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单词 buckeye
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buckeyen.

Etymology: said to be < buck n.1 + eye n.1; see quot. 1841 at sense 1a.
U.S.
1. Botany.
a. More fully buckeye tree. The American Horse-chestnut (Æsculus glabra). Also, a tree of this species.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > horse-chestnut tree and allies > [noun]
horse chestnut1597
poison root1712
Pavia1731
buckeye1763
buckwood1787
Ohio buckeye1810
sweet buckeye1815
chestnut1842
1763 in R. T. Durrett Louisville (1893) 132 Beginning at a hoop-ashe and buckeye.
1784 J. Filson Discov. Kentucke 23 Here also is the buck-eye, an exceedingly soft wood, bearing a remarkable black fruit.
1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 404 There is the..buckeye, an exceedingly soft wood.
1841 J. W. Loudon 1st Bk. Botany i. 29 Called buck-eye..from the hilum of the fruit having the appearance of a stag's eye.
1872 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master 139 He didn't butt his brains out agin a buckeye-tree.
1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 109 Looking down upon me through the buckeye bushes.
1886 B. Harte Snow-bound 221 The trail was passable yesterday, for I went as far as the buckeyes.
b. The nut or fruit of the buckeye; a chestnut from the buckeye. Also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > horse-chestnut tree and allies > [noun] > nut
horse chestnut1611
buckeye1785
chestnut1842
conker1847
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > other nuts
mani1604
nuciprune1682
breadnut?1740
buckeye1785
mockernut1804
breadnut1828
philopena1839
nutlet1848
Barcelona nut1851
buffalo-nut1857
urucuri1860
Queensland nut1870
1785 G. Washington Diaries II. 360 Sowed..the following things: Box No. 1, partition No. 1, six buck eye nuts.
1797 in Filson Club Hist. Q. (1928) II. 166 Buck eye..resembles the Chestnut, but is as large as a hickory nut of the largest Size.
1884 ‘C. E. Craddock’ In Tennessee Mts. I. x. 60 Buck-eyes were falling.
1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 20 The negroes believe if one carries buckeyes in the pocket he will have no chills through the year.
1896 E. Higginson From Land of Snow-pearls (1897) 218 I kep' a buckeye in my pocket tell it wore a hole and fell out.
1948 Chicago Tribune 28 Mar. vii. 1/3 You carry a buckeye to ward off rheumatism.
2.
a. A native of Ohio, the ‘Buckeye State’, in which the Æsculus glabra abounds. colloquial.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > specific state > states
Marylander1640
Rhode Islander1665
Jerseyman1679
Pennsylvanian1685
Carolinian1705
Georgian1732
Marylandian1750
Jersey blue1758
Californian1762
Louisianian1775
Mississippian1775
Acadian1776
Vermonteer1778
Kentuckian1779
Vermontese1783
Indianian1784
Cohee1786
Kentuck1789
Virginian1797
Michiganian1813
Michigan1814
Tennessean1815
Ohioan1818
Illinoian1819
Ohian1819
Missourian1820
buckeye1823
Vermonter1825
Hoosier1826
red horse1833
sucker1833
wolverine1833
puke1834
corn-cracker1835
Texian1835
Alaskan1836
Texan1837
Michigander1838
Oregonian1838
Rackensack1839
Arkansian1844
badger1844
Bay Stater1845
Lone Star Stater1845
Oregonese1845
tar-boiler1845
weasel1845
web foot1845
Alabaman1846
Iowanc1848
Arkansan1851
Minnesotian1851
Washingtonian1852
Minnesotan1854
Nebraskan1854
Kansian1855
Utahan1855
Floridan1856
fly-up-the-creek1857
Dakotian1861
Coloradan1862
Coloradian1862
Texican1863
Coloradoan1864
tarheel1864
Cajun1868
Kansan1868
Montanian1869
Floridian1870
mudcat1872
New Jerseyan1872
Arkansawyer1874
longhorn1876
Mainer1879
New Jerseyite1885
prune picker1892
Hawaiian1893
Oklahoman1894
Tex1909
blue hen's chicken1921
Tejano1925
Geechee1926
Arkie1927
sooner1930
wyomingite1930
New Mexican1940
Okie1948
1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 20 In allusion to this circumstance, the indigenous backwoodsman is sometimes called buck-eye.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase 45 We discovered on a bank, just about ‘sunup’ a full-grown male Buckeye..watching our progress.
