Definition of bluestocking in English:

bluestocking

noun ˈbluːstɒkɪŋˈbluˌstɑkɪŋ

derogatory

An intellectual or literary woman.
〈常贬〉女知识分子，女文人
a Victorian bluestocking
as modifier bluestocking women
Example sentencesExamples
- Though, with her reputation as a bluestocking, the family puts its hopes in the younger now.
- As for her daughter, she was a bluestocking, one of only four of the class of 1958 debs who won a place at university.
- Even the liberal wing of the aristocracy took its tone from the salons of bluestockings.
- Among the several virtues she lacks - being a Calvinist bluestocking is plainly responsible - are objectivity, impersonality, and a sense of the comic finiteness of human beings.
- The portrait of ‘patriarchal oppression’ presented by the investigative journalist is nonsense, incidentally, and he - who has the perspective and temperament of a Victorian bluestocking - was laughed off the island.
- She's suppose to be a tomboy and bluestocking with grass in her hair from reading outside,’ he teased, a grin lighting up his sun-bronzed face.
- Are book editors letting the good ones get away and, in the process, limiting their audience to literary bluestockings?
- Why, from what I know of her and what I have heard of Lady Josephine, she is quite a bluestocking!
- She was a bluestocking, to whom German, mathematics, church history, and medicine were pure pleasure.
- The roll-call of celebrated women expanded from the traditional saints, queens, Biblical heroines and aristocratic savantes to include middle-class bluestockings, actresses and other non-elite prodigies.
- The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness.
- A Canadian bluestocking saw things a little differently.
- More seriously, she argues that he was blackmailed into rejecting the comedy by a bluestocking who threatened to reveal that the great actor-manager's protege was his illegitimate son.
- Some of these professors, self-proclaimed bluestockings, did disdain marriage.
- This room was used for entertaining on an intimate scale, for instance for her meetings with her bluestocking friend, but also served as a public room when opened up with the rest of the apartment.
- She is just trying to survive her first season in the haut ton of Regency England and retain the tomboy, bluestocking identity her brothers had fostered in her though out her childhood.
- At 20, Gertrude was ‘a snob, a bluestocking, a woman with attitude’, according to her biographer.
- She has suffered a little herself from being viewed by some as the archetypal bluestocking.
- It is possible to see good in our ability to refuse to be stereotyped, but in a way, that black-and-white innocent age, when women were either bimbos or bluestockings, was kinder.
- Both parties sign a contract setting out terms on which they insist, and men are presented with a variety of women from nymphomaniacs through bluestockings to homemakers.
Synonyms
intelligent person, learned person, highbrow, academic, bookworm, bookish person, man of letters, woman of letters, thinker, brain, scholar, sage

Origin

late 17th century: originally used to describe a man wearing blue worsted (instead of formal black silk) stockings; extended to mean 'in informal dress'. Later the term denoted a person who attended the literary assemblies held (c.1750) by three London society ladies, where some of the men favoured less formal dress. The women who attended became known as blue-stocking ladies or blue-stockingers.

[L17th]
During the 17th and 18th centuries men favoured blue worsted stockings for informal daytime wear, but never on formal occasions, when black silk stockings were in order. In about 1750 the botanist and writer Benjamin Stillingfleet was asked to an assembly for literary conversation at Montagu House in London. These gatherings were notable for being attended by women with literary and intellectual tastes. Stillingfleet felt he had to refuse the invitation as he was too poor to afford the formal dress required, but his hostess told him to come as he was, in his informal day clothes. So he turned up in his everyday blue worsted stockings and started a trend. Some sneered at these assemblies, using such terms as bluestocking assemblies and bluestocking ladies, and an intellectual woman soon became just a bluestocking.

Definition of bluestocking in US English:

