单词 | flâneur |
释义 | flâneurn. A lounger or saunterer, an idle ‘man about town’. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > fashionable flâneur1854 lounge lizard1918 saga boy1941 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male gallant1388 wamfler15.. rutter1506 younkera1522 fine gentleman1575 cavalier1589 whisker1595 jinglespur1604 bravery1616 brisk1621 chevalier1630 man about town1647 man of mode1676 man of distinction1699 sprag1707 sparky1756 blood1763 swell1786 Corinthian1819 galliard1828 mondain1833 toff1851 flâneur1854 Johnny1883 silver-tail1898 knut1911 lounge lizard1918 old buster1919 Hooray Henry1959 1854 Harper's Mag. Aug. 411/2 Did you ever fail to waste at least two hours of every sunshiny day, in the long-ago time when you played the flaneur, in the metropolitan city, with looking at shop-windows? 1872 E. Braddon Life in India vi. 236 He will affect a knowledge of London life that only comes to the regular flâneur after years of active experience. 1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City vi. 149 An existence which makes the life of the Paris flâneurs look very poor indeed. 1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 17 Oct. 417/1 The boundary which separates the clever flaneur from the dramatist. 1938 H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores i. 13 In Paris, in London I have been a happy flâneur; I have flâné-d in New York and Washington and most of the great cities of Europe. 1969 Computers & Humanities 4 29 The electronic age may yet see every man a flaneur. Derivatives flane v. (also flâne,flané,flâné) (intransitive) to saunter, to laze. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > leisurely or carelessly lop1587 dander?1590 dandle?1590 lolla1657 saunter1671 sidle1697 sail1699 toddle1726 lollop1745 to loll it1796 waltz1862 faffle1869 flane1876 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf luskc1330 lubber1530 to play the truant, -s1560 lazea1592 lazy1612 meecha1625 lounge1671 saunter1672 sloungea1682 slive1707 soss1711 lolpoop1722 muzz1758 shack1787 hulkc1793 creolize1802 maroon1808 shackle1809 sidle1828 slinge1834 sossle1837 loaf1838 mike1838 to sit around1844 hawm1847 wanton1847 sozzle1848 mooch1851 slosh1854 bum1857 flane1876 slummock1877 dead-beat1881 to lop about1881 scow1901 scowbank1901 stall1916 doss1937 plotz1941 lig1960 loon1969 1876 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) xi. 143 Shopped the whole morning—flanéed down Regent Street. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby III. viii. 155 They are going to laze and flane about the boulevards. a1896 G. Du Maurier Martian (1897) 175 To his great surprise he saw Bonzig leisurely flâning about. 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xv. 203 The fishermen were fishing, and the flâneurs were flaning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1854 |
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