Shirley

副词 adv. 专有名词

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. surely humorous,informal,not-comparable
    — Shirley the pepper mills are whipped away by the peppier after use, so no danger there. But what about the candles?
专有名词
  1. An English habitational surname
    — Hold vp they head, vile Scot, or thou art like / Neuer to hold it vp againe! the spirits / Of valiant Sherley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my Armes;
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname. rare
    — Shirley Blythe was with Una Meredith and both were rather silent because such was their nature. Shirley was a lad of sixteen, sedate, sensible, thoughtful, full of a quiet humour.
  3. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1920s to the 1950s.
    — Shirley Keeldar (she had no christian name but Shirley: her parents, who had wished to have a son, finding that, after eight years of marriage, Providence had granted them only a daughter, bestowed on her the same masculine family cognomen they would have bestowed on a boy, if with a boy they had been blessed)—[…]
  4. Various places in England:; A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2141).
  5. Various places in England:; A suburb of the borough of Croydon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3565).
  6. Various places in England:; A hamlet in Sopley parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ1798).
  7. Various places in England:; A suburb of Southampton, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4013).
  8. Various places in England:; A suburban town in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, historically in Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP1278).
  9. Various places in the United States:; A town in Van Buren County, Arkansas.
  10. Various places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Kings County, California.
  11. Various places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado.
  12. Various places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois.
  13. Various places in the United States:; A town in Hancock County and Henry County, Indiana.
  14. Various places in the United States:; A town in Piscataquis County, Maine.
  15. Various places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  16. Various places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Polk County, Minnesota.
  17. Various places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
  18. Various places in the United States:; A hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York.
  19. Various places in the United States:; A hamlet in Erie County, New York.
  20. Various places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Charles City County, Virginia.
  21. Various places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
  22. Various places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Brown County, Wisconsin.
  23. A suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

词形变化

Sherley alternative Shurley alternative

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
English place name from Old English sċīr (“county”) + lēah (“meadow”). Equivalent to shire + -ley (“lea”). More at shire, leigh.
词源 2
A pun on surely and the name Shirley; probably inspired by the 1980 comedy film Airplane!, which has the exchange: "Surely you can’t be serious." "I am serious — and don’t call me Shirley."
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