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单词 blue-stockinged
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Definition of blue-stockinged in English:

blue-stockinged

adjective ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋd
archaic
  • 1Wearing blue stockings. Also (and in earliest use) figurative: belonging to or characteristic of a person (such as a countryman, tradesman, puritan, etc.) who wears plain blue worsted, as opposed to black silk, stockings (now rare).

  • 2Chiefly derogatory. Especially of a woman: that is a bluestocking; learned, scholarly, literary, intellectual.

Origin

Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Cleveland (bap. 1613, d. 1658), poet. From blue + stockinged.

Definition of blue-stockinged in US English:

blue-stockinged

adjectiveˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋd
archaic
  • 1Wearing blue stockings. Also (and in earliest use) figurative: belonging to or characteristic of a person (such as a countryman, tradesman, puritan, etc.) who wears plain blue worsted, as opposed to black silk, stockings (now rare).

  • 2Chiefly derogatory. Especially of a woman: that is a bluestocking; learned, scholarly, literary, intellectual.

Origin

Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Cleveland (bap. 1613, d. 1658), poet. From blue + stockinged.

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