| 单词 | good-boy | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood-boy   good-boy adj. 		 (a) designating a children's story in which the main character is a boy who behaves virtuously (now historical);		 (b) gen. of, relating to, or characteristic of boys who are well-behaved and well-mannered. ΚΠ 1804    J. Baillie Country Inn  v. ii in  Misc. Plays 278  				Well, well, I understand you; but tell me no more of your good-boy stories at present: this cross-fated day has taught me a powerful lesson which makes every other superfluous. 1823    W. Scott Let. 16 Jan. 		(1934)	 VII. 312  				Better adapted to..soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them. 1866    Church & State Rev. 11 May 298/2  				It is no dull good-boy book, to be taken teetotalwise. 1971    W. B. Miller in  M. Pilisuk  & P. Pilisuk Poor Amer. 100  				Members of the ‘good boy’ clique. 1980    E. L. Doctorow in  Nation 19–26 July 83/2  				The same kind of Midwestern good-boy appeal that was later to attract the attention of some conservative Californians. 2001    G. Hendler Public Sentiments 264  				They are, like the later boys [sc. Tom Sawyer and others], openly scornful of good-boy books. 2004    Rock & Ice Jan. 56/2  				Good-boy haircut or not, Kehl must be losing his frickin mind. < as lemmas | 
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