| 释义 |
towny, a. and n. colloq.|ˈtaʊnɪ|
Also -ey, -ie. Cf. townee a. and n.
[f. town n. + -y.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the town; townish.
1837New Monthly Mag. L. 248 His acquired habits were of the town, towny. 1857E. M. Whitty Friends in Bohemia I. 211 Are you not weary of this towney life? 1908Treasury Feb. 507 A house so towny and stylish, compared with our farm homesteads.
B. n.
1. A town-bred man; spec. a Londoner.
1827P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 2) II. 227 If we could not say we had committed as many [robberies] as these townies, they would look upon us with contempt. Ibid. 230 Many surgeons find that by putting all the old townies into double irons whenever robberies begin to prevail, a cessation soon takes place. 1934[see bushy n.]. 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby i. 13 A sundowner's life was better than that of the ‘townie’ who had to work hard for a living and wear clean collars and shirts. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. iv. 62 The ‘towney’ touches the leaf gingerly. 1972P. Lively Driftway vi. 85 He was a real townie, didn't care for walking at all. 1984Times 13 Feb. 2/8 Farmers know and care far more about conservation than meddlesome townies.
2. U.S. University slang. A townsman as distinct from a member of the university.
1852Deseret News (Salt Lake City) 7 Aug. 1/1 ‘O, nothing,’ replied the ‘towney’. 1853Yale Lit. Mag. XIX. 2 (Thornton) The genus by the German students denominated ‘Philistines’, by the Cantabs ignominiously called ‘Snobs’, and which custom here has named ‘Townies’. 1869W. T. Washburne Fair Harvard 54 (ibid.) One beholds the conscious ‘towney’ on his evening promenade.
b. N. Amer. Circus slang. A town-dweller, as opp. to a person travelling with a circus or carnival.
1937[see Reub, Rube]. 1951N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 Apr. 7/5 A fight [of carnival workers] with the townies. 1971Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 19 Dec. 6/4 Everything had been set up for the show and tickets were being sold when several ‘townies’ attempted to crash the gate.
3. A fellow-townsman or townswoman. slang.
1834Knickerbocker IV. 279 Five or six fellows, whom I knew were friends and ‘townies’ of his. 1865Morn. Star 18 July, She is a ‘towny’ (of the same town) of mine, and I want to see her safe home. 1869Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 347 Then you and me's ‘towneys’ it seems. 1892Stevenson & Osbourne Wrecker xii, A townie of mine was lost down this way, in a coal-ship. |