- 11920年代的摩登女郎（爵士時代那種）
A flapper is a fashionable young woman of the late 1920s, especially in the United States and Britain. The picture people still mean is short hair, a short loose dress, beads, jazz, and dancing — a girl who went out, smoked, and drank in ways that shocked many older people at the time. The word is historical now. You use it for that decade, for old films, and for 1920s style, not for a stylish young woman in today. Though actually, even then it was not a purely kind word: some people said it with a smile, and some with a , as if she had too much freedom. Informal. You will meet it in history class and in talk about the Jazz Age.
組成From flap + -er. Which sense of flap sits behind the 1920s meaning is not settled. One likely story is Victorian hunting slang: a flapper was a young wild duck or goose in August — already worth hunting, but still naive and not flying well, because the flight feathers come late. Another path goes through older slang: in the 1600s flap could mean a prostitute, and by the late 1800s in England a flapper could mean a very young woman of that kind, or a teenage girl too old to be a child and not yet “out” in society.
同家族的字
- flapthe stem; flapper is flap + -er, though which sense of flap is behind the 1920s meaning is not settled
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
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flappernoun詞源 1/ˈflæpɚ/
- 1
historicalA young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially.
- Stud's eyes roved. Plenty of girls, most of them young flappers, Loretta's age. Only a couple of years ago they were kids.
- 2
historicalA young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
- I paid violent and unusual attention to a flapper all through the meal in order to make you jealous. She's probably in her cabin writing reams about me to a fellow-flapper at this very moment.
- "Now," said the young man cheerfully to Ardita, who had witnessed this last scene in withering silence, "if you will swear on your honor as a flapper—which probably isn't worth much—that you'll keep that spoiled little mouth of yours tight shut for forty-eight hours, you can row yourself ashore in our rowboat."
flappernoun詞源 2/ˈflæpɚ/
- 1
One who or that which flaps.
- It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him. And the business of this officer is, when two, three, or more persons are in company, gently to strike with his bladder the mouth of him who is to speak, and the right ear of him or them to whom the speaker addresses himself. This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.
- 2
hobbieshuntinglifestyleA young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck.
- Small fish, and frog and fish spawn are also eaten, and the ducklings feed upon many species of animalculæ, flies, pollywogs and worms, etc., disturbed by heavy rains which wash the banks, while the young ducks are passing to the "flapper" stage.
- 3
A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.
- the flapper of a porpoise
- It was still too shallow for the turtle to swim, but it used its four flappers with so much effect against its two assailants, as to give them a thorough shower-bath.
- 4
businessconstructionmanufacturingA flapper valve.
- In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.
- 5
slangThe hand.
flappernoun詞源 3/ˈflæpɚ/
- 1
climbinghobbieslifestyleAny injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.
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