- 1親信（貶：有權的人身邊那圈自己人，不是中性的「好友」）
A crony is not simply a friend. It is one of a small group who spend a lot of time with each other — and the word is there to show you do not like it. Cronies are the people who always sit with someone, especially someone with power, and often get looked after in return. News writers use it about a politician’s old school friends or business pals. It feels informal and sharp. You would not call your own best friend a crony unless you were joking in a dark way. A long time ago, at Cambridge University, it only meant a chum you had known for years, with no bad taste. The bad taste came later, when people saw that “friends of long standing” were also the ones who got the quiet favours.
組成Coined in the 1600s from Ancient Greek khrónios, “lasting a long time,” the same time-root as chrono-. Early spelling was often chrony (as in Pepys’s diary). It began as Cambridge slang for a friend of long standing; the dirty, “illegal friends” feeling came later.
同家族的字
- chronicsame Greek time-root; chronic means lasting a long time
- chronologysame Greek time-root; the order things happen in time
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cronynoun詞源 1/ˈkɹoʊni/
- 1
informalA close friend.
- Rip now resumed his old walks and habits; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time; and preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favour.
- 2
informalA trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization.
cronynoun詞源 2/ˈkɹoʊni/
- 1
obsoleteAn old woman; a crone.
- Marry not an old crony.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。