单词 | schoolboydom |
释义 | schoolboydomn. 1. Schoolboys collectively. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > schoolboy > collectively schoolboydom1854 schoolboyhood1893 1854 R. Young Southern World viii. 178 A fascinating book for the library of schoolboydom. 1880 R. G. White Every-day Eng. 277 The first great English grammar, the one by which school-boydom has been chiefly oppressed, was written by an American. 1934 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 25 Aug. 22/1 The elite of Canada's schoolboydom mingle here today at the trials to select a team..to participate in Melbourne Centennial celebrations. 2. The state or condition of being a schoolboy. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > schoolboy > condition of schoolboyhood1828 schoolboydom1858 1858 W. Sewell Let. 22 Nov. in A. K. Boyd Hist. Radley Coll. (1948) vi. 127 [American boys] are all premature men; they never pass through the intermediate stage of football and cricket and schoolboydom. 1888 L. B. Walford Mere Child 189 The lad she had seen grow up through all the stages of petticoats and nurserydom, and jackets and trousers and schoolboydom. 1902 H. N. Birt Downside ii. 41 Emerging from the chrysalis state of schoolboydom into the fully developed country squire. 1988 Browning Inst. Stud. 16 21 Old Boys mix past and present anecdotes and prescribe for the future with the full expectation that schoolboydom will last forever. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1854 |
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