单词 | yarking |
释义 | yarkingn.2ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > jerking hitchingc1440 twitching1478 yarking?1561 flirting1593 flouncing1601 jerking1851 pecking1890 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > kicking wincing1530 yarking?1561 flinging1596 ?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding ii. xxviii. sig. M.iiiv Which beast [sc. a goat] beinge dysposed to playe, vseth in his runninge a prety kinde of iumpinge and doublyng with hys legges, aboue grounde, making a certaine semblaunce of yarking & yet yarketh not in dede. 1605 Famous Hist. Capt. Stukeley sig. K3 Weel spur your Iennet..vntill with yarking she do break her gerths. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman i. i. 2 The horse..never gave ouer flinging, yarking, plunging, and bownding. 1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III Eparer, in the manege, signifies the flinging of a horse, or his yerking and striking with his hind legs. 1893 W. C. Russell Romance of Transport xxxviii. 316 The only noise was the rippling and yerking of the Childe Harold's quarter boat in our wake. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > instance of invective or abuse reproach1485 yarking1565 revilement1577 skinning1852 stinger1900 stinker1912 1565 R. Shacklock tr. S. Hozjusz Hatchet of Heresies f. 82 They.., following the example of theire Master Luther can not staye themselues from stuffing all theire bokes, with mockyng and mowing, iyrkyng and yerkyng, stingyng and wrynggin farre otherwyse then it becometh Christians. 1847 J. Halliday Rustic Bard 317 Yerkings and yells frae a loose lither tongue. 3. A beating, a flogging. Cf. yark v.2 3a. Scottish and English regional (northern) in later use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating swingingc1200 beating?c1225 chastising1303 correctionc1386 lashingc1400 scouring1426 Moses' law1482 jerking1552 whipping1566 yarking1573 feaking1600 correct1606 tawing1620 lacing1622 castigation1640 basking1642 verberation1661 strappado1668 the lash1694 flogging1758 whopping1812 quilting1822 blistering1842 whaling1852 nailing1895 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 574 Suche a forslowne scape might deserue a yerking in a yong scholler, but more shamefull it is in a Diuine. 1866 Monthly Packet Mar. 254 The..mother suggested to her companion that they should go and cut them each a good hazel switch, and give their burden as sound a ‘yarking’ as they knew how. 1889 Newcastle Weekly Courant 11 May If a yarking does no good, it can certainly do no harm to the class who deserve it. 2014 @xjessicasadler 25 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Whoever is drilling outside is gonna get a good yarking for waking me up. 4. a. With up. The action of producing a piece of work rapidly or hastily; dashing off. Cf. yark v.2 7a. Now rare.In later use only in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] > action or practice of composing > composing hastily yarking1592 1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. A3v T. D. whose braines beaten to the yarking vp of Ballades, might more lawfully haue glaunst at the quaint conceites of conny-catching and crosse-biting. 1908 Bookman June 113/1 When he [sc. Robert Greene] had money he drank and sported it with courtesans and thieves, and when he had none and was forced to the yarking up of a pamphlet, his conscience..made him lament his follies and excess in the very writings that were to fill his purse and enable him to pursue them afresh. 1951 Rev. Eng. Stud. 2 330 The players of these parts are not generally supposed to have collaborated in the yarking up of the ‘bad’ quarto. ΚΠ 1892 J. Lumsden Sheep-head & Trotters 286 Hootsman..proposed that Rob Clarty..should..give us some of his reels..for the yerking off of which Rob..is..a famous hand. 5. Shoemaking. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > sewing yarking1600 stitching1895 1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. D3 Firke. For yarking & seaming let me alone, & I come toot. 1923 L. F. Salzman Eng. Industries Middle Ages ix. 182 The rates being, in 1364, 3d. a dozen for sewing, and 3d. for yarking; 3d. for making a pair of boots entirely. b. A seam in a boot or shoe. Now Scottish and Irish English (northern). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > other speckc1440 under-leather1569 rand1598 tongue1598 ruffle1600 underlay1612 tap1688 jump1712 bottom1768 boot-garter1824 yarking1825 range1840 counter1841 insole1851 sock1851 galosh1853 heel plate1862 lift1862 foxing1865 spring1885 saddle1930 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Yerkin, the seam by which the hinder part of the upper leather of a shoe is joined to the forepart. 1997 B. Share Slanguage 314/2 Yarkin, yerkin..seam from top to toe of a man's leather boot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yarkingn.3 regional and colloquial. The action of retching or vomiting. Also: hawking. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > vomiting spewinga1000 vominga1382 brakinga1398 castinga1398 outcastinga1398 vomitc1405 perbreakinga1425 parbreaking1440 vomishmenta1450 upcastingc1450 upbreaking1493 vomiting1495 abortment1577 heaving1601 puke1612 puking1629 egestion1633 evomition1653 vomition1656 yarking1874 emesis1875 1874 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 30 Oct. He would know the man on Ninth-street by his yawking and coughing. 2011 @kindofstrange 6 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Have successfully been able to eat without yarking. 2015 ‘L. Bowen’ Wake of Vultures xi. 120 She'd rustled cattle with the wranglers, but she'd been scared to the point of yarking, too anxious to enjoy it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yarkingadj. 1. Of a horse: kicking or lashing out with the hind legs. More generally: jerking, twitching. Now Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adjective] > jerking yarking1565 jerking1653 flerking1710 hitching1832 squibbing1895 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [adjective] > that kicks winching1525 flinginga1533 kicking1552 yarking1565 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Excussores equi, flingyng and yerkyng horses. 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. i. at Eparer All such Yerking-Horses are reckon'd rude Horses. 1889 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 419/1 The restless straining of the yerking, rolling, and plunging brig. a1943 W. Soutar Poems (1988) 144 Puddocks and taeds frae syke and stank Hochl'd ahint the thrang; And yarkin worms wi' a yank Oot o' the yirth upflang. ΚΠ 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) iv. f. 185v He lent his horses with his whippe A yirking lash. 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 177 Mornin clocks an' yarkin hammers Reviv'd us by their tunefu' yammers. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adjective] gamelyOE hathfula1250 scornfula1400 hathlya1425 mockisha1513 mockinga1529 mowinga1529 deriding1530 hethingfulc1540 bourding1552 make-sport1582 frumping1587 yarking1593 jerking1596 bobbing1605 derident1609 buffoonizing1611 scoptical?1611 scommatizing1613 derisory1618 ridiculous1622 ludibriousa1643 frumpish1647 twitting1655 derisivea1662 derisorious1664 scoptic1670 ridiculing1684 derisionarya1704 mockful1754 irrisory1846 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] > mordant smartc1330 unkeen?a1425 mordant1474 piquant1521 pugnant1537 quick1542 nippingc1547 nippy1575 cutting1582 yarking1593 stinging1600 pointed1617 pungent1619 toothed1628 aculeate1640 mordacious1648 aculeated1655 piperaceous1674 peppery1826 pointy1883 lashing1900 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 11 And what comparable to this spowte of yarking eloquence? 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. Proem. sig. B5v Quake guzzell dogs,..Skud from the lashes of my yerking rime. 1689 T. Plunket Char. Good Commander 47 Are all the yerking Muses fallen asleep? 1710 Tint for Taunt 5 What he design'd for a Yarking, Gauling Sarcastical Witicism, dwindled into a meer Dance of Anticks. 4. English regional (northern) (now chiefly north-eastern). Large, huge. Cf. yarker n. 3b. ΚΠ 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Yarkin', (1) huge. (2) Severe. ‘A girt yarkin blaa.’ 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Yarker Yarkin, heavy, large. ‘A yarkin tettie.’ 2011 @mrcthompson 31 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I'm doing a bit of work in my reclaimed attic space. It's peaceful. Need a beer fridge and a yarking tele tho. 2015 @CourtneyGibbon 19 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Get a yarkin pizza and hoy a christmas film on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmasˈyarking ΘΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] yarkingc1000 forgraithinga1300 apparellingc1315 ordinancec1330 purveyancec1330 graithinga1340 purveying1340 providencea1382 making readyc1384 preparationa1393 paring1393 provisiona1398 parelc1425 apparelc1430 parelling?a1440 ablingc1450 munition1480 preparing1497 arraya1500 readyinga1500 repurveancea1500 ordaining1509 apparation1533 preparementa1538 apprest1539 preparaturea1540 preparance1543 order1545 apparance1546 prepare1548 fore-preparationa1586 ettlingc1600 apparelment1607 parationa1617 comparation1623 address1633 apparatus1638 prep1920 c1000 Ags. Ps. ix. 20 [x. 17] Gearcunge heortan [L. præparationem cordis]. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10800 Itt [sc. John's baptism] wass ȝarrkinng ȝæn fulluhht Þatt crist sellf shollde settenn. < n.2?1561n.31874adj.1565 as lemmas |
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