单词 | sub-man |
释义 | sub-mann. A person who stands in an inferior relation to another; esp. one of inferior development, ability, or race; a brutal or stupid man.In quot. 1840: an attendant, an aide. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] lowerc1175 nethererc1443 inferior?1504 puny1579 under-being1587 puisne1592 subaltern1605 little sistera1634 undermatcha1661 wretch1688 sub-man1840 missing link1863 small-timer1910 1840 F. W. Taylor Flag Ship I. xi. 337 Here, one of the sub-men suggested that some of it had been buried, and could not be found. 1921 R. A. Freeman Social Decay 250 Psychically, the British sub-man presents many resemblances to aboriginal primitive man. 1951 N. M. Gunn Well at World's End xxix. 277 The Cromagnons, those sub-men who painted their bisons on the walls of far interior caves. 1987 S. J. Lee European Dictatorships iv. 172 The main obstacle to this [sc. social fusion] was what Hitler called ‘subman’, who threatened to ‘pollute’ the Aryan race. 2004 P. Viereck Unadjusted Man in Age of Overadjustment (new ed.) p. xi. The would-be superman and the vilest sub-man are but opposite sides of the same counterfeit coin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840 |
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