| 释义 |
lefty|ˈlɛftɪ|
Also leftie.
[-y6.]
1. A left-handed person. Also attrib. or as adj.
1886Sporting Life 7 Apr. 2/4 In last Wednesday's [baseball] game Nashville presented her left-handed battery,..to offset our ‘lefty’ battery. 1927Glasgow Herald 7 Apr. 12 He was a patriotic Roman youth who allowed his right hand to be burned off..and was henceforward designated by a term which..would be rendered by his comrades of to-day as ‘Leftie’. 1969New Scientist 6 Nov. 277/2 Such illustrious lefties as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo..and Paul McCartney.
2. A left-winger in politics. Also attrib. or as adj.
1935C. Odets (title) Waiting for Lefty. 1937in Partridge Dict. Slang (1951) 1097/2 (caption) Counter⁓blast to lefties. 1939R. Campbell Flowering Rifle ii. 40 As I who've lived beneath the two regimes And have not dreamed the Leftie Teacher's dreams. 1967Listener 10 Aug. 164/1 The lefties are almost completely in control of the nation's communication. 1970K. Amis What became of Jane Austen? 204, I mean the kind of person who..buys unexamined the abortion-divorce-homosexuality-censorship-racialism-marijuana package; in a word, the Lefty. 1972Times 6 Oct. 14/7 A leader of the left who is no fair-weather Lefty but the genuine article. 1972Observer 22 Oct. 29/1 These groups pump out quantities of magazines and news-sheets, frequently repetitive, full of Lefty names and too-ready inferences. 1974Oxford Times 8 Mar. 11/3 This word, victimisation, has become a substitute, in leftie jargon, for just punishment. |