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单词 new lad
释义

new ladn.

Brit. /ˌnjuː ˈlad/, U.S. /ˈn(j)u ˈlæd/
Forms: also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: new adj., lad n.1
Etymology: < new adj. + lad n.1, after new man n.1 3b.
British.
A (type of) young man who embraces sexist attitudes and the traditional male role as a reaction against the perceived effeminacy of the ‘new man’; esp. one who does so (or who claims to do so) knowingly and with a sense of ironic detachment. Cf. new man n.1 3b, lad n.1
ΚΠ
1991 Arena Summer 17/2 I was quite mystified by the New Lad, or rather his motives for trying to be anything more than the neanderthal he always will be.
1995 Face Sept. 171 All that new lad rock stuff; they like it, but really it just reminds them of their age.
1997 When Saturday Comes Jan. 18/1 Football is where the ‘new lads’ are most at home; where they gather to worship the cult of curry, boozing and birds whilst rejecting all standards of decent behaviour.
2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 13 Jan. He's your straight-up New Lad, never happier than when he's talking about football and birds.

Derivatives

ˌnew ˈladdism n.
ΚΠ
1991 Independent (Nexis) 14 Apr. Elms insists he's a New Lad. Listening to him enthuse about New Laddism, one would think he'd invented the term.
2000 Scotl. on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 13 Aug. ‘At least you know they are c***s’, he said memorably, in the lexicon of new laddism.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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