eironn.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪrɒn/, U.S.

/ˈaɪrɑn/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek εἴρων.

Etymology: < ancient Greek εἴρων person who says less than he or she thinks (see irony n.). Compare irony n., alazon n.Compare earlier use in English as the name of a character in a play:a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iii. iv. 59 in Poems (1638) Your modesty Eiron speaks but truth in this.Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics (1108^a23) advocates a happy medium in speech and conversation between boastfulness, typical of the alazon, and self-depreciation, typical of the eiron.

A stock character in ancient Greek comedy characterized by self-depreciation, modesty of speech, and awareness of irony. Hence in extended use: a character of this type. Contrasted with alazon n.The eiron typically triumphs over the boastful alazon by feigning ignorance or stupidity.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > specific character

Robin Hood1473

wantonness1507

vice1552

pantaloon1592

iniquity1597

burratinea1637

scaramouch1662

Pierrot1726

gracioso1749

eiron1872

alazon1911

toby1946

1872 Amer. Jrnl. Educ. 23 179 Aristotle, again draws the distinction between the Eiron and the Bomolochus—that the former seems to throw out his wit for his own amusement, and the other for that of the company.

1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 330 The eiron was an underdog—small and frail, but sly and resourceful; he regularly triumphed over the bullying alazon by his ingenuity.

1968 E. Roy Christopher Fry ix. 119 The Countess Rosmarin belongs to a long line of traditional withdrawing and returning, benevolent eiron figures.

1993 Harper's Mag. Nov. 67/1 An ancient tradition going back to the Greeks, in which the eiron, or apparently lowly character, triumphs over the apparently noble character through wit, awareness, quickness or perception.

2011 R. L. Snyder Art of Indirection in Brit. Spy Fiction ii. 70 What these textual puzzles require us to ponder is whether James Wormold..has emerged as the resilient eiron.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eiron
释义	eironn. Brit. /ˈʌɪrɒn/, U.S. /ˈaɪrɑn/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek εἴρων. Etymology: < ancient Greek εἴρων person who says less than he or she thinks (see irony n.). Compare irony n., alazon n.Compare earlier use in English as the name of a character in a play:a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iii. iv. 59 in Poems (1638) Your modesty Eiron speaks but truth in this.Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics (1108^a23) advocates a happy medium in speech and conversation between boastfulness, typical of the alazon, and self-depreciation, typical of the eiron. A stock character in ancient Greek comedy characterized by self-depreciation, modesty of speech, and awareness of irony. Hence in extended use: a character of this type. Contrasted with alazon n.The eiron typically triumphs over the boastful alazon by feigning ignorance or stupidity. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > specific character Robin Hood1473 wantonness1507 vice1552 pantaloon1592 iniquity1597 burratinea1637 scaramouch1662 Pierrot1726 gracioso1749 eiron1872 alazon1911 toby1946 1872 Amer. Jrnl. Educ. 23 179 Aristotle, again draws the distinction between the Eiron and the Bomolochus—that the former seems to throw out his wit for his own amusement, and the other for that of the company. 1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 330 The eiron was an underdog—small and frail, but sly and resourceful; he regularly triumphed over the bullying alazon by his ingenuity. 1968 E. Roy Christopher Fry ix. 119 The Countess Rosmarin belongs to a long line of traditional withdrawing and returning, benevolent eiron figures. 1993 Harper's Mag. Nov. 67/1 An ancient tradition going back to the Greeks, in which the eiron, or apparently lowly character, triumphs over the apparently noble character through wit, awareness, quickness or perception. 2011 R. L. Snyder Art of Indirection in Brit. Spy Fiction ii. 70 What these textual puzzles require us to ponder is whether James Wormold..has emerged as the resilient eiron. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1872
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