词族 · nance
词形变化
英语词源
- nance (n.)
- "effeminate man, homosexual," 1904, from female name Nancy (q.v.), which was in use as an adjective meaning "effeminate" (applied to men) from 1883, a shortening of earlier Miss Nancy.
Nancy, Miss, an opprobrious epithet for an exceedingly effeminate, over-nice young man. The original Miss Nancy, however, was a Mrs. Anna Old field, a celebrated actress, who died in 1730 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. She was extremely vain and nice about her dress, and as she lay in state, attended by two noblemen, she was attired, as she had directed shortly before her death, in "a very fine Brussels lace head-dress, a Holland shift with a tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, a pair of new kid gloves," etc., a circumstance alluded to by Pope .... [William S. Walsh, "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities," 1892]
Nancy boy "effeminate male homosexual" is attested by 1958.
权威例句
- 1. In 1974, Kissinger married Nance Markenice.
- 1974的, 基辛格与南希·马金尼斯结婚.
- 2. Participatory budgeting and other forms of participatory gover - nance will not deliver instant success.
- 预算分享和其他形式的管理分享并不会带来直接的成功.
- 3. I met Nance yesterday and she gave me a long song and dance about her family.
- 我昨天碰到南茜,她啰啰唆唆地给我说了一大堆有关她家里的话.