单词 | acker |
释义 | ackern.1 In later use English regional (Yorkshire). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > strong acker1440 racec1450 rat1705 run1814 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > rising or flowing in flood risinga1387 acker1440 increase1555 swelling1557 flow1583 tiding1593 float1594 afflux1603 flux1612 flowing1642 flood-tide1719 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 8 Akyr of the see flowynge [1499 aker], impetus maris. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 2775 (MED) Wel knowe thei [sc. mariners] the Reume if it arise, An aker is it clept..Whos myght ther may no ship or wynd withstonde. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Aker of the sea, whiche preventeth [= precedes] the flowde or flowynge, impetus maris. 2. British regional. A current in a river, etc.; a ripple, furrow, or disturbance of the surface of water, a ‘cat's paw’ (see cat's paw n. 3). Now rare. ΚΠ 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Aiker, the motion, break, or movement, made by a fish in the water, when swimming fast. 1857 T. Wright Dict. Obs. & Provincial Eng. 17/2 It appears that the word acker is still applied on the Trent to a dangerous kind of eddying twirl which occurs on the river when it is flooded. 1865 A. Way in Promptorium Parvulorum 8 In Craven Dial., Acker is a ripple on the water. 1865 Poetry of Provincialisms in Cornhill Mag. July 34 Sailors at sea name it when seen on a larger scale by the expressive term ‘cats-paw’. The North-country peasant, however, knows it by the name ‘acker’, implying, as it were, a space ploughed up by the wind. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. 1/1 Acker, a flowing ripple. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ackern.2 slang (originally Services' slang). 1. A piastre. historical in later use. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] shillingc950 crown1397 pesant1577 acker1937 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 7/2 Akka, an Egyptian piastre: Regular Army's: from ca. 1920. 1948 B. Pearson in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 125 Well, the cheapest thing was twenty ackers, I had only ten till pay-day. 1963 J. Lusby in ‘B. James’ Austral. Short Stories 239 ‘See who it was?’ ‘No.’ ‘The long red guy—pounds to ackers,’ said Rafe. 1976 G. Talbot Permission to Speak iii. 39 Piastres were not suffering, except from the contemptuous slang of British troops who called them ‘ackers’. 2. gen. Usually in plural. Coins, banknotes, cash; money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] silverc825 feec870 pennieseOE wortheOE mintOE scata1122 spense?c1225 spendinga1290 sumc1300 gooda1325 moneya1325 cattlec1330 muckc1330 reasona1382 pecunyc1400 gilt1497 argentc1500 gelta1529 Mammon1539 ale silver1541 scruff1559 the sinews of war1560 sterling1565 lour1567 will-do-all1583 shell1591 trasha1592 quinyie1596 brass1597 pecuniary1604 dust1607 nomisma1614 countera1616 cross and pilea1625 gingerbreada1625 rhinoa1628 cash1646 grig1657 spanker1663 cole1673 goree1699 mopus1699 quid1699 ribbin1699 bustle1763 necessary1772 stuff1775 needfula1777 iron1785 (the) Spanish1788 pecuniar1793 kelter1807 dibs1812 steven1812 pewter1814 brad1819 pogue1819 rent1823 stumpy1828 posh1830 L. S. D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 1939 Airman's Gaz. Dec. 11/1 Useful for drilling holes in the pay bobs when the ackers are short. 1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 21 Akka, money. 1958 M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More ix. 166 'Ow 'bout this, Sarge?..There's some akkers in it—francs. 1965 H. R. F. Keating Is Skin-deep, is Fatal xix. 229 I can't offer a great deal in the way of ackers. Though you'd get your ten per cent, old man. 1980 R. Adams Girl in Swing (1981) xix. 243 These buggers, they're all into the ackers—swamp us tomorrow before we can make two bids. 1994 Loaded Sept. 108/4 Most of the earlier ones are out in paperback so save some ackers and get one in. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.11440n.21937 |
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