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单词 blue-stockinged
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blue-stockingedadj.n.

Brit. /ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋd/, U.S. /ˈbluˌstɑkɪŋd/
Forms: see blue adj. and n. and stockinged adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., stockinged adj., bluestocking adj.
Etymology: < blue adj. + stockinged adj. In sense A. 2 after bluestocking adj.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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