单词 | mellerdrammer |
释义 | mellerdrammern. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). = melodrama n. 1a, 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > melodrama melodrama1789 melodrame?1795 mellerdrammer1844 meller1915 1844 Rover 3 25/1 Was I to call my life a meller drammer, this 'ud be the end o' the fust act. 1859 ‘C. Selby’ Maximums & Specimens W. Muggins 67 Hat last hall war over, and fortunately for me they didn't know me as the water eroine of the mellerdrammer. 1899 Duluth (Minn.) News-Tribune 18 May 4 (cartoon caption) Dey ain't fightin'; dey's rehearsin' a meller drammer fer de Sidewalk Social club. 1918 H. S. Truman Let. 14 Apr. in Dear Bess (1983) 258 It was good old mellerdramer. 1926 ‘S. Steele’ (title) Curses, what a night! A nonsensical satire on the mellerdrammer. 1948 Sunday Pictorial 18 July 11/3 ‘The Woman in White’ (Warner) is a Victorian mellerdrammer which creaks like an old maid's corsets. 1993 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 4 Nov. d16/4 Where ‘Hedda Gabler’..and others present the theme purely as social crusade or ghoulish mellerdrammer, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ finds mordant humor in its character's travails. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1844 |
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