| 单词 | townsboy |
| 释义 | > as lemmastownsboy townsboy n. (a) (at Eton College and Westminster School) = oppidan n. 2; (b) a boy who lives in a town or other urban area; a boy from one's own or the same town. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > fellow townsman concitizen1428 co-citizen1488 comburgess1517 fellow citizen1550 townsman1562 conscive1578 town's bairn?1591 comburgher1605 townsfolk1614 townschild1621 city mana1661 townsboy1699 town folk1805 townie1824 townsfellow1830 homeboy1861 homie1929 homes1971 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. Oppidan, (a School-word for a Towns-Boy) Ecolier de la Ville. 1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 90 Having acquainted four or five of our clan that were my townsboys with my design. 1851 Bibliotheca Sacra 1 237 The school at Westminster contains from 300 to 350 boys in eight classes. They are divided into town's boys and king's scholars. 1905 W. S. Crockett Scott Country (ed. 3) xvi. 339 Had he been a town's boy..the probability is he might never have blossomed into a poet. He would not have been the pet child of Nature. 2001 T. Kay Taking Lottie Home 51 It was where he and Milo and other townsboys had played choose-up games of baseball as children. < as lemmas |
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