ringer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
    — Pull, if ye never pull′d before; Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.
  2. A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
    — It is difficult to classify them precisely, but, in roughly ascending order of productivity, we now recognise the purely chance observer, the locality regulars (now recognising that ‘time in’ eventually equals ‘rarity out’), the ringers (particularly when working in groups), the occasional tally-hunter (most of us, if we are honest), the full-time observatory workers (exhibiting the highest standards of discipline) and the growing group of full-blooded rarity collectors (self-styled ‘twitchers’, covering individually up to 30,000 miles in their annual pursuit of ‘lifers’).
  3. A top performer. UK,dialectal
  4. Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor. slang
  5. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
    — That man over there is an exact ringer for my father!
  6. An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve. UK,in-compounds,informal
    — A group of naval one- and two-ringers were chatting by the office door with a few ratings, complete with kit-bags and oilskins.
  7. A crowbar.
  8. A stockman, a cowboy. Australia
    — 1964, Alec Bolton, Walkabout′s Australia, Walkabout magazine, page 107, The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.
  9. The champion shearer of a shearing shed. Australia
    — Click goes his shears; click, click, click. Wide are the blows, and his hand is moving quick, The ringer looks round, for he lost it by a blow, And he curses that old shearer with the bare belled ewe.
  10. A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
    — Near-synonym: hustler
  11. A ringer T-shirt.
    — […] shabby baseball caps, faded and worn-out T-shirts, ringers and polos with artificially aged hems […]
  12. In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
  13. A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
  14. A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground. uncountable
  15. A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle. UK,slang
    — I had heard early on in my career about 'ringers': cars that were stolen and cloned, but it was 1993 before I was to experience this first-hand.

词形变化

ringers plural ringers plural ringers plural ringers plural ringers plural ringers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hogringer ringer equivalence number
相关词
ding, ding, ding, we have a winner

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English ring
English -er
English ringer
From ring (“to surround”) + -er.
词源 3
Unknown. Probably so named after the custom of ringing a bell to denote the winner of a contest or competition.
词源 4
Some senses may derive from ring the changes (“run through variations; enliven; pass counterfeit money; trick a shopkeeper into giving too much change”).
词源 5
Unclear. Compare ring of truth, and see the "fake, impostor" sense at Etymology 4.
词源 6
From ring + -er, from the noun.
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