单词 | anally |
释义 | anallyadv. 1. By means of or via the anus; towards the anus; as regards the anus. ΚΠ 1847 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 68 130 Leeches, fomentations, and saline purgatives, followed by opiates both ‘orally and anally’, soon subdued the more acute symptoms. 1891 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 202 An infundibular orifice, placed anally of the œsophagus. 1938 Jrnl. Parasitol. 24 500 This observation..might be explained on the theory that the toads had been reinfected anally, during their annual sojourn at the breeding places. 1980 N.Y. Times 10 Aug. vii. 26/2 He..describes in gruesome detail how after the execution he is anally raped by Uncle Sam himself. 1987 J. Barth Tidewater Tales (1988) 54 If the lad is still a virgin—anally—his is called a kewpie doll. 2002 A. Davies Frog King 66 I started having this dream where I would round up a truckload of rich people and electrocute them anally—like minks—so I could steal their clothes. 2. Psychoanalysis. With respect to or by means of (fixation at) the anal stage of infantile psychosexual development. More generally: in an excessively orderly, parsimonious, or obstinate manner. Cf. anal adj. 4. ΚΠ 1940 J. F. Brown Psychodynamics Abnormal Behavior xx. iii. 396 Usually there are present in the same individual strong orally determined personality character disorders with less striking anal- and phallic-determined ones, or strong anally determined character defects with the others less striking. 1958 Ethics 68 294/2 Any individual who disciplined himself so rigidly would be diagnosed as an anally compulsive neurotic. 1991 Harper's Mag. Dec. 69/1 The ground, seen from the air, strongly suggests a board game: anally precise squares of dun and khaki cropland all cut and divided by plumb-straight tar roads. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 12 Feb. 95/1 Socially inept, anally tidy writer of instruction manuals desperately seeks inanimate receptacle for his pent-up affections. Compounds anally retentive adj. Psychoanalysis = anal retentive adj. and n. (a) at anal adj. and n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > morbidly preoccupied > obsessive or compulsive compulsive1902 anal1918 obsessive–compulsive1927 anal retentive1936 retentive1957 anally retentive1968 1968 N. Mailer in Harper's Mag. Nov. 94/1 They detested..the anally compulsive oppressions of Russian Communism (as much as they detested the anally retentive ideologies of the corporation). 2002 Independent 28 June (Review section) 7/5 Only anally retentive people have to keep everything in compartments. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1847 |
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