bluestockingadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbluˌstɑkɪŋ/

Forms: see blue adj. and n. and stocking n.²; also (esp. in senses A. 1 and A. 2a) with capital initial(s).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., stocking n.²

Etymology: < blue adj. + stocking n.²In sense A. 1 apparently with allusion to blue stockings as characteristic of simple, puritanical (male) attire. Compare blue-stockinged adj. 1. In sense A. 2 also originally with allusion to blue stockings as worn by men, specifically cheap blue worsted stockings as opposed to more expensive and formal white silk stockings; in early use apparently particularly associated with the attire of Benjamin Stillingfleet, an attender of social assemblies or salons hosted by Elizabeth Montagu (compare 1757 at sense A. 2a). The expression came to be used more generally in allusion to social assemblies or literary salons hosted by Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Vesey, and Frances Boscawen, among others, which were characterized by social informality and intellectual exchange. The emphasis on the encouragement of female intellectuals in this circle led to the association of the term blue stocking (and its derivatives) specifically with the involvement of women in the intellectual world. This was later reinforced further by the increasing identification of stockings as an item of female rather than male attire (compare stocking n.²).

A. adj. (attributive).

1. Bluestocking Parliament n. now historical the nominated assembly of 1653 (also known as Barebone’s Parliament), the members of which wore puritanically plain clothing.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > a particular English or British parliament > specific

great Parliamentc1450

Good Parliament1580

addle parliament1614

giunto1641

junto1641

Unlearned Parliament1643

Long Parliament1646

rump?1653

Short Parliament1653

lay Parliament1655

Barebone's Parliament1657

Rump Parliament1659

Little Parliamenta1675

Long Parliament1678

Pensioner Parliament1678

Pensioned Parliament1681

Bluestocking Parliamenta1683

Pension Parliament1682

Pensionary Parliament1690

marvellous Parliament?1706

rumple1725

lack-learning Parliament1765

unreported Parliament1839

Cavalier Parliament1849

Addled Parliament1857

merciless Parliament1875

wonderful Parliament1878

nominated Parliament1898

a1683 Autobiogr. Sir J. Bramston (1845) 89 That Blew-stocking Parliament, Barebone Parliament, a companie of fellowes called togeather by Cromwell, the armie and councell thereof pickt out for the purpose.

1976 Amer. Speech 51 42 The wearing of blue worsted rather than black silk stockings by those whose religious and..political convictions were opposed to foppery and faddishness (for example, the Blue Stocking Parliament of 1653).

2003 in K. Hamer & L. Code tr. M. le Dœuff Sex of Knowing i. 1 The members of this Blue-Stocking Parliament, Cromwell's chosen few, had little interest in fashionable clothing.

a. Of, belonging, or relating to a series of assemblies or salons held c1750 by a group of London society ladies, notable for the informal dress worn by the male attendees and for the intellectual conversation engaged in by women and men equally; as bluestocking assembly, bluestocking circle, bluestocking club, bluestocking coterie, bluestocking party, etc. Now historical.The term blue stocking was originally a non-pejorative nickname, but was later used to connote the excessively feminine literariness or intellectualism seen as characterizing these gatherings. See further discussion in etymology section.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [adjective] > symposium

symposiac1642

symposiastic1669

symposial1775

bluestocking?1783

sympotical1825

symposiacal1826

sympotic1972

1757 E. Montagu Let. Mar. in J. Doran Lady of Last Cent. (1873) 270 He [sc. Mr. Stillingfleet] has left off his old friends and his blue stockings.]

?1783 C. A. Burney Jrnl. 5 Feb. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 309 He said that a lady that read Livy, ask'd him to give [her] a succinct account of the new opera. We were speaking of the blue stocking Club.

1785 J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 25 I had seen, at a Blue-stocking assembly, a number of ladies sitting round a worthy and tall friend of ours, listening to his literature.

1796 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 633/2 I know the word dear to be a sort of blue-stocking epithet, applied without much discrimination.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 4 He..has been repeatedly teased to exhibit himself at blue stocking parties, for no other reason than that of being ‘the gentleman who has had a glimpse of the author of Waverly’.

1885 F. Cuss E. Barnet 113 A member of the..Blue Stocking coterie.

1900 M. E. Braddon Infidel ix. 149 Well, we shall meet in town next winter, perhaps, if you do not join the blue-stocking circle,..or turn religious.

1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley (1940) xxviii. 321 In certain diatribes against so-called ‘bluestocking’ classes Apley's name was frequently specifically mentioned as an exception.

