单词 | moaner |
释义 | moanern. colloquial. 1. A person who moans (in various senses of the verb); a complainer or fault-finder; a pessimist. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > one who complains grucchildc1230 grutchera1250 groinera1382 musera1382 plainerc1400 plaintiff?a1439 fretter?1504 complainant1525 complainer1526 repiner1551 grudger1552 moaner1628 grumbler1633 querulist1647 maunderer1653 growler1753 grumbletonian1773 smellfungus1807 crib-biter1809 expostulatora1834 squinny1849 groaner1876 grouser1885 squealer1889 gruntler1893 grump1900 grouch1901 screamer1902 Moaning Minnie1934 narker1937 binder1944 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer v. 138 It is not fit a Poet should be ty'd. Sometime he must be grave; lest else, the wise The mutter, or the moaner, may despise. 1800 W. Dunlap Pizarro in Peru 33 I hear an unfortunate. Who is the moaner? a1820 J. Woodhouse Life Crispinus Scriblerus xiv, in Life & Poet. Wks. (1896) II. 18/1 She felt, with pain, intense, an empty purse... What could she do? she, pensive, stepp'd before, Leading the Moaner to her Mother's door. 1884 E. Lee-Hamilton Apollo & Marsyas 21 When Death had proved the stronger Thou wouldst heave one sigh at most, And then turn to some new moaner, Ready to resume the battle. 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 308/2 Moaner, a pessimist. 1952 Landfall 6 202 Anyone who questions too often is a ‘moaner’, yet in New Zealand the moaner is common. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 187 Croydon boys have twenty names for a cry-baby:..moaner [etc.]. 1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam v. 95 Burmeister..once said to me, ‘Limey, you and Goad are the two biggest moaners in my squad.’ 1980 M. Drabble Middle Ground 118 Sally was a moaner and a timewaster. 2. Music (originally U.S.). A singer of mournful songs, spec. a blues singer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of other types of music > [noun] > others mourner1631 catcher1652 monodist1751 pennill singer1784 folk-singer1898 moaner1927 bluesman1930 calypsonian1934 torch singer1934 lieder-singer1936 torcher1940 country singer1953 protest singer1966 ragga1997 1927 C. Sandburg Amer. Songbag 232 It was moaned by resonant moaners in honky tonks of the southwest. 1932 Amer. Speech 7 247 Clara Smith evidently deems it a mark of distinction to be known as ‘The World's Greatest Moaner’. 1991 Twenty Twenty Spring 97/1 The Ultimate Blues Collection features 24 pickers and moaners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1628 |
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