Trojanadj.n.

/ˈtrəʊdʒən/

Forms: Also Middle English Troien, Middle English Troiane, Middle English–1500s Troyan, Middle English–1600s Troian, Middle English Troienne, 1500s Troyane, Troyen(e.

Etymology: Formerly Troyan, Troian/ˈtrɔɪən/; < Latin Trōiānus, < Trōja Troy. The spelling Troian apparently stood originally for Troyan; later it probably represents Trojan.

A. adj.

a. Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [adjective]

NinevitishOE

Trojanc1374

Sardian1551

Susian?1552

Illyrian1556

Phoenician?1556

Hyrcan1567

Sidonian1578

Phrygian1579

Smyrnian1579

Lycaonian1582

Paphlagonian1596

Lycian1598

Galatian1603

Cappadocian1607

Canaanite1613

Mysian1613

Phocaean1614

Phrygic1614

Dardana1616

Babylonized1701

Pergamene1703

Milesiana1722

Canaanitic1753

Palmyrenian1776

Smyrnaean1807

Troic1838

Minaean1844

Ninevite1848

Smyrniote1867

Isaurian1880

Mitannian1897

Iconian1899

Mitannite1911

Thraco-Phrygian1924

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Asia Minor and Middle East > Troy

Trojanc1374

Ilian1582

Dardanian1600

Dardana1616

Troic1838

Troadic1932

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 825 Antigone..Gan on a troyan lay to syngin clere.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 8591 For Achilles þouȝt it dide hym good With his swerde Troyan blood to schede.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxv. 91 The troienne folke is alle..descended of the forsworne laomedon.

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades v. 92 Through all the camp Troyene So honord..as he King Priams sonne had bene.

1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) i. 72 Long since enough we with our Blood did pay What might the Trojan Perjury defray.

a1721 M. Prior Pallas & Venus 1 The Trojan Swain had judg'd the great Dispute.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 149 We..pass..out of the mythical circle..into that of the Trojan war.

b. Trojan horse n. according to epic tradition, the hollow wooden horse in which Greeks were concealed to enter Troy; figurative a person, device, etc., insinuated to bring about an enemy's downfall; a person or thing that undermines from within; also attributive.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > action > secretly > one that or who

underminer1571

Trojan horse1574

monkeywrencher1978

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > purporting to be gift

Trojan horse1574

wooden horse1622

Grecian horse1802

Greek gift1885

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > gift concealing treachery

Trojan horse1574

Greek gift1885

1574 R. Bristow Briefe Treat. Plaine Wayes i. f. 7^v The Troian Horse.

1837 S. S. Prentiss in G. L. Prentiss Memoir of S.S. Prentiss (1858) i. viii. 188 He cannot so easily introduce his Trojan horse within these walls [seating of contested members in Mississipi House]. I, for one, will hurl a spear against its hollow sides.

1940 Sun (Baltimore) 13 May 1/4 Alarmed by the success of Germany's ‘Trojan horse’ and parachute-troop tactics.

1963 Listener 17 Jan. 112/2 The strengthening of the ‘special links’ between London and Washington made Britain's possible entry into the Common Market ‘more than ever likely to be that of a Trojan horse’.

1974 Datamation Jan. 57/1 A ‘Trojan Horse’ technique was used to compromise the security of a campus time-sharing computer system... A computer operator used it..erasing all trace of the illicit Trojan Horse code.

1979 A. Boyle Climate of Treason iii. 96 This ambitious Trojan Horse strategy called for the recruitment and indoctrination of compliant intellectuals.

1981 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 27 July 5/4 The ‘Trojan horse’ technique involves smuggling into a computer system an illegal set of instructions.

2. Astronomy. The epithet of two groups of asteroids which are at the same distance as Jupiter from the sun and approximately 60 degrees ahead of it and 60 degrees behind it in their orbit, so that with the sun and Jupiter they occupy positions of stability at the corners of two equilateral triangles. [So called because the first ones to be discovered were named after heroes of the Trojan War.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > minor planet or asteroid > [adjective] > spec

Trojan1913

1913 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 23 214 Masculine names are reserved for [minor] planets of peculiar interest, viz., those that pass very near the Earth..or have the same period as Jupiter (the Trojan group).

1918 Mem. Royal Astron. Soc. LXII. 79 The four asteroids—Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, and Nestor—are the Trojan planets.

