“mounseer”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

mounseer

释义

mounseer arch.|maʊnˈsɪə(r)|
An antiquated anglicized pronunciation of monsieur, which survived as a vulgarism down to the 19th c., and occasionally appears either in representations of illiterate speech or in derisive allusion to English prejudice against foreigners. (Cf. mossoo.)
a1641Suckling Poems (1648) 10 But the Mounsier was modest, and silence confest.1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 229 Shall I again to sea—and bang Mounseer?1815Sporting Mag. XLV. 164 These Mounseers do not trust 'em.1851Thackeray Eng. Humourists v. (1853) 236 A hearty, plain-spoken man,..having a proper bourgeois scorn for French frogs, for mounseers, and wooden shoes in general.

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