单词 | pleaser |
释义 | pleasern. A person who or thing which pleases, or aims at pleasing. Frequently as the second element in objective compounds.crowd-, flesh-, man-, people-pleaser, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] > source of pleasure honeycombOE sweetness?c1225 dainty1340 sweet1377 delicec1390 lust1390 pleasancec1390 pleasingc1390 well-queema1400 well-queemnessa1400 douceurc1400 delectation?a1425 pleasure1443 pleaserc1447 delectabilitiesa1500 deliciositiesa1500 honeydew1559 delicacy1586 fancy1590 sugar candy1591 regalo1622 happiness1637 deliciousness1651 complacence1667 regalea1677 sweetener1741 bon-bon1856 Bones1869 jam1871 true love1893 nuts1910 barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915 G-spot1983 the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] > pleasing person weala1225 pleaserc1447 agreeable1712 treat1825 nicey?1870 a fair treat1884 c1447 in H. Anstey Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) I. 259 (MED) We beseche lowly to yowr highnesse þt ȝe wold be god lord..commendyng us, ȝowr desyride pleseris, as to yowr humble bedemen, þt hertly prayth to alle myghty God to have ȝow in his kepyng. 1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶iijv A bitter inuectiue against Poets and Poesie..That it is a nurse of lies, a pleaser of fooles. c1610 Jok Uplandis Newis f. 3, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pleser The haill rest of the ministeris cryed out against them calling them men pleaseris and flattereris. 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 190 A pleaser of all men..that he might gaine some. 1753 A. Hill Wks. 392 Passion's refiner! life's shoal coast survey'd—The wise man's pleaser, and the good man's aid. 1884 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 3rd Ser. III. 308 If it be a great pleasure to see others pleased, and a greater to be the pleaser. 1965 ‘R. MacDonald’ Far Side of Dollar xxvii. 230 He's a pleaser... He lives by pleasing people, mainly you. 2003 Marie Claire Dec. 205/2 These are guaranteed boy-pleasers because they're utterly unavailable over here. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1447 |
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