1979 Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 8/6 (caption) Troy is one of the two groups of so-called Trojan satellites which always form equilateral triangles between themselves, the sun and Jupiter.

B. n.

1. An inhabitant or native of Troy. (In quot. 1910 used allusively.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun]

MedeeOE

PartheOE

PuniceOE

NineviteOE

Trojanc1330

sodomitea1382

Phoeniciana1387

Macedonianc1400

Parthianc1400

Macedonc1440

Phrygian?1473

Mycenaeanc1487

Tyrian1513

Sidonian?1520

Galatian1526

Canaanite1530

Cananaean1534

Milesian1550

Sogdian1553

Syrophœnician1560

Molossian1563

Hyrcanian1567

Palmyrene1567

Pergamenian1579

Smyrnian1579

Mysian1581

Carthaginian1592

Punican1595

Lycian1598

Smyrnaean1598

Phocaean1600

Gallo-greeks1601

Iberian1601

Minaean1601

Susian1601

Cappadocian1607

Carian1607

Paphlagonian1607

Hamathite1611

Pergamene1612

Byzantiana1620

Gallo-graecians1619

Chalcidian1654

Philadelphiana1680

Xanthian1685

Palmyrenian1697

Isaurian1776

Dardan1813

Byzantine1836

Bœotian1839

Ilian1847

Susianian1874

Libyo-Phœnician1876

Khaldian1882

Mitannian1907

Iconian1911

Petraean1923

Lycaonian1926

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. viii. §4 Ymb ealra þara Troiana gewin to asecgenne.]

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 158 Of manyon he reknes & sayes, both of Troiens & of Gregeis.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 933 The hors..Thour which that many troyan [v.r. many a troian] muste sterue.

?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. cc.vi To the Troyans story lette hym resort.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 147 Gloss. Paris, who thereupon with a sorte of lustye Troyanes, stole her [Helena].

c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i. xiii. 122 Thousand Hellens faire,..And as many Troians braue.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 33 The Pelasgians..in the Trojan war..side with the Trojans against the Greeks.

1910 M. G. Kyle Fundamentals 31 The Hittites have in one respect been the Trojans of Bible History.

2. colloquial.

a. A merry or roystering fellow; a boon companion; a person of dissolute life; also (in later use only) as a vague term of commendation or familiarity: a good fellow (often with the alliterative epithet true or trusty). Cf. Greek n. 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [noun] > habitual

fellowa1225

goodfellowa1393

Greek1536

boon companion1566

jovialist1596

Ephesian1600

Trojan1600

jolly dog1799

convivialist1810

boonfellow1876

fellow well met1885

jollier1896

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 668 Fellow Hector..vnlesse you play the honest Troyan, the poore wench is cast away.]

1600 W. Kemp Nine Daies Wonder sig. C2 He was a kinde good fellow, a true Troyan.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 47 There they say right, and like true Trojans.

1762 R. Forbes Jrnls. Episcopal Visitations (1886) 208 I was most hospitably entertained by that honest old Trojan Mr. Sutherland.

1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. vi. 157 None are so scrupulous as I am about making promises. I am as trusty as a Trojan for that.

1888 F. Cowper Capt. of Wight (1889) 84 Eustace, my Trojan, don't you call me a goose again.

b. A brave or plucky fellow; a person of great energy or endurance: usually in like a Trojan.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy

with (also in) mood and maineOE

vigour13..

with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330

with (one's) forcec1380

like anything1665

hammer and tongs1708

like stour1787

(in) double tides1788

like blazes1818

like winking1827

with a will1827

like winky1830

like all possessed1833

in a big way1840

like (or worse than) sin1840

full swing1843

like a Trojan1846

like one o'clock1847

like sixty1848

like forty1852

like wildfire1857

like old boots1865

like blue murder1867

like steam1905

like stink1929

like one thing1938

like a demon1945

up a storm1953

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 225 Ȝif we wil mene þat þey [the people of Ilium] beeþ stronge we clepeþ hem Troians.]

1846 J. H. Newman in W. Ward Life Cardinal Newman (1912) I. iii. 114 Working like a Trojan.

1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Trojan, a name applied to a person of uncommon size, strength, daring, or endurance.

1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl xvii. 179 I worked hard at that gown... Dear little Elsie helped me with it like a Trojan.

