| 单词 | lady bountiful |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLady Bountiful Lady Bountiful n. [originally with allusion to the character of Lady Bountiful in G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem (1707)] a wealthy, munificent person; (in later use depreciative) a wealthy person who engages in ostentatious acts of charity.Chiefly used of a woman. ΚΠ 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 41 Where is my Lady Bountiful?] 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. iii. iii. 120 It contained Medicines of all Kinds, which her Mother, who was the Lady Bountiful of that Country, had supplied her with. 1830 T. B. Macaulay Southey's Colloq. in Ess. (1854) I. 109/1 He [sc. the magistrate] ought to be..a Lady Bountiful in every parish, a Paul Pry in every house. 1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 541/2 Her charity work is personal, since Lady Bountifuls are as one with the dodo. 1988 New Statesman 3 June 22/1 Their new Tory communitarianism has a strong whiff of Lady Bountiful about it... They do not see that a community cannot be fashioned out of a series of altruistic spasms. 1996 P. Gregory Perfectly Correct (1997) 77 ‘I enjoy my work,’ Miriam said, steadfastly smiling. The old woman snorted. ‘Lady Bountiful,’ she said spitefully. < as lemmas |
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