单词 | zepp |
释义 | Zeppn. colloquial (now chiefly in historical contexts). 1. = Zeppelin n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > airship ship1679 airship1817 air sailor1834 navigable1882 dirigible1885 Zeppelin1896 aeronat1903 steerable1908 Zepp1914 vessel1915 1910 Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun 15 Sept. 1/4 Zep's Balloon Burns... Count Zeppelin's large, dirigible balloon, Zeppelin VI, took fire today following an explosion and burned.] 1914 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 23 Nov. 2/3 Do you really think any of the ‘Zepps’ will ever reach London? I don't, for one, for there are searchlights and guns at different intervals along the coast. 1916 J. Pope Simple Rhymes 40 The night those Zeps bombarded town. 1916 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Jan. 40/3 A hostile raiding ‘Zepp.’ 1931 Flight 28 Aug. 855/1 The most interesting feature of our trip was a personally escorted tour of the entire Zep whilst crossing over France. 1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose iv. 31 We seed one Zepp, agen Birnigum, a big silver hull of a ‘boat’ in the moonlight. 2. = Zeppelin n. 2. Usually in Zepps in a cloud and variants. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] pudding1287 saucister1347 sausage14.. sauserling1475 pota1500 gigot1553 isingc1560 gut-pudding1697 small goods1716 jegget1736 German duck1785 pud1828 dog1891 Zepp1915 Zeppelin1915 wors1923 snag1941 1915 Tatler 17 Mar. 4 Aircraft Expert (whose fancy dictates sausages and mashed): Now then, Charlie, come on, pop about! Two Zepps an' a cloud! 1931 M. Allingham Look to Lady i. 22 I'll bring yer a spot o' coffee and a couple o' Zepps in a smoke screen. 1940 Life & Lett. Feb. 153 The coffee-stall..can supply on demand..not only sandwiches, but pies, tarts, biscuits, sausage rolls, eggs, ‘Zepps in a cloud’, chips. 1979 R. Billington Woman's Age iii. 82 Canteen food wasn't bad—‘two Zepps in a cloud’ sausages and mash to you for tuppence ha'penny, mince and mash tuppence, beans a penny. Compounds General attributive (in sense 1), esp. in Zepp raid. ΚΠ 1914 Washington Post 7 Dec. 6/3 London's growing apprehension of a Zep raid ought to open up a good market for Kansas' banner crop of cyclone cellars. 1915 W. Owen Let. 12 June (1967) 338 The spot where a Zep. Bomb fell in a cross-roads. 1916 R. Mountfort Let. 5 Sept. in Great War Lett. (2009) 109 We had a lovely Zepp raid the other night. 1919 C. Orr Glorious Thing ii. 20 We're exceedingly preoccupied with the war—Zepp. raids and things. 1986 B. Carter Jack xxxiv. 295 ‘No zepp attacks,’ Blanche said, a note of disappointment in her voice. 2002 J. Toombs Nightingale Man xi. 98 Ever since that night when she'd been in London during the Zepp raid she'd not been herself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Zeppv. colloquial. Now rare. 1. intransitive. Of a Zeppelin: to go on a bombing raid. rare. ΚΠ 1914 Aeronautics 15 Aug. 38/1 Cables tell of the frontier being patrolled by rival aeroplanes within easy sight of each other, of a Zeppelin having zepped over Liege during the bombardment, pursued by a Belgian aviator who lost his life in destroying it. 2. transitive. = zeppelin v. 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > drop (bombs) > bomb > type of bombing Zepp1915 zeppelin1915 blitz1939 dive-bomb1940 pattern-bomb1943 atom-bomb1945 atomic-bomb1945 firebomb1945 cluster bomb1967 1915 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 10 Nov. 9/6 Since the Count's Zeps have been Zepping London, no self respecting Londoner has gone to bed in anything unfit for public gaze. 1917 S. Ford Wilt Thou Torchy xiv. 242 Have we been U-boated or Zepped? All right; I'll be there in two minutes. 1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar vii. 83 ‘So you've been Zepped, I hear,’ she said. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1914v.1914 |
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