3. Entomology. A name given by Linnæus to certain species of butterflies, chiefly tropical, distinguished by crimson spots on the wings from allied species called Greeks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > genus Papilio > member of

papilio1665

Trojan1832

1832 T. Brown Bk. Butterflies, Sphinxes & Moths (1834) I. 142 The Imperial Trojan. Papilio Priamus.

1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. iii. 103 Those species of Papilio..so conspicuous in their velvety-black, green, and rose-coloured hues, which Linnæus..called Trojans.

4. Astronomy. A Trojan asteroid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > minor planet or asteroid > [noun] > specific

Vesta1807

Juno1834

Victoria1851

psyche1852

Urania1855

iris1858

Sappho1864

Clio1867

Euterpe1867

Virginia1868

Eros1900

Trojan1918

Amor1932

1918 Mem. Royal Astron. Soc. LXII. 80 The inclinations of the orbits of the Trojans and Jupiter vary through a quite considerable range.

1954 C. Payne-Gaposchkin Introd. Astron. (1956) ix. 234 The theory of the ‘Trojans’ is a beautiful special application of the dynamical ‘Problem of Three Bodies’.

1979 Icarus XL. 341/1 There seem to be three times more Trojans at the leading Trojan point.

5. U.S. The proprietary name of a make of contraceptive sheath.First registered as a proprietary term in the U.S. on 26 April 1927.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [noun] > a contraceptive > condom

condom?1706

armour1708

machine1749

protective1827

French letter?1844

sheath1861

French safe1868

letterc1890

rubber1913

Durex1932

prophylactic1934

raincoat1934

male condom1938

Trojan1951

safety1952

safe1959

Frenchy1963

scumbag1967

internal condom1969

franger1975

dicksack1996

1951 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 17 Apr. 757/1 Trojan... For Prophylactic Membranous Articles for the Prevention of Contagious Diseases.

1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiv. 264 ‘Why “Trojans”?’ she asked, picking up a small box... ‘They lost the war, after all.’

1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 202 After some neck-ricking soixante-neuf and a short period inside her unsheathed, I clawed at the little pink holder and took its final trojan.

Derivatives

See also Troyanish adj. and n., Troyish adj. at Troyanish adj. and n. Derivatives.

ˈTrojanry n. body or company of Trojans.Apparently an isolated use.

