单词 | cannikin |
释义 | cannikinn. 1. A small can, or other small container, esp. one used as a drinking vessel. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1509 |
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