2009 W. Moore Wedlock (2010) iv. 83 Mary threw herself into her twin passions of writing and botany... Soon after her marriage, the scholarly earl forbade her from attending Elizabeth Montagu's Blue Stocking gatherings.

b. Hence, of a woman: having or affecting literary tastes in a manner originally associated with the women of the bluestocking circle; that is a bluestocking (see sense B. 1); literary, scholarly, intellectual; as bluestocking female, bluestocking lady, etc. Frequently derogatory. Now archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective]

yleredc897

keena1000

wisec1000

leredc1154

wittya1225

cunningc1325

taughta1382

clergialc1386

wittilyc1400

philosophicala1425

erudite?a1475

clergyable1488

informeda1500

studieda1513

estudied1550

learned1556

well-read?1576

scholarly1583

scholarlike1588

well-digested1602

literated1611

artificial1618

scienced1636

clerk-like1638

scollardicall1654

philosophic1665

virtuosoa1667

virtuousa1680

doct1694

blue-stockinged1791

bluestocking1793

scholared1830

eruditical1832

1793 W. Gifford Baviad (new ed.) 13 The summons her blue-stocking friends obey, Lur'd by the love of Poetry.

1795 Sketch Campaign of 1793 ii. vii. 67 Oh Lucy! permit not a blue stocking dame, To bandy about my unfortunate name.

1804 Edinb. Rev. 4 219 To hear blue-stocking ladies jingle their rhymes.

1824 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 127 The travelled nobles and the blue stocking matrons of Rome.

1930 ‘H. Z. Smith’ Not so Quiet i. 15 Only dreadful blue-stocking females cut their hair.

1968 D. Tangye Way to Minack iv. 37 ‘Rubbish,’ said her father, thinking of his blue stocking daughter, ‘it's a mistake. They've chosen Barbara not you.’

1997 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 16 Dec. 15 Domestic violence, eating disorders, sexual harassment, a hopelessly skewed division of labour..it's enough to make a blue-stocking feminist cry.

c. Of an attribute, quality, condition, etc.: characteristic of or suited to such a woman.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [adjective]

intellectual1732

bluestocking1832

long-haired1842

intellectualist1857

high-browed1876

highbrow1884

intellectualistic1887

minority1930

egg-headed1957

eggheadish1963

1832 Edinb. Rev. 55 521 A blue-stocking contempt for household cares.

1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 5/1 A blue-stocking loquacity.

1917 St. Nicholas July 792/1 [She] became a reigning favorite. Even rumors of her amazing blue-stocking tendencies could not spoil her success.

1971 ‘A. Cross’ Theban Myst. ii. 18 It imbued its students, despite their inevitable destiny of cotillions and debuts, with a tomboy, bluestocking attitude which was never entirely eschewed.

2001 Vogue Mar. 261/1 Miuccia Prada has..embraced the Waspy,..book-editor look of yore and taken bluestocking style to silk-stocking heights.

B. n.

1. Originally: a person, esp. a woman, who is a member of the bluestocking circle (see sense A. 2a). Hence: a woman devoted to literary, scholarly, or intellectual activities. Cf. blue-stockinger n. Now somewhat archaic.In early use the term was used neutrally to refer to a woman engaged in the literary pursuits of the bluestocking circle, but later was applied to intellectual women in general, with derogatory connotations. The depreciative usage was common throughout the 19th cent., but died out as attitudes to women's education changed in the 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking

blue-stockinger1780

blue1781

pedantess1784

bas bleu1786

bluestocking1786

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > female

clergess?c1225

scoleryng14..

mistressc1440

virtuosa1754

savante1764

bluestocking1786

literata1794

society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > one who studies > blue stocking

blue1781

bas bleu1786

bluestocking1786

cerulean1821

1786 H. More Bas Bleu in Florio 72 The following Trifle owes its birth and name to the mistake of a Foreigner of Distinction, who gave the literal appellation of the Bas-bleu, to a small party of friends, who had been sometimes called, by way of pleasantry, the Blue Stockings.

1790 ‘P. Pindar’ Elegy to Apollo in Brit. Mercury 1 May 159 I see the band of blue-stockings arise, Historic, critic, and poetic dames!

1807 Edinb. Rev. 10 192 This would scarcely go down..even among the blue stockings of Montagu house.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. vii. 168 I have an utter aversion to blue-stockings. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

1853 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay I. 357 The order of ladies called Bluestockings, by way of reproach, has become totally extinct amongst us.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 475 By the highest mental education they [sc. girls] may be made into ‘blue-stockings’ or neurotics, or both together.

