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jingbang (iou) and marble(1) (iou)


jingbang (iou)



jingbang noun. slang. M19.
[Origin unkn.]
the whole jingbang, the lot, everyone, the whole company or affair.

marble(1) (iou)



marble noun & adjective. Orig. also marbre. ME.
[Old French, dissimilated form of Old & mod. French marbre from Latin marmor from Greek marmaros shining stone, orig. (block of) stone, but later assoc. with marmairein shine.]
A. noun.
Limestone that has been recrystallized by metamorphism and is capable of taking a polish; esp. one that is pure white or has a mottled surface. Also, a kind or variety of this. ME.
Connemara marble, forest marble, landscape marble, statuary marble, etc.
b. fig. As a type of something hard, inflexible, or durable. L16.
M. E. Braddon Clarice had made up her mind.., and she was marble.
A piece, block, or slab of marble; a marble monument. ME.
b. spec. A tomb or tombstone made of marble. ME-M18.
c. The stone as a material used for making tombs and tombstones. poet. E17.
d. Antiquities. In pl. A collection of sculpture made of marble. Freq. with specifying word. M17.
Oxford marbles, Elgin marbles, etc.
e. A slab of marble on which to grind paints etc. L17.
a. A mottled or dappled colour resembling that of variegated marble; a cloth of such a colour. LME-E18.
b. The marbled pattern or paper used in ornamenting books. L17-E19.
A small ball orig. made of marble, now usu. of glass, clay, etc., used in a game played esp. by children (also playing-marble); in pl., the game itself. L17.
Harper Lee Children were playing marbles in Tom's front yard. Dennis Potter Its eyeballs changed colour and fell at my feet like squashy marbles.
b. [translating French meubles.] In pl. Furniture, movables, personal effects. slang. M19.
c. In pl. Mental faculties; brains; common sense. slang. E20.
Daily Telegraph At 91, Mr. Schotz not only has all his marbles, he is gifted with concentration.
Phrases: make one's marble good Austral. & NZ slang make a good impression on a person, ingratiate oneself. pass in one's marble: see PASS verb.
b. adjective.
Made of or consisting of marble. LME.
G. Greene The beer slopped over on to the marble top of the table.
Of a variegated or mottled colour; marbled. LME.
fig. Hard, cold, or rigid like marble; enduring as marble; smooth as marble. M16.
Shakespeare 3 Henry VI Her tears will pierce into a marble heart.
Special collocations & comb.: marble bone (a) sing. & in pl. = OSTEOPETROSIS; (b) a bone affected by osteopetrosis. marble cake (orig. US) a cake with a mottled appearance like that of marble. marble gall a hard, dark brown gall formed on the common oak by the gall wasp Andricus kollari. marble orchard US slang a cemetery. marble-paper paper coloured in imitation of marble. marble-stone (obsolete exc. dial.) = senses A.1, 2 above. marble-wood any of various trees with mottled or banded wood, esp. Diospyros marmorata (family Ebenaceae) of the Andaman Islands, and the native olive Olea paniculata, of Australia; the timber of such a tree.