1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 127 Dido,..Ran..to spy, What was become o' th' Trojanry.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	trojan
释义	Trojanadj.n. /ˈtrəʊdʒən/ Forms: Also Middle English Troien, Middle English Troiane, Middle English–1500s Troyan, Middle English–1600s Troian, Middle English Troienne, 1500s Troyane, Troyen(e. Etymology: Formerly Troyan, Troian/ˈtrɔɪən/; < Latin Trōiānus, < Trōja Troy. The spelling Troian apparently stood originally for Troyan; later it probably represents Trojan. A. adj. 1. a. Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [adjective] NinevitishOE Trojanc1374 Sardian1551 Susian?1552 Illyrian1556 Phoenician?1556 Hyrcan1567 Sidonian1578 Phrygian1579 Smyrnian1579 Lycaonian1582 Paphlagonian1596 Lycian1598 Galatian1603 Cappadocian1607 Canaanite1613 Mysian1613 Phocaean1614 Phrygic1614 Dardana1616 Babylonized1701 Pergamene1703 Milesiana1722 Canaanitic1753 Palmyrenian1776 Smyrnaean1807 Troic1838 Minaean1844 Ninevite1848 Smyrniote1867 Isaurian1880 Mitannian1897 Iconian1899 Mitannite1911 Thraco-Phrygian1924 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Asia Minor and Middle East > Troy Trojanc1374 Ilian1582 Dardanian1600 Dardana1616 Troic1838 Troadic1932 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 825 Antigone..Gan on a troyan lay to syngin clere. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 8591 For Achilles þouȝt it dide hym good With his swerde Troyan blood to schede. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxv. 91 The troienne folke is alle..descended of the forsworne laomedon. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades v. 92 Through all the camp Troyene So honord..as he King Priams sonne had bene. 1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) i. 72 Long since enough we with our Blood did pay What might the Trojan Perjury defray. a1721 M. Prior Pallas & Venus 1 The Trojan Swain had judg'd the great Dispute. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 149 We..pass..out of the mythical circle..into that of the Trojan war. b. Trojan horse n. according to epic tradition, the hollow wooden horse in which Greeks were concealed to enter Troy; figurative a person, device, etc., insinuated to bring about an enemy's downfall; a person or thing that undermines from within; also attributive. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > action > secretly > one that or who underminer1571 Trojan horse1574 monkeywrencher1978 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > purporting to be gift Trojan horse1574 wooden horse1622 Grecian horse1802 Greek gift1885 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > gift concealing treachery Trojan horse1574 Greek gift1885 1574 R. Bristow Briefe Treat. Plaine Wayes i. f. 7^v The Troian Horse. 1837 S. S. Prentiss in G. L. Prentiss Memoir of S.S. Prentiss (1858) i. viii. 188 He cannot so easily introduce his Trojan horse within these walls [seating of contested members in Mississipi House]. I, for one, will hurl a spear against its hollow sides. 1940 Sun (Baltimore) 13 May 1/4 Alarmed by the success of Germany's ‘Trojan horse’ and parachute-troop tactics. 1963 Listener 17 Jan. 112/2 The strengthening of the ‘special links’ between London and Washington made Britain's possible entry into the Common Market ‘more than ever likely to be that of a Trojan horse’. 1974 Datamation Jan. 57/1 A ‘Trojan Horse’ technique was used to compromise the security of a campus time-sharing computer system... A computer operator used it..erasing all trace of the illicit Trojan Horse code. 1979 A. Boyle Climate of Treason iii. 96 This ambitious Trojan Horse strategy called for the recruitment and indoctrination of compliant intellectuals. 1981 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 27 July 5/4 The ‘Trojan horse’ technique involves smuggling into a computer system an illegal set of instructions. 2. Astronomy. The epithet of two groups of asteroids which are at the same distance as Jupiter from the sun and approximately 60 degrees ahead of it and 60 degrees behind it in their orbit, so that with the sun and Jupiter they occupy positions of stability at the corners of two equilateral triangles. [So called because the first ones to be discovered were named after heroes of the Trojan War.] ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > minor planet or asteroid > [adjective] > spec Trojan1913 1913 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 23 214 Masculine names are reserved for [minor] planets of peculiar interest, viz., those that pass very near the Earth..or have the same period as Jupiter (the Trojan group). 1918 Mem. Royal Astron. Soc. LXII. 79 The four asteroids—Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, and Nestor—are the Trojan planets. 1979 Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 8/6 (caption) Troy is one of the two groups of so-called Trojan satellites which always form equilateral triangles between themselves, the sun and Jupiter. B. n. 1. An inhabitant or native of Troy. (In quot. 1910 used allusively.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun] MedeeOE PartheOE PuniceOE NineviteOE Trojanc1330 sodomitea1382 Phoeniciana1387 Macedonianc1400 Parthianc1400 Macedonc1440 Phrygian?1473 Mycenaeanc1487 Tyrian1513 Sidonian?1520 Galatian1526 Canaanite1530 Cananaean1534 Milesian1550 Sogdian1553 Syrophœnician1560 Molossian1563 Hyrcanian1567 Palmyrene1567 Pergamenian1579 Smyrnian1579 Mysian1581 Carthaginian1592 Punican1595 Lycian1598 Smyrnaean1598 Phocaean1600 Gallo-greeks1601 Iberian1601 Minaean1601 Susian1601 Cappadocian1607 Carian1607 Paphlagonian1607 Hamathite1611 Pergamene1612 Byzantiana1620 Gallo-graecians1619 Chalcidian1654 Philadelphiana1680 Xanthian1685 Palmyrenian1697 Isaurian1776 Dardan1813 Byzantine1836 Bœotian1839 Ilian1847 Susianian1874 Libyo-Phœnician1876 Khaldian1882 Mitannian1907 Iconian1911 Petraean1923 Lycaonian1926 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. viii. §4 Ymb ealra þara Troiana gewin to asecgenne.] c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 158 Of manyon he reknes & sayes, both of Troiens & of Gregeis. