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語源

Aphetic form of respectable.

形容詞

'spectable (comparative more 'spectable, superlative most 'spectable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of respectable.
   • 1855, W[illiam] Gilmore Simms, “Pursuit and Pasturage”, in The Forayers or The Raid of the Dog-Days, New York, N.Y.: Redfield, […], pages 75–76:

     But Miss Carrie’s like a rose in de morning, and little Lottie is anoder leetle rose in de morning; and ebbry pusson dat you carss to yer ’bout is most astonishing, charming well, ’cept, as I say, de ole colonel; and de fire in he foot makes him bile ober ebbry now and den, and it’s mighty hard for a ’spectable gentleman to stan’ him when he’s in his ondecent passion!

   • 1859, George Almar, Oliver Twist. A Serio-Comic Burletta, in Three Acts. As Performed at the Royal Surrey Theatre., London: Chapman and Hall, page 38:

     Ah, them charity s’ieties does a deal o’ harm! and if they’d got money enough (which ’tis a providence they ha’ not) we shouldn’t have a ’spectable boy-thief in all London!

   • 1866 October, “A Race for a Legacy. In Three Heats. Heat the Second.”, in Julius A. Ehrenfest, editor, The Suburban Magazine: A General Periodical of Light and Amusing (Amateur) Literature, volume I, London: Office—[…], published 1867, page 45, column 1:

     “Just tell me; do I come here for society, or for quiet? Have I said before, make as little noise as you can, or have I not? Do I mean what I say, or do I not? Answer me,” resumed the man in the dressing-gown. / “Bless my skin, if I know,” said Jimmy, looking immensely bewildered. “What right have you to come abusing a ’spectable gentleman’s sarvant?”

   • 1888, C. F. Ingraham, The Best Cure, an Ethiopian Farce, in One Act, Clyde, Oh.: Ames’ Publishing Co., page 7:

     Tell lies ’bout me, will he? Hic! Oh, ya’as, he’s gwine ter cotch it—now you see if he don’t! Well he is—he orter know what de quensequances am-hic-fo’ insultin’ a ’spectable gentleman ob my standin’.

   • 1893 March, “A Wonderful Convention. Its Final Work.”, in The Clay-Worker, volume XIX, number 3, Indianapolis, Ind.: T. A. Randall & Co., page 381, column 3:

     “Hello,” says the black imp of a car porter, “let me help you up. That berth never would stay up, and it’s too bad to mash your hat so that it is not fit to wear by a ’spectable gentleman.”

   • 1901, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, “Oliver Twist”, in Ten Boys from Dickens, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 15:

     Upon Oliver answering in the affirmative, the strange boy, whose name was Jack Dawkins, said, “I’ve got to be in London to-night; and I know a ’spectable old genelman as lives there, wot’ll give you lodgings for nothink, and never ask for the change—that is, if any genelman he knows interduces you.”

   • 1908, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Den of the Dragonettes”, in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Britton Co., page 169:

     “Well,” said Dorothy, “I was born on a farm in Kansas, and I guess that’s being just as ’spectable and haughty as living in a cave with your tail tied to a rock. If it isn’t I'll have to stand it, that’s all.”

   • 2015, L.J. Oliver, The Humbug Murders, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 134:

     A greedy grin etched itself upon the lad’s grubby face. “’Ow do we know you ain’t the filth?” / “Because we have money to spend tonight,” I said. “And much more where that came from. You have a sense of that, I’m sure, as you haven’t tried to part us from our gold. A long-term investment is how you’re seeing us. Tell me if I’m wrong.” / “Always keen to aid a ’spectable gentleman, so we are! The name’s Mr. Dawkins, but my chaps here call me the Artful Dodger, on account of my bein’ an artist, you see.”

語源

By aphesis.

形容詞

spectable (comparative more spectable, superlative most spectable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of respectable.
   • 1867, Petroleum V. Nasby, "Swingin Round the Cirkle."‎^[1]:

     Suffice it to say that the few Democratic members uv Congress had hard work borrowin money enuff to git the most spectable uv the crowd home agin, and even then thousands uv em who wuz drawed there by that speech, shoor uv apintments, wuz obliged to walk home ignominiously, uv whom I wuz which.