bluestocking

nounˈblo͞oˌstäkiNGˈbluˌstɑkɪŋ

derogatory

An intellectual or literary woman.
〈常贬〉女知识分子，女文人
a Victorian bluestocking
as modifier bluestocking women
Example sentencesExamples
- Among the several virtues she lacks - being a Calvinist bluestocking is plainly responsible - are objectivity, impersonality, and a sense of the comic finiteness of human beings.
- The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness.
- Even the liberal wing of the aristocracy took its tone from the salons of bluestockings.
- Are book editors letting the good ones get away and, in the process, limiting their audience to literary bluestockings?
- As for her daughter, she was a bluestocking, one of only four of the class of 1958 debs who won a place at university.
- Why, from what I know of her and what I have heard of Lady Josephine, she is quite a bluestocking!
- More seriously, she argues that he was blackmailed into rejecting the comedy by a bluestocking who threatened to reveal that the great actor-manager's protege was his illegitimate son.
- The portrait of ‘patriarchal oppression’ presented by the investigative journalist is nonsense, incidentally, and he - who has the perspective and temperament of a Victorian bluestocking - was laughed off the island.
- A Canadian bluestocking saw things a little differently.
- Some of these professors, self-proclaimed bluestockings, did disdain marriage.
- It is possible to see good in our ability to refuse to be stereotyped, but in a way, that black-and-white innocent age, when women were either bimbos or bluestockings, was kinder.
- At 20, Gertrude was ‘a snob, a bluestocking, a woman with attitude’, according to her biographer.
- She's suppose to be a tomboy and bluestocking with grass in her hair from reading outside,’ he teased, a grin lighting up his sun-bronzed face.
- This room was used for entertaining on an intimate scale, for instance for her meetings with her bluestocking friend, but also served as a public room when opened up with the rest of the apartment.
- She was a bluestocking, to whom German, mathematics, church history, and medicine were pure pleasure.
- The roll-call of celebrated women expanded from the traditional saints, queens, Biblical heroines and aristocratic savantes to include middle-class bluestockings, actresses and other non-elite prodigies.
- Though, with her reputation as a bluestocking, the family puts its hopes in the younger now.
- She is just trying to survive her first season in the haut ton of Regency England and retain the tomboy, bluestocking identity her brothers had fostered in her though out her childhood.
- She has suffered a little herself from being viewed by some as the archetypal bluestocking.
- Both parties sign a contract setting out terms on which they insist, and men are presented with a variety of women from nymphomaniacs through bluestockings to homemakers.
Synonyms
intelligent person, learned person, highbrow, academic, bookworm, bookish person, man of letters, woman of letters, thinker, brain, scholar, sage

Origin

Late 17th century: originally used to describe a man wearing blue worsted (instead of formal black silk) stockings; extended to mean ‘in informal dress’. Later the term denoted a person who attended the literary assemblies held ( c 1750) by three London society ladies, where some of the men favored less formal dress. The women who attended became known as blue-stocking ladies or blue-stockingers.

