bête noiren.

/bɛt ˈnwɑː/

/beɪt ˈnwɑː/

Etymology: French, lit. ‘black beast’; figurative insufferable person.

A person or thing that is the bane of a person or his life; an insufferable person or thing; an object of aversion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun] > object or cause of dislike

unwillc1000

distaste1608

disrelishment1646

distastive1654

aversion1678

aversationa1708

disrelish1823

bête noire1844

1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. xvii, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 235/1 Calling me her bête noire, her dark spirit, her murderous adorer, and a thousand other names indicative of her extreme disquietude and terror.

1850 Househ. Words 6 July 359/1 You or any one else's bête noire is apt to get polished off with a few extra touches of blacking.

1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 209 Jung Bahadoor, who is evidently the present bête noir of our General's life.

1866 Mrs. H. Wood Elster's Folly xiv It was the bête noire of Clerk Gum's life.

1905 Spectator 28 Jan. (Lit. Suppl.) 118/2 [His] bête-noire is the submission of military affairs to the control of ‘political exigencies’.

1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. x. 290 As for the disposal of ordure, this has always been the bête noire of close urban settlements.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	bête noire
释义	bête noiren. /bɛt ˈnwɑː//beɪt ˈnwɑː/ Etymology: French, lit. ‘black beast’; figurative insufferable person. A person or thing that is the bane of a person or his life; an insufferable person or thing; an object of aversion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun] > object or cause of dislike unwillc1000 distaste1608 disrelishment1646 distastive1654 aversion1678 aversationa1708 disrelish1823 bête noire1844 1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. xvii, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 235/1 Calling me her bête noire, her dark spirit, her murderous adorer, and a thousand other names indicative of her extreme disquietude and terror. 1850 Househ. Words 6 July 359/1 You or any one else's bête noire is apt to get polished off with a few extra touches of blacking. 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 209 Jung Bahadoor, who is evidently the present bête noir of our General's life. 1866 Mrs. H. Wood Elster's Folly xiv It was the bête noire of Clerk Gum's life. 1905 Spectator 28 Jan. (Lit. Suppl.) 118/2 [His] bête-noire is the submission of military affairs to the control of ‘political exigencies’. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. x. 290 As for the disposal of ordure, this has always been the bête noire of close urban settlements. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1844
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