maypole | Idiomator

Meaning: Apole, garlanded withstreamersheld by people whodancearound it to celebrateMay Day.How would you like themaypoledecorated?1980,AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page263:AtIckwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanentmaypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.; (idiomatic)A verytallgirl or young lady.; (ornithology)A maypole-like structure ofsticksplaced about asaplingin thebowersof certain species ofbowerbird.2005,Sean Dooley,The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page212:The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, amaypoleup to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.; (euphemistic)Apenis, especially a large one.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, inMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure[Fanny Hill], London:[…][Thomas Parker]for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton andRalph Griffiths][…],→OCLC:and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but amaypoleof so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.

Examples:

EN: "It's now twenty years since I came to Sweden - twenty midsummer eves I've seen the maypole go by!"
ES: - - Hace ya veinte años que vine a Suecia, ¡veinte vísperas de verano he visto pasar el árbol de mayo!
EN: Just about this time a man named Anson's come on from Chicago and hit at least four home runs, the organ grinders are tuning up their hurdy-gurdies, the little girls are maypole dancing in Central Park, and the new bock beer is foaming at Luchow's.
ES: Los organilleros afinan sus instrumentos. Las chicas bailan en Central Park. Y en Luchow's vuelven a servir cerveza.
EN: How low am I, you painted maypole?
ES: ¿Cómo soy de baja, cucaña pintada, eh?
EN: You juggler, you thief of love, you painted maypole.
ES: Tramposa, ladrona de amores, cucaña pintada.
EN: You remember the pretty lads who wanted to do a maypole dance with you and we interrupted?
ES: Sí. ¿Recuerdas a los muchachos lindos que querían bailar contigo un baile de mayo y los interrumpimos?
EN: I only walked as far as the maypole on the green.
ES: He venido dando un paseo.
EN: In this corner at 125, I want you to meet Dr Matzopole, who discovered the maypole.
ES: En esta esquina, quiero presentarle al Dr Matzopole, que descubrió el maypole.
EN: We need a nice tall man to play maypole.
ES: Necesitamos a un señor alto para el baile del cordón.
EN: Then play maypole.
ES: - Pues juegue con nosotros.
EN: All right, I'll play maypole with you if you'll go tell Mrs. Fulton I'm here. Okay.
ES: Jugaré al baile del cordón si le decís a la Sra. Fulton que estoy aquí.
EN: You're very nice to play maypole with us.
ES: Gracias porjugar al baile del cordón.
EN: - No. You promised you'd do it if I play maypole.
ES: No, dijiste que irías si jugaba al baile del cordón.
EN: Neither am I a maypole. Kindly stop spinning about me.
ES: No soy una piñata, dejad de dar vueltas.
EN: ♪ See the spider on the maypole
ES: # Mira a la araña sobre el mayo #
EN: It's mayday Mamma, not maypole ...
ES: Es mayday Mamma, no cruz de mayo ...

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