单词 | aginer |
释义 | aginern. U.S. colloquial. A person who is against something; one who opposes a proposal, course of action, point of view, etc. Also more generally: a person having a habitually negative attitude; one who opposes any change as a matter of principle. Cf. againster n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opponent > one opposed to some person or thing opponent1658 virtuoso-mastix1671 anti1814 warrer1836 against1843 reactionist1902 aginer1905 againster1919 nay-sayer1925 1905 Westminster (Philadelphia) 8 Apr. 6/2 We [sc. the Presbyterian Church] have not been an ‘aginer’ for a year past. We are ‘for-ers’: for the Church: for the home. 1944 Post (Morgantown, W. Va.) 9 Feb. 6/2 A grab bag for all the aginners in the country. 1953 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Aug. 85/2 Clare Hoffman..rallied some die-hards from both parties against it... The committee's disapproval was pure, instinctive obstructionism. Clare is a natural ‘ag'in'er’. 1990 P. Taylor See how they Run i. 20 On election day..many more people voted ‘against’ than ‘for’—a pattern that has become the norm in presidential elections... Jeane Shilling..captured the ‘agginer’ mind-set exquisitely. 2005 C. Shirley Reagan's Revol. xi. 244 Wallace... had always been just an ‘aginner’ and never really proposed solutions to the problems he identified in America. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1905 |
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