单词 | phoner |
释义 | phonern. 1. a. A person who makes a telephone call; = telephoner n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > caller caller1879 telephoner1880 party1912 ringer-up1928 phoner1933 telephonist1952 1933 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 17 Apr. 6/3 Marilyn Miller is the stage's most extravagant long distance phoner. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §808/3 Telephoner, phoner. 1977 Times 12 Feb. 12/1 This is your late night phone-in programme... Mr. Jenkins..says you phoners are ignorant, pathetic and moronic. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 Feb. d6/3 For frequent phoners who feel that any voice dialing is better than punching number keys, ArialPhone might still be attractive. b. phoner-in n. a person who phones in, esp. to a radio or television programme. ΚΠ 1975 Times 26 Apr. 8/5 Radio 4's The Forbidden Subject was..a phone-in... The phoners-in, with two exceptions, were all women. 1995 Countryman Summer 82 It was five hours after the incident before I was installed in Ward 10 and inaccurately described as ‘comfortable’ to concerned phoners-in. 2. Originally U.S. An interview conducted over the telephone. ΚΠ 1973 Washington Post 25 Mar. a22/5 After six weeks it appeared that an interview with Spitz might finally take place. ‘We'll get you a phoner, at least.’ 1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 5/2 Any news about the arrival of the Next Beach Boys Album is good news and Al Jardine had lots of it for Dateline in a recent phoner. 1989 Echoes 23 Sept. 9/1 I was obliged to do one of those horrible ‘phoners’... Luck was on my side, though, and the long distance interview didn't happen. 2003 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 10 Apr. d12 My eight-minute phoner with Lenny Kravitz last summer almost took the crown away from Jackson, simply because Kravitz refused to answer any question with more than three words. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1933 |
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