单词 | name-caller |
释义 | name-callern. 1. A person who calls other people names; an abusive or insulting person. ΚΠ 1890 Standard (Ogden, Utah Territory) 5 Nov. 2/2 The Tribune is itself a name-caller, not strongly addicted to argument, and most of its correspondents are like unto it. 1925 F. E. Lumley Means of Social Control xii. iii. 303 The name-caller shrieks the louder... Then the names are hurled with more vehemence and become uglier. 1935 S. Walker Mrs. Astor's Horse 185 If the American politician is good at invective, he is almost sure to amount to something. If he is a master name-caller, there should be no limit to his aspirations. 1975 Economist (Nexis) 15 Nov. 20 It is hypocritical; most of the name-callers are guilty of one or another of racialism's infinite varieties. 2000 Oxf. Amer. Jan.–Feb. 21/2 She was an equal opportunity name-caller. Everybody was ‘heifer’ or ‘whore’ to her. 2. Roman History. = nomenclator n. 3a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > usher > at banquet nomenclator1601 name-caller1910 1910 T. G. Tucker Life in Roman World of Nero & St. Paul xii. 209 One must not expect a Roman noble to deign always to remember the names of humble persons..and therefore a slave, known as the ‘name-caller’, announces each client in turn. 1924 W. B. McDaniel Rom. Private Life viii. 109 Their lord..sometimes needed the service of his nomenclator or name-caller to whisper some account of approaching nobodies. 3. A person who devises or assigns names; a coiner; a categorizer. Cf. nomenclator n. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [noun] > one who or that which gives a name christenerOE impositor1493 denominator1577 imposer1597 name-giver1610 nomenclator1616 namer1627 entitler1653 name-caller1953 1953 L. Garvin Mod. Introd. Ethics vii. 181 If this fact—that moral standards are always someone's moral standards—is to be called by the name ‘moral nihilism’, then let the name-caller make the most of it. 1974 R. Howard Two-part Inventions 56 I took part in those nameless sins which, when named, always turn out to exclude the name-caller. 1998 M. Montgomery in T. J. Smith Steps toward Restoration 239 His close attention to the rhetorical strategy of adjectives and nouns rather underlines Milton as at least as much a talented name-caller as a persuasive rhetorician. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1890 |
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