| 单词 | man about town |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman (also woman, etc.) about town P5. colloquial. man (also woman, etc.) about town and variants: a person who mingles in the pursuits or society of the town; spec. one who is frequently seen at fashionable social occasions; a member of fashionable society; a socialite. Now frequently hyphenated. Cf. girl about town at girl n. Phrases 2a, about prep.1 7b. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male gallant1388 wamfler15.. rutter1506 younkera1522 fine gentleman1575 cavalier1589 whisker1595 jinglespur1604 bravery1616 brisk1621 chevalier1630 man about town1647 man of mode1676 man of distinction1699 sprag1707 sparky1756 blood1763 swell1786 Corinthian1819 galliard1828 mondain1833 toff1851 flâneur1854 Johnny1883 silver-tail1898 knut1911 lounge lizard1918 old buster1919 Hooray Henry1959 society > leisure > social event > [noun] > participant man (also woman, etc.) about town1734 racketer1753 social butterfly1837 socialite1909 socializer1941 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 196 I was a youth about the town when he undertook that expedition. 1678 T. D'Urfey Fool turn'd Critick iv. ii. 34 Were I not favourable, many a poor Fellow about Town would be undone. 1734 in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS App. vi. 146 in Parl. Papers 1897 (C. 8551) LI. 1 Though being what is called an idle man about Town, I generally read all that is writ on both sides. 1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2892 There are now two sorts of young fellows about Town, who call themselves Bucks and Bloods. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxvi. 317 He was quite the man-about-town of the conversation. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) x. 83 A perfect and celebrated ‘blood’, or dandy about town. 1889 W. Roberts Hist. Eng. Bookselling 121 Wits, men-about-town, and fashionable notabilities. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Apr. 2/1 The young raff about town; his respectable M.P. father. 1979 ‘S. Kemp’ Goodbye, Pussy xii. 160 Zoë had been an ‘actress’. Actress, model, woman-about-town. 1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto vi. 107 My father was a man-about-town, very well known in Soweto in the fifties. < as lemmas |
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