1938 D. Wallace Time of Wild Roses ii. 25 Daddy wouldn't let me try for College—he can't abide blue-stockings.

1952 M. Kennedy Troy Chimneys 33 She liked to read, although she was no blue-stocking.

2002 Daily Tel. 12 June 22/1 In an age of would-be totty academics, she [sc. a Cambridge professor] looks like everyone's idea of a bluestocking.

2. U.S. regional. Also bluestockings. The American avocet, Recurvirostra americana, which has long grey legs. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > member of genus Recurvirostra (avocet)

scooper1668

shoeing-horn1668

crooked-bill1705

cobbler's awl1759

picarini1770

yelper1770

avocet1771

scooping avocet1776

red-necked avocet1823

bluestocking1844

shoehorn1864

1844 J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. II. 267 The American Avoset, or Blue-stocking as it is called in New Jersey, is a scarce bird on the shores of this State.

1883 W. A. Stearns & E. Coues New Eng. Bird Life II. 180 The color of the legs suggests the ludicrous name of ‘blue-stocking’, sometimes applied.

1910 E. H. Eaton Birds N.Y. I. 294 The American avocet, or Bluestocking, was formerly an occasional visitor to the shores of Long Island and the Great Lakes, but is now purely accidental or entirely absent.

1915 National Geographic Mag. Aug. 129/1 Like the ‘blue stockings’ the stilt used to be rather common in the Atlantic States, but it has suffered at the hands of the gunners till few of the present generation know the bird by sight.

Derivatives

ˈbluestockingish adj. rare like or resembling a bluestocking; literary, learned, intellectual.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [adjective] > of women

blue1754

blue-stockinged1791

bluestockingishc1822

cerulean1831

c1822 J. Wilson in Byron's Wks. (1846) 232/2 (note) The women..are blue-stockingish.

1999 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 25 Oct. So unfrittery, so bluestockingish, so sober, Eleanor and Hillary.

† blue-stockingship n. Obsolete rare the state or condition of being a bluestocking; = bluestockingism n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking > condition of being

blueism1795

blue-stockingship1818

blueness1847

bas-bleuism1871

1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 286 The tawdry blue-stockingship of a young lady from the manufacturing district.

