slurbn.

/sləːb/

Etymology: Apparently < sl- (as in sloppy , sleazy , etc.: see quot. 1962) +urb- (in urban adj.), though later re-analysed as if < sl- (in slum n.¹) + -urb (in suburb n.).

Originally U.S.

An area of unplanned suburban development.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > suburb > unsightly

suburban sprawl1938

subtopia1955

slurb1962

1962 Wood & Heller California going, Going.… 10 The character and quality of such urban sprawl is readily recognizable... These are the qualities of most of our new urban areas—of our slurbs—our sloppy, sleazy, slovenly, slipshod semi-cities.

1966 Guardian 22 Apr. 12/3 About 35 miles west of London there is a new town that no one knows about. It is in Berkshire, between Reading and Sandhurst, and it includes Wokingham and Crowthorne. It is what Californians, who have plenty of them, call a ‘slurb’—an amorphous and intermittent spread of houses.

1967 Economist 8 July 120/2 The pattern which has turned Los Angeles into an ‘un-community’, into ‘twenty suburbs in search of a city’, into the archetypal ‘slurb’.

1979 B. Ward Progress for Small Planet xxi. 235 The basic concept of ‘urban villages’ (the Chelseas, the Trasteveres, the Greenwich villages)..often allow a vitality and an attractiveness which the world's concrete suburban deserts, slurbs, and sprawls so demonstrably lack.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	slurb
释义	slurbn. /sləːb/ Etymology: Apparently < sl- (as in sloppy , sleazy , etc.: see quot. 1962) +urb- (in urban adj.), though later re-analysed as if < sl- (in slum n.¹) + -urb (in suburb n.). Originally U.S. An area of unplanned suburban development. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > suburb > unsightly suburban sprawl1938 subtopia1955 slurb1962 1962 Wood & Heller California going, Going.… 10 The character and quality of such urban sprawl is readily recognizable... These are the qualities of most of our new urban areas—of our slurbs—our sloppy, sleazy, slovenly, slipshod semi-cities. 1966 Guardian 22 Apr. 12/3 About 35 miles west of London there is a new town that no one knows about. It is in Berkshire, between Reading and Sandhurst, and it includes Wokingham and Crowthorne. It is what Californians, who have plenty of them, call a ‘slurb’—an amorphous and intermittent spread of houses. 1967 Economist 8 July 120/2 The pattern which has turned Los Angeles into an ‘un-community’, into ‘twenty suburbs in search of a city’, into the archetypal ‘slurb’. 1979 B. Ward Progress for Small Planet xxi. 235 The basic concept of ‘urban villages’ (the Chelseas, the Trasteveres, the Greenwich villages)..often allow a vitality and an attractiveness which the world's concrete suburban deserts, slurbs, and sprawls so demonstrably lack. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1962
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