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单词 playmate
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playmaten.

Brit. /ˈpleɪmeɪt/, U.S. /ˈpleɪˌmeɪt/
Forms: see play n. and mate n.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: play n., mate n.2
Etymology: < play n. + mate n.2 Compare earlier playfellow n., playfere n.
1. A companion in play, a playfellow. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > companion in amusement
playferec1225
playing ferec1300
playfellowa1535
playmate?1560
?1560 E. Gosynhyll Prayse of all Women l. 301 And nowe more valued than man myne Lyke so dyd god the femynyne Plaimate of the masculyne.
1591 R. Johnson Musarum Plangores sig. B4 My sorrowing playmates shrink, and kepe a loofe, As if a darth did couer all the land.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. L5 The lovely play-mates of pure veritie.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. iii. 14 The young People of both Families had been acquainted from their Infancy; and as they were all near of the same Age, had been frequent Play-mates together. View more context for this quotation
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer xii. 278 Shall I arm myself against that country where I first drew breath, against the play-mates of my youth, my bosom friends, my acquaintance?
1798 S. T. Coleridge Frost at Midnight in Fears in Solitude 21 My play-mate when we both were cloth'd alike!
1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 284 Brother and playmate to all Nature.
1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. II. i. 14 Hunger and dirt for his playmates.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist vi She had been taken by playmate boys in her infancy to peep into hedge-leaves.
1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 107 Some years back there was much correspondence in the Saturday Westminster about youthful memories of an invisible playmate.
1948 Sunday Pictorial 18 July 7/1 The ‘style and dignity’ of Prince and Princess cut no ice with their nurses, teachers, playmates—or themselves.
1993 Financial Rev. (Sydney) 13 Aug. (Suppl.) 1/1 But Murdoch's new corporate playmate is a man so wealthy from an empire so widespread he makes Kerry Packer look like a pauper, Murdoch a struggling small businessman.
2. euphemistic (originally U.S.). A companion in amorous (esp. sexual) play; a lover. In later use also (with reference to Playboy magazine): a pin-up model.
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the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun]
friendOE
lovendOE
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lovera1382
honeyc1405
amorousa1492
belovera1492
amant1508
fantasera1547
mate1549
Romeo?1566
inamorato1592
amorite1597
amorettoc1600
inamorate1602
amorado1607
enamorate1607
amoroso1616
admirer1640
passionate1651
brother starling1675
sweethearter1854
lovebird1858
mateya1864
jelly roll1895
lovekin1896
main squeeze1896
lovekins1920
romancer1923
playmate1928
heartthrob1929
bae2006
the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > instance of caressing > act or instance of amorous caressing > companion in
playmate1928
1928 Publishers' Weekly 9 June 2393 Gerry Harris was ‘a good time girl’, who sought men only as playmates.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §443/1 Lovers,..playmates.
1954 Playboy Jan. 26 (caption) Here's Playboy's playmate for the month of January. A very lovely unpinned pin-up to help you welcome in the New Year.
1977 B. Bainbridge Injury Time (1978) xvii. 137 To hell with Marcia, with her flat-mates, her play-mates, her unknown men answering the telephone.
1983 W. Goldman Adventures in Screen Trade 204 The Stepford wives are gorgeous... These girls are Playmates come to life.
1993 Wired Sept.–Oct. 48/3 The mummy is in a playmate pose completely wrapped in bandages.
2001 Cosmopolitan Dec. 58/2 A third playmate of either sex can be destructive to the very fabric of a couple's trust and intimacy.

Derivatives

ˈplaymating n. rare the fact of being playmates, companionship in play; (in later use) the fact of being a playmate model.
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society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > companionship in play
playmating1888
1888 G. W. Cable in Library Mag. (N.Y.) May 21 Nor [is there] a tenth as much..playmating of white and colored children as there was in the days of slavery.
1983 Washington Post 2 Aug. b1 The playmating game. Two area college students and their revealing exposures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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