| 释义 |
righty|ˈraɪtɪ|
Also rightie.
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1. U.S. A right-handed person; spec. in Baseball, a right-handed pitcher; a batter who stands on the left side of the plate and swings the bat from right to left. Also quasi-adv.
1949Sun (Baltimore) 3 June 18/7 Pie—a rightie..compiled an all-time average of 300-plus against all kinds of pitching. 1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 564 In baseball, switch hitters speak of their relative prowess batting lefty and righty. 1974Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 18 Apr. 8c/4 Smith, a righty with an assortment of pitches, struck out 15 Mets and yielded only three walks as he overpowered the visitors. 1975New Yorker 15 Sept. 27/3 The Sox put in..Cleveland, a righty who hadn't seen action in sixteen days. Ibid. 22 Sept. 102/3 He never hit righty in a game.
2. A right-winger in politics. Also transf. and attrib.
1967Listener 10 Aug. 164/1 ‘The lefties are almost completely in control of the nation's communications.’.. The righties have, then, a case. Ibid. 164/3 He might just as easily be a militant atheist or Trotskyite as a rightie. 1969Time 31 Oct. 53 England's thin red line of intellectual royalists is being overrun by ‘progressive’ reformers who deliberately sabotage old-fashioned academic virtues... The Manchester Guardian called them a ‘tightly knit bunch of righties’. 1970Guardian 19 Nov. 9/4 This sounds a bit like his Righty chum, Bernard Levin, but not like any Lefty I know. 1976Sunday Tel. 29 Aug. 14/4 This ecclesiastical equivalent of Enoch Powell has done and said much more than demand the old Latin Mass, and this is where the majority of Catholics part company from the Rightie of Trent. 1978Spectator 21 Oct. 17/2 Such rightie code-phrases as ‘the need for discipline in our schools’. |