单词 | novio |
释义 | novion. In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries and amongst Hispanic Americans: a boyfriend, a fiancé; a male lover. Cf. novia n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > male lover servantc1405 specialc1425 servitorc1450 love-lad1586 young man1589 inamorato1592 swainc1592 gentleman friend1667 enamorado1677 spark1707 beau?1720 Johnny1726 man friend1736 feller1842 novio1843 soupirant1849 fella1874 man1874 fellow1878 square-pusher1890 stud1895 papa1896 lover mana1905 boyfriend1906 daddy1912 lover-boy1925 sheikh1925 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 older man1951 boyf1990 1843 Southern Literary Messenger 9 480/2 He is the best looking mozo in all Galicia... If he had but a coat to his back, and did not go barefoot, I would accept him at once as a novio. 1882 Cent. Mag. Jan. 331/2 He was her novio (betrothed), the señorita told me; but what a scandal! 1890 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 100/1 He becomes known as a novio, which is something half-way between an admirer and an accepted lover. A girl may have as many novios as she chooses to encourage. 1929 J. Langdon-Davies Dancing Catalans iii. 63 She had a ‘novio’, a bad young fisherman. 1950 G. Brenan Face of Spain xii. 249 They trip gaily along with their novio by their side. 1991 J. Kirkup Poet could not but be Gay (BNC) 152 Sometimes in the parks I see sweethearts, novios and novias,..walking sedately together. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1843 |
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