| 单词 | calamity jane |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCalamity Jane Calamity Jane n. the nickname of Martha Jane Burke (née Canary) (? 1852–1903), a famous American horse-rider and markswoman, applied to a prophet of disaster. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > pessimism > [noun] > a pessimist deteriorationist1816 pessimist1827 degenerationist1871 Calamity Jane1876 catastrophist1879 miserabilist1986 Debbie Downer2004 1876 Cheyenne (Wyoming) Daily Leader 23 Nov. in N. Mumey Calamity Jane (1950) 55 Calamity Jane..now slingeth hash as a waiter in a Custer City Hotel. 1882 Street & Smith's New York Weekly 16 Jan. 1 Calamity Jane, the Queen of the Plains. A Tale of Daring Deeds by a Brave Woman's Hands. 1885 E. L. Wheeler (title) Deadwood Dick on deck; or, Calamity Jane the heroine of Whoop-up. 1930 Notes & Queries 27 Sept. 232/1 A crepe-hanger is the ultimate in depressing persons; ‘wet-blankets’, ‘gloomy Gus's’, ‘calamity Janes’, are all a degree milder. 1960 TV Times 8 Jan. 11/1 I'm a real Calamity Jane. < as lemmas |
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