| 单词 | the marrying kind |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(not) the marrying kind 1. Inclined or likely to marry. Now chiefly in (not) the marrying kind and variants. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [adjective] > inclined or likely to marry marryinga1669 a1669 J. Howard Eng. Mounsieur (1674) i. i. 7 Well, I'le lay a wager thou hast lost all thy money at Play, for then you'r alwaies in a marrying humor. 1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit i. i. 6 But you forsooth, and your Refin'd Wits, think there were never any Wits but your selves; that your Fathers were all a Pack of honest marrying Fools. 1739 J. Miller Hosp. for Fools 28 If 'twas not for the Marrying Fool, How would you Virgins fare? 1756 Ld. Chesterfield in World 1137 The pretty men..are not in general the marrying kind of men. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xiv. 149 I think Miss Anville the loveliest of her sex, and, were I a marrying man, she, of all the women I have seen, I would fix upon for a wife. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xv. 450 She had not thought Edmund a marrying man. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i. 8 Duke George, the marrying duke. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xiv. 102 Thea is not the marrying kind. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 448/2 Nobody ever suspected him of being a marrying man. 1960 Woman's Illustr. 16 July 54 So far as women are concerned, some are the marrying type, some are not. 1989 Woman's Realm 11 Apr. 35/2 He looked at her briefly from across the scrubbed table. ‘I'm not the marrying kind, either.’ < as lemmas |
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