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单词 languisher
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languishern.

Brit. /ˈlaŋɡwᵻʃə/, U.S. /ˈlæŋɡwɪʃər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: languish v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < languish v. + -er suffix1.
A person who languishes or pines; (also) a person who affects a languid air; someone who looks or glances tenderly or longingly.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun]
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lazar1340
sickmanc1340
laborant?a1425
suffererc1450
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lazar-man1552
languisher1599
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valetudinarist1651
valetudinaire?c1682
valetudinarian1703
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infirm1711
invaletudinarian1762
valetudinary1785
complainant1861
aegrotant1865
degenerate1895
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected person
affecter1607
snuffler1642
languisher1713
attitudinarian1756
attitudinizer1824
pseudo1829
posturer1833
posturist1857
poseur1869
affectationist1873
Turveydrop1877
posturant1882
poser1888
four-flusher1904
gobdaw1947
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pseud1954
jive-ass1964
the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > amorous looks or demeanour > one who assumes languid look for flirtation
languisher1713
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > dejected or gloomy person > one living in depressing conditions
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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 37 Our moderne phisitions, that to any sicke languishers if they be able to waggle their chaps, propound veale for one of the highest nourishers.
1669 J. Reynolds Disc. Prodigious Abstinence 32 The spirits of these languishers ('tis probable) are scant and defective.
1688 A. Behn Fair Jilt 38 He needed but only see the fair Languisher, to confess himself her Slave.
1713 R. Steele in Guardian 20 June 1/1 The very Servants are bent upon Delights, and commence Oglers and Languishers.
1751 E. Carter Rambler No. 100. ⁋2 These unhappy languishers in obscurity.
1759 W. Mason Caractacus 77 Mingle the potion so, that it may kill me Just at the instant, this poor languisher Heaves his last sigh.
1846 N. P. Willis Poems (ed. 6) 256 I—a languisher for sunnier climes.
1896 Godey's Mag. Feb. 193/2 A few silly languishers flutter and simper, ‘How nice! how lovely!’
1936 R. P. Utter & G. B. Needham Pamela's Daughters ii. 36 A fund of initiative, energy and self-confidence far beyond the command of the delicate languishers of the novels of sensibility.
1963 Musical Times 104 492/2 Soubrette parts are easier to bring off than love-lorn languishers.
1992 P. Jackson Sat. Afternoons at Old Met ix. 104 This Wolfram is no shadowy, hopeless languisher after Elisabeth but a man of strength and intensity of feeling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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