单词 | cavewoman |
释义 | cavewomann. 1. A prehistoric woman who lived in caves; (more generally) any prehistoric woman. Cf. caveman n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1886 All Year Round 27 Mar. 125/2 Even the cave-woman had her bone needles wherewith she stitched together mantles of skins. 1932 Social Sci. 7 206/2 A woman and two men go back twenty-five thousand years and live for a while the life of cavemen and cavewomen. 2012 Irish Independent (Nexis) 11 Aug. (Features section) It was hunter-gatherer cavewomen who provided most of the daily food. 2. figurative. A woman considered as resembling a cavewoman (sense 1), esp. in being ill-mannered, uncivilized, unkempt, etc. Cf. caveman n. 2b.Recorded earliest as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person > woman rouncival1596 rudas1725 1903 E. T. Fowler Place & Power ii. v. 171 Miss St. Just..belonged to the cave-woman species. 1916 A. Bennett These Twain xvii. 363 Would there, indeed, ever be any real tranquillity in his house, with that strange, primeval cave-woman in charge of it? 2015 D. Kelly Death, Taxes, & Cheap Sunglasses xx. 177 I knew my way around guns.., but where technology was concerned I was a total cavewoman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < n.1886 |
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