| 单词 | little orphan annie |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslittle Orphan Annie little Orphan Annie n. (also little Orphant Annie) [ < Little Orphant Annie, the name of an orphan child in The Elf-Child , a popular poem by American writer James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) published in 1885 (compare quot. 1885), upon which were based a long-running cartoon strip Little Orphan Annie by American cartoonist Harold Gray (1894–1968) first published in the New York Daily News in August 1924 (compare quot. 1924), and subsequently also a radio show (from 1930), several films (1932 and 1938), and the Broadway musical Annie! (1977).] (a name for) a poor, deprived, or pathetic-looking girl or woman (originally, one who is an orphan). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > orphan stepchild971 stepbairnc1000 pupilc1384 orphana1450 orphelinc1450 orpheninc1450 orphanera1500 ward1559 orphanet1604 little Orphan Annie1910 war orphan1915 1885 J. W. Riley in Indianapolis Jrnl. 15 Nov. 1/4 Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay.] 1910 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. p. vii/1 I'm cultivating my benevolent instincts by allowing the ‘little, orphan Annies’ to whiz around in my ‘buzzer’. 1915 R. L. Hartt Confessions of Clergyman xvi. 282 People conclude that ministers will marry anybody—Jack Johnsons to Jeanne d'Arcs, Little Orphant Annies to Idiot Boys. 1924 H. Gray in Daily News (N.Y.) 5 Aug. (Pink ed.) 26 (title of cartoon strip) Little Orphan Annie.] 1938 D. Smith Dear Octopus i. 39 You stood there in the doorway..looking exactly like little Orphan Annie. 1960 Woman 20 Feb. 6/3 She cast herself in the rôle of Little Orphan Annie. 1965 Newsweek 19 July 58/1 A Little Orphan Annie dress by Mary Quant or Caroline Charles. 1966 M. G. Eberhart Witness at Large (1967) i. 13 I was in a position of Little Orphan Annie in my relationship to the Esseven family. 2011 P. Carter Altar of Bones 153 There were even bars on the windows, although I suspect they were more to keep the neighborhood riffraff out than us little Orphan Annies in. < as lemmas |
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