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单词 disgusted
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Disgustedn.

Brit. /dᵻsˈɡʌstᵻd/, /dᵻzˈɡʌstᵻd/, U.S. /dəˈskəstəd/, /dɪsˈɡəstəd/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: disgusted adj.
Etymology: < disgusted adj.
British (usually humorous or depreciative).
Originally as a self-designation: a member of the public who writes anonymously to a newspaper expressing outrage about a particular issue. Hence more widely: a person who is vocal and indignant in his or her opposition to something.With the phrase Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells cf. the title of the 1978 BBC radio programme Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells (see quot. 1978), alluding to a perception of Tunbridge Wells as the type of middle-class, conservative area from which letters of this type often originate. Other place names also occur.
ΚΠ
1884 Times 1 Dec. 6/5 Your obedient servant, ‘Disgusted’.
1894 Fleetwood Chron. 15 June 5/5Disgusted’ writes complaining that he sent a letter..and..found only half of it published!
1967 Listener 11 May 633/1 ‘There is in it such a labefaction of all principle as may be injurious to morality’ was Dr Johnson's verdict on The Beggar's Opera, thus taking the words out of the mouths of innumerable censors, Lord Chamberlains, chairmen, Mrs Whitehouses, and ‘Disgusteds’.
1978 Kent & Sussex Courier 24 Feb. 1 We are disgusted!.. That is the reaction of a Tunbridge Wells resident to the title of a new radio programme called..Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells. The programme is..to allow BBC radio listeners to air their views and complaints about..radio.]
1980 Times 5 Mar. 16/7 ‘Take a firm stand against your Ministry of Finance’, declared Helsinki's answer to Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.
1992 Observer 25 Oct. 25/7 He has performed the extraordinary feat of uniting..‘Disgusted’ of Cheltenham with Mr Arthur Scargill.
2000 Guardian 8 May ii. 12/2 Most are despised by the disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells, who prefer a nice bit of neo-geo brickwork, an executive cul-de-sac or a postmodern shopping arcade with split pediments, herringbone brick-tiled floors and brass-veneered handrails.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

disgustedadj.

/dɪsˈɡʌstɪd/
Etymology: < disgust v. + -ed suffix1.
Thesaurus »
a. Distasteful, strongly disliked (obsolete).
b. Feeling disgust or aversion; chagrined.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adjective]
awlated1297
fastidiousa1535
distasted1651
disgusted1705
revolted1792
disgustful1841
sick1850
skeeved1991
1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. ii. vi. 194 Wilson, a disgusted Man, wrote the Life of K. James.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 486 Fear..makes him unable..to assert a disgusted Truth.
c1790 J. Willock Voy. diverse parts 11 He retired sullen and disgusted.
1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 189 [He] staggers from his intemperate banquet, and reels to a disgusted wife.

Derivatives

disˈgustedly adv. with disgust or repulsion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adverb]
distastably1620
distastefully1627
disgustfully1863
disgustedly1864
1864 M. C. Harris Louie's Last Term 85 She..put her lips to the glass, turned up her nose very disgustedly.
1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel III. 98 Shrugging his shoulders disgustedly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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