单词 | blondie |
释义 | blondien.adj. A. n. 1. (A name for) a person, esp. a woman, with blonde hair. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > person having light blonde1822 tow-head1829 blondie1882 strawberry blond1884 bottle blonde1898 ash-blond1903 peroxide1903 peroxide blonde1909 platinum blonde1931 1882 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 6 Nov. 1/6 Out of respect for the future husbands of the girls [who engaged in a fist fight] we withhold the names of the belligerents, simply designating them as Blondie and Pinkie. 1910 Washington Post 2 Sept. 6/7 Her eyes may be sapphires a-twin, But Puritan spirit is grim. No Titian blondie Can labor for John D.—No red-headed siren for him! 1930 R. E. Sherwood This is N.Y. ii. 106 Judge... Have I met you before, blondie? (He is making a pass.) 1976 R. Berry Before forever After in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories 275 ‘How does she look in the buff?’.. ‘White, exceptionally white, I thought. Goes with her being a blondie, I suppose.’ 2005 Sun (Nexis) 6 Sept. We never did manage to bag any major roles in the school nativity play and it was always the blue-eyed blondies who played the angels. 2. North American. A small square of dense cake similar to a brownie but having a cream or golden colour, and typically not chocolate-flavoured. ΚΠ 1943 Salamanca (N.Y.) Republican-Press 27 May 5/2 (heading) Blondies (Light Colored Brownies). 4 tablespoons shortening. 3/4 cup dark brown sugar. 2 eggs, beaten [etc.]. 1948 Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) 12 Mar. 16 (advt.) Butter scotch blondies—doz... 30c. 1982 N.Y. Times 11 July g19/2 The Vegetarian picnic consists of pasta primavera.., Swiss peasant bread, a well-above-average brownie and white-chocolate blondie. 1994 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 14 Dec. d1 A blondie is a non-chocolate brownie. 2003 J. L. Hayes Grandma's Wartime Baking Bk. iv. 73 The brown sugar lends a mellow butterscotch flavor to these Blondies. B. adj. Chiefly Irish English. Blonde. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > light hair > having white-headed1571 whitehead1577 fair-haired1598 silver-haired1678 light-haired?1746 blonde-locked1837 tow-headed1850 tow-haired1887 peroxide1899 blondie1905 straw-blond1928 platinum blonde1932 1905 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 13 Sept. 3/1 Blond hair often grows darker as the blondy girl grows older. 1965 B. Friel Philadelphia, Here I Come! 69 By the way, lads, who's the blondie thing I seen at the last Mass on Sunday? 1994 E. McNamee Resurrection Man (1998) i. 5 Their blondie hair they got from a bottle. 2003 Irish Times (Nexis) 16 Aug. 43 Meanwhile, one of their midfielders was sold to a Spanish club, the blondy lad with the right foot. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1882 |
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