单词 | lochinvar |
释义 | Lochinvarn. 1. A male eloper; a heroic or daring male lover. Frequently in young Lochinvar. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > flirt > male flirt > used allusively for young male eloper Lochinvar1811 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > bride or bridegroom > eloper eloper1751 Lochinvar1811 1811 Fatherless Fanny II. ii. 20 If I am to have the Duke, I shall have him, and if I am not to have him, some Giant, or Genii, or young Lochinvar, will come just in time to carry me off at the last moment. 1819 J. G. Lockhart Peter's Lett. to Kinsfolk II. lii. 319 He..seems to be as much at home in the saddle, as any of his own rough-riding Deloraines or Lochinvars could have been. 1879 C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum I. xii. 233 His bride..had had a young Lochinvar, and even in her wedding dress, favoured by sympathising servants, had escaped down the back stairs of a London hotel, and been married at the nearest Church. 1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep ix. 170 The young Lochinvar business was rather out of my usual line. 1966 J. Wainwright Crystallised Carbon Pig xiii. 59 The nightly rendezvous for the city's sugar daddies, extra-mural secretaries, bald-headed Lochinvars. 2014 Sunday Times (Nexis) 15 June 33 Then there was David Miliband, the young Lochinvar who swept her off her feet. 2. Australian colloquial. A man who abducts an Australian Aboriginal woman. Now rare. ΚΠ 1910 Sydney Mail 12 Jan. 7/2 News came of a romantic encounter between the natives of certain northern Australian tribes over the abduction of a dusky belle by a young Lochinvar of peculiarly primitive chivalry. 1951 E. Hill Territory 311 Lochinvars sold the women to the drovers and the stations at £10 a head. 1951 E. Hill Territory 444 Lochinvar, the, old time term for catching lubras to work cattle, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1811 |
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