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单词 blue-stockinger
释义

blue-stockingern.

Brit. /ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈbluˌstɑkɪŋər/
Forms: also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bluestocking adj. and n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < bluestocking adj. and n. + -er suffix1.
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
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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).
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