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单词 anonymuncule
释义

anonymunculen.

Brit. /əˌnɒnᵻˈmʌŋkjuːl/, U.S. /əˌnɑnəˈməŋkjul/
Forms: 1800s anonymuncle (rare), 1800s– anonymuncule.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin anonymus , English -uncule , -uncle suffix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin anonymus (see anonymous adj.) + -uncule, variant of -uncle suffix, after homuncule n.With the form anonymuncle compare -cle suffix.
derogatory. Now rare.
A petty or insignificant person who writes anonymously. Cf. pseudonymuncle n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer
scribblera1556
paper-blurrera1586
by-writer1587
feather-driver1593
squitter-book1594
paper-stainer1596
blur-paper1603
spoil-paper1610
penster1611
inkhorn matea1616
squitter-wit1615
ink-dabbler1616
squitter-pulpa1640
quill-driver1700
scribble-scrabble1707
authorling1752
writerling1802
inkhorn varlet1820
toe-writer1845
pen-driver1854
anonymuncule1859
ink-jerker1865
pen-pusher1875
pseudonymuncle1875
ink-spiller1881
ink-slinger1887
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1859 C. Reade Love me Little I. xii. 304 There is a little unlicked anonymuncule going scribbling about.
1882 O. Wilde Let. Feb. in Writings O. Wilde (1907) iv. 130 Who, after all,..is this scribbling anonymuncule in grand old Massachusetts, who scrawls and screams so glibly at what he cannot understand?
1910 J. Thomson Walt Whitman i. 54 Let us leave the ‘drivel’ at present to the drivelling anonymuncule.
1945 Month at Goodspeed's Mar. 149 He [sc. Thackeray] was accused by certain anonymuncules (Charles Reade's word) of being one of those very snobs whom he devasted [sic] in his writings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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