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单词 newsie
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newsien.

Brit. /ˈnjuːzi/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uzi/
Forms: 1800s– newsie, 1800s– newsy.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: news n., -y suffix6.
Etymology: < news n. + -y suffix6.
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).
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