Mrs. Leo Hunter

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people. dated
    — The third danger is, that she accepts, in lieu of the best acquaintances, second and third rate people, the hangers-on upon society, people who have not the best or freshest reputation—the Mrs. Leo Hunters, the Misses Bore and the Messrs. Fraudulent, who are a large family.

词形变化

Mrs. Leo Hunters plural

词源

Name of a character in Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers (1836), intended to suggest a "lion hunter"; see lion (“a famous person regarded with interest and curiosity”).
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