单词 | painstaker |
释义 | painstakern. A person who takes pains; a painstaking person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > trouble taken to accomplish anything > one who pain taker1549 painstaker1595 the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > care or pains > painstaking > one who painstaker1595 1595 A. Copley Loves Owle sig. C2 There is a kind of heauinesse In Loues pursuite, but that's to make It (once obtain'd) more delicate to the paines-taker. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 24 June (1974) VII. 177 He was no great painstaker in person. 1696 T. Southerne Oroonoko iv. i. 49 I have taken a great deal of pains: And if the Widow speaks honestly, faith and troth, She'll tell you what a pains-taker I am. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 61. ¶5 There are actually such Pains-takers among our British Wits. 1715 J. Gay What d'ye call It i. i. 10 By all that's good, I'll make a loving Wife: I'll prove a true Pains-taker Day and Night. 1836 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 452 The pains-takers,—the undertakers of tasks, that, although indispensable to be done by somebody, yet nobody but themselves would ever undertake. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 May a16 Observers see these gardeners as addicted painstakers, like writers who spend the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon taking it out. 2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 3 June 3 He is an oddly punctilious man. A painstaker over everything. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1595 |
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