downstartn.

Brit.

/ˈdaʊnstɑːt/, U.S.

/ˈdaʊnˌstɑrt/

Etymology: < down- prefix + start n.², after upstart n.

1. A person who comes from an aristocratic or privileged family background but has little or no inherited wealth.In early use applied especially to younger sons of aristocratic families who received no inheritance under the system of primogeniture, and popularized by George Bernard Shaw.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > snob > penniless

downstart1840

1840 C. G. F. Gore Preferment II. vii. 280 Marnonval..had much to answer for in having quartered the other two chaps upon society—the one being an upstart, and the other a downstart.

1898 G. B. Shaw Sixteen Self Sketches (1949) viii. 44 My father was an Irish Protestant gentleman of the downstart race of younger sons.

1923 Winnipeg Tribune 8 Dec. 8/1 Next week, Mary Johnston will write on ‘Better to Marry an Upstart than a Downstart.’

1949 G. B. Shaw Sixteen Self Sketches ii. 7 The Downstart, as I call the boy-gentleman descended through younger sons from the plutocracy, for whom a university education is beyond his father's income, leaving him by family tradition a gentleman without a gentleman's means or education, and so only a penniless snob.

2007 Irish Times (Nexis) 5 May (Arts section) 7 Higgins grew up as part of a family of wealthy Catholic upstarts who were well on the way to becoming downstarts as his father's money ran out.

2. A person who pretends to be from a lower social background; an inverted snob. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > worshipper of > inverted snob

inverted snob1909

downstart1960

1960 G. Mikes How to be Inimitable 21 Quite a few people assert that they are of lower origin than they..are... The place of the upstart is being taken by the downstart.

2002 Australian (Nexis) 24 Dec. r9 She is, after all, that unique creation of the British class system, a ‘downstart’—that is, someone who, unlike her upstart great-grandfather, throws away the silver spoon..and eats with the peasants, providing they are creative and famous.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	downstart
释义	downstartn. Brit. /ˈdaʊnstɑːt/, U.S. /ˈdaʊnˌstɑrt/ Etymology: < down- prefix + start n.², after upstart n. 1. A person who comes from an aristocratic or privileged family background but has little or no inherited wealth.In early use applied especially to younger sons of aristocratic families who received no inheritance under the system of primogeniture, and popularized by George Bernard Shaw. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > snob > penniless downstart1840 1840 C. G. F. Gore Preferment II. vii. 280 Marnonval..had much to answer for in having quartered the other two chaps upon society—the one being an upstart, and the other a downstart. 1898 G. B. Shaw Sixteen Self Sketches (1949) viii. 44 My father was an Irish Protestant gentleman of the downstart race of younger sons. 1923 Winnipeg Tribune 8 Dec. 8/1 Next week, Mary Johnston will write on ‘Better to Marry an Upstart than a Downstart.’ 1949 G. B. Shaw Sixteen Self Sketches ii. 7 The Downstart, as I call the boy-gentleman descended through younger sons from the plutocracy, for whom a university education is beyond his father's income, leaving him by family tradition a gentleman without a gentleman's means or education, and so only a penniless snob. 2007 Irish Times (Nexis) 5 May (Arts section) 7 Higgins grew up as part of a family of wealthy Catholic upstarts who were well on the way to becoming downstarts as his father's money ran out. 2. A person who pretends to be from a lower social background; an inverted snob. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > worshipper of > inverted snob inverted snob1909 downstart1960 1960 G. Mikes How to be Inimitable 21 Quite a few people assert that they are of lower origin than they..are... The place of the upstart is being taken by the downstart. 2002 Australian (Nexis) 24 Dec. r9 She is, after all, that unique creation of the British class system, a ‘downstart’—that is, someone who, unlike her upstart great-grandfather, throws away the silver spoon..and eats with the peasants, providing they are creative and famous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840
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