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单词 bonsense
释义

bonsensen.

Forms: 1600s bonsence, 1700s 1900s bonsense.
Origin: A borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Etymons: French bon , sense n.
Etymology: < French bon + sense n., after nonsense n. O.E.D. Suppl. (1933) gives the pronunciation as (bǫ·nsĕns) /ˈbɒnsəns/.
Obsolete. humorous.
Good sense. Usually contrasted with nonsense.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [noun]
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sensea1382
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mother witc1475
common wit1517
common sense1536
philosophy1557
good sense?1562
sconce1567
mother-sense1603
ingenuity1651
bonsense1681
rumgumption1686
nous1706
gumption?1719
rummlegumption1751
savvy1785
horse sense1832
kokum1848
sabe1872
common1899
marbles1902
gump1920
loaf1925
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 38 A Cerberus with three-heads: Neither of which barks any bon-sence.
1714 Craig Answer in R. Smith Poems 11 As to thy Poetry its nonsense, And therein not a word of bonsense.
1900 H. Harland Cardinal's Snuff-box xxi. 217 Nonsense or bonsense, that is the sober truth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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