wannabe

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant. attributive,derogatory,informal,often
    — Hollywood's restaurants are full of wannabe actors waiting to be discovered.
  2. Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member. derogatory,informal
    — Bigger, mongrelly and black, he was clearly a Doberman wannabe.

词形变化

wannabes plural wanna-be alternative wannabee alternative want-to-be alternative

词汇关系

近义词
tryhard
衍生词
Madonnabe wannabeism
相关词
gonnabe has-been never-was -to-be would-be
并列词
bootlicker poseur sellout suck-up

词源

Written form of a reduction of want to be, analyzable as wanna + be. Wannabe can be considered a conversion, category change, or functional shift. While occasionally appearing in print, usually as a less reduced phrase, the popularity of the word took off in the mid-1980s following the Madonna wannabe fashion trend: “wannabe”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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