单词 | mistreater |
释义 | mistreatern. Chiefly U.S. colloquial (esp. in African-American usage). A person who mistreats (someone or something); (spec. in blues lyrics) a person who abandons or otherwise mistreats a lover. ΚΠ 1928 C. Van Vechten Let. in L. Hughes & C. Van Vechten Remember me to Harlem (2001) 60 One night Ethel was in with a revolver looking for sweet papa Earl, the dirty mistreater. a1935 L. Carr (title of song) Mean mistreater mama. 1976 A. Murray Stomping Blues v. 66 The preoccupation is clearly not at all with hard workmasters..but with the careless love of..sweet mistreaters. 1990 J. McCluskey Lush Life in T. McMillan Breaking Ice (1990) 419 Some mean mistreaters fixing to hit that bus late and do a whole lot of shucking, man. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1928 |
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