单词	bluestocking
释义	Definition of bluestocking in English: bluestocking noun ˈbluːstɒkɪŋˈbluˌstɑkɪŋ derogatory An intellectual or literary woman. 〈常贬〉女知识分子，女文人 a Victorian bluestocking as modifier bluestocking women Example sentencesExamples Though, with her reputation as a bluestocking, the family puts its hopes in the younger now. As for her daughter, she was a bluestocking, one of only four of the class of 1958 debs who won a place at university. Even the liberal wing of the aristocracy took its tone from the salons of bluestockings. Among the several virtues she lacks - being a Calvinist bluestocking is plainly responsible - are objectivity, impersonality, and a sense of the comic finiteness of human beings. The portrait of ‘patriarchal oppression’ presented by the investigative journalist is nonsense, incidentally, and he - who has the perspective and temperament of a Victorian bluestocking - was laughed off the island. She's suppose to be a tomboy and bluestocking with grass in her hair from reading outside,’ he teased, a grin lighting up his sun-bronzed face. Are book editors letting the good ones get away and, in the process, limiting their audience to literary bluestockings? Why, from what I know of her and what I have heard of Lady Josephine, she is quite a bluestocking! She was a bluestocking, to whom German, mathematics, church history, and medicine were pure pleasure. The roll-call of celebrated women expanded from the traditional saints, queens, Biblical heroines and aristocratic savantes to include middle-class bluestockings, actresses and other non-elite prodigies. The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness. A Canadian bluestocking saw things a little differently. More seriously, she argues that he was blackmailed into rejecting the comedy by a bluestocking who threatened to reveal that the great actor-manager's protege was his illegitimate son. Some of these professors, self-proclaimed bluestockings, did disdain marriage. This room was used for entertaining on an intimate scale, for instance for her meetings with her bluestocking friend, but also served as a public room when opened up with the rest of the apartment. She is just trying to survive her first season in the haut ton of Regency England and retain the tomboy, bluestocking identity her brothers had fostered in her though out her childhood. At 20, Gertrude was ‘a snob, a bluestocking, a woman with attitude’, according to her biographer. She has suffered a little herself from being viewed by some as the archetypal bluestocking. It is possible to see good in our ability to refuse to be stereotyped, but in a way, that black-and-white innocent age, when women were either bimbos or bluestockings, was kinder. Both parties sign a contract setting out terms on which they insist, and men are presented with a variety of women from nymphomaniacs through bluestockings to homemakers. Synonyms intelligent person, learned person, highbrow, academic, bookworm, bookish person, man of letters, woman of letters, thinker, brain, scholar, sage Origin late 17th century: originally used to describe a man wearing blue worsted (instead of formal black silk) stockings; extended to mean 'in informal dress'. Later the term denoted a person who attended the literary assemblies held (c.1750) by three London society ladies, where some of the men favoured less formal dress. The women who attended became known as blue-stocking ladies or blue-stockingers. [L17th] During the 17th and 18th centuries men favoured blue worsted stockings for informal daytime wear, but never on formal occasions, when black silk stockings were in order. In about 1750 the botanist and writer Benjamin Stillingfleet was asked to an assembly for literary conversation at Montagu House in London. These gatherings were notable for being attended by women with literary and intellectual tastes. Stillingfleet felt he had to refuse the invitation as he was too poor to afford the formal dress required, but his hostess told him to come as he was, in his informal day clothes. So he turned up in his everyday blue worsted stockings and started a trend. Some sneered at these assemblies, using such terms as bluestocking assemblies and bluestocking ladies, and an intellectual woman soon became just a bluestocking. Definition of bluestocking in US English: bluestocking nounˈblo͞oˌstäkiNGˈbluˌstɑkɪŋ derogatory An intellectual or literary woman. 〈常贬〉女知识分子，女文人 a Victorian bluestocking as modifier bluestocking women Example sentencesExamples Among the several virtues she lacks - being a Calvinist bluestocking is plainly responsible - are objectivity, impersonality, and a sense of the comic finiteness of human beings. The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness. Even the liberal wing of the aristocracy took its tone from the salons of bluestockings. Are book editors letting the good ones get away and, in the process, limiting their audience to literary bluestockings? As for her daughter, she was a bluestocking, one of only four of the class of 1958 debs who won a place at university. Why, from what I know of her and what I have heard of Lady Josephine, she is quite a bluestocking! More seriously, she argues that he was blackmailed into rejecting the comedy by a bluestocking who threatened to reveal that the great actor-manager's protege was his illegitimate son. The portrait of ‘patriarchal oppression’ presented by the investigative journalist is nonsense, incidentally, and he - who has the perspective and temperament of a Victorian bluestocking - was laughed off the island. A Canadian bluestocking saw things a little differently. Some of these professors, self-proclaimed bluestockings, did disdain marriage. It is possible to see good in our ability to refuse to be stereotyped, but in a way, that black-and-white innocent age, when women were either bimbos or bluestockings, was kinder. At 20, Gertrude was ‘a snob, a bluestocking, a woman with attitude’, according to her biographer. She's suppose to be a tomboy and bluestocking with grass in her hair from reading outside,’ he teased, a grin lighting up his sun-bronzed face. This room was used for entertaining on an intimate scale, for instance for her meetings with her bluestocking friend, but also served as a public room when opened up with the rest of the apartment. She was a bluestocking, to whom German, mathematics, church history, and medicine were pure pleasure. The roll-call of celebrated women expanded from the traditional saints, queens, Biblical heroines and aristocratic savantes to include middle-class bluestockings, actresses and other non-elite prodigies. Though, with her reputation as a bluestocking, the family puts its hopes in the younger now. She is just trying to survive her first season in the haut ton of Regency England and retain the tomboy, bluestocking identity her brothers had fostered in her though out her childhood. She has suffered a little herself from being viewed by some as the archetypal bluestocking. Both parties sign a contract setting out terms on which they insist, and men are presented with a variety of women from nymphomaniacs through bluestockings to homemakers. Synonyms intelligent person, learned person, highbrow, academic, bookworm, bookish person, man of letters, woman of letters, thinker, brain, scholar, sage Origin Late 17th century: originally used to describe a man wearing blue worsted (instead of formal black silk) stockings; extended to mean ‘in informal dress’. Later the term denoted a person who attended the literary assemblies held ( c 1750) by three London society ladies, where some of the men favored less formal dress. The women who attended became known as blue-stocking ladies or blue-stockingers.
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