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单词 acker
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Brit. /ˈakə/, U.S. /ˈækə/
Forms: late Middle English akyr, late Middle English–1500s aker, 1800s aiker (Scottish); English regional 1800s aker (East Anglian), 1800s– acker.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: eagre n.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of eagre n. (although this is first attested later; compare the form agar at that entry).
In later use English regional (Yorkshire).
1. A strong or turbulent current in the sea; a flood tide. Obsolete.
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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.
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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

Brit. /ˈakə/, U.S. /ˈækər/
Forms: 1900s– acker, 1900s– akka, 1900s– akker.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.The word was apparently first used by British and allied troops in Egypt. It has sometimes been suggested that it represents a loan < Egyptian Arabic fakka small change, coins collectively (the sense ‘piastre’ is not attested; < fakk to change (money) into smaller units, specific use of fakk to separate, disconnect, to break up). However, this seems unlikely on phonological grounds, since it would require either that variants of the suggested Arabic etymon with initial vowel exist (which is not the case), or that the initial f- of the Arabic word was lost in English, as the difference between the Arabic and English words cannot be accounted for by metanalysis, sandhi, or other common phonological changes. An even less likely suggestion (made e.g. by E. Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang (1948) at cited word) is that the word represents an alteration of piastre n.
slang (originally Services' slang).
1. A piastre. historical in later use.
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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.
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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).
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