townie

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university. UK,US
    — Professional gamblers have a cushy racket in college football because old grads and even townies of college localities are sentimental bettors and easy to separate from their money.
  2. Diminutive of town; synonym of small town. diminutive,form-of,informal,rare
    — [W]e came within a Mile o’ Godlamin, a little Townie upo’ the Rod, […]
  3. A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways. UK
    — [Hamlet] was only repeating the phrase of an ordinary English rustic when jeering at a “townie”—whom he suspected of being a gutter-snipe—that “He don’t know a hawk from a hernshaw”.
  4. A person familiar with the town (urbanised centre of a city) and with going out on the town; a street-wise person. UK
  5. A chav. UK,derogatory
  6. A working-class citizen in a metropolitan area. US
  7. A person who lives in a city or town, or has an urban outlook. Australia,New-Zealand,UK,informal
    — Bobby Wick stormed through the tents of his Company, rallying, rebuking, mildly, as is consistent with the Regulations, chaffing the faint-hearted [...] comforting the panic-stricken with rude speech, and more than once tending the dying who had no friends — the men without "townies"[.]

词形变化

townies plural townee alternative,dated townies plural

词汇关系

反义词
cocky ()
相关词
small-townie small townie towner barnie

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-nós?
Proto-Celtic *dūnombor.
Proto-Germanic *tūną
Proto-West Germanic *tūn
Old English tūn
Middle English toun
English town
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
▲
Scots -ieinflu.
English -ie
English townie
From town + -ie (“person associated”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-nós?
Proto-Celtic *dūnombor.
Proto-Germanic *tūną
Proto-West Germanic *tūn
Old English tūn
Middle English toun
English town
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
▲
Scots -ieinflu.
English -ie
English townie
From town + -ie (diminutive suffix).
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