would-beadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈwʊdbiː/, U.S.

/ˈwʊdˌbi/

Forms: see will v.¹ (Forms 5) and be v. (Forms 1a).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English would , will v.¹, be v.

Etymology: < would, past tense of will v.¹ + be v. (compare will v.¹ 26).

A. adj.

1. In attributive use.

a. Of a person: that would like to be; wishing to be; aspiring; posing as.

†(a) As a mock addition (often as postmodifier) to a personal name or title. Cf. sense B. a. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > engaged in pretence

pretense1395

would-be?c1400

fictive1493

counterfeitc1515

feigningc1540

sembling1568

personating1612

shamming1682

gammoning1817

possum playing1856

simulating1875

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [adjective] > ambitious > would be (thought)

would-be?c1400

would-have-been1744

would-be-thought1805

wannabe1986

?c1400 in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) 77 Eum [sc. Henry de Luceby] contempserunt, vocantes eum H. walde be Priur.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone Dram. Pers. sig. A4 Politiqve Wovld-bee, a Knight..Fine Mada[me]. Wovld-Bee, the Knights wife.

1642 F. Kynaston Leoline & Sydanis 138 By the skill of Marquis would-be Iones, 'Tis found the smoakes salt did corrupt the stones.

1652 Mercurius Politicus No. 111. 1735 So farre he, in condemnation of that hireling Salmasius, before the face of the Tyrant-would-bes.

1778 G. L. Way Learning at Loss II. 152 Christopher Hartley, Esquire, a Sir Wou'd-be Literate.

(b) In general use. Sometimes with the name of a prominent personality used generically, e.g. would-be Rambos ‘people who wish to be like Rambo’.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. v. 21) 286 Epictetus complained that there were many would be Philosophers, as far as a few good words would goe.

1691 Rabshakeh Vapulans 2 The Wou'd-be-Wits, and wou'd-be-Wise, The witty Fool must have the foremost place.

1708 Brit. Apollo 20–22 Oct. The next a Proctor's Clerk, a Would-be Beau.

1794 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 112 We shall see what the court lawyers..and would-be ambassadors will make of it.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram II. iv. ii. 214 They are not rascals—they are would-be men of the world.

1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? 259 The would-be Napoleon..puts his rationalisation schemes into the waste-paper basket.

2017 Prospect Oct. 86/1 Some fear that would-be hackers could target smart vehicles to access personal data.

b. In extended use. Of a thing: intended as or to be.

1816 G. Colman Eccentricities Edinb. 95 Would-be Villas, ranged in dapper pride.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 54 The burnished plate That decks the would-be rustic gate.

1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right II. xcii. 336 He had continued to speak with the same fluent would-be cynicism.

1901 H. Sutcliffe Mistress Barbara Cunliffe v. 75 His usual stilted gait softened to a would-be airiness.

2013 New Yorker 25 Feb. 47/1 For blocks at a time, the ground-floor spaces—would-be storefronts—were cinder-blocked shut, and spray-painted with the phone numbers of leasing brokers.

2. In predicative use. Mannered, pretentious. rare.Apparently restricted to the writings of D. H. Lawrence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of simplicity > [adjective] > with artistic pretensions

arty1901

would-be1922

1922 D. H. Lawrence Let. 12 Oct. (1932) 556 These drawings are so completely without irony, so crass, so strained and so would-be.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Let. 6 Sept. (1932) 751 James Joyce bores me stiff—too terribly would-be and done-on-purpose, utterly without spontaneity or real life.

1932 A. Huxley in D. H. Lawrence Lett. p. xvii The symphony oppressed him; it was too big, too elaborate, too carefully and consciously worked out, too ‘would-be’—to use a characteristic Lawrencian expression. He was quite determined that none of his writings should be ‘would-be’. He allowed them to flower as they liked from the depths of his being.

B. n.

A person aspiring or wishing to be something specified or implied.

†a. As a mock surname in literary sources. Cf. sense A. 1a(a). Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [noun] > ambitious person

ambitious?a1439

pursuiter1542

pursuer1587

would-be1607

climbera1616

ambitionist1625

consequent1654

sky-flyer1873

wannabe1976

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > one who or that which dissembles

feigner1382

pseudo1402

simular1526

simuler1534

colourer1554

counterfeiter1561

truphane1568

counterfeit1574

put-forth1581

pretender1583

impostor1586

idol1590

would-be1607

phantasm1622

farce1696

imposture1699

Barmecide1713

simulator1835

fraud1850

sham1850

fake1855

swindle1858

shammer1861

make-believe1863

hoax1869

economizer1874

make-believer1884

ringer1896

phoney1902

faker1910

shill1976

1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. ii. sig. I3^v Well M^r. Would-bee, this doth not become you.

1706 S. Centlivre Love at Venture i. 5 Enter a Servant. Ser. Sir, here is Mr. Wou'dbe to wait on you.

1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 14 Our 'Squire Wou'd-be is violently bent upon matrimony.

1811 Literary Panorama Nov. 894 I was nicknamed Mr. Would-be, and the Skeletonian Upstart.

b. As a common noun.

ΘΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [noun] > one who wishes

willer1443

wishers and woulders1509

wisherc1520

would-be1732

1732 A. Ramsay in Scarborough Misc. 21 Yet this let little Wou'd-be's know, Who are but Apes of so much Fire.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 243 A man that would have foiled at their own play, A dozen would-be's of the modern day.

1846 College & T.B. Life at Westm. 14 Mar. 82 The ‘World at Westminster’ divides the School into Five principal classes:—the Worthies, Steadies, Literati, Canters or Sporting Men, and Wouldbes.

1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago: Confidential i. vii. 75 A few sawdust-strewn saloons where the avante garde [sic] reads effusions of its confusions to other would-bes.

2016 @richardcobbett in twitter.com (accessed 12 June 2019) That'll separate the fans from the would-bes.

Compounds

C1. With a following adjective, forming adjectives used attributively, as in would-be-clever, would-be-elegant, etc.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > aspiration, ambition > [adjective]

ambitiousc1384

aspiring1577

heroical1581

high-flyinga1586

high-reaching1593

soaringa1616

aspirant1808

would-be1813

Diotrephic1838

Diotrephian1845

Diotrephesian1862

millennial1897

the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > relating to intention or purpose > intended or purposed

purposed?a1425

pretenced1543

pretended1573

meditated1588

meant1590

intended1592

contemplated1657

intending1788

would-be1813

1813 J. Austen Let. 11 Oct. (1995) 234 A large, ungenteel Woman, with self-satisfied & would-be elegant manners.

1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxvii. 238 The would-be-genteel coxcombs of Calcutta.

1865 A. Thomas On Guard II. 90 A sayer of would-be-sensible things.

1946 R. A. Knox Epist. & Gospels 56 He wants the would-be-clever people to cultivate..a lowest-common-denominator sort of mind.

2000 Saga Mag. Feb. 27/1 We need to defeat would-be-world-dominating companies.

C2.

† would-be-thought adj. Obsolete wishing to be considered as.

ΘΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [adjective] > ambitious > would be (thought)

would-be?c1400

would-have-been1744

would-be-thought1805

wannabe1986

1805 T. Harral Scenes of Life II. 67 The wits, and would-be-thought wits, of the day.

1815 M. Pilkington Celebrity II. 148 ‘Perhaps I might’, rejoined the would-be-thought cynic.

1847 Bentley's Misc. 22 429 The legitimist, the would-be-thought aristocrat, and the fine gentleman, or he who aspires to be considered one, generally call this great space the Place Louis XV.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

