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单词 unjabbed
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unjabbedadj.n.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈdʒabd/, U.S. /ˌənˈdʒæbd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, jab v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + jab v. + -ed suffix1.
colloquial.
A. adj.
1. Not punctured; unperforated; uninjured by pricking.
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1891 Dearborn (Indiana) Independent 10 Sept. The momentous question of how to meet a woman with an umbrella and pass to the other side without the loss of your hat, with your eyes unjabbed, and your cravat still on was solved lately by an old gentleman on Main street.
1951 Western Star (Newfoundland) 13 Apr. 2/1 Perhaps its the passing of the safety pin which causes us the most concern. How in the world is a careless hand ever going to make baby cry with a snap fastener? Those modern unjabbed babies just won't have lived!
1982 San Jacinto (Texas) News-Times 25 Mar. 6/6 These nurses and lab technicians, who seems to delight in jabbing needles into my skin wherever they can find an unjabbed place, invariably say ‘now this is gonna hurt me more than it does you’.
2. That has not undergone vaccination; unvaccinated.Not common in North American usage.
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1976 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 7 Nov. a1/1 (headline) Flu-shot funk... Millions unjabbed.
1998 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 3 Dec. 25 There may be a good case for offering flu jabs to the most vulnerable... But, according to an encouraging new survey, most of us nowadays elect to soldier on unjabbed.
2021 Metro (Scotl. ed.) (Nexis) 19 Nov. 7 Austria..has already imposed a lockdown on unjabbed citizens.
B. n.
With the and plural agreement. Unvaccinated individuals as a class.Not common in North American usage.
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2009 Observer 7 June 31/4 Most schools would probably support the MMR as a condition of enrolment, leaving dodgers to send their children to schools tolerant of the unjabbed, where their diverse immune systems can be challenged in a truly diseased environment.
2021 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 9 Nov. According to the institute, vaccine mandates, where the unjabbed are locked out of public events or venues, were likely helping push vaccination rates along.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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