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单词 california
释义

Californian.

/kalɪˈfɔːnɪə/
Etymology: < the name of California, U.S. state on the Pacific Coast.
† Money. Obsolete slang.
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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
1851 London at Table i. 5 Some ‘California’, as the fast young men of the day term ‘money’, is necessary for these houses.
1852 C. M. Yonge Two Guardians xi. 183 You had plenty of money... I know you keep California in your pocket.

Compounds

C1. Used attributively, esp. in the names of various species of animals and plants; = Californian adj.; California partridge n. or California quail Lophortyx californica.
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1831 F. W. Beechey Narr. Voy. to Pacific II. 81 The California quail (tetrao virginianus).
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 108 A few hides were brought down, which we carried off in the California style.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 109 Telling us that it was ‘California fashion’ to carry two on the head at a time.
1846 in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. V. 380 I begin to conclude that californea Horses are not a hardy race of animals.
1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 518 California Hawk. Buteo Cooperii.
1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 363 Ferrugineous Buzzard, or California Squirrel Hawk.
1881 Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1880 312/2 Ceanothus thyrsiflorus is a small tree producing an abundance of light blue flowers, and known as the California lilac.
1891 F. F. Victor Atlantis Arisen 225 The California poppy, Eschscholtzia, is found in Southern Oregon.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Apr. 6/3 A California grey whale, the first to be captured off the Island coast, has been brought in to the Sechart whaling station.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 July 4/4 My attention has been drawn recently to some California poppies, growing on the roadside along the Malahat [Road].
1927 C. M. Russell Trails plowed Under 3 A high-forked, full-stamped California saddle.
1967 ‘E. Queen’ Face to Face xxi. 96 A bottle of undistinguished California burgundy.
C2.
California fever n. colloquial, laziness.
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1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxi. 216 If the ‘California fever’ (laziness) spares the first generation, it always attacks the second.
California jack n. ‘a game of cards resembling all-fours’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > all fours
all fours1674
seven-up1830
old sledge1834
pitch1860
California jack1865
Pedro Sancho1875
cinch1889
high five1889
Californian jack1893
sell-out-
1865 Manch. Guardian 4 Mar. 6/1 Players..become absorbed in the mysteries of ‘Euchre,’ ‘Seven up,’ ‘California Jack,’ or ‘Poker.’
1882 J. W. Steele Frontier Army Sketches (1883) 50 Here is the down-east Yankee..turning his native cunning to account at poker and California jack.
1921 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three iii. 39 For two hours they sat and played California jack in plain sight of the street.
1982 Mod. Age 26 374/2 They played California Jack every night.
2008 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Nov. (Mag.) 35 California jack is a faster and more cut-throat descendant of all fours.
California toothpick n. a bowie-knife.
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1856 W. G. Simms Eutaw 142 A weapon only inferior in size and weight to the modern ‘California toothpick’.
California widow n. (see quot.)
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1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms California widow, a married woman whose husband is away from her for any extended period.

Derivatives

Californiaized adj.
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1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West ix. 156 Most of the business men were ‘Californiaized Jews’,—an improved variety of the race.

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California king n. originally U.S. a size of bed that is longer but slightly narrower than conventional king size (also more fully California king size); (also) a mattress or bed of this size; frequently attributive.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > specific sizes of bed
double bed1839
three-quarter bed1919
twin bed1919
queen1955
California king size1957
California king1983
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > mattress > other types
box mattress1855
poncho mattress1862
overlay mattress1907
biscuit1915
dog biscuit1925
Posturepedic1946
interior spring mattress1948
California king1997
1957 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 14 July 7 c ‘California’ king size..72″ x 84″ mattress and box spring.
1983 N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 2 June c8 A large California king sheet.
1997 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 12 Nov. a10 King-size mattresses have morphed into giant California Kings.
2005 Interior Design Feb. 91 [The bed] comes in three standard sizes, including California king.

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attributive. In Japanese cookery: designating a variety of maki zushi having a filling containing avocado and cooked (imitation) crabmeat or other shellfish. Esp. in California roll.
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1979 Gourmet Sept. 121/2 Sushi. California maki; tamago yaki; tekka maki. Lunch & dinner à la carte.
1979 Los Angeles Times 25 Nov. (Calendar section) 117/1 A ‘California roll’..of shrimp, avocado, the rice rolled in sesame seeds, a cucumber ‘flower’ sprouting from the middle.
1987 Chicago Tribune vii. 35/1 Ohba Restaurant:..California maki sushi with avocado, crab and wabasi [read wasabi].
1997 J. Steingarten Man who ate Everything (1998) i. 75 I eat avocados in guacamole and in California rolls at Americanized sushi bars.
2005 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Jan. l9/4 We ask for California handroll.
2007 Horizons (British Airways) May 100/2 I..go out for sushi (favourite dish: California roll).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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