单词 | newsie |
释义 | newsien. colloquial. 1. Chiefly U.S. A newspaper seller, a newsboy. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets bookmonger1275 stationer1311 bookseller?c1475 bibliopolist1541 book merchant1653 newsboy1728 book hawker1737 bibliopole1775 newsman1775 news-vender1796 newsagent1811 news-vendor1823 newspaper vendor1830 newspaper seller1837 newspaper boy1843 newsgirl1859 newsie1875 paperboy1876 1875 North Alabamian (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) 1 July 3/2 A newsboy..was cruelly beating a dog which had jumped on the train, when its owner suddenly appeared at the car door, knocked ‘newsy’ off and commenced to pay him in his own coin. 1916 C. Sandburg Chicago Poems 42 The newsies are pitching pennies. 1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks iv. 105 Newsie, a paper seller. 1969 ‘E. Lathen’ Murder to Go (1970) xvi. 161 The newsie in the lobby. 1994 E. L. Doctorow Waterworks 67 The flower girl Mary, and the newsies and the rest of these child beggars who lived among us, were losses society could tolerate. 2. Chiefly North American. A journalist, esp. a news reporter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > news-writer newsmonger1592 newsman1596 news writer1650 Mercurist1652 postman1695 news-dealer1788 newspaper writer?1789 newspaperman1806 news scribe1823 newspaperwoman1881 newsperson1973 newsie1975 1975 Washington Post 22 Oct. b8/4 The Rockefeller name does intimidate. We had him there for hours and I didn't see one of us newsies dare to go over and ask him the questions we should have. 1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xviii. 383 Tell you what, Admiral. If you don't tell the newsies, neither will I. 1999 Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 18 Apr. A serious heart attack took the 54-year-old CHUM veteran newsie-turned-host out of the [radio] station's daily rotation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1875 |
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