α. see every adj. and pron. and body n.; also Scottish 1900s– evrubdy.
β. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) 1800s– ever'body, 1900s– everbody, 1900s– evvabody (in African-American usage), 1900s– evvbody.
单词 | everybody |
释义 | everybodypron.α. see every adj. and pron. and body n.; also Scottish 1900s– evrubdy. β. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) 1800s– ever'body, 1900s– everbody, 1900s– evvabody (in African-American usage), 1900s– evvbody. a. Every person, everyone. Frequently with contextually universal reference: each person present on a particular occasion, or included in a specified group.Traditionally followed by a third person singular masculine pronoun when gender is unspecified, although in such circumstances use of a third person plural pronoun is now more common (see sense b). Occasionally a feminine pronoun is preferred where all members of a group are presumed to be female or (esp. more recently) to counter perceived sexist bias in the use of a masculine pronoun, although use of a third person plural pronoun is more common in the latter case. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > everyone allOE to wifeOE everya1250 young and olda1400 everybodyc1405 all hands1655 tout le monde1825 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 574 In sighte of euery body in that place. c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 75 (MED) He..did plesaunce to euery body. ?a1518 H. Watson Ualentyne & Orson (1555) xvi. sig.N.i Euery body put himselfe in poynt and dyde theyr dylygence for to arme them. 1669 W. Penn No Cross, No Crown i. v. §12 If every Body..should mew himself up within Four Walls. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxxxvii That which is every body's work is no body's. 1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §97 Time, place, and motion..are what everybody knows. c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches II. 196 Gilbert was every body's body. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 72 What I suppose has been observed..by everybody. 1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1643/1 Everybody gave his ‘Happy New-Year’ to everybody else. 1933 D. Thomas Let. Dec. (1987) 64 My indiscriminate sprinkling of cigarette ash over everything and everybody. 1980 New York 28 Jan. 7/1 Everybody brought her own Kleenex. 1990 R. Critchfield Among British i. 8 Son obeys father, wife husband, worker manager, subject the state, everybody knows his place. 2013 A. Gibbons Raining Fire xi. 133 I got to the hall just as everybody was filing in to sit the exam. b. Followed by a third person plural pronoun, they, their, or them.Now more usual than use with a singular pronoun when the group is presumed to contain persons of both genders.Cf. quot. ?a1518 at sense a with change from singular to plural pronoun in the coordinate clause. ΚΠ a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxvii. sig. Qiiiv Euery bodye was in theyr lodgynges. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xiv. sig. Y5v Now this King did keepe a great house, that euery body might come and take their meat freely. 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 477 To take vpon him the disciplining of euery body for their errours. a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) iii. 51 Being Sunday, every body had their holiday cloaths on. 1820 Ld. Byron Wks. (1840) IV. 298 Every body does and says what they please. 1866 J. Ruskin Ethics of Dust v. 82 Everybody seems to recover their spirits. 1884 Warren (Pa.) Ledger 22 Feb. It was so miracklus ever'body held thar breath. 1903 Plumbers' Trade Jrnl. 15 Aug. 220/4 Everybody re-embarked for the return trip and abandoned themselves to dancing and singing. 1915 J. Turner Let. 21 Apr. in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 8 Thank everybody at home most awfully for their letters. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 116/2 He said everybody had a nickel bag or ounce with them. 2010 Jewish Chron. 8 Oct. 19/3 He was the local optician and everybody went to him for their glasses. Phrases P1. everybody else: every other person, everyone else.In earlier use sometimes with plural verb agreement (cf. quots. 1715, 1759). ΚΠ 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 88v To their semyng, there shall not stande one heire amisse, & yet euery body els shall thinke them meter for a ladies chamber, then for an earnest matter, in any open assemblie. 1647 J. Hart Trodden Down Strength 24 Shee was quite destitute of all naturall affection unto Husband, Father, Mother, Children, and every body else. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. i. 11 Do not every body else love him..? 1759 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 280 Every body else I meet with are full ready to go of themselves. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 111 He was ever on the alert..to impart of it [sc. knowledge] to everybody else. 1891 T. E. Perley From Timber to Town xxviii. 222 Josiar Simson's big voice drownded out ever'body else. 1940 P. Larkin Let. 20 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 6 Poetry is nobody's business except the poets' & everybody else can fuck off. 1976 R. Massey When I was Young i. 20 Everybody else was laughing, too, including grandma. 2005 N.Y. Times 17 Mar. c18/4 Baseball players..may make millions of dollars. But they're subject to the law like everybody else. P2. colloquial. everybody and his (also their, etc.) wife (also brother, cousin, dog, etc.): (with singular or plural agreement) a large and diverse group of people; absolutely everyone. Cf. everyone and his wife at everyone pron. Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1823 London Mag. Apr. 383/2 Shopkeepers, great and small; artisans, high and low; farmers, ploughmen, shepherds, and fishermen—everybody, and his wife and children too. 1876 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 9 May Everybody and their cousins are expected to be here. 1965 M. Marmorstein Will Real Jesus Christ please stand Up? (rev. ed.) 12 Everybody and his uncle has an opinion of what He should be like. 1990 M8 Dec. 54/2 Everybody and their dog has been predicting that when the Mondays finally got round to making the follow up to Bummed, it would knock ten bells out of the competition. 2015 S. Fearon & J. Powell Dead Companies Walking iii. 78 The dotcom boom, when everybody and their brother was..predicting the end of brick-and-mortar retail. P3. everybody who is anybody: see anybody pron. and n. Phrases 4. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < pron.c1405 |
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