag b'Omer1874 full moon festival1876 beerfest1877 Tanabata1880 Moon Festival1892 bierfest1908 sausage fest1908 Zar1931 rara1941 mas'1956 molimo1960 Kwanzaa1970 1646 H. Mill 2nd Pt. Nights Search vi. 53 A gooding bagge, a coyfe for's wife. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xiii. 92 Some cruell Lord..could..dispeople a whole parish, and send many soules a gooding. c1660 R. Carpenter Pragmatical Jesuit iv. iv. 46 Thou art a Fool in grain, an unmannerly Fool. He comes a gooding. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. vi. iv. 60/1 That old Women..that might work, and went a Gooding, should be Hatchilers of the Flax. 1794 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 292/2 The women who went a-gooding (as they call it in these parts) on St. Thomas's day, might, in return for alms, have presented their benefactors with sprigs of palm and bunches of primroses. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) To go a gooding, is a custom observed in several parts of England on St. Thomas's day by women only, who ask alms, and in return for them wish all that is good..to their benefactors [etc.]. 1851 S. Judd Margaret (1871) x. 50 Thanks-giving day..has no gooding, candles, clog, carol, box, or hobby-horse. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 56 Gooding, the custom of women going round to beg for corn or money on St. Thomas' Day against the Christmas Feast. 1889 D. E. Hurst Horsham (ed. 2) xviii. 260 Gooding, the ancient custom of going round on St. Thomas's Day and receiving small doles of goods or money to be spent in keeping Christmas. 1906 Overland Monthly Dec. 472/2 In Yorkshire, on Christmas morning, the village children go ‘gooding’, bearing with them a fir tree as badge of their mission. 1967 in S. Marshall Fenland Chron. ii. v. 204 The old women would put on their best clothes and go gooding... The custom was that they were given any left-overs from Christmas. 2000 T. Wales Sussex as she wus Spoke 22 Gooding, custom of calling at big houses for gifts on St Thomas's Day. < as lemmas |
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