| 单词 | dime novel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdime novel dime novel n. a cheap sensational novel: cf. penny dreadful n. and adj., shilling shocker; hence dime-novelish adj., dime-novelist. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > books sold at specific price sixpenny1840 penny dreadful1861 dime novel1864 shilling dreadful1885 penny horrible1899 sevenpenny1907 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sensational novel or thriller sensation novel1856 penny dreadful1861 dime novel1864 curdler1872 dreadful1874 blood and thunder1876 penny awful1880 shilling dreadful1885 thrill1886 thriller1889 blood1892 terror novel1896 penny horrible1899 spine-thriller1912 roman noir1926 spine-chiller1940 scorcher1942 spine-tingler1942 spine-freezer1960 1864 N. Amer. Rev. July 304 A Dime Novel is issued each month. 1865 A. H. Stephens Diary (1910) 424 A little primer-looking sort of a child's book. It was a dime novel. 1879 H. George Progress & Poverty x. ii. 443 The boy who reads dime novels wants to be a pirate. 1879 Amer. Punch Apr. 40/1 Written to order by the hundred, by a Dime novelist in New York. 1882 Cent. Mag. 25 212/1 You are as bad as a dime novel. 1887 Scribner's Mag. July 120/1 It was a trifle boyish, and ‘dime-novelish’. 1914 R. Herrick Clark's Field 7 The facts are not all dime-novelish, but very human and significant. < as lemmas |
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