单词 | daydreamer |
释义 | daydreamern. A person who is disposed to daydreaming; one who distracts himself or herself from the present by indulging in fantasies and reveries. Also: a person who conceives impractical or unrealistic plans. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > one who daydreams musardc1330 John-a-dreams1603 air-monger1628 castle-builder1711 daydreamer1750 castle-hunter1752 Alnaschar1800 reverist1824 stargazer1843 Johnny Head-in-the-Air?1851 pipe-dreamer1899 head-in-air1932 Walter Mitty1947 Mitty1953 1750 M. Browne Sunday Thoughts: Pt. II. 33 Ye throngs loquacious! with more clamorous croaks, Call! louder, to these fascinated roofs, And start th' obscene, day-dreamers up to shame. 1797 S. J. Pratt Family Secrets II. xxxiii. 276 Thou wilt pity or despise those distracted day-dreamers. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxviii. 272 This young day-dreamer built castles in the air for himself. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xi. 376 All day-dreamers and castle-builders. 1939 C. Van Riper Speech Correction i. 8 The average adult speech defective..may retreat from reality and become a daydreamer. 1998 M. Booth Industry of Souls vii. 147 The teacher is a cruel master who will brook no slackers, no day-dreamers, no skivers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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