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单词 cannikin
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cannikinn.

Brit. /ˈkanᵻkɪn/, U.S. /ˈkænəkən/
Forms: 1500s canykyn, 1500s–1800s canikin, 1500s– cannikin, 1600s canniken, 1600s kannakyn, 1600s kannikin, 1600s–1800s canakin, 1600s 1900s– cannakin, 1700s canacin, 1800s kannakin.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch kanneken.
Etymology: Apparently < Dutch kanneken small can or other small container (although this is first attested considerably later: 1648) < kanne can n.1 + -ken -kin suffix. With the ending compare e.g. manikin n.Compare Middle Low German kenneke small can or container. The semantic motivation of sense 2 is unclear.
1. A small can, or other small container, esp. one used as a drinking vessel.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > small
tass1480
cymphe1490
cannikin1509
trinket1541
tun1555
pocill1572
noggin1588
chark1591
quick shot1624
nipperkin1691
pannikin1727
tassie1790
dobbin1792
tinnie1825
tot1828
tin1900
thimble cup1933
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxliv Some drynkes: some quaxes the canykyn halfe full.
?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 356 Carruse, and hald the cannikin klyncleine.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 63 And let me the Cannikin clinke, clinke. View more context for this quotation
1672 M. Lluelyn Wickham Wakened 7 O be drunk agen Quaker, Take thy Canniken and shake her.
1764 Gentleman's Mag. 34 89 And clink the cannikin here below.
1794 J. O'Keeffe Wild Oats (new ed.) ii. iii. 34 Her ladyship, no more than myself, has set eyes upon you since you was the bigness of a Rumbo Canakin.
1845 R. Browning Flight of Duchess xvi, in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 18/2 When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. iv. 33 The miscellany began—a quadrant, a tin canikin,..an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value.
1920 G. Ade Hand-made Fables 144 The Dents in the Furniture, so the Legends ran, had been made by Cannikins, brought down in Unison.
1965 Times 21 Aug. 7/4 When the shooting ended the swilling began. It might have lasted till dawn unless the cannakin ceased to clink.
1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger lii. 589 I might have been livin' in a grand house by now,..drinkin' brandy from a crystal glass stead of beer from a ship's cannikin.
2009 A. S. Byatt Children's Bk. (2010) xxxiii. 411 Dorothy and Griselda set off with cannikins to walk through the woods to the farm for milk.
2. slang. The plague. Obsolete.In later use only in dictionaries and glossaries.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > bubonic plague
pestilencea1382
plague1522
cannikin1612
black plague1626
Black Death1755
bubonic plague1803
bubo plague1833
bubonic1901
1612 T. Dekker O per se O sig. M Besides, they haue in their Canting, a word for the Diuell, or the plague &c. as Ruffin for the one, and Cannikin for the other.
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. 48 Cannakin, The plague.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Canacin, the Plague. C[ountry word].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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