| 单词 |
New Englander |
| 释义 |
New ˈEnglander
[f. New England (so named by Captain John Smith in 1616) + -er1.]
An inhabitant or native of New England, a part of the United States of America, comprising the six north-eastern states.
1637Heylin Antid. Lincoln. iii. 12 Not a New-Englander of them all, could have done it better. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 13 (1713) I. 88 For the New Englanders,..it is no matter what Religion he be of. 1768C. Beatty Tour 109 Such have been the endeavours of the New Englanders. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 13 This was the character of a New Englander half a century ago. 1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 420/1 The carrying trade was entirely monopolized by New-Englanders.
So New-ˈEnglandish a., characteristic or typical of New England (hence New-Englandishness). New-ˈEnglandism, (a) the tone or tendency characteristic of New England life or sentiment; (b) an idiom or mode of expression characteristic of New Englanders. New-ˈEnglandize v., to imbue with a New England character. New-ˈEnglandy a., suggestive of New England.
1831Boston Transcript 7 Sept. 2/3 Mr Pickering, however, thinks hub a New-Englandism only. 1861F. G. Tuckerman in N. Hawthorne & Wife (1885) II. 275 For the book..I claim little, but that it is New Englandy (I hope). 1858H. W. Beecher Life Th. (1859) 27 New Englandism is but another word for Puritanism in the Independent sense. 1863N. Hawthorne Our Old Home (1883) I. 35 A respectable-looking woman,..decidedly New-Englandish in figure and manners. 1887Chicago Advance 17 Mar. 169/3 This grand work of New-Englandizing that Southeasternmost State of the Union. 1896Ibid. 9 Jan. 51/1 There is a still more striking New Englandishness in the people themselves. 1948Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 198 Dr. R-M. S. Heffner, who was born in 1892 at Bellefontaine, in the west central part of the State [sc. Ohio], testifies that New Englandisms were common there in his boyhood. |
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