单词 | pastimer |
释义 | pastimern. rare. A person engaged in a pastime or a sport. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > one engaged in amusement or entertainment player1340 dalliera1568 pastimer1608 recreationist1819 pleasure-seeker1825 pleasurer1833 the tired businessman1913 looner1969 1608 J. Harington Let. 14 June in Nugæ Antiquæ (1775) II. 109 Some idle pastimers did diverte themselves withe huntinge mallards in a ponde. 1913 Bulletin (San Francisco) 27 Mar. 17/1 The absence of the pastimers will be sorely felt by the permanent guests. 1919 G. Saintsbury Short Hist. French Novel viii. 324 The charges against Dumas are..that he is a mere ‘pastimer’; that he has no literary quality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1608 |
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