单词 | cuckoo-land |
释义 | cuckoo-landn. = cloud-cuckoo-land n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place fairyc1330 rumbelow?1515 Hogs Norton?1565 fairyland1600 wonderland1790 other world1804 dreamland1832 Fourth World1833 cloudland1846 Loamshire1859 looking-glass land1871 looking-glass world1871 under-land1874 cloud-world1884 Speewah1890 Ruritania1894 cloud-cuckoo-land1899 cuckoo-land1916 fantasy world1920 Squaresville1956 la-la land1979 1916 A. Huxley Burning Wheel 49 For still in Cuckoo-Land they're labouring, With hopes undamped and undiscouraged hearts. 1958 Observer 28 Sept. 17/1 I am afraid that your paper..is living in a cuckoo-land. Have you no idea what ordinary Cockney people..feel about this mass invasion [of coloured people]? Derivatives cuckoo-lander n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person dreamera1425 fantast1588 fantastical1589 fantastic1598 maggot-monger1607 Sabine1610 maggot-patea1640 wham1691 whim1712 visionarya1719 imaginariana1729 ideologue1815 ideologist1818 fancier1828 idealist1829 abstractionist1844 phantasist1864 dreamsmith1873 luftmensch1902 cuckoo-lander1916 fantasist1923 pie-in-the-skyer1973 1916 A. Huxley Burning Wheel 50 And Cuckoo-Landers not a few shall prove. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1916 |
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