| 单词 | train freak |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrain freak d. With qualifying word or phrase: one who shows great enthusiasm for the activity, person, or thing specified, as health freak, train freak, etc.; an aficionado. Cf. buff n.2 6b and fiend n. 4c colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > enthusiast for person or thing votary1594 votary1594 well-willer1607 lief-hebber1653 enthusiast1748 amateur1771 fanatic1790 red-hot1835 freak1908 hound1926 fan1928 televisionary1928 tifoso1949 person1966 prosumer1987 1908 Court of Appeals, State of N.Y. III. 455 He had a camera. Evidently from the evidence in this case he was one of your kodak freaks. 1946 B. Ulanov Duke Ellington xix. 270 ‘I'm a train freak,’ Duke says. 1959 L. Lipton Holy Barbarians i. 39 He looked more like one of those beachcomber Nature Boy health freaks than a real hipster. 19671 [see sense 4c]. 1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 18 Nov. 15/7 I'm not a Freud freak, but..you can only stay with them until they are school age. 1977 J. D. MacDonald Condominium xxxvi. 354 It's just another one of these so-called scientific studies of doom from another one of the ecology freaks. 1986 P. Booth Palm Beach vii. 124 Boy, are you exercise freaks into punishment. < as lemmas |
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