1857 Littell's Living Age 21 Mar. 747/2 A party of ladies, among whom were two precise specimens of blue-stockingship, Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bluestocking
释义	bluestockingadj.n. Brit. /ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbluˌstɑkɪŋ/ Forms: see blue adj. and n. and stocking n.²; also (esp. in senses A. 1 and A. 2a) with capital initial(s). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., stocking n.² Etymology: < blue adj. + stocking n.²In sense A. 1 apparently with allusion to blue stockings as characteristic of simple, puritanical (male) attire. Compare blue-stockinged adj. 1. In sense A. 2 also originally with allusion to blue stockings as worn by men, specifically cheap blue worsted stockings as opposed to more expensive and formal white silk stockings; in early use apparently particularly associated with the attire of Benjamin Stillingfleet, an attender of social assemblies or salons hosted by Elizabeth Montagu (compare 1757 at sense A. 2a). The expression came to be used more generally in allusion to social assemblies or literary salons hosted by Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Vesey, and Frances Boscawen, among others, which were characterized by social informality and intellectual exchange. The emphasis on the encouragement of female intellectuals in this circle led to the association of the term blue stocking (and its derivatives) specifically with the involvement of women in the intellectual world. This was later reinforced further by the increasing identification of stockings as an item of female rather than male attire (compare stocking n.²). A. adj. (attributive). 1. Bluestocking Parliament n. now historical the nominated assembly of 1653 (also known as Barebone’s Parliament), the members of which wore puritanically plain clothing. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > a particular English or British parliament > specific great Parliamentc1450 Good Parliament1580 addle parliament1614 giunto1641 junto1641 Unlearned Parliament1643 Long Parliament1646 rump?1653 Short Parliament1653 lay Parliament1655 Barebone's Parliament1657 Rump Parliament1659 Little Parliamenta1675 Long Parliament1678 Pensioner Parliament1678 Pensioned Parliament1681 Bluestocking Parliamenta1683 Pension Parliament1682 Pensionary Parliament1690 marvellous Parliament?1706 rumple1725 lack-learning Parliament1765 unreported Parliament1839 Cavalier Parliament1849 Addled Parliament1857 merciless Parliament1875 wonderful Parliament1878 nominated Parliament1898 a1683 Autobiogr. Sir J. Bramston (1845) 89 That Blew-stocking Parliament, Barebone Parliament, a companie of fellowes called togeather by Cromwell, the armie and councell thereof pickt out for the purpose. 1976 Amer. Speech 51 42 The wearing of blue worsted rather than black silk stockings by those whose religious and..political convictions were opposed to foppery and faddishness (for example, the Blue Stocking Parliament of 1653). 2003 in K. Hamer & L. Code tr. M. le Dœuff Sex of Knowing i. 1 The members of this Blue-Stocking Parliament, Cromwell's chosen few, had little interest in fashionable clothing. 2. a. Of, belonging, or relating to a series of assemblies or salons held c1750 by a group of London society ladies, notable for the informal dress worn by the male attendees and for the intellectual conversation engaged in by women and men equally; as bluestocking assembly, bluestocking circle, bluestocking club, bluestocking coterie, bluestocking party, etc. Now historical.The term blue stocking was originally a non-pejorative nickname, but was later used to connote the excessively feminine literariness or intellectualism seen as characterizing these gatherings. See further discussion in etymology section. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [adjective] > symposium symposiac1642 symposiastic1669 symposial1775 bluestocking?1783 sympotical1825 symposiacal1826 sympotic1972 1757 E. Montagu Let. Mar. in J. Doran Lady of Last Cent. (1873) 270 He [sc. Mr. Stillingfleet] has left off his old friends and his blue stockings.] ?1783 C. A. Burney Jrnl. 5 Feb. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 309 He said that a lady that read Livy, ask'd him to give [her] a succinct account of the new opera. We were speaking of the blue stocking Club. 1785 J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 25 I had seen, at a Blue-stocking assembly, a number of ladies sitting round a worthy and tall friend of ours, listening to his literature. 1796 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 633/2 I know the word dear to be a sort of blue-stocking epithet, applied without much discrimination. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 4 He..has been repeatedly teased to exhibit himself at blue stocking parties, for no other reason than that of being ‘the gentleman who has had a glimpse of the author of Waverly’. 1885 F. Cuss E. Barnet 113 A member of the..Blue Stocking coterie. 1900 M. E. Braddon Infidel ix. 149 Well, we shall meet in town next winter, perhaps, if you do not join the blue-stocking circle,..or turn religious. 1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley (1940) xxviii. 321 In certain diatribes against so-called ‘bluestocking’ classes Apley's name was frequently specifically mentioned as an exception. 2009 W. Moore Wedlock (2010) iv. 83 Mary threw herself into her twin passions of writing and botany... Soon after her marriage, the scholarly earl forbade her from attending Elizabeth Montagu's Blue Stocking gatherings. b. Hence, of a woman: having or affecting literary tastes in a manner originally associated with the women of the bluestocking circle; that is a bluestocking (see sense B. 1); literary, scholarly, intellectual; as bluestocking female, bluestocking lady, etc. Frequently derogatory. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] yleredc897 keena1000 wisec1000 leredc1154 wittya1225 cunningc1325 taughta1382 clergialc1386 wittilyc1400 philosophicala1425 erudite?a1475 clergyable1488 informeda1500 studieda1513 estudied1550 learned1556 well-read?1576 scholarly1583 scholarlike1588 well-digested1602 literated1611 artificial1618 scienced1636 clerk-like1638 scollardicall1654 philosophic1665 virtuosoa1667 virtuousa1680 doct1694 blue-stockinged1791 bluestocking1793 scholared1830 eruditical1832 1793 W. Gifford Baviad (new ed.) 13 The summons her blue-stocking friends obey, Lur'd by the love of Poetry. 1795 Sketch Campaign of 1793 ii. vii. 67 Oh Lucy! permit not a blue stocking dame, To bandy about my unfortunate name. 1804 Edinb. Rev. 4 219 To hear blue-stocking ladies jingle their rhymes. 1824 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 127 The travelled nobles and the blue stocking matrons of Rome. 1930 ‘H. Z. Smith’ Not so Quiet i. 15 Only dreadful blue-stocking females cut their hair. 1968 D. Tangye Way to Minack iv. 37 ‘Rubbish,’ said her father, thinking of his blue stocking daughter, ‘it's a mistake. They've chosen Barbara not you.’ 1997 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 16 Dec. 15 Domestic violence, eating disorders, sexual harassment, a hopelessly skewed division of labour..it's enough to make a blue-stocking feminist cry. c. Of an attribute, quality, condition, etc.: characteristic of or suited to such a woman. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [adjective] intellectual1732 bluestocking1832 long-haired1842 intellectualist1857 high-browed1876 highbrow1884 intellectualistic1887 minority1930 egg-headed1957 eggheadish1963 1832 Edinb. Rev. 55 521 A blue-stocking contempt for household cares. 1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 5/1 A blue-stocking loquacity. 1917 St. Nicholas July 792/1 [She] became a reigning favorite. Even rumors of her amazing blue-stocking tendencies could not spoil her success. 1971 ‘A. Cross’ Theban Myst. ii. 18 It imbued its students, despite their inevitable destiny of cotillions and debuts, with a tomboy, bluestocking attitude which was never entirely eschewed. 2001 Vogue Mar. 261/1 Miuccia Prada has..embraced the Waspy,..book-editor look of yore and taken bluestocking style to silk-stocking heights. B. n. 1. Originally: a person, esp. a woman, who is a member of the bluestocking circle (see sense A. 2a). Hence: a woman devoted to literary, scholarly, or intellectual activities. Cf. blue-stockinger n. Now somewhat archaic.In early use the term was used neutrally to refer to a woman engaged in the literary pursuits of the bluestocking circle, but later was applied to intellectual women in general, with derogatory connotations. The depreciative usage was common throughout the 19th cent., but died out as attitudes to women's education changed in the 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking blue-stockinger1780 blue1781 pedantess1784 bas bleu1786 bluestocking1786 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > female clergess?c1225 scoleryng14.. mistressc1440 virtuosa1754 savante1764 bluestocking1786 literata1794 society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > one who studies > blue stocking blue1781 bas bleu1786 bluestocking1786 cerulean1821 1786 H. More Bas Bleu in Florio 72 The following Trifle owes its birth and name to the mistake of a Foreigner of Distinction, who gave the literal appellation of the Bas-bleu, to a small party of friends, who had been sometimes called, by way of pleasantry, the Blue Stockings. 1790 ‘P. Pindar’ Elegy to Apollo in Brit. Mercury 1 May 159 I see the band of blue-stockings arise, Historic, critic, and poetic dames! 1807 Edinb. Rev. 10 192 This would scarcely go down..even among the blue stockings of Montagu house. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. vii. 168 I have an utter aversion to blue-stockings. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means. 1853 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay I. 357 The order of ladies called Bluestockings, by way of reproach, has become totally extinct amongst us. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 475 By the highest mental education they [sc. girls] may be made into ‘blue-stockings’ or neurotics, or both together. 1938 D. Wallace Time of Wild Roses ii. 25 Daddy wouldn't let me try for College—he can't abide blue-stockings. 1952 M. Kennedy Troy Chimneys 33 She liked to read, although she was no blue-stocking. 2002 Daily Tel. 12 June 22/1 In an age of would-be totty academics, she [sc. a Cambridge professor] looks like everyone's idea of a bluestocking. 2. U.S. regional. Also bluestockings. The American avocet, Recurvirostra americana, which has long grey legs. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > member of genus Recurvirostra (avocet) scooper1668 shoeing-horn1668 crooked-bill1705 cobbler's awl1759 picarini1770 yelper1770 avocet1771 scooping avocet1776 red-necked avocet1823 bluestocking1844 shoehorn1864 1844 J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. II. 267 The American Avoset, or Blue-stocking as it is called in New Jersey, is a scarce bird on the shores of this State. 1883 W. A. Stearns & E. Coues New Eng. Bird Life II. 180 The color of the legs suggests the ludicrous name of ‘blue-stocking’, sometimes applied. 1910 E. H. Eaton Birds N.Y. I. 294 The American avocet, or Bluestocking, was formerly an occasional visitor to the shores of Long Island and the Great Lakes, but is now purely accidental or entirely absent. 1915 National Geographic Mag. Aug. 129/1 Like the ‘blue stockings’ the stilt used to be rather common in the Atlantic States, but it has suffered at the hands of the gunners till few of the present generation know the bird by sight. Derivatives ˈbluestockingish adj. rare like or resembling a bluestocking; literary, learned, intellectual. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [adjective] > of women blue1754 blue-stockinged1791 bluestockingishc1822 cerulean1831 c1822 J. Wilson in Byron's Wks. (1846) 232/2 (note) The women..are blue-stockingish. 1999 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 25 Oct. So unfrittery, so bluestockingish, so sober, Eleanor and Hillary. † blue-stockingship n. Obsolete rare the state or condition of being a bluestocking; = bluestockingism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking > condition of being blueism1795 blue-stockingship1818 blueness1847 bas-bleuism1871 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 286 The tawdry blue-stockingship of a young lady from the manufacturing district. 1857 Littell's Living Age 21 Mar. 747/2 A party of ladies, among whom were two precise specimens of blue-stockingship, Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see also also refers to : † blue-stockingv. < adj.n.a1683 see also
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bluestockingadj.n.

Derivatives

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