单词 | blue-stockinger |
释义 | blue-stockingern. Now historical. In early use: a person, esp. a woman, who attends bluestocking assemblies (see bluestocking adj. 2a). Hence, later: a woman with literary or intellectual propensities; = bluestocking n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking blue-stockinger1780 blue1781 pedantess1784 bas bleu1786 bluestocking1786 1780 F. Burney Jrnl. Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 93 Who would not be a blue stockinger at this rate? c1841 J. Montgomery in Mem. Life & Writings (1856) VI. lxxxv. 22 To tell you the truth, Mr. Everett, I am always afraid of literary ladies, awe-struck with blue stockingers! 1910 E. Rolt-Wheeler Famous Blue-Stockings 23 Although Lady Crewe, herself a ‘Blue-Stockinger’, offers this explanation,..this view has not sufficient ground to support it. 2002 F. S. Kahn Oxford (2004) iv. 66/2 Women who attended literary assemblies..were known as blue-stocking ladies or blue-stockingers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1780 |
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