| 释义 |
playboy colloq.|ˈpleɪbɔɪ|
Also play-boy.
[f. play n. + boy n.1]
A man, esp. a wealthy man, who sets out to enjoy himself; a selfish pleasure-seeker (in quot. 1898 used of the devil). Also as v. intr. Hence ˈplayboyish a., ˈplayboyishness, ˈplayboyism.
Cf. also the obsolete sense s.v. play n. 17.
1829G. Griffin Collegians viii. 161 The pretty Syl repeatedly told him that he was ‘a funny gentleman’ and ‘a great play-boy’. 1898J. Macmanus Bend of Road 107 The divil sittin cheek be jowl with him in his own chimbley corner!..an' himself an' the playboy shoughed out o' the same pipe! 1907J. M. Synge (title) The playboy of the western world. Ibid. ii. 51 You're the walking playboy of the western world. 1926C. Day Lewis in Oxford Poetry 20 Proud Playboy of his own complacency. 1926N.Y. Times 11 Oct. 24/2 The playboy of baseball might have heard his name go ringing down the corridors of baseball as a man who won a series game with a home run. 1933J. Cary Amer. Visitor 226 Jukes used to say all these officials were playboys moved by some impractical notion or other. 1936M. de la Roche Whiteoak Harvest xi. 160 No matter how hard I worked I was looked on as a sort of playboy who couldn't do a man's job. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) i. 183 The house..was the worst, it is hoped, even in our western playboyish world for pure mousefarm filth. 1952E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten i. 55 He is not the blatantly silly, playboy heir to millions whose antics make newspaper headlines. 1954N. Coward Future Indefinite i. 4 Beneath a glittering veneer of..playboyishness, I had managed..to retain a few normal human instincts. 1959M. Cumberland Murmurs in Rue Morgue xvii. 105 What's the matter with this age?.. Its bitterest insults are to call people playboys, pleasure-lovers, hedonists. 1960Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing vi. 60 A New York playboy, accustomed from his earliest years to pursue blondes like a blood⁓hound. 1962Times 28 Feb. 5/1 The elder boy, who has gone in for playboyism in a big way. 1963V. Canning Limbo Line xvi. 218 Who wanted money? Amadeo to playboy around? 1973‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xx. 76 The Lebanese ladies..lusted after the trim, brown-tanned Beirut playboys. 1976Botham & Donnelly Valentino xi. 86 Wearing tails as the Paris playboy, he was dancing his way into cinema history. |