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单词 kidnapper
释义

kidnappern.

Brit. /ˈkɪdˌnapə/, U.S. /ˈkɪdˌnæpər/
Forms: Also 1600s kidknapper, kidnabber, (U.S.) kidnaper.
Etymology: formed as kidnap v. + -er suffix1. Originally kidˈnapper (quot. c1679 at main sense); also in Johnson, Ash, etc.; so still in northern use.
One who kidnaps children or others; a stealer of human beings. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [noun]
man-thiefeOE
men-stealer1526
man-stealer1582
spirit1611
plagiary1613
spiriter1665
kidnapper1678
silver-cooper1796
abductor1809
body snatcher1852
shanghaier1917
snatcher1932
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Kidknappers [1696–1706Kidnappers], those that make a trade of decoying and spiriting away young children to Ship them for foreign Plantations.
c1679 in Roxburghe Ballads (1890) VII. 13 How like kid-nappers all the day In every corner they survey.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 124 Thou practises the craft of a Kidnapper, thou gatherest up Women, and Children, and carriest them into a strange Countrey. View more context for this quotation
1778 A. Hamilton Let. 12 Mar. in Papers (1961) I. 438 For punishing Kidnappers or persons who aid the enemy in carrying off the peaceable inhabitants.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. ii. i. 191 The Thessalian kidnapper had stolen the blind girl from gentle parents.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxi. 434 It is dangerous to remain in their villages at this time of year when kidnappers are abroad.
1909 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. I. 149 Americans write kidnaper, which to an Englishman would suggest [kidneipə] or [-nəpə].
1969 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 3A/2 The two men..freed themselves moments after the kidnaper abducted Miss Birdsong and called police.
1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 7 Oct. 19 The kidnapers agreed to call the Millers back several hours later.

Derivatives

kidˈnappery n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [noun]
rape1436
abreption1550
man-stealing1577
plagium1577
raptc1614
abduction1632
man-stealth1663
plagiary1673
kidnapping1682
enlevement1769
plagiat1809
body-snatching1840
kidnappery1890
snatching1931
shanghaiing1985
1890 Murray's Mag. Apr. 463 The regions of kidnappery, slave-trading, and freebooting!
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