1871 P. T. Barnum Struggles & Triumphs 347 You may fool the New Orleans folks, but you can't come it over the Buckeyes.
1882 Congress. Rec. July 5811/1 The regenerated statesmanship of the modern Buckeye.
attributive.1840 Buffalo (N.Y.) Commerc. Advertiser 12 Sept. Queer carryalls did these Buckeye boys construct.1888 Troy Daily Times 8 Feb. (Farmer) A Buckeye damsel..decided she'd see about it.1894 Congress. Rec. Jan. App. 79/1 The very author of the tariff plank in the Chicago platform was last fall buried beneath more than 80,000 votes in that grand old ‘Buckeye’ State.
b. figurative. Used attributively and absol. of an inferior person or thing, esp. one of no value, poor quality, or cheap (but often showy). colloquial.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun]
poornessa1382
chaffc1386
cold roast?1406
arse-guta1413
short end1560
under-kind1571
inferior1589
canvas-back1605
underthing1620
under-sort1655
wasteling1750
slouch1767
shamea1771
neck beefa1777
rep1786
wastrel1790
wastera1800
shoddy1862
piece1884
tinhorn1887
robbo1897
cheapie1898
buckeye1906
reach-me-down1916
dog1917
stinkeroo1934
bodgie1964
cheapo1975
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective]
salec1299
bastarda1348
sorry1372
slight1393
shrewd1426
singlec1449
backc1450
soberc1450
lesser1464
silly?a1500
starven1546
mockado1577
subaltern1578
bastardly1583
wooden1592
starved1604
perishing1605
starveling1611
minor1612
starvy1647
potsherd1655
low1727
la-la1800
waif1824
lathen1843
one-eyed1843
snide1859
bobbery1873
jerkwater1877
low-grade1878
shoddy1882
tinhorn1886
jerk1893
cheapie1898
shaganappi1900
buckeye1906
reach-me-down1907
pissy1922
crappy1928
cruddy1935
el cheapo1967
pound shop1989
1846 in C. Cist Cincinnati Misc. II. 97/1 The buckeye..stood very low in the estimation of early settlers, and by a figure of speech.., it was applied to lawyers and doctors whose capacity and attainment were of a low grade.]
1906 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 640 The despised ‘buckeye’ painter who paints for department stores and cheap picture shops.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. xi. 137 The walls of Mrs. Cass's parlor were plastered with..‘buckeye’ pictures.
1947 New Yorker 15 Feb. 59 A buckeye is a small shop in which cigars are made by hand in a back room and sold across the counter out front.
1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 332/1 Buckeye painter—which means a painter of decorations on saloon mirrors.
1980 in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams 107 The place was called a buckeye, the name for a sleazy shop.
3. A variety of potato.
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 240 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Buck-eye.
4. A type of canoe or schooner (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > other types of canoe
pirogue1666
dory1709
Montreal canoe1793
waka1807
tandem canoe1867
Rob Roy1868
canot du maître1872
Peterborough1882
snake-boat1882
shadow canoe1883
tandem1884
buckeye1885
Canader1893
vinta1900
bellum1901
spoon canoe1907
sponson canoe1911
ratting canoe1944
tarada1960
canot du nord1961
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > fore and aft rigged > schooner > schooner-rigged vessels
schooner-frigate1799
mackinaw boat1812
ballahoo1815
schooner barge1819
Jack1845
schooner-yacht1876
bugeye1877
jackass schooner1879
buckeye1885
butterman1885
schooner yawl1889
ram1904
Tancook schooner1933
goelette1948
1885 C. P. Kunhardt Small Yachts 234 The Buckeyes..are an exaggeration of the dugout canoe... The primitive builder bored two holes, one on each side of the stem, through which to pay out his cables. These were simply two round holes, bored with a large auger, and, when the boat was coming head on, resembled to the fancy of the negroes, the eyes of a buck.
1889 Cent. Dict. Buckeye...A flat-bottomed centerboard schooner of small size..decked over, and with a cabin aft, used in oyster-fishing in Chesapeake Bay. Also called bugeye.
1923 Outing Jan. 187/1 The craft he suggests is one of ‘those Chesapeake Bay buckeyes’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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