单词 | fresh-air fiend |
释义 | > as lemmasfresh-air fiend C3. colloquial and chiefly humorous. Designating a person who enjoys being outdoors, or who likes to have good ventilation indoors, as in fresh-air fiend, fresh-air maniac, etc. ΚΠ 1878 Daily Constit. (Atlanta, Georgia) 5 Feb. Folks who open car windows now are called ‘fresh-air fiends’. 1908 Daily Chron. 6 July 4/4 The fresh-air cure has been..very much boomed of late years... One result of this has been the evolution of what I may term the fresh-air maniac. 1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (1999) vi. 474 He had no wish to imitate the fresh-air faddists and smart pseudo-sportsmen. 2014 Adv. Driving (Inst. Adv. Motorists) Summer 17/2 Dartmoor..is a magnet for solitude seekers, fresh-air fiends and vista aficionados. < as lemmas |
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