单词 | anonymuncule |
释义 | anonymunculen. derogatory. Now rare. A petty or insignificant person who writes anonymously. Cf. pseudonymuncle n. ΘΚΠ 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 blotter- 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). < n.1859 |
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