boorjoyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/

形容詞

boorjoy (comparative more boorjoy, superlative most boorjoy)

1. (colloquial, now まれに) Bourgeois.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite:

     …So that was who the sulky bitch was, boorjoy and stuck-up—he'd heard the tale, Alick had sloshed her son down at Gowans.

   • 1939, Louis Bromfield, It Takes All Kinds, page 364:

     Once the thing he referred to as "Boorjoy" civilization was destroyed, there would be no more room for them, but while it lasted he liked having them about.

名詞

boorjoy (複数形 boorjoys)

1. (colloquial, now まれに) A bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional.
   • 1944, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth:

     A lot of the Ellam Street boys read Ruskin and catch ideas about beauty which cause a lot of trouble till the girls get hold of them and marry them and turn them into respectable Boorjoys.

   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 48:

     I'm making an effort towards communal life in the Coloured quarters of our great metropolis, a small light in a naughty world. All the boorjoys are very shocked, of course.