| 单词 | longman |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslongman longman n. (a name for) the middle finger; cf. long finger n.In later use only in the context of children's stories, nursery rhymes, etc., and perhaps reflecting a re-coinage. [In quot. 1848 after Danish langemand (already in early modern Danish as langmand); compare Swedish långeman (19th cent.).] ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > middle finger middle fingereOE long fingerc1300 longmanc1300 midsfinger1483 mid-finger1644 thimble-finger1796 second finger1860 c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 313 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 308 Ech of is [sc. the devil's] fingres hath is name,..‘Longueman’ hatte þe midleste, for he lenguest is. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 753/1 Hic medius, the longman. 1848 C. Boner tr. H. C. Andersen Dream of Little Tuk 86 There were five brothers, all descendants of the ‘Finger’ family... Longman [Da. Langemand], the third brother, looked at the others contemptuously over his shoulder. 1972 B. Jones & B. L. Hawes Step it Down 12 John Davis..told us the finger names he had learned when he was a boy on St. Simons Island [in Georgia]: thumb, potlicker, longman, lingman, littleman. 2001 P. B. Schiller Creating Readers v. 128 Dance, Longman, dance: (dance middle finger around, moving and bending). < as lemmas |
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