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单词 tutoyer
释义

tutoyerv.

Forms: Also 1600s tutay, 1800s tutoy, (1800s tutoyé).
Etymology: < French tutoyer /tytwaye/, < the singular pronoun tu, toi, te, as used in speaking to a person instead of the plural vous: see Littré.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: tuˈtoyer.
transitive. To use the singular pronoun tu, toi, te (‘thou’ and ‘thee’) to; to ‘thou’ (any one); to treat as an intimate; to address with familiarity, or as an inferior in rank or order. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > speak to or address [verb (transitive)] > in a specific way
thoua1425
thowt1440
yeet1440
ye1483
boy1573
uncle1597
goodfellow1628
thee1657
fellow1665
tutoyer1697
honour1726
pa1823
good man1846
old boy1867
tom1897
1697 J. Dennis Plot & no Plot ii. 24 There is an air of greatness in Tutaying men.
1819 F. MacDonogh Hermit in London III. 159 They [nobles] often tutoyered the leading favourite.
1840 C. Fox Jrnls. & Lett. (1882) vi. 53 He..promised to tutoyer us as long as we liked, but not to answer to thee.
1852 E. B. Browning Lett. 7 Apr. (1897) II. 63 The Greek in Greek costume who tutoyéd her, and kissed her.
1861 T. Heywood S. Lancs. Dial. in Chetham Misc. III. 9 Tutoying still pervades South Lancashire.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xvi. 298 He was growing warm, and began to tutoyer Hereward.
1895 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 386 Freron thought he perceived..that ‘tutoying’ might be displeasing to him,..so he instantly substituted ‘vous’.

Derivatives

tutoiement n. /tytwamɑ̃/ the action of addressing in this way; ‘thouing’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > homeliness or familiarity > addressing with familiar 'tu'
tutoiement1817
1817 Lady Morgan France (1818) I. 72 The tutoiement universal in France, in all the intercourse of friendship and intimacy, is always used among the peasants, except to their superiors.
1879 Scribner's Monthly 19 97/1 It was not merely the tutoiement that struck him as saucy.
1898 Daily News 18 Apr. 4/5 M. Aulard and M. Sigismond Lacroix read..papers, the one on the ‘tutoiement’, or use of the pronouns ‘thee’ and ‘thou’ during the Revolution.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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