单词 | real man |
释义 | > as lemmasreal man real man n. (also with capital initials) originally U.S. a man who fulfils traditional expectations of masculinity in his behaviour, attitudes, or appearance; a virile or masculine man. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > virile man manc1330 real man1872 he-man1885 man's mana1896 virilist1910 cocksman1916 macho1943 Marlboro Man1957 macho man1959 man1963 1872 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 23 Sept. But society is full of shams shoddy and tinsel. The real man puts on no airs at all and the real lady none. 1922 E. O'Neill in Hearst's Internat. Mar. 47/1 It was..aisy for a rale man with guts to him, the like of me. 1926 Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) 17 Oct. It's out here in the lonely places that you get the real-man type. There's nothing sissy about it. 1935 G. Blake Shipbuilders vi. 166 Leslie was glad to pass from these landlubberly excesses down to the engine-room where the real men in their dungarees were happy in their battle with the fretful complications of a huge power unit. 1982 B. Feirstein Real Men don't eat Quiche ii. 13 In the past, it was easy to be a Real Man. All you had to do was abuse women, steal land from Indians, and find some place to dump the toxic waste. 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane viii. 170 Real men watch football. Snooker's for poofters. < as lemmas |
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