yellowbackn.

Brit.

/ˈjɛlə(ʊ)ˌbak/, U.S.

/ˈjɛloʊˌbæk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., back n.¹

Etymology: < yellow adj. + back n.¹In sense 4 after greenback n. 3.

†1. The gillbacker sea catfish, Sciades parkeri (family Ariidae), which has bright yellow coloration on the upper parts of the body, found in estuaries and coastal waters around the northeastern coast of South America. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]

whalec950

tumbrelc1300

sprout1340

squame1393

codmop1466

whitefish1482

lineshark?a1500

salen1508

glaucus1509

bretcock1522

warcodling1525

razor1530

bassinatc1540

goldeney1542

smy1552

maiden1555

grail1587

whiting1587

needle1589

pintle-fish1591

goldfish1598

puffin fish1598

quap1598

stork1600

black-tail1601

ellops1601

fork-fish1601

sea-grape1601

sea-lizard1601

sea-raven1601

barne1602

plosher1602

whale-mouse1607

bowman1610

catfish1620

hog1620

kettle-fish1630

sharpa1636

carda1641

housewifea1641

roucotea1641

ox-fisha1642

sea-serpent1646

croaker1651

alderling1655

butkin1655

shamefish1655

yard1655

sea-dart1664

sea-pelican1664

Negro1666

sea-parrot1666

sea-blewling1668

sea-stickling1668

skull-fish1668

whale's guide1668

sennet1671

barracuda1678

skate-bread1681

tuck-fish1681

swallowtail1683

piaba1686

pit-fish1686

sand-creeper1686

horned hog1702

soldier1704

sea-crowa1717

bran1720

grunter1726

calcops1727

bennet1731

bonefish1734

Negro fish1735

isinglass-fish1740

orb1740

gollin1747

smelt1776

night-walker1777

water monarch1785

hardhead1792

macaw-fish1792

yellowback1796

sea-raven1797

blueback1812

stumpnose1831

flat1847

butterfish1849

croppie1856

gubbahawn1857

silt1863

silt-snapper1863

mullet-head1866

sailor1883

hogback1893

skipper1898

stocker1904

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxix. 368 The fisher-men having caught a quantity of large fish, I discovered one among them..the yellow-back…thus called from its colour, which almost resembles that of a lemon.

1810 A. von Sack Voy. Surinam App. 274 The Yellow-back is often brought to market at Paramaribo, and attracts the attention of new comers, as this fish is of a saffron colour on the upper part, but the under is white.

2. blue yellowback n. U.S. (now rare) (in full blue yellowback warbler) the northern parula, Setophaga americana, which has blue-grey upperparts with a yellowish breast and back patch.

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1815 Guthrie's New Geogr. Gram. (Amer. ed. 2) II. 317/1 Blue yellow-back W [arbler] . S[ylvia] pusilla.

1892 B. Torrey Foot-path Way 83 I wondered why this..grove..should be the favorite resort of so many birds,—robins..and blue yellow-backs.

1921 H. H. Kopman Wild Life Resources Louisiana 121 The parula warbler, or blue yellow-back (Compsothlypis americana usneae), a very small and daintily colored species, with an insect-like trill.

1953 A. C. Bent Life Hist. N. Amer. Wood Warblers 136 Today only the ancient stone walls remain to mark the locally famous haunt of the blue yellow-backs.

2014 J. Sandrock & J. C. Prior Sci. Nomencl. Birds Upper Midwest 128 Setophaga..americiana... Common Name: Northern Parula... Other Name: blue yellowback.

3. A cheap novel with a yellow cover; (more generally) any cheaply issued or reprinted novel, typically having sensational subject matter. Cf. yellow adj. 8a. Now historical.

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society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > cheaply issued or reprinted novel

yellowback1859

society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [noun] > with specific type of back or cover

blue book1633

green book1798

paperback1843

paper cover1843

yellowback1859

flat-back1888

greenback1893

paperbound1933

softback1951

hardback1953

hardcover1953

pocketbook1953

softcover1953

trade paperback1960

1859 Tyrone (Pa.) Star 8 Mar. An ‘out and out’ sewer of the lowest obscenities..whose presence is less safe to family virtue than the foulest ‘yellow backs’ that ever emanated from the ‘hell-holes’ of impurity in a New York or a Paris.

