单词 | maga |
释义 | Magan. Chiefly British. Now historical. A familiar name for Blackwood's Magazine (formerly the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine) (1817–1980); (hence) any magazine or periodical. Also used without a determiner. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > titles of periodicals spy1644 Maga1820 Punch1841 B.O.P.1909 typographica1931 1820 W. Scott Let. 25 July (1934) VI. 242 I really hope you will pause before you undertake to be the Boaz of the Maga. 1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 384 Two Numbers of Maga, you dog. 1886 G. Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 301 The monkey tricks of mannerism which..were incumbent on a reviewer in ‘Maga’. 1899 Literature 4 Feb. 123 With more than the lightness and speed of the Quagga, She'll..show them a clean pair of heels, will our Maga! 1932 J. Buchan Sir W. Scott 175 The first years of ‘ma Maaga [sic]’, as he [sc. Blackwood] called his journal, were notorious for its offences against literary decency. 1969 J. Gross Rise & Fall Man of Lett. i. 11 The mere thought of ‘Maga’ in full spate, with its hoaxes and rib-poking and learned tomfoolery, is enough to induce a headache. 1996 Notes & Queries Sept. 371/1 The demise of the British Empire spelled the end of Maga, despite somewhat desperate attempts to ‘bring it up-to-date’ in its last years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820 |
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