penny dreadful

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cheap paperback book, particularly those concerning lurid depictions of crime in the Victorian era.
    — They can read the ‘penny dreadful’, but they cannot darn their stockings or mend their shoes.
  2. Pulp fiction: stories written in the lurid style of the penny dreadfuls.

词形变化

penny dreadfuls plural

词源

From its low price and the lower-class British use of dreadful (“sensationalized crime reporting”).
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