doozy
英语
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编辑词源
编辑不详。可能源自daisy (“雏菊”)或意大利女演员Eleonora Duse(埃莱奥诺拉·杜斯)之名。常有说法错误地称其源自汽车公司Duesenberg,但该词出现比这一公司成立早十多年。另可能源自波兰语 duży,于20世纪00年代左右由波兰移民潮引入美国。(这个词源(+)能找到来源吗?)
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编辑名词
编辑doozy (复数 doozies)
- (美国,非正式) 麻烦的,棘手的;(亦) 厉害的
- 近义词:lulu
- Most of the test was easy, but the last question was a doozy.
- 那场考试大部分题都简单,但是最后一题挺难的。
- 2017, Eric A Meyer, Estelle Weyl, CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web, Kindle版, O'Reilly Media,第 126 页:
- Like the
em
unit, therem
unit is based on declared font size. The difference — and it’s a doozy — is that whereasem
is calculated using the font size of the element to which it’s applied,rem
is always calculated using the root element.- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
形容词
编辑doozy (一般不用比较级,比较级 doozier,最高级 dooziest)
- (俚语,过时) 厉害的,很好的,牛屄的 (1903)
- 1903, Alfred Leon Kleberg, Slang Fables from Afar,第 83 页:
- As soon as the races were billed he began to evolve Schemes — one Doozy scheme followed the other...
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- 2011, “Feeling Pinkie Keen”, 出自 My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic:
- The hydra wasn't the doozy? How could it not be the doozy? What could be doozier than that?
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- (俚语,美国,古旧) 花哨的,俗艳的 (1911)
- 1917, Elsie Warnock, “Terms of approbation and eulogy in American dialect speech”, 出自 Dialect Notes, 第 IV 卷,第 21 页:
- Who was that doozy fellow I saw you with?
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- 1920, Jane Barrett, “English review”, 出自 High School Life, 第 21 卷,第 531 页:
- Sweetie, do let me show you the dooziest little afternoon frock that Poiret designed for me in Paris.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
参考资料
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- "Doozy" in J.E. Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang volume 1, 1994.