单词 | dromomania |
释义 | dromomanian. A mania for roaming or running. ΚΠ 1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 213/1 Dromomania. 1907 W. James in Philos. Rev. 16 8 Hitherto such freaks of impulse have received Greek names (as bulimia, dromamania, etc.). Derivatives dromoˈmaniac n. one who has such a mania; (jocular or slang) an athlete. ΚΠ 1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. viii. 201 Account for a great athlete or a great poet by translating him..into..Greek..as a dromomaniac or a graphomaniac. 1967 Listener 30 Nov. 714/2 The American hobo, tramp, bum, vagrant, transient and dromomaniac. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.1900 |
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