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A teenybopper is a young teenage girl — roughly nine to fourteen — who is very caught up in pop music, pop stars, and whatever clothes and styles teenagers are wearing that year. It is a noun for a person, and it carries an attitude: the person saying it is usually an adult, usually a bit , and often a bit , as if to say 'she screams at concerts and will grow out of it'. So it is not a neutral label, and you would rarely use it about someone to their face. The word is also dated. It belongs to the 1960s and 70s, when it was everywhere in newspapers writing about pop fans; today you are far more likely to hear 'fangirl', or simply 'teenage fans'. When it does appear now, it is often about the music rather than the person — 'teenybopper music', 'a teenybopper band' meaning a band aimed at young teenage girls. Note the sexism baked into it: nobody calls a boy a teenybopper, and the word quietly treats girls' enthusiasm as silly in a way boys' enthusiasm for, say, football never is. Worth knowing when you read older writing, worth using carefully yourself.
追星的小女生、少女歌迷(約 9-14 歲,迷流行音樂與流行打扮)。這是帶輕視、覺得「小女生瞎瘋」的舊詞,現在多說 fangirl。
組成teeny ('teenage') + bopper ('someone who bops', that is, dances to the music). Coined in the 1950s, when 'bop' was the word for dancing to popular jazz.
同家族的字
- teenythe first half — here in its 'teenage' sense
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
teenyboppernoun/ˈtiniˌbɑpɚ/
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A child, especially a girl in her preteens and early teens, who follows popular clothing fashions, music trends, etc.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。