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单词 dime-novelist
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dime-novelist
dime novel n. a cheap sensational novel: cf. penny dreadful n. and adj., shilling shocker; hence dime-novelish adj., dime-novelist.
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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.
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