| 单词 |
molester |
| 释义 |
molester|məʊˈlɛstə(r)|
[f. molest v. + -er1.]
One who molests or disturbs.
1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Family of Loue, Brief Descr. A j, God make him to be a member, not a molester of the Church. c1670Cotton Voy. Irel. ii. Poems (1689) 178 Till the Bells, that had been my morning molesters, Now wak'd me again, chiming all in to Vespers. 1725Kirkpatrick Relig. Ord. Norwich (1845) 10 To restrain all such molesters by ecclesiastical censure. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly July 118, It has no offensive odors to warn off molesters.
Add:b. spec. One who harasses, attacks, or abuses someone (esp. a woman or child) sexually.
1968Illinois Med. Jrnl. CXXXV. 731/1 The child molester is an ever present danger in all communities. 1977K. E. Woodiwiss Shanna (1978) ii. 44 You vulgar beggar, they should hang you for a molester of women! 1988P. Gay Freud ii. 94 The Freud of the 1890s was not disposed to idealize his father..but to include Jacob Freud among the child molesters struck him as absurd. 1995New Yorker 27 Mar. 108/2 Oh, great, precisely what we need: not just a molester but a molestation expert, an incest wonk. |
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