单词 | sub-deb |
释义 | sub-debn. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Now somewhat archaic. = sub-debutante n. Cf. deb n.In quot. 1930 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] daughterOE maidenOE young womanOE mayc1175 burdc1225 maidc1275 wenchc1290 file1303 virginc1330 girla1375 damselc1380 young ladya1393 jilla1425 juvenclec1430 young person1438 domicellea1464 quean1488 trull1525 pulleta1533 Tib1533 kittyc1560 dell1567 gillian1573 nymph1584 winklota1586 frotion1587 yuffrouw1589 pigeon1592 tit1599 nannicock1600 muggle1608 gixy1611 infanta1611 dilla1627 tittiea1628 whimsy1631 ladykin1632 stammel1639 moggie1648 zitellaa1660 baggagea1668 miss1668 baby1684 burdie1718 demoiselle1720 queanie?1800 intombi1809 muchacha1811 jilt1816 titter1819 ragazza1827 gouge1828 craft1829 meisie1838 sheila1839 sixteenc1840 chica1843 femme1846 muffin1854 gel1857 quail1859 kitten1870 bud1880 fräulein1883 sub-debutante1887 sweet-and-twenty1887 flapper1888 jelly1889 queen1894 chick1899 pusher1902 bit of fluff1903 chicklet1905 twist and twirl1905 twist1906 head1913 sub-deb1916 tabby1916 mouse1917 tittie1918 chickie1919 wren1920 bim1922 nifty1923 quiff1923 wimp1923 bride1924 job1927 junior miss1927 hag1932 tab1932 sort1933 palone1934 brush1941 knitting1943 teenybopper1966 weeny-bopper1972 Valley Girl1982 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > female > débutante débutante1801 rosebud1856 sub-debutante1887 sub-deb1916 deb1920 1916 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune May 2/2 Pretty debutantes, sub-debs..and..much army and navy gold braid, were on display here today when the annual National Capital Horse show opened. 1917 M. R. Rinehart Bab i. 14 Is it fair also, I ask, that in the best society a girl is a Sub-Deb the year before she comes out? 1930 New Statesman 1 Nov. 114/1 The Little Review, born in Chicago, a ‘sub-deb’ in California, debutante in New York, defunct in Paris. 1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge vii. 278 The living-room would do very well for the sub-deb dances which it would be her pleasant duty to give. 1947 Time 6 Jan. 20/3 The season's debutantes danced their way into society while eager sub-debs looked on. 1989 T. Tryon Night of Moonbow i. ii. 20 Who else had been courting the matchless Nancy Rider, subdeb daughter of the lieutenant-governor? 2004 J. McCourt Queer Street xix. 324 Those somewhat anachronistic eager-beaver preppie types..cluster like sub-debs at a Junior Miss cotillion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1916 |
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