单词	would-be
释义	would-beadj.n. Brit. /ˈwʊdbiː/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌbi/ Forms: see will v.¹ (Forms 5) and be v. (Forms 1a). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English would , will v.¹, be v. Etymology: < would, past tense of will v.¹ + be v. (compare will v.¹ 26). A. adj. 1. In attributive use. a. Of a person: that would like to be; wishing to be; aspiring; posing as. †(a) As a mock addition (often as postmodifier) to a personal name or title. Cf. sense B. a. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > engaged in pretence pretense1395 would-be?c1400 fictive1493 counterfeitc1515 feigningc1540 sembling1568 personating1612 shamming1682 gammoning1817 possum playing1856 simulating1875 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [adjective] > ambitious > would be (thought) would-be?c1400 would-have-been1744 would-be-thought1805 wannabe1986 ?c1400 in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) 77 Eum [sc. Henry de Luceby] contempserunt, vocantes eum H. walde be Priur. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone Dram. Pers. sig. A4 Politiqve Wovld-bee, a Knight..Fine Mada[me]. Wovld-Bee, the Knights wife. View more context for this quotation 1642 F. Kynaston Leoline & Sydanis 138 By the skill of Marquis would-be Iones, 'Tis found the smoakes salt did corrupt the stones. 1652 Mercurius Politicus No. 111. 1735 So farre he, in condemnation of that hireling Salmasius, before the face of the Tyrant-would-bes. 1778 G. L. Way Learning at Loss II. 152 Christopher Hartley, Esquire, a Sir Wou'd-be Literate. (b) In general use. Sometimes with the name of a prominent personality used generically, e.g. would-be Rambos ‘people who wish to be like Rambo’. Π 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. v. 21) 286 Epictetus complained that there were many would be Philosophers, as far as a few good words would goe. 1691 Rabshakeh Vapulans 2 The Wou'd-be-Wits, and wou'd-be-Wise, The witty Fool must have the foremost place. 1708 Brit. Apollo 20–22 Oct. The next a Proctor's Clerk, a Would-be Beau. 1794 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 112 We shall see what the court lawyers..and would-be ambassadors will make of it. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram II. iv. ii. 214 They are not rascals—they are would-be men of the world. 1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? 259 The would-be Napoleon..puts his rationalisation schemes into the waste-paper basket. 2017 Prospect Oct. 86/1 Some fear that would-be hackers could target smart vehicles to access personal data. b. In extended use. Of a thing: intended as or to be. Π 1816 G. Colman Eccentricities Edinb. 95 Would-be Villas, ranged in dapper pride. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 54 The burnished plate That decks the would-be rustic gate. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right II. xcii. 336 He had continued to speak with the same fluent would-be cynicism. 1901 H. Sutcliffe Mistress Barbara Cunliffe v. 75 His usual stilted gait softened to a would-be airiness. 2013 New Yorker 25 Feb. 47/1 For blocks at a time, the ground-floor spaces—would-be storefronts—were cinder-blocked shut, and spray-painted with the phone numbers of leasing brokers. 2. In predicative use. Mannered, pretentious. rare.Apparently restricted to the writings of D. H. Lawrence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of simplicity > [adjective] > with artistic pretensions arty1901 would-be1922 1922 D. H. Lawrence Let. 12 Oct. (1932) 556 These drawings are so completely without irony, so crass, so strained and so would-be. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Let. 6 Sept. (1932) 751 James Joyce bores me stiff—too terribly would-be and done-on-purpose, utterly without spontaneity or real life. 1932 A. Huxley in D. H. Lawrence Lett. p. xvii The symphony oppressed him; it was too big, too elaborate, too carefully and consciously worked out, too ‘would-be’—to use a characteristic Lawrencian expression. He was quite determined that none of his writings should be ‘would-be’. He allowed them to flower as they liked from the depths of his being. B. n. A person aspiring or wishing to be something specified or implied. †a. As a mock surname in literary sources. Cf. sense A. 1a(a). Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [noun] > ambitious person ambitious?a1439 pursuiter1542 pursuer1587 would-be1607 climbera1616 ambitionist1625 consequent1654 sky-flyer1873 wannabe1976 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > one who or that which dissembles feigner1382 pseudo1402 simular1526 simuler1534 colourer1554 counterfeiter1561 truphane1568 counterfeit1574 put-forth1581 pretender1583 impostor1586 idol1590 would-be1607 phantasm1622 farce1696 imposture1699 Barmecide1713 simulator1835 fraud1850 sham1850 fake1855 swindle1858 shammer1861 make-believe1863 hoax1869 economizer1874 make-believer1884 ringer1896 phoney1902 faker1910 shill1976 1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. ii. sig. I3^v Well M^r. Would-bee, this doth not become you. 1706 S. Centlivre Love at Venture i. 5 Enter a Servant. Ser. Sir, here is Mr. Wou'dbe to wait on you. 1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 14 Our 'Squire Wou'd-be is violently bent upon matrimony. 1811 Literary Panorama Nov. 894 I was nicknamed Mr. Would-be, and the Skeletonian Upstart. b. As a common noun. ΘΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [noun] > one who wishes willer1443 wishers and woulders1509 wisherc1520 would-be1732 1732 A. Ramsay in Scarborough Misc. 21 Yet this let little Wou'd-be's know, Who are but Apes of so much Fire. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 243 A man that would have foiled at their own play, A dozen would-be's of the modern day. 1846 College & T.B. Life at Westm. 14 Mar. 82 The ‘World at Westminster’ divides the School into Five principal classes:—the Worthies, Steadies, Literati, Canters or Sporting Men, and Wouldbes. 1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago: Confidential i. vii. 75 A few sawdust-strewn saloons where the avante garde [sic] reads effusions of its confusions to other would-bes. 2016 @richardcobbett in twitter.com (accessed 12 June 2019) That'll separate the fans from the would-bes. Compounds C1. With a following adjective, forming adjectives used attributively, as in would-be-clever, would-be-elegant, etc. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > aspiration, ambition > [adjective] ambitiousc1384 aspiring1577 heroical1581 high-flyinga1586 high-reaching1593 soaringa1616 aspirant1808 would-be1813 Diotrephic1838 Diotrephian1845 Diotrephesian1862 millennial1897 the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > relating to intention or purpose > intended or purposed purposed?a1425 pretenced1543 pretended1573 meditated1588 meant1590 intended1592 contemplated1657 intending1788 would-be1813 1813 J. Austen Let. 11 Oct. (1995) 234 A large, ungenteel Woman, with self-satisfied & would-be elegant manners. 1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxvii. 238 The would-be-genteel coxcombs of Calcutta. 1865 A. Thomas On Guard II. 90 A sayer of would-be-sensible things. 1946 R. A. Knox Epist. & Gospels 56 He wants the would-be-clever people to cultivate..a lowest-common-denominator sort of mind. 2000 Saga Mag. Feb. 27/1 We need to defeat would-be-world-dominating companies. C2. † would-be-thought adj. Obsolete wishing to be considered as. ΘΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [adjective] > ambitious > would be (thought) would-be?c1400 would-have-been1744 would-be-thought1805 wannabe1986 1805 T. Harral Scenes of Life II. 67 The wits, and would-be-thought wits, of the day. 1815 M. Pilkington Celebrity II. 148 ‘Perhaps I might’, rejoined the would-be-thought cynic. 1847 Bentley's Misc. 22 429 The legitimist, the would-be-thought aristocrat, and the fine gentleman, or he who aspires to be considered one, generally call this great space the Place Louis XV. 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