单词 | naughty nineties |
释义 | > as lemmasnaughty nineties naughty nineties n. the 1890s considered as a period of moral laxity and sexual licence; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > specific centuries, decades, or years > fin de siècle nineties1853 Gay Nineties1925 naughty nineties1925 1925 R. Le Gallienne Romantic '90s iv. 162 ‘The '90s’ are usually spoken of as if they had only one colour: the ‘yellow’ '90s, or the ‘naughty’ '90s, or the ‘decadent’ '90s. 1930 W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman 1066 & All That lix. 111 Oscar Wilde..was the leader of a set of disgusting old gentlemen called ‘the naughty nineties’. 1976 L. Henderson Major Enq. xii. 78 You know, Mildred, you were born out of your time, you really belong to the naughty nineties. 1991 C. Jennings Now we are Thirty-something (BNC) 36 A certain low-rent wine bar she frequents (Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women). < as lemmas |
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