单词 | penny-a-liner |
释义 | penny-a-linern. Now historical. Chiefly depreciative. A person, esp. a journalist, who practises penny-a-line writing; a writer of material of low literary quality. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > penny-a-liner creeper1824 penny-a-liner1832 liner1861 1832 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lxiv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 874 The penny-a-liners..[howled at] the farthing-a-speechifiers. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 83 This country is surely the paradise of painters and penny-a-liners. 1871 F. Gale Echoes Cricket Fields xiv. 90 He went in last, and joined Mr. Attfield, and between them ninety-nine runs were scored; or as a slang penny-a-liner would say, ‘the two last gents wrote up a century bar one.’ 1915 F. Hodgson Burnett Lost Prince vi. 57 He said your father would think he was a swell, even if he was only a penny-a-liner on newspapers. 1947 W. S. Maugham Creatures of Circumstance 9 He wouldn't have liked it if some damned penny-a-liner had made fun of Evie's effort in one of the papers. 1996 Spectator 31 Aug. 18/3 The original Grub Street was one of these manifestations, where penny-a-liners lived in bare-boarded garrets. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > [noun] > other specific types or styles of journalism > expression in style of penny-a-linerism1872 1872 Punch 5 Oct. 143/2 The note of preparation, to use a penny-a-linerism, is now sounding for the winter theatrical campaign. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1832 |
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