单词 | saturdayite |
释义 | Saturdayiten. Russian History. rare. In the Soviet Union: an act of working voluntarily on a Saturday; a Saturday worked voluntarily. Cf. subbotnik n.In the quot. 1932 the translator may be presuming the meaning to be ‘a person who follows the practice of working voluntarily on Saturdays’, perhaps prompted by English uses of -nik suffix. Cf. subbotnik n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > one who works at specific time or hours night worker1601 daysman?1614 nightman1620 dayworker1802 dayman1821 full-timer1839 whole-timer1840 all-night man1861 part-timer1886 all-timer1891 over-timer1910 Saturdayite1932 nine-to-fiver1945 1932 C. Hogarth tr. A. Kollontai Free Love 233 She will persuade you..that it is necessary..to deny oneself everything that gives joy, to live only for the ‘Saturdayites’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1932 |
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