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 933 The hors..Thour which that many troyan [v.r. many a troian] muste sterue. ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. cc.vi To the Troyans story lette hym resort. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 147 Gloss. Paris, who thereupon with a sorte of lustye Troyanes, stole her [Helena]. c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i. xiii. 122 Thousand Hellens faire,..And as many Troians braue. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 33 The Pelasgians..in the Trojan war..side with the Trojans against the Greeks. 1910 M. G. Kyle Fundamentals 31 The Hittites have in one respect been the Trojans of Bible History. 2. colloquial. a. A merry or roystering fellow; a boon companion; a person of dissolute life; also (in later use only) as a vague term of commendation or familiarity: a good fellow (often with the alliterative epithet true or trusty). Cf. Greek n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [noun] > habitual fellowa1225 goodfellowa1393 Greek1536 boon companion1566 jovialist1596 Ephesian1600 Trojan1600 jolly dog1799 convivialist1810 boonfellow1876 fellow well met1885 jollier1896 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 668 Fellow Hector..vnlesse you play the honest Troyan, the poore wench is cast away.] 1600 W. Kemp Nine Daies Wonder sig. C2 He was a kinde good fellow, a true Troyan. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 47 There they say right, and like true Trojans. 1762 R. Forbes Jrnls. Episcopal Visitations (1886) 208 I was most hospitably entertained by that honest old Trojan Mr. Sutherland. 1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. vi. 157 None are so scrupulous as I am about making promises. I am as trusty as a Trojan for that. 1888 F. Cowper Capt. of Wight (1889) 84 Eustace, my Trojan, don't you call me a goose again. b. A brave or plucky fellow; a person of great energy or endurance: usually in like a Trojan. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy with (also in) mood and maineOE vigour13.. with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 with (one's) forcec1380 like anything1665 hammer and tongs1708 like stour1787 (in) double tides1788 like blazes1818 like winking1827 with a will1827 like winky1830 like all possessed1833 in a big way1840 like (or worse than) sin1840 full swing1843 like a Trojan1846 like one o'clock1847 like sixty1848 like forty1852 like wildfire1857 like old boots1865 like blue murder1867 like steam1905 like stink1929 like one thing1938 like a demon1945 up a storm1953 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 225 Ȝif we wil mene þat þey [the people of Ilium] beeþ stronge we clepeþ hem Troians.] 1846 J. H. Newman in W. Ward Life Cardinal Newman (1912) I. iii. 114 Working like a Trojan. 1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Trojan, a name applied to a person of uncommon size, strength, daring, or endurance. 1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl xvii. 179 I worked hard at that gown... Dear little Elsie helped me with it like a Trojan. 3. Entomology. A name given by Linnæus to certain species of butterflies, chiefly tropical, distinguished by crimson spots on the wings from allied species called Greeks. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > genus Papilio > member of papilio1665 Trojan1832 1832 T. Brown Bk. Butterflies, Sphinxes & Moths (1834) I. 142 The Imperial Trojan. Papilio Priamus. 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. iii. 103 Those species of Papilio..so conspicuous in their velvety-black, green, and rose-coloured hues, which Linnæus..called Trojans. 4. Astronomy. A Trojan asteroid. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > minor planet or asteroid > [noun] > specific Vesta1807 Juno1834 Victoria1851 psyche1852 Urania1855 iris1858 Sappho1864 Clio1867 Euterpe1867 Virginia1868 Eros1900 Trojan1918 Amor1932 1918 Mem. Royal Astron. Soc. LXII. 80 The inclinations of the orbits of the Trojans and Jupiter vary through a quite considerable range. 1954 C. Payne-Gaposchkin Introd. Astron. (1956) ix. 234 The theory of the ‘Trojans’ is a beautiful special application of the dynamical ‘Problem of Three Bodies’. 1979 Icarus XL. 341/1 There seem to be three times more Trojans at the leading Trojan point. 5. U.S. The proprietary name of a make of contraceptive sheath.First registered as a proprietary term in the U.S. on 26 April 1927. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [noun] > a contraceptive > condom condom?1706 armour1708 machine1749 protective1827 French letter?1844 sheath1861 French safe1868 letterc1890 rubber1913 Durex1932 prophylactic1934 raincoat1934 male condom1938 Trojan1951 safety1952 safe1959 Frenchy1963 scumbag1967 internal condom1969 franger1975 dicksack1996 1951 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 17 Apr. 757/1 Trojan... For Prophylactic Membranous Articles for the Prevention of Contagious Diseases. 1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiv. 264 ‘Why “Trojans”?’ she asked, picking up a small box... ‘They lost the war, after all.’ 1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 202 After some neck-ricking soixante-neuf and a short period inside her unsheathed, I clawed at the little pink holder and took its final trojan. Derivatives See also Troyanish adj. and n., Troyish adj. at Troyanish adj. and n. Derivatives. ˈTrojanry n. body or company of Trojans.Apparently an isolated use. Π 1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 127 Dido,..Ran..to spy, What was become o' th' Trojanry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.c1330
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