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Wiktionary英語版
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doldrum
語源
The noun is possibly derived from dull or Middle English dold (past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make または become blunt または dull; to make または become dull-witted または stupid; to make または become inactive”),[1] from dul, dol, dolle (“not sharp, blunt, dull; not quick-witted, stupid; lethargic, sluggish”);[2] see further at dull), modelled after tantrum.[3]
The adjective is probably derived from the noun.
名詞
- (slang, obsolete) A slothful or stupid person.
- 1817 April 30, William Hone, “Political Priestcraft, Continued, in another Epistle to the Rev. Dan[iel] Wilson, […]”, in Hone’s Reformists’ Register, and Weekly Commentary, volume I, number 15, London: Printed by J. D. Dewick, […]; published by William Hone, […], published 3 May 1817, OCLC 54363424, columns 476–477:
- Were there no "tears and miseries," when the half-witted doldrums, thinking they were not big enough to be seen, put themselves on horseback, to bask and frolic in a procession, and meet their man-midwife, or surgeon, or whatever he is, who had left his business at Norwich, to go to London, for the purpose of administering their little nostrum to the Prince Regent?
派生語
形容詞
doldrum (comparative more doldrum, superlative most doldrum)
参照
- ^ “dullen, v.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ “dul, adj.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “doldrum”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1897.
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