small-timer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is limited to small, petty or unimportant things.
    — She hated Ed Feinberg, the sleazy, lying, blood-sucking small-timer. Still he was a man; if he had called her up in the old days, in Seattle, she'd have entertained him.

词形变化

small-timers plural smalltimer alternative

词源

Etymology tree
English small time
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English small-timer
From small time + -er.
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