| 单词 | miss fidditch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMiss Fidditch Miss Fidditch n. [see quot. 1967] colloquial a person who is punctilious with regard to the correct use of language, a pedant. ΚΠ 1962 M. Joos Five Clocks i. 10 Webster is one Webster, and Miss Fidditch is his prophet. 1967 A. H. Marckwardt in M. Joos Five Clocks p. xiv He begins with Miss Fidditch, a character originally named by Henry Lee Smith, Jr., in one of his more devastating moments but described by H. L. Mencken two decades earlier as one of the old-maid schoolteachers who would rather parse than eat. 1968 Language 44 128 Attention, all the Miss Fidditches: Barber calls it is I pedantic. 1978 Amer. Speech 53 20 Despite centuries of indefatigable admonitions from the Miss Fidditches, the impersonal uses and singular they have age-old pedigrees in the language. < as lemmas |
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