单词 | boy-girl |
释义 | > as lemmasboy-girl boy-girl n. a person who combines some characteristics of both boys and girls. ΚΠ 1741 S. Richardson Lett. Particular Friends xc. 125 A cock'd Hat, a lac'd Jacket, a Fop's Peruke, what strange Metamorphoses do they make! And then the Air assumed with them..makes, upon the whole, such a Boy-girl Figure, that [etc.]. 1833 B. W. Procter Ess. & Tales in Prose 107 Bellario (a girl in disguise) addresses the King of Sicily... The young couple come in as masquers; and thus the boy-girl intercedes. 1850 New Monthly Mag. Feb. 274 This is not a little sarcastic on the part of the boy-girl, Harry Wilmington. 1956 J. W. Aldridge In Search of Heresy ii. 39 The ambivalent little boy-girls and girlboys of Capote and McCullers. 1997 J. Franceschina Homosexualities Eng. Theatre p. xi This androgyne..was able to cross-dress with impunity. Once on the stage, however,..the boy-girl challenges society. < as lemmas |
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