"sport one's oak" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From sport (“(archaic) to close or shut (a door)”) and oak (“outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college (especially of the University of Cambridge or University of Oxford) or similar institution, especially one made of oak wood”). Compare French trouver visage de bois (“to find no one at home”, literally “to find a wooden face (that is, the door)”).",
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          "ref": "1835, Scriblerus Redivivus [pseudonym; Edward Caswall], “Topics Concerning Pluck”, in A New Art Teaching How to be Plucked, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: J. Vincent, →OCLC, pages 34–35",
          "text": "For arguing that a man will be plucked take the Topics following: for among men likely to be plucked [i.e., rejected after failing an examination for a degree] are these for the most part. […] He that sporteth not his oak.",
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          "ref": "1871 December 8, Auspex [pseudonym], “Sporting the Oak”, in The Harvard Advocate, volume XII, number V, Cambridge, Mass.: Editors of The Harvard Advocate, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71",
          "text": "The custom of sporting one's oak, which is so popular an institution in the English Universities, is destined apparently to become an exotic in Cambridge. […] In England, to sport the oak is considered an act eminently proper and commendable; but we seem to think it is a habit destructive of our college freedom. If a visitor obtains no response to his tenth kick, cannot he take the hint that his company is not desirable at present and move off quietly, without informing the occupant of the said room that he knows he is there, and that he cannot see the reason why he is refused admittance.",
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          "ref": "1909, E[rnest] H[enry] Shackleton, “First Days in Winter Quarters”, in The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909 […], volume I, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 143",
          "text": "Blankets were served out to hang in the front of the cubicle [in Shackleton's Hut at Cape Royds, Antarctica], in case the inhabitants wanted at any time to \"sport their oak.\"",
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          "ref": "1961, R[onald] V[erlin] Cassill, chapter 4, in Clem Anderson, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 123",
          "text": "[H]e recreated something like Balliol on the prairies. He brewed tea each afternoon on his \"spirit lamp\" (sold at the student co-op as an alcohol burner), kept Scotch-type whisky in his cupboard, \"tutored\" with a Jewish boy from Brooklyn (actually the boy ghosted all his science and math work), and \"sported the oak\" when, as Clem conjectured later, he required a session of masturbation to the tune of Beardsley illustrations.",
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          "ref": "1974, Tom Sharpe, chapter 9, in Porterhouse Blue, 1st American edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, page 95",
          "text": "Mrs. Biggs let herself into Zipser's room and sported the oak. She had no intention of being disturbed.",
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          "ref": "1975, J[ohn] I[nnes] M[ackintosh] Stewart, chapter III, in Young Pattullo […] (A Staircase in Surrey; 2), London: Victor Gollancz, page 76",
          "text": "'And I'd feel particularly vulnerable, if I was on the ground floor like you.' / 'You could sport your oak, I suppose. But sporting your oak is said not to be quite the thing. It's felt not to be on, sporting your oak.'",
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          "ref": "1984, Hallam Tennyson, “Needful Parts”, in The Haunted Mind: An Autobiography, London: André Deutsch, page 46",
          "text": "We were turned at a slight angle to each other, our shoulders touching and I put my hand on his crotch. Miles seemed to be expecting it. He chuckled, took a pair of compasses and jammed them into the door above the latch. This was called ‘sporting the oak’ and was the recognized way of locking oneself in. Over the next eighteen months we sported our oaks with great frequency.",
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          "word": "give someone the brush-off"
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          "word": "sport timber"
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          "sense": "to close one’s door as an indication that visitors are not welcome",
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        }
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          "ref": "1835, Scriblerus Redivivus [pseudonym; Edward Caswall], “Topics Concerning Pluck”, in A New Art Teaching How to be Plucked, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: J. Vincent, →OCLC, pages 34–35",
          "text": "For arguing that a man will be plucked take the Topics following: for among men likely to be plucked [i.e., rejected after failing an examination for a degree] are these for the most part. […] He that sporteth not his oak.",
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          "ref": "1871 December 8, Auspex [pseudonym], “Sporting the Oak”, in The Harvard Advocate, volume XII, number V, Cambridge, Mass.: Editors of The Harvard Advocate, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71",
          "text": "The custom of sporting one's oak, which is so popular an institution in the English Universities, is destined apparently to become an exotic in Cambridge. […] In England, to sport the oak is considered an act eminently proper and commendable; but we seem to think it is a habit destructive of our college freedom. If a visitor obtains no response to his tenth kick, cannot he take the hint that his company is not desirable at present and move off quietly, without informing the occupant of the said room that he knows he is there, and that he cannot see the reason why he is refused admittance.",
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          "ref": "1909, E[rnest] H[enry] Shackleton, “First Days in Winter Quarters”, in The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909 […], volume I, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 143",
          "text": "Blankets were served out to hang in the front of the cubicle [in Shackleton's Hut at Cape Royds, Antarctica], in case the inhabitants wanted at any time to \"sport their oak.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, R[onald] V[erlin] Cassill, chapter 4, in Clem Anderson, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 123",
          "text": "[H]e recreated something like Balliol on the prairies. He brewed tea each afternoon on his \"spirit lamp\" (sold at the student co-op as an alcohol burner), kept Scotch-type whisky in his cupboard, \"tutored\" with a Jewish boy from Brooklyn (actually the boy ghosted all his science and math work), and \"sported the oak\" when, as Clem conjectured later, he required a session of masturbation to the tune of Beardsley illustrations.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1974, Tom Sharpe, chapter 9, in Porterhouse Blue, 1st American edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, page 95",
          "text": "Mrs. Biggs let herself into Zipser's room and sported the oak. She had no intention of being disturbed.",
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          "ref": "1975, J[ohn] I[nnes] M[ackintosh] Stewart, chapter III, in Young Pattullo […] (A Staircase in Surrey; 2), London: Victor Gollancz, page 76",
          "text": "'And I'd feel particularly vulnerable, if I was on the ground floor like you.' / 'You could sport your oak, I suppose. But sporting your oak is said not to be quite the thing. It's felt not to be on, sporting your oak.'",
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          "ref": "1984, Hallam Tennyson, “Needful Parts”, in The Haunted Mind: An Autobiography, London: André Deutsch, page 46",
          "text": "We were turned at a slight angle to each other, our shoulders touching and I put my hand on his crotch. Miles seemed to be expecting it. He chuckled, took a pair of compasses and jammed them into the door above the latch. This was called ‘sporting the oak’ and was the recognized way of locking oneself in. Over the next eighteen months we sported our oaks with great frequency.",
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      "word": "sulkea ovi"
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