1872 Atlanta (Georgia) Daily Sun 12 Mar. To be..chronicled in yellow-backs for a dime, along with the Iron Mask Man, Dick Turpin, and the Man Without a Country.

1883 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 31 Jan. 4/4 He would not run down novel reading, not even all the ‘yellow backs’.

1928 M. Sadleir Trollope: Bibliogr. 68 In 1868 The Belton Estate was issued at two shillings as a ‘yellow back’.

1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. ii. 47 The ‘yellowback’ railway novel is available to a mass public.

2012 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 Jan. f6 Stacks of Victorian mass-market yellowbacks.

4. U.S. A monetary note redeemable in gold; = gold certificate n. (a) at gold n.¹ and adj. Compounds 1e. Cf. greenback n. 3. Now historical.Such notes were usually printed with yellow or orange ink on the reverse. They were removed from circulation in 1933.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S.

long green1837

wild cat1861

greenback1862

postage currency1862

postage-stamp currency1862

postal currency1862

blueback1863

fractional note1863

greyback1863

yellowback1863

goldback1865

Sherman1892

1863 Evansville (Indiana) Weekly Gaz. 12 Dec. How to meet the new order of things—to pay double prices for almost everything without the faculty of duplicating greenbacks or ‘yellowbacks’—ah! there's the rub.

1875 Congress. Rec. 3 iii. 1879/1 The inability of the District to pay them in anything but their yellowbacks and greenbacks, which were down to sixty cents on the dollar, or less.

1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders xiv. 150 She was dead in love with the nice long yellow-backs that I've piled up.

1929 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 49/1 When the new bills appear in July, yellowbacks will be a thing of the past. All of the new currency is to be green.

1935 F. Hess House of Many Tongues ii. 25 Lynn pointed out the name on the bill, turning it over to show that it was a yellowback.

2012 @edwardrooster 1 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Doubt ‘yellowbacks’ will ever come back, since the birth of greenbacks to help the US in 1860s.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	yellowback
释义	yellowbackn. Brit. /ˈjɛlə(ʊ)ˌbak/, U.S. /ˈjɛloʊˌbæk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., back n.¹ Etymology: < yellow adj. + back n.¹In sense 4 after greenback n. 3. †1. The gillbacker sea catfish, Sciades parkeri (family Ariidae), which has bright yellow coloration on the upper parts of the body, found in estuaries and coastal waters around the northeastern coast of South America. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun] whalec950 tumbrelc1300 sprout1340 squame1393 codmop1466 whitefish1482 lineshark?a1500 salen1508 glaucus1509 bretcock1522 warcodling1525 razor1530 bassinatc1540 goldeney1542 smy1552 maiden1555 grail1587 whiting1587 needle1589 pintle-fish1591 goldfish1598 puffin fish1598 quap1598 stork1600 black-tail1601 ellops1601 fork-fish1601 sea-grape1601 sea-lizard1601 sea-raven1601 barne1602 plosher1602 whale-mouse1607 bowman1610 catfish1620 hog1620 kettle-fish1630 sharpa1636 carda1641 housewifea1641 roucotea1641 ox-fisha1642 sea-serpent1646 croaker1651 alderling1655 butkin1655 shamefish1655 yard1655 sea-dart1664 sea-pelican1664 Negro1666 sea-parrot1666 sea-blewling1668 sea-stickling1668 skull-fish1668 whale's guide1668 sennet1671 barracuda1678 skate-bread1681 tuck-fish1681 swallowtail1683 piaba1686 pit-fish1686 sand-creeper1686 horned hog1702 soldier1704 sea-crowa1717 bran1720 grunter1726 calcops1727 bennet1731 bonefish1734 Negro fish1735 isinglass-fish1740 orb1740 gollin1747 smelt1776 night-walker1777 water monarch1785 hardhead1792 macaw-fish1792 yellowback1796 sea-raven1797 blueback1812 stumpnose1831 flat1847 butterfish1849 croppie1856 gubbahawn1857 silt1863 silt-snapper1863 mullet-head1866 sailor1883 hogback1893 skipper1898 stocker1904 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxix. 368 The fisher-men having caught a quantity of large fish, I discovered one among them..the yellow-back…thus called from its colour, which almost resembles that of a lemon. 1810 A. von Sack Voy. Surinam App. 274 The Yellow-back is often brought to market at Paramaribo, and attracts the attention of new comers, as this fish is of a saffron colour on the upper part, but the under is white. 2. blue yellowback n. U.S. (now rare) (in full blue yellowback warbler) the northern parula, Setophaga americana, which has blue-grey upperparts with a yellowish breast and back patch. ΚΠ 1815 Guthrie's New Geogr. Gram. (Amer. ed. 2) II. 317/1 Blue yellow-back W [arbler] . S[ylvia] pusilla. 1892 B. Torrey Foot-path Way 83 I wondered why this..grove..should be the favorite resort of so many birds,—robins..and blue yellow-backs. 1921 H. H. Kopman Wild Life Resources Louisiana 121 The parula warbler, or blue yellow-back (Compsothlypis americana usneae), a very small and daintily colored species, with an insect-like trill. 1953 A. C. Bent Life Hist. N. Amer. Wood Warblers 136 Today only the ancient stone walls remain to mark the locally famous haunt of the blue yellow-backs. 2014 J. Sandrock & J. C. Prior Sci. Nomencl. Birds Upper Midwest 128 Setophaga..americiana... Common Name: Northern Parula... Other Name: blue yellowback. 3. A cheap novel with a yellow cover; (more generally) any cheaply issued or reprinted novel, typically having sensational subject matter. Cf. yellow adj. 8a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > cheaply issued or reprinted novel yellowback1859 society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [noun] > with specific type of back or cover blue book1633 green book1798 paperback1843 paper cover1843 yellowback1859 flat-back1888 greenback1893 paperbound1933 softback1951 hardback1953 hardcover1953 pocketbook1953 softcover1953 trade paperback1960 1859 Tyrone (Pa.) Star 8 Mar. An ‘out and out’ sewer of the lowest obscenities..whose presence is less safe to family virtue than the foulest ‘yellow backs’ that ever emanated from the ‘hell-holes’ of impurity in a New York or a Paris. 1872 Atlanta (Georgia) Daily Sun 12 Mar. To be..chronicled in yellow-backs for a dime, along with the Iron Mask Man, Dick Turpin, and the Man Without a Country. 1883 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 31 Jan. 4/4 He would not run down novel reading, not even all the ‘yellow backs’. 1928 M. Sadleir Trollope: Bibliogr. 68 In 1868 The Belton Estate was issued at two shillings as a ‘yellow back’. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. ii. 47 The ‘yellowback’ railway novel is available to a mass public. 2012 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 Jan. f6 Stacks of Victorian mass-market yellowbacks. 4. U.S. A monetary note redeemable in gold; = gold certificate n. (a) at gold n.¹ and adj. Compounds 1e. Cf. greenback n. 3. Now historical.Such notes were usually printed with yellow or orange ink on the reverse. They were removed from circulation in 1933. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S. long green1837 wild cat1861 greenback1862 postage currency1862 postage-stamp currency1862 postal currency1862 blueback1863 fractional note1863 greyback1863 yellowback1863 goldback1865 Sherman1892 1863 Evansville (Indiana) Weekly Gaz. 12 Dec. How to meet the new order of things—to pay double prices for almost everything without the faculty of duplicating greenbacks or ‘yellowbacks’—ah! there's the rub. 1875 Congress. Rec. 3 iii. 1879/1 The inability of the District to pay them in anything but their yellowbacks and greenbacks, which were down to sixty cents on the dollar, or less. 1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders xiv. 150 She was dead in love with the nice long yellow-backs that I've piled up. 1929 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 49/1 When the new bills appear in July, yellowbacks will be a thing of the past. All of the new currency is to be green. 1935 F. Hess House of Many Tongues ii. 25 Lynn pointed out the name on the bill, turning it over to show that it was a yellowback. 2012 @edwardrooster 1 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Doubt ‘yellowbacks’ will ever come back, since the birth of greenbacks to help the US in 1860s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1796
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