| 释义 |
beanie orig. U.S.|ˈbiːnɪ|
[cf. bean n. 5 b.]
A small close-fitting hat worn off the face.
1943Mademoiselle Nov. 196 Matching felt beanie pins. 1944Sears Roebuck Midsummer Book 22 Beanie, a clever little dink to perch atop your curls. 1958Vogue Mid-Sept. 58 Back-of-the-head beanies..are a piece of evening prettiness. 1962M. McCarthy On Contrary 188 Courageous Mrs. C...wears the same beanies every year regardless of the milliners. 1966Punch 16 Mar. p. xv, Model girls snapping up..tiny beanie hats.
▸ Short for Beanie Baby n. at Additions.
1996Boston Herald (Nexis) 5 June 1 For children, collecting Beanies is as much fun as playing with them. Kids trade them, share their beds with mounds of them, and build display cases for them. 1997City Paper (Baltimore) 19–26 Nov. 19/1 (Holiday Guide section) Should you have an aversion to supporting the Beanie trend—and who can blame you?—Zebop has large stuffed dancing bears, sans beans. 1999N.Y. Times 2 Sept. c19/2 The consensus..was that Ty,..was simply engaging in a corporate game of ‘gotcha’ to drive sales as Beanies begin to lose their appeal to youngsters who have moved on to Pokémon and Furby.
▸ Beanie Baby n. (a proprietary name for) a small, soft toy, usually in the form of an animal, stuffed with plastic beans, freq. treated as a collectable item.
1995Playthings (Nexis) May 22 His number one sellers are Ty's *Beanie Babies, a line of about 30 different animal bean bags retailing for $4.99 each. 1999Daily News (Los Angeles) (Nexis) 25 Jan. sv4 Beanie Baby collector Irma Padilla of Simi Valley has a simple explanation for why she has some 600 of the stuffed animals in her collection: She's infatuated. |