单词 | aficionada |
释义 | aficionadan. A female aficionado; (originally) a female devotee of bullfighting; (now usually) a woman or girl who is very enthusiastic about some activity, subject, or pastime. ΚΠ 1836 A. S. Mackenzie Spain Revisited I. xiv. 211 At the bull-fight she never failed to attend, for she was a zealous aficionada. 1875 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 223/2 Even the charming aficionadas tossed their bouquets into the arena in order to applaud with all the force of their little hands. 1955 San Antonio Light 21 July 27/5 Sue is becoming an aficionada of the bull ring. 1978 Crisis June 209/1 Despite being a longtime aficionada of the Graeco/Roman myths, I am shamefacedly only now learning that most of them are adaptations and elaborations upon those of Ancient Egypt. 2001 A. Morton Madonna 42 An aficionada of mainstream pop, Madonna vividly remembers the day her brothers deliberately scratched her treasured Gary Puckett and the Union Gap single. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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