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单词 highboy
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highboyn.

Brit. /ˈhʌɪbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˌbɔɪ/
Forms: see high adj. and n.2 and boy n.1 and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., boy n.1
Etymology: < high adj. + boy n.1With sense 3 compare boy n.1 6 and earlier tallboy n. 2.
1. A person who is extremely partisan; esp. one who strongly supports the authority and claims of the established Church or State. Cf. high-flyer n. 4. Obsolete.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > extremism > extremist
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > one who exaggerates > in action > and in opinion > political
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1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) 117 These High-boyes say plainly that all such who are not of their opinion are perfect Malignants.
1664 H. Bold Poems 120 Some stately proud High Boyes, do rant it, and call As if they could Tipple, the Divel and all.
1715 S. Centlivre Gotham Election i. iv. 59 Sir Rog. I am amaz'd to find you in the Interest of the High-Boys. Ald...Our Parson says that's only the Whig's Cant.
1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 185 Some think, whose Heads are Grave, Save the Queen: Since all that was aim'd at, Was to shew a Mob as great, As High-Boys did of late; Save the Queen.
2. A man or boy given to or characterized by wild, disorderly behaviour or a dissolute lifestyle; a libertine, a rake. Cf. high adj. 19, high adv. 4d. Obsolete.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun] > person > male
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1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions iv. 128 Many Huffes and Highboyes.
1670 T. Brooks London's Lamentations i. 82 A high Boy, or of one that was strong to drink among others, or to drink down others?
1742 M. Wiloringold Sauce for Wedding Dinner 16 An extream Huff or High-boy, that spends all her Thrifty-reserves in the company of more pleasing and delightful Objects.
1848 Raymond (Mississippi) Gaz. 13 July 1/5 In my younger days I was what people call a ‘wild chap’, and I rather think I was something of a high boy.
3. U.S. = tallboy n. 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > chest of drawers > [noun] > tall
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highboy1891
1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 353/2 These Lafayette plates had always been kept in the top drawer of a high chest of drawers, a ‘high boy’.
1926 Bulletin 29 June 10/2 The..lady..belonged against a background of mahogany highboys, old china..and an Adams' mantel.
1948 H. Brean Wilders walk Away ix. 105 That's a magnificent highboy.
1980 Notable Acquisitions 1979–80 (Metrop. Mus. Art, N.Y.) 58/2 The high chest of drawers, today popularly called a highboy, is perhaps the most characteristically American type of eighteenth-century American furniture.
2005 D. Dietz Chain Lamb Chop to Bed 29 A curved highboy whose drawers held fancy polished dinnerware, steak knives, photo albums, marble fruit, and linens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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