单词 | blue-stockinged |
释义 | blue-stockingedadj.n. Now archaic. A. adj. 1. Wearing blue stockings. Also (and in earliest use) figurative: belonging to or characteristic of a person (such as a countryman, tradesman, puritan, etc.) who wears plain blue worsted, as opposed to black silk, stockings (now rare).Cf. the etymology at bluestocking adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings > types of blue-stockinged1649 socked1788 silk-stockinged1850 nyloned1952 1649 J. Cleveland Char. Country Committee-man 4 A new blew-stocking'd Justice lately made of a good basket-hilted Yeoman. 1822 New Monthly Mag. 6 543/2 The bare knees, and full blue-stockinged legs of the modest but bold and free-looking [Swiss] peasant girls. 1882 Internat. Rev. Nov. 417 The plain, hard-headed Boston boy..who, blue-stockinged and unwigged, made himself the fashion at Paris. 1891 M. L. Woods Esther Vanhomrigh xvii. 246 The blue-stockinged reapers were cutting the corn, and the women were binding it in sheaves. 1905 M. Menpes & D. Menpes Brittany iv. 92 Long blue-stockinged legs..so thin..that it seemed impossible that they could bear the weight of those..wooden sabots. 1960 L. S. Silk Res. Revol. (1963) v. 100 The 1920s, when everyone joined in a mass attack on American society as cramped, crabbed, bluestockinged,..inhibited. 2008 K. Tintori Unto the Daughters iii. 30 Slipping her blue-stockinged feet into..low-heeled calfskin slippers. 2. Chiefly derogatory. Esp. of a woman: that is a bluestocking (bluestocking n. 1); learned, scholarly, literary, intellectual. Also: belonging to or characteristic of such a woman. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] yleredc897 keena1000 wisec1000 leredc1154 wittya1225 cunningc1325 taughta1382 clergialc1386 wittilyc1400 philosophicala1425 erudite?a1475 clergyable1488 informeda1500 studieda1513 estudied1550 learned1556 well-read?1576 scholarly1583 scholarlike1588 well-digested1602 literated1611 artificial1618 scienced1636 clerk-like1638 scollardicall1654 philosophic1665 virtuosoa1667 virtuousa1680 doct1694 blue-stockinged1791 bluestocking1793 scholared1830 eruditical1832 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [adjective] > of women blue1754 blue-stockinged1791 bluestockingishc1822 cerulean1831 1791 W. Gifford Baviad 13 The summons her blue-stocking'd friends obey, Lur'd by the love of Poetry. 1819 W. S. Rose Lett. from N. Italy I. 98 (note) An English blue-stockinged lady, who used to shew..a certain utensil with the name of Pope inscribed at the bottom. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. vi. 172 This d——d vindictive blue-stocking'd wild-cat. 1870 St. Pauls Mag. 6 475 The supposed connection..between blue-stockinged intellectuality and domestic insubordination. 1912 Smart Set Apr. 33/1 The blue-stockinged principal [of the school] wrote him for a recommendation of her institution. c1948 Radcliffe College Song in B. L. Bailey From Front Porch to Back Seat (1989) 154 (note) The blue-stockinged gal of yesterday Is gone, and we are here to stay. 2007 Independent 31 Jan. 18/4 Same earnest, decent manner; same well-meaning, blue-stockinged goodness. B. n. With the. Blue-stockinged people collectively. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who Court-mantlec1367 Sunday citizen1598 longcoat1603 lettice ruffa1625 silkworma1625 copester1637 short-coat1649 Scotch-sleeve?1706 Evite1713 uniform1786 nude1810 blue-stockinged1818 waistcoateer1825 padder1828 stook of duds1834 bloomer1851 sleeve1851 shirt1860 shirtwaister1900 DJ1926 rat-catcher1928 sweater girl1940 zoot-suiter1942 Edwardian1954 penguin1967 overcoat1969 1818 J. Keats Let. 14 Mar. (1931) I. 128 Hazlitt has damned the bigoted and the blue-stockined [sic] how durst the Man?! 1837 New Monthly Mag. Mar. 445 Cockneys plundered to their last shilling in the most classic of all lands,—Ausonia, the blue-skyed, the blue-eyed, and the blue-stockinged. 1938 I. Jackson China only Yesterday iv. 98 For the sake of the kindly curious, the pleasantly pedantic, the historian, the blue-stockinged, and a few others, I shall set down my ruminations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1649 |
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