单词 | man-child |
释义 | man-childn. A male child. Also: a man with childlike qualities. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 94 (MED) Sche had a lytel manchylde sowkyng on hir brest. c1450 (a1375) Octavian (Calig.) (1979) 101 (MED) Vppon Florence..He gette and wan Two man chylderyn. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 7 To espye..yf his wife broght forth men children. a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Cambr.) 3640 Man chyldur [c1330 Auch. knaue children, a1500 Chetham men children] had sche two. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xvii. B Euery manchilde whan it is eight dayes olde, shalbe circumcyded [circūcyded in text]. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N6v Lucina came: a manchild forth I brought. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 72 Bring forth Men-Children onely: For thy vndaunted Mettle should compose Nothing but Males. View more context for this quotation 1660 in Trans. Dumfries & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 3rd Ser. 21 143 For ilk manchyld they sall abstract the said schoole. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 59 I denounce against all strait-Laceing, Squeezing for a Shape, till you mold my boy's head like a Sugar-loaf; and instead of a Man-child, make me the Father of a Crooked-billet. 1800 S. T. Coleridge Talleyrand to Lord Grenville in Morning Post & Gazetteer 10 Jan. 3/1 Were such lungs e'er assign'd to a man-child? 1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) iii. 23 I don't believe there is a man-child born in the town but you begin to wonder what the Government will do for him. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes iii. 43 No sound broke the deathlike stillness of the jungle mid-day save the piteous wailing of the tiny man-child. 1961 J. Carew Last Barbarian 63 She loved Peter as she had never loved Laura. He was a man-child and the one person in the world who depended on her completely. 1990 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 18 Nov. 4/1 It is not every day that a single 23-year-old soccer-playing Geordie, a man-child reckoned by former England manager Bobby Robson to be as daft as a brush, is invited by the PM to a party at her place. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] > boyhood knighthoodc893 boyhood?1577 boyery1579 lad-age1606 manchildhooda1618 boyage1625 boyism1810 laddism1843 ladhood1883 a1618 J. Sylvester Hymn St. Lewis 85 When Heav'ns assign'd him to his Father's Throne; And to the hands of his Man-Childehood left The glorious Burthen of this Scepter's heft. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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