单词 | male widowhood |
释义 | > as lemmasmale widowhood a. Modifying properly female designations and used with reference to men in these roles, as male aunt, male bawd, male ingenue, male mother, male virgin, etc., or conditions, as male climacteric, male greensickness, male widowhood, etc.; similarly used to refer to professions that are usually considered to be predominantly female, as male midwife, male model, male nurse, male prostitute, male stripper, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > [adjective] > attribute of occupational designation > male (of occupations considered female) male1600 the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types man-nurse1530 probationer nurse1584 parish nurse1716 day nurse1759 school nurse1836 Gamp1846 hospital nurse1848 pupil nurse1861 male nurse1874 district nurse1883 relief nurse1884 casualty nurse1885 bayman1888 maid nurse1895 charge-nurse1896 ward nurse1899 health visitor1901 practice nurse1912 community nurse1922 scrub nurse1927 theatre nurse1934 para-nurse1942 nurse practitioner1967 rehab nurse1977 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > modelling or displaying clothing > [noun] > model showgirl1816 show-woman1848 mannequin1893 trier on1895 model1904 fashion-model1962 model girl1962 male model1975 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 90 They fall into a kind of male greene sicknes. View more context for this quotation 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. B2v When base-male-Bawds kept Centinell at staire-head. 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune ii. i. 23 Your go between, your Male-Bawd there. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 288. ¶1 Which has given me Encouragement to describe a certain Species of Mankind under the Denomination of Male Jilts. 1712 Francham Spectator 27 Oct. 1 I cannot but recommend the Subject of Male Widowhood to you. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. v. 76 That Hickman is a very virtuous, a very innocent fellow—a male-virgin, I warrant! 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia I. v. 69 When a new Work is advertised, the Male and Female Ladies..immediately conclude it cannot be worth the Reading. 1761 J. Hanway Lett. Customs Foreign Nations Harlots ii. 8 To one female, there are a dozen male prostitutes, who never think at all of accounting for such sins. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 37/1 Dr. Rundle was a kind of male coquette. 1781 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 447 He is an actual Male Prude. 1823 C. Lamb My Relations in Elia 162 Male aunts, as somebody calls them, I had none—to remember. ?1839 C. Brontë Let. in M. Lane Brontë Story (1953) viii. 131 I am convinced, Ellen, that he is a thorough male-flirt. 1874 F. S. Lees Handbk. for Hosp. Sisters vi. 71 Infirmiers or male nurses. 1877 Spirit of Times 15 Dec. 530/3 Now he acts as if he thought there might be something nobler in life than a male ingenue. 1885 R. F. Burton Terminal Ess. in tr. Arabian Nights X. 230 The male prostitutes were called Kadesh the holy. 1900 Rep. Special Comm. Assembly to investigate Public Offices & Depts. City of N.Y. V. 5125 Reference has been made in the previous testimony to places that are well known as being resorts for male prostitutes. 1915 M. B. Lowndes Diary 12 Mar. (1971) 58 It is very difficult to get the right type of man to be a male nurse. 1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male vi. 216 Some male prostitutes ejaculate five, six, or more times per day with regularity over long periods of years. 1961 S. Baker Visual Persuasion ii. 47/2 Male model agencies and actors' guilds always have a few personalities on hand. 1966 G. B. Mair Kisses from Satan vii. 78 I've got a male climacteric and I don't like it. 1974 Mother & Baby Feb. 44 (heading) Would you like a male midwife? 1974 H. Waugh Parrish for Defence (1975) xix. 321 He is presently serving as a male prostitute for other males. 1975 ‘G. Black’ Big Wind for Summer vii. 114 He looked like a male model in one of those ads for expensive men's knitwear. 1980 Times 21 Oct. 12/6 (caption) Why should it only be male strippers who are subsidized? 1987 C. Simmons Belles Lettres Papers x. 144 The male nurse arrived with a wheelchair. 1989 M. Moffatt Coming of Age in New Jersey v. 188 Many levels of sexual activity were reported, from self-confessed female and male virgins to maximum performers and ‘scorers’ of both sexes. 1990 R. Bly Iron John ii. 36 A mentor or ‘male mother’ enters the landscape. < as lemmas |
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