单词 | first-name |
释义 | first-namev. transitive. To address (a person) by his or her first name. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > address by name > specific ladyfy1602 lady1607 lord1633 lordship1740 ladyship1814 good man1846 first-name1913 1913 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Dec. 774 She read her friend's note by the hall light outside her own door. It said: ‘Dear Feebee: Don't mind me calling you that this once—it's nice to be first-naming a decent woman in this frost of a burg’. 1917 Canadian Mag. Nov. 61/1 The custom among country people in America of first-naming everyone on farms. 1940 S. Lewis Bethel Merriday xxv. 267 Zed and..Bill Mattocks..were already first-naming each other as though they had been intimates for years. 1959 A. Harrington Life in ‘Crystal Palace’ (1960) vii. 109 The company's democratic social organization..permits him to first-name..those several ranks higher. 1996 T. Clancy Executive Orders xxiv. 318 ‘Hello, Director.’ He felt it improper to first-name the DCI. 2005 I. McEwan Saturday i. 47 She referred everything back to her mother whom she'd always first-named, even as a little girl. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1913 |
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