| 单词 | overgrown schoolboy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasovergrown schoolboy 3. Usually derogatory. Designating an adult who engages in childish pursuits or who acts in a naively enthusiastic way; esp. in overgrown schoolboy. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] > immature adult young-old1558 overgrown1669 Peter Panish1914 ungrown-up1937 Peter Panic1962 1658 Humble Advice Assembly of Divines To Rdr. sig. C2v But now they come to us..yet worse than children still; having the ignorance of children, but being over-grown the teachablenesse of children.] 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant iii. 32 You were as..shame fac'd as a great over-grown School-boy. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones xiv I have more occasion of patience, to be used like an overgrown schoolboy, as I am by you. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain xv. 143 A very tall overgrown school-boy did Norman feel himself for one bashful moment, when he found himself alone with the two ladies. 1997 Times (Nexis) 4 Apr. I used to hate circus clowns as a kid—silly, painful, overgrown fools. 1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 18 Monica the overgrown schoolgirl who wrote the president a birthday poem..and persuaded her faintly-embarrassed fellow-interns to sign it. (‘Smitten’ was rhymed with ‘Clinton’). < as lemmas |
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