单词 | comic novelist |
释义 | > as lemmascomic novelist comic novelist n. a writer of comic novels. ΚΠ 1824 Knight's Q. Mag. 3 221 A celebrated comic novelist has told us, that ‘it is the nature of..the internal parts of the human machine to give way when pressed.’ 1894 P. Russell Guide Brit. & Amer. Novels viii. 96 Charles Dickens stands forth supreme as the greatest of British comic novelists. 1932 G. K. Chesterton Chaucer i. 8 When the comic novelist says that Mr. Pobbles burst his collar, how much more forcible if he brast his collar! 2011 B. Thomas in P. M. Logan Encycl. of Novel I. 251 The English comic novelist P. G. Wodehouse wrote extensively for stage and screen. < as lemmas |
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