单词 | town man |
释义 | town mann.ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [noun] > serf town manOE townsmanOE churl?c1225 carla1300 villeina1325 peasant1550 serf1611 helot1823 robotnik1945 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xx. 196 Furseus oncneow sona ða sawle, se wæs his tunman ær on life. OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 318 Uillanus, tunmann [c1225 Worcester tunmon]. lOE Laws: Instituta Cnuti (Rochester) i. xiic. 197 De terra uillanorum, id est tunmannes [OE Laws of Edgar: Nero A.i of geneatlande]. ?c1300 (?c1185) Pseudo-Cnut De Foresta iv, in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 621 Sub horum [ealdermen] iterum quolibet sint duo minutorum hominum, quos tunman [so Stowe (c1575)] Angli dicunt. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 204 (MED) iij acres liyng in longefurlange vttermost toward the lond of the towne men. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 630 Uillicus, towneman. 2. A person (esp. a man) who lives or was born in a (particular) town or city; a town dweller; a townsman. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] borough-manc1000 city mana1400 townsman1433 town manc1475 town dweller1484 oppidan?1548 burgher?1555 townsfolk1562 townsfolk1592 townswoman1612 town liver1620 town folk1679 citess1685 citizeness1754 citizette1798 townie1825 urban1835 townskip1837 townsperson1840 urbanite1892 burgheress1901 c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. l. 41 Trouthe to telle, as toune-men said, For on þat ȝe merkyd ȝe myssed ten schore. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 523 Thair is mony toun man, to tuggill is tull teuch. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 300 He promittit in hechting to caus the toun men doe or die. 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry xiv. 107 The good towne man, and the village man. 1750 Biographia Britannica III. 1513 They put him on a poor yeoman-beadle's gown, thread-bare, and a town-man's cap. 1784 M. P. Andrews Reparation ii. ii. 27 Oh, a town man—a perfect town man—don't mind him—a mere hypocrite. 1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes I. viii. 165 To think you, the London visitor, the town man, should have been born here, and have known this village so many years before I did. 1896 N. Munro Lost Pibroch 85 A townman would think the world slept, so great was the booming of quietness. 1921 Punch 2 Feb. 86/1 At Oxford Circus I have known What townmen call the ‘stentorphone’. 1954 J. Herbst New Green World iii. 63 The complexity of the wilderness; sterner, savager than any town man could know. 1999 C. E. Kelly In New Eng. Fashion ix. 245 Sautherea offered her heart to a town man, a college man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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