| 词组 | feline |
| 释义 | feline The noun is discouraged by Copperud 1970, 1980 and Flesch 1964 as a journalese variant of cat. Flesch produces as example only a headline, Copperud nothing. Our files hold very little evidence of noun use. Just this sort of thing, for the consumption of young people: • ... the blood-curdling screech of the strange feline, known to be found around Scout camps on odd evenings —Boy's Life, March 1953 And this sort of literarily pejorative use: • The possibility of this happening as a general social fact has brought out the feline in her and her class — Christopher Hitchens, N.Y. Times Mag., 1 June 1975 The much more usual use of feline is as an adjective, which can be admiring or disparaging: • What Cassidy had on his side all this time was a youthful feline quality —The Story of Pop, 1973 • ... a lanky, feline Brazilian beauty —Roland Gelatt, Saturday Rev., 21 June 1969 • ... the feline party intriguer and critic —David Thomson, Europe Since Napoleon, 2d ed., rev., 1962 • He said as much in his column, in that feline way of his —Grundy, Punch, 23 Dec. 1975 See also canine; equine. |
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