单词 | suburbian |
释义 | suburbianadj.n. A. adj. = suburban adj., spec. (in early use often with negative sense) with reference to the immoral or licentious practices of the suburbs, esp. of London (cf. suburb n. Compounds 2); (now) of or relating to suburbia.In the 17th cent. the more common form; later superseded by suburban. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective] golec888 canga1225 light?c1225 wooinga1382 nicea1387 riota1400 wantonc1400 wrenec1400 lachesc1450 loose?a1500 licentious1555 libertine1560 prostitute1569 riggish1569 wide1574 slipper1581 slippery1586 sportive1595 gay1597 Cyprian1598 suburb1598 waggish1600 smicker1606 suburbian1606 loose-living1607 wantona1627 free-living1632 libertinous1632 loose-lived1641 Corinthian1642 akolastic1656 slight1685 fast1699 freea1731 brisk1740 shy1787 slang1818 randomc1825 fastish1832 loosish1846 slummya1860 velocious1872 fly1880 slack1951 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > suburbs suburbedc1450 suburban1583 suburbian1606 suburbicary1655 suburbican1659 peri-urban1935 out-city1939 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 39 There is yet to be seene the place of his nourcery, within a suburbian house belonging to his Auncesters [L. in avito suburbano]. 1609 W. Rowley Search for Money (1842) 37 We should returne back to the suburbian bordello (before mentioned). 1653 Consid. Dissolving Court of Chancery 47 Some of the Middlesex or Suburbian Justices. 1675 T. Duffett Mock-tempest iii. i. 23 Not pledge me, thou salt Suburbian Hackney, not pledge me. 1732 London Mag. 1 334 Give some share of credit to the out-lying night-walkers, and Suburbian ghosts. 1760 Crit. Rev. Apr. 322 Not the great orator of Clare-market, whilom famed for true suburbian eloquence could speak stouter. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xviii. 245 Suburbian Prospects, where the Traveller stops To see the sloping Tenement on props. 1875 Visitor's Guide New Orleans 41 The lake, church spires, and beautiful suburbian residences. 1961 Washington (Pa.) Reporter 21 June 16/4 Bud Mellott plays..the suburbian husband of a 5-year childless marriage. 2001 C. Gutleben Nostalgic Postmodernism ii. 58 Her middle-class, suburbian, slightly shabby environment. B. n. A person who resides in a suburb. Now also: a resident of suburbia. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of suburbs suburban1468 suburbian1606 suburbanite1855 Metrolander1926 subtopian1958 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. F4v All the Brokers in Long-Lane, Houns-ditch, or else wher, wt all the rest of their Colleagued suburbians, that deale vpon ouerworne commodities. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 40 Down with the Suburbians, down with 'em. a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 103 A true Profligate Suburbian. 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 13 You cockneys now beat us suburbians at our own weapons. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 253 The bargees, and butchers, and labourers, and scum of the suburbians. 1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) xiii. 134 Unlike the male suburbian, the female suburbian will talk to her neighbours. 1988 Mass. Rev. 29 343 The suburbian has just been convicted of some drug trafficking offense. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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