单词 | my good fellow |
释义 | > as lemmasmy good fellow b. With modifying word, used as a familiar form of address in phrases such as my dear fellow, my good fellow, old fellow, etc.In early quots. perhaps a contextual use of sense 2a. From the late 19th cent. sometimes having a tone of gentle remonstrance or censure. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > of or to a man sonOE brotherOE friarc1290 lad1535 fellow1577 bubba1841 old top1856 bra1869 bro1918 mush1936 ouboet1953 coz1961 oppa1963 bruv1970 1577 J. Fit John Diamonde Most Precious sig. B.j Well ouer taken in the name of God my good fellow: Whether art thou now going thus al alone? 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 45 Cortez said (my deare fellows) forwards, for god is with vs. 1615 Bp. J. Hall Farewell Serm. in Recoll. Treat. 687 Certainely (my deare fellowes) we shall neuer complaine of the want of Maisters. ?1660 ‘Democritus Pseudomantis’ tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Prognostication vi. 15 Austria, Hungary, Turkey, by my faith, my good fellowes, I know not how 'twill be with them. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. xli. 241 Well, my noble fellow! How are you? 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. vi. 157 I'll tell you how it is, my dear fellow. 1883 R. Grant Average Man i. 4 Pshaw, my dear fellow! Compare her, for instance, with the girls one meets in New York. 1928 E. A. Robertson Cullum x. 185 ‘My darling fellow,’ started one [letter], ‘That's the only title I can find with which to pay homage to your male companionableness... You are the only woman I've ever known who will argue..on an abstract question.’ 1962 H. Miller Stand still like Hummingbird 75 My dear fellow, have you any idea what an absurd sum five dollars is..even for an old letter? 2016 Nottingham Post (Nexis) 20 Apr. If I arrive at a Peak District stile at the same time as a hiker heading the opposite way, it's always..‘No, my dear fellow, after you.’ my good fellow a. Used affectionately with terms of endearment or (now chiefly literary) relationship; also used affectionately, compassionately, or in a jocular or merely familiar tone, with certain designations otherwise rarely used vocatively, as my man, my girl, my good fellow, my poor man, etc. (mostly now somewhat archaic). Esp. in my dear, my dearest, my love, etc., see dear adj.1 2d, love n.1 6a.For use in a noun phrase with adjectival dear see dear adj.1 2b, 2c.In modern English it is not (as in some languages) usual to prefix my to terms of relationship (father, mother, brother, etc.) used vocatively; such use belongs in English to impassioned literary language. My son (cf. also son n.1 4) and my daughter are, however, more commonly found; and the omission of my before vocative use of friend is now archaic or rhetorical. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 79 Cum to me mi leofmon. c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 3 Mi sone..haue þis ring. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. i. 10 My sone..ne assente thou to them. c1390 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 3699 My faire bryd, me swete cynamome, Awaketh, lemman myn. c1480 (a1400) St. Alexis 418 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 453 My dere sone gud. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. v. 2 O my sister, my loue, my doue, my derlinge. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 58 Take, myeboy, theese tokens by myn owne hands finnished holye. 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. vii. ix. f. 54 Oh my friend (quoth I) I am in feare of a greater iudgement then this. 1658 R. Moray Let. 21 Mar. My bairn. c1720 M. Prior Advice of Venus 4 Twang goes the bow, my Girls, have at your hearts. 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 425 My good gentlemen and lady-connoisseurs. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. viii. 176 ‘Farewell, my father!’ murmured Isabel. 1862 G. Meredith Let. 23 June (1970) I. 152 B. Wyse came the other day..and hoped for forgive miss: ‘Me deer Mardith’, etc.! 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 23 But consider how monstrous this is, my friend. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career x. 84 Now it's your turn, me fine lady. 1935 J. Steinbeck Tortilla Flat v. 73 These cheap white girls are vicious, my friend. 1951 C. Hare Eng. Murder viii. 87 ‘Surely we can have the path cleared as far as that?’ ‘Who by, my good woman? Who by?’ 1973 Black World Sept. 64 (title) Sleep mi black gal, sleep. 1990 Independent 1 Sept. (Mag.) 18/3 Don't call me Sir, my good man. 2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Money section) 5/7 I often have to shove bits of paper under her pretty nose and say: ‘Sign here, my treasure.’ < as lemmas |
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