| 单词 | bluestocking lady |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbluestocking lady b. Hence, of a woman: having or affecting literary tastes in a manner originally associated with the women of the bluestocking circle; that is a bluestocking (see sense B. 1); literary, scholarly, intellectual; as bluestocking female, bluestocking lady, etc. Frequently derogatory. Now archaic. 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 1793 W. Gifford Baviad (new ed.) 13 The summons her blue-stocking friends obey, Lur'd by the love of Poetry. 1795 Sketch Campaign of 1793 ii. vii. 67 Oh Lucy! permit not a blue stocking dame, To bandy about my unfortunate name. 1804 Edinb. Rev. 4 219 To hear blue-stocking ladies jingle their rhymes. 1824 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 127 The travelled nobles and the blue stocking matrons of Rome. 1930 ‘H. Z. Smith’ Not so Quiet i. 15 Only dreadful blue-stocking females cut their hair. 1968 D. Tangye Way to Minack iv. 37 ‘Rubbish,’ said her father, thinking of his blue stocking daughter, ‘it's a mistake. They've chosen Barbara not you.’ 1997 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 16 Dec. 15 Domestic violence, eating disorders, sexual harassment, a hopelessly skewed division of labour..it's enough to make a blue-stocking feminist cry. < as lemmas |
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