| 单词 | good-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood-boy good-boy adj. (a) designating a children's story in which the main character is a boy who behaves virtuously (now historical); (b) gen. of, relating to, or characteristic of boys who are well-behaved and well-mannered. ΚΠ 1804 J. Baillie Country Inn v. ii in Misc. Plays 278 Well, well, I understand you; but tell me no more of your good-boy stories at present: this cross-fated day has taught me a powerful lesson which makes every other superfluous. 1823 W. Scott Let. 16 Jan. (1934) VII. 312 Better adapted to..soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them. 1866 Church & State Rev. 11 May 298/2 It is no dull good-boy book, to be taken teetotalwise. 1971 W. B. Miller in M. Pilisuk & P. Pilisuk Poor Amer. 100 Members of the ‘good boy’ clique. 1980 E. L. Doctorow in Nation 19–26 July 83/2 The same kind of Midwestern good-boy appeal that was later to attract the attention of some conservative Californians. 2001 G. Hendler Public Sentiments 264 They are, like the later boys [sc. Tom Sawyer and others], openly scornful of good-boy books. 2004 Rock & Ice Jan. 56/2 Good-boy haircut or not, Kehl must be losing his frickin mind. < as lemmas |
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