单词 | playmonger |
释义 | > as lemmasplaymonger playmonger n. derogatory (now archaic and rare) a playwright. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright playmaker1530 playmonger1593 playwright1605 playwritera1626 stage-wright1631 dramatica1657 factist1676 dramatist1678 dramaturgist1825 playwrightess1831 dramatizer1833 dramaturge1870 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 75 A professed iester, a Hick-scorner, a scoff-maister, a playmunger, an Interluder. 1789 Amours Carlo Khan xi. 144 The play-monger..came to him and said, why weepeth the Vox Populi? 1857 A. B. Meek Romantic Passages Southwestern Hist. 131 They had to prune and warp their intellects to the whims of the book-pedlars and play-mongers in Grub-street, or the Rue de la Paix. 1931 Nevada State Jrnl. 17 June 7/8 This evening hopscotched to Sir Edwin Justis Mayer's (the playmonger) and there find Milord Middleton, the pundit, with his noble wyfe. < as lemmas |
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