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单词 paparazzo
释义

paparazzon.adj.

Brit. /ˌpapəˈratsəʊ/, U.S. /ˌpɑpəˈrɑtˌsoʊ/
Inflections: Plural paparazzi, paparazzos.
Forms: 1900s– paparazo, 1900s– paparazzo, 1900s– paparrazo (rare), 1900s– paparrazzo (rare), 1900s– papparazo, 1900s– papparazzo, 1900s– papparrazzo (rare).
Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian paparazzo.
Etymology: < Italian paparazzo (1961) < the name of the character Paparazzo , a society photographer in F. Fellini's film La Dolce Vita (1960). See also paparazzi n.The selection of the name Paparazzo (which occurs as a surname in Italy) for the character in Fellini's film has been variously explained. According to Fellini himself, the name was taken from an opera libretto; the comment is also attributed to him that the word ‘suggests..a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging’. It also occurs as the name of an Italian hotel proprietor in G. Gissing By the Ionian Sea (1901), which appeared in Italian translation in 1957 and has been cited as an inspiration by E. Flaiano, who contributed to the film's scenario. (For further possible expressive connotations of the name, it has also been noted that in the Italian dialect of Abruzzi, where Flaiano came from, paparazzo occurs as a word for a clam, which could be taken as suggesting a metaphor for the opening and closing of a camera lens; the Italian suffix -azzo (variant of -accio < classical Latin -āceus : see -aceous suffix) also has pejorative connotations.)
A freelance photographer who pursues celebrities to take photographs of them, usually for sale to popular newspapers and magazines. Chiefly in plural. Also appositive, passing into adj.: that is a paparazzo.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographer > [noun] > professional
cameraman1883
press photographer1901
photojournalist1938
staff photographer1941
lensman1951
paparazzo1961
paparazzi1981
pap1988
1961 Time 14 Apr. 59/1 Kroscenko..is a paparazzo, one of a ravenous wolf pack of freelance photographers who stalk big names for a living and fire with flash guns at point-blank range.
1961 Time 14 Apr. 59/2 When Katharine Hepburn passed through town recently, the paparazzi mounted Vespa scooters..to waylay her at Fiumicino Airport.
1966 Newsweek 10 Jan. 44/2 A remote chance that gossip columnists or paparazzi will crash the parties in the hotel's private suites.
1972 N.Y. Times 6 July 1 Judge Irving Ben Cooper ruled..that the activities of Ronald E. Galella, the self-styled ‘paparazzo’ photographer, had ‘relentlessly invaded’ the right to privacy of Mrs. Aristotle Onassis.
1986 Today's Computers Mar. 134/1 Your correspondent..had to endure the unwelcome attentions of the paparazzi recently.
1995 Guardian (Nexis) 17 June t34 Even the scummiest paparazzos put their cameras away when I ask them not to take pictures of my kids.
2003 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press (Nexis) 31 May e4 He was taken to court for assaulting a paparazzo who had staked out the actor's house